Portrait of a Publisher, 1915 / 1965, 2 Vols. --I: Reminiscences and Reflections & II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.; Paul A. Bennett, Intro
Portrait of a Publisher, 1915 / 1965, 2 Vols. --I: Reminiscences and Reflections & II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.; Paul A. Bennett, Intro
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
Two volumes. First edition, 1965. Cloth hardcovers in slipcase, 297 + 301 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good ex-library copies with typical treatments (bookplates, stamps, etc. ) in a Good slipcase, small ink notation on the rear pastedown of vol. 1, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the slipcase, rubbing and wear to the tips of the slipcase, small abrasions from scotch tape on one side of the slipcase, no dust jackets.
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Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
Two volumes. First edition, 1965. 8vos, cloth hardcovers in slipcase, 297 + 301 pp., illustrated in b & w. Books are Fine, pages are clean and unmarked and cloth is bright. Dust jackets are Near Fine, with light tanning to spines. Very small closed tear to Vol. I, corner where rear panel meets flap. Faint edgewear to front flap on Vol. II, including mild rubbing to corner where front panel meets flap. Slipcase is Very Good+, with mild rubbing to edges and top, and mild edgewear to title label.
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Threshold Resistance, the Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
Taubman, A. Alfred
Threshold Resistance, the Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
Taubman, A. Alfred
- Publisher: Collins: (NY)
- Date published: 2007
- Format: Hardcover
Photos, 9.25 x 6", boards, 211pp with Index + Notes, extremities bumped and lightly worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, lightly soiled and edge-bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full numberline), INSCRIBED "To Larry, All the best..." AND SIGNED "ALFRED" BY THE AUTHOR, A. ALFRED TAUBMAN. SCARCE with authentic signature.
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Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, 1929
Schneider, H. Constable, W.G. Hind, A.M. Hannema, D. Hudig, C.J. Jones, Alfred E. Buckley, Wilfred. London, Burlington House,...
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, 1929
Schneider, H. Constable, W.G. Hind, A.M. Hannema, D. Hudig, C.J. Jones, Alfred E. Buckley, Wilfred. London, Burlington House,...
- Publisher: Oxford
- Date published: 1930
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, 1930 1st Edition. Large 4to. Numerous full page plates, some in colour. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Faint stain to back board. Light tanning to ep's. Binding firm, text and images bright. Heavy item which may require additional postage. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
- Publisher: The Doldrums
- Date published: 1938
- Format: Hardcover
First edition. Illustrated. Bookplate of Yale art historian Theodore Sizer & Caroline Foster Sizer (with a small remnant of dust jacket stuck to the edge). Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, boards with modest edgewear, very good in an about very good dust jacket with a few chips and tears to the spine and along the edges, and modest tanning to the spine and extremities. Issued as a holiday gift by Geo. A. Zabriskie with "Mr Sizer" addressed in an unknown hand at the top of a printed greeting. Contributions by John Masefield, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond, Walter de la Mare and more.
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Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, 1929
Schneider, H. Constable, W.G. Hind, A.M. Hannema, D. Hudig, C.J. Jones, Alfred E. Buckley, Wilfred. London, Burlington House,...
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, 1929
Schneider, H. Constable, W.G. Hind, A.M. Hannema, D. Hudig, C.J. Jones, Alfred E. Buckley, Wilfred. London, Burlington House,...
