Search Results: Ephemera from Ravenroost Books

Bancroft-Parkman, 1998. adv. xxii. 1100pgs. Fine condition hardcover. Clean, tight, unmarked, prisitne condition. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, endpapers depicting a book auction at Sotheby's circa 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson. Continues to be an essential reference tool for buying, selling and evaluating scarce books, serial publications, maps, autographs, prints based on hammer prices at 35 major auction houses. An introduction and table of abbreviations precedes lists of auction houses, named consignors and season's sales, followed by sections on autographs and manuscripts (Part I) and Books (Part II), the latter of which includes atlases, books, broadsides, maps and charts. #2467. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Fine. Illus. by Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo - 6.25x8.25x2inches.

Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office., 1963. v.78pgs+ large 24'x32" foldout colored map and a 9"x14" foldout table of "The Correlation of the Rock Formations of North-Central Vermont and Adjacent Quebec". Very Good+ condition, clean, undamaged. Envelope in back cover for map and foldout table. Main Sections: Abstract, Introduction, Geology, Intrusive igneous rocks and associated alteration products, Metamorphism, Structure, Asbestos Deposits, Other Mineral Resources, References Cited, Index, Illustrations. Book# 2607.. No Additional or Previous Printings. Original Wraps, Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo, 9.0 by 6.0 Inches.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. viii.480 pgs. Fine hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight. Another timeless handbook for collectors, librarians and booksellers. With 3,500 titles, an additional 2,000 titles have been added to the previous 1989 edition. The 1978, 1986 and 1993 prices are included, as well as new sections on prizes and lists such as Pulitzers, Bookers, Edgars, Hugos, National Book Awards