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  • 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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  • Publisher: PRENTICE-HALL, INC
  • Format: Hardcover
Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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  • 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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  • Publisher: PRENTICE-HALL, INC
  • Format: Hardcover
Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Date published: 1965-01-01
  • Format: Hardcover
Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. INCLUDES A TYPED SIGNED LETTER (dated March 23, 1966) TO PREVIOUS OWNER BY ALFRED KNOPF. Dust jacket shows very minor shelving wear...slight shelving tan on spine, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Date published: 1965-01-01
  • Format: Hardcover
Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. INCLUDES A TYPED SIGNED LETTER (dated March 23, 1966) TO PREVIOUS OWNER BY ALFRED KNOPF. Dust jacket shows very minor shelving wear...slight shelving tan on spine, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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  • Publisher: WISCONSIN.
  • Date published: 1979
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780299076603
First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. (Light shelf wear to jacket. ) SIGNED on neatly tipped-in cards by cast members: May McAvoy, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy & Audrey Ferris.
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  • Publisher: N. p
  • Date published: 1940
  • Format: Hardcover
Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.
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Main Street Fine Books, ABAA (USA)
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  • Publisher: WISCONSIN.
  • Date published: 1979
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780299076603
First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. (Light shelf wear to jacket. ) SIGNED on neatly tipped-in cards by cast members: May McAvoy, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy & Audrey Ferris.
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  • Publisher: N. p
  • Date published: 1940
  • Format: Hardcover
Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1952
First edition, first printing of H. A. Rey's perennially popular astronomy book for children. Signed on half-title page verso by astronomer Edwin Hubble and 26 other men and women working at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in 1952. 144 pp., illustrated with duotone offset lithographs. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with pictorial stamping in yellow, printed endpapers depicting seasonal constellation rotation. Very Good with light wear and edge toning, 2 inch split to upper end of front joint, and shaken binding. Christmas 1952 stamp to front free endpaper verso, offsetting and old tape residue to title and facing pages from typewritten sheet, formerly taped and now laid in. Light toning and occasional thumbing to contents. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing and soiling and heavy edgewear; pen tracing lettering on front panel by 9-year-old former owner. The jacket unfolds to a poster chart of the sky, with paper loss at center due to chipping at head of spine panel. Also laid in are the January 1954 issue of The Griffith Observatory and newspaper clippings reporting the deaths of Hubble and Seth B. Nicholson. The Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, built in the early 20th century in Southern California, are among the most famous and historically important observatories in the world. It was at Wilson that Harlow Shapely measured the Milky Way and Edwin Hubble proved the existence of additional galaxies, and it was at Palomar that Maarten Schmidt identified a quasar for the first time. Hubble is one of the signers of this book, together with Seth B. Nicholson, who discovered four moons of Jupiter and lent his name to the Hale-Nicholson Law concerning the magnetic polarity of sunspots, and Edison Pettit, whose name was given to craters on the Moon and Mars. The other astronomers are Milton L. Humason, Walter Baade, Alfred Joy, Sergei Gaposchkin (visiting from Harvard), R. Minkowski, O.C. Wilson, Horace W. Babcock, Paul W. Merrill, W.A. Baum, A.J. Deutsch, Frank E. Ross, and I.S. Bowen, who was also the director of the two observatories. The additional signers include the chief photographer for both observatories, a draftsman, the shop superintendent, a design engineer, and support staff. Each person is named and given a brief description on a list typed on observatory stationery and dated December 1952. That the five women on the list were support staff is no coincidence; women at the time were not permitted to use the telescopes and were relegated to roles as computers, research assistants, librarians, and secretaries. The secretary who typed up the list of names was Leah M. Mutschler, "Secretary Receptionist and a fairly new staff member" at Mount Wilson, who took the job in the face of her husband's opposition. It was she who gathered signatures for Rey's new astronomy book as a Christmas present for her nine-year-old granddaughter, who kept the book for more than 70 years. Mutschler's gift inscription on the title page, with an arrow pointing out her own name, makes the book all the more poignant as a record of achievements of all kinds. An extraordinary roll call of extraordinary astronomers, scientists, and others.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1952
First edition, first printing of H. A. Rey's perennially popular astronomy book for children. Signed on half-title page verso by astronomer Edwin Hubble and 26 other men and women working at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in 1952. 144 pp., illustrated with duotone offset lithographs. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with pictorial stamping in yellow, printed endpapers depicting seasonal constellation rotation. Very Good with light wear and edge toning, 2 inch split to upper end of front joint, and shaken binding. Christmas 1952 stamp to front free endpaper verso, offsetting and old tape residue to title and facing pages from typewritten sheet, formerly taped and now laid in. Light toning and occasional thumbing to contents. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing and soiling and heavy edgewear; pen tracing lettering on front panel by 9-year-old former owner. The jacket unfolds to a poster chart of the sky, with paper loss at center due to chipping at head of spine panel. Also laid in are the January 1954 issue of The Griffith Observatory and newspaper clippings reporting the deaths of Hubble and Seth B. Nicholson. The Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, built in the early 20th century in Southern California, are among the most famous and historically important observatories in the world. It was at Wilson that Harlow Shapely measured the Milky Way and Edwin Hubble proved the existence of additional galaxies, and it was at Palomar that Maarten Schmidt identified a quasar for the first time. Hubble is one of the signers of this book, together with Seth B. Nicholson, who discovered four moons of Jupiter and lent his name to the Hale-Nicholson Law concerning the magnetic polarity of sunspots, and Edison Pettit, whose name was given to craters on the Moon and Mars. The other astronomers are Milton L. Humason, Walter Baade, Alfred Joy, Sergei Gaposchkin (visiting from Harvard), R. Minkowski, O.C. Wilson, Horace W. Babcock, Paul W. Merrill, W.A. Baum, A.J. Deutsch, Frank E. Ross, and I.S. Bowen, who was also the director of the two observatories. The additional signers include the chief photographer for both observatories, a draftsman, the shop superintendent, a design engineer, and support staff. Each person is named and given a brief description on a list typed on observatory stationery and dated December 1952. That the five women on the list were support staff is no coincidence; women at the time were not permitted to use the telescopes and were relegated to roles as computers, research assistants, librarians, and secretaries. The secretary who typed up the list of names was Leah M. Mutschler, "Secretary Receptionist and a fairly new staff member" at Mount Wilson, who took the job in the face of her husband's opposition. It was she who gathered signatures for Rey's new astronomy book as a Christmas present for her nine-year-old granddaughter, who kept the book for more than 70 years. Mutschler's gift inscription on the title page, with an arrow pointing out her own name, makes the book all the more poignant as a record of achievements of all kinds. An extraordinary roll call of extraordinary astronomers, scientists, and others.
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