- Publisher: Oxford
- Date published: 1930
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, 1930 1st Edition. Large 4to. Numerous full page plates, some in colour. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Faint stain to back board. Light tanning to ep's. Binding firm, text and images bright. Heavy item which may require additional postage. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Galvanoplastic Manipulations, a Practical Guide for the Gold and Silver Electroplater and the Galvanoplastic Operator, With 127 Figures in the Text (1872 Hc)
Alfred Roseleur, Trans By A. A. Fesquet
Galvanoplastic Manipulations, a Practical Guide for the Gold and Silver Electroplater and the Galvanoplastic Operator, With 127 Figures in the Text (1872 Hc)
Alfred Roseleur, Trans By A. A. Fesquet
- Publisher: Henry Carey Baird
- Date published: 1872
- Format: Hardcover
Pub by Henry Carey Baird, 1872, NAP, presumed 1st Edition. NOT exLib. Good cond. hardcover, no dj. Brown cloth over bds, all lettering faded to nothing. heavy exterior wear. Front hinge starting but holding. Textblock clean, sound & VG+ cond. Illus in b&w. 495pp + 23pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall Good cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
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The Howitzer of 1947
Stewart, Charles C; Smith, James E.; McNeil, Robert J.; Shook, Charles H.; Pabst, Alfred A.
The Howitzer of 1947
Stewart, Charles C; Smith, James E.; McNeil, Robert J.; Shook, Charles H.; Pabst, Alfred A.
- Publisher: United States Military Academy
- Date published: 1947
- Format: Boards
1st Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Folio with 537 pages. The book is in good condition with some slight bumping to the covers edges and foxing to the top pages edges. There is some foxing to the front title page and several pages in the back (pages 528 to the back pastedown). The interior is tight. The spine is sage/black.
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They Wouldn't Be Chessmen: a M. Hanaud Mystery Novel
A. E. W Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
They Wouldn't Be Chessmen: a M. Hanaud Mystery Novel
A. E. W Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Rear hinge cracked. Writing inside. (Vintage Mystery and Adventure)
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Portrait of a Publisher, 1915 / 1965, 2 Vols. --I: Reminiscences and Reflections & II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.; Paul A. Bennett, Intro
Portrait of a Publisher, 1915 / 1965, 2 Vols. --I: Reminiscences and Reflections & II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.; Paul A. Bennett, Intro
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
Two volumes. First edition, 1965. Cloth hardcovers in slipcase, 297 + 301 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good ex-library copies with typical treatments (bookplates, stamps, etc. ) in a Good slipcase, small ink notation on the rear pastedown of vol. 1, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the slipcase, rubbing and wear to the tips of the slipcase, small abrasions from scotch tape on one side of the slipcase, no dust jackets.
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Portrait of a Publisher 1915-1965. I: Reminiscences and Reflections. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint: Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
Portrait of a Publisher 1915-1965. I: Reminiscences and Reflections. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint: Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 297; 301pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Fine in very good dust jackets with toned spines, and a small tear on both volumes tape mended on the verso and housed in an about very good cardboard slipcase with several large chips mostly on the spine and top edge. Typophiles Chap Books 42. One of 2000 copies.
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Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
Two volumes. First edition, 1965. 8vos, cloth hardcovers in slipcase, 297 + 301 pp., illustrated in b & w. Books are Fine, pages are clean and unmarked and cloth is bright. Dust jackets are Near Fine, with light tanning to spines. Very small closed tear to Vol. I, corner where rear panel meets flap. Faint edgewear to front flap on Vol. II, including mild rubbing to corner where front panel meets flap. Slipcase is Very Good+, with mild rubbing to edges and top, and mild edgewear to title label.
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Life & Letters at Bath in the Xviijth (18th) Century
Barbeau, A. (Alfred) Dobson, Austin (Preface)
Life & Letters at Bath in the Xviijth (18th) Century
Barbeau, A. (Alfred) Dobson, Austin (Preface)
- Publisher: William Heinemann
- Date published: 1904
- Format: Hardcover
1st printing; olive green w/gilt spinetitles; lite wear at extremities; owner's plate; 328 clean, unmarked pages/index/bibliography.
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A Gentleman From Mississippi
Wm. A. Brady And Jos. R. Grismer; [Wise, Thomas A. 1865-1928. (Thomas Alfred); Toombs, Frederick R., 1879-Rhodes; Harrison,...
A Gentleman From Mississippi
Wm. A. Brady And Jos. R. Grismer; [Wise, Thomas A. 1865-1928. (Thomas Alfred); Toombs, Frederick R., 1879-Rhodes; Harrison,...
- Publisher: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
- Date published: 1909
- Format: A Very Good Hardcover
Light blue decorated cloth with titles and decorations in white and black; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear with some hand-soiling. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates. 7.5 inches tall; [6], 189 pages, followed by 4 pages of publisher's adverts. First Edition in novel form. This novel is an adaption founded on the popular play of the same title produced under the management of Wm. A. Brady and Jos. R. Grismer. A Gentleman from Mississippi is a 1908 comedic play by Harrison Rhodes and Thomas A. Wise. It was popular when released, debuting on Broadway on September 28, 1908, and playing for 407 performances at the Bijou Theatre, and on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam Theatre during the summer of 1909. Douglas Fairbanks played the leading role of Bud Haines. The play was also made into a silent film in 1914, where Wise reprised his role, and a young Evelyn Brent was also in the cast. A plan to make another film based on the play in 1936 was never completed.
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An Artist's Life. the Second Burst. the Finish: the Autobiography of Sir Alfred Munnings
Munnings, Alfred (Sir); Abridged And With A Foreword By W. G. Luscombe
An Artist's Life. the Second Burst. the Finish: the Autobiography of Sir Alfred Munnings
Munnings, Alfred (Sir); Abridged And With A Foreword By W. G. Luscombe
- Publisher: Readers Union
- Date published: 1955
- Format: Hardcover
Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Nice first printing abridgement by Readers Union for sale to its members only in 1955, previously published by Museum Press, London in three vols. No names, closed tears or soil seen in the fine 261pp text. Only one micro chip out of half title page fore edge. Original orange/cream printed dust wrapper is unclipped, darkened on spine, shows short chips on spine ends and a 1" bit of cello tape over a like sized claw scratch in the frt gutter/spine corner of dj and mylar. Autobiography of Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878-17 July 1959), who was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism (when inebriated), also past president of the Royal Academy. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Alfred A. Knopf
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Alfred A. Knopf
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Date published: 1954
- Format: Hardcover
Hardbound, no dust jacket. Limited 1st edition. #116/2500. Boards show fading & minor bumps & wear, otherwise very good.
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Threshold Resistance, the Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
Taubman, A. Alfred
Threshold Resistance, the Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
Taubman, A. Alfred
- Publisher: Collins: (NY)
- Date published: 2007
- Format: Hardcover
Photos, 9.25 x 6", boards, 211pp with Index + Notes, extremities bumped and lightly worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, lightly soiled and edge-bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full numberline), INSCRIBED "To Larry, All the best..." AND SIGNED "ALFRED" BY THE AUTHOR, A. ALFRED TAUBMAN. SCARCE with authentic signature.
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Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
- Publisher: The Doldrums
- Date published: 1938
- Format: Hardcover
First edition. Illustrated. Bookplate of Yale art historian Theodore Sizer & Caroline Foster Sizer (with a small remnant of dust jacket stuck to the edge). Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, boards with modest edgewear, very good in an about very good dust jacket with a few chips and tears to the spine and along the edges, and modest tanning to the spine and extremities. Issued as a holiday gift by Geo. A. Zabriskie with "Mr Sizer" addressed in an unknown hand at the top of a printed greeting. Contributions by John Masefield, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond, Walter de la Mare and more.
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Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: A. A. Knopf
- Date published: 1952
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 59. Original publishers brown cloth over papered boards, lettered gilt at the spine with gilt decoration on the front cover. Privately printed". Printing done at the Plimption press. Articles by Carl Van Vechten, Pendleton Dudley, B.W. Huebsch, John Hersy, W.A. Dwiggins, H.L. Mencken. 250 copies for presentation only Clean, very good.
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Maiden's Fury
H. A. [Harold Alfred] Manhood
Maiden's Fury
H. A. [Harold Alfred] Manhood
- Publisher: Grayson & Grayson
- Date published: 1935
- Format: Hardcover
Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.
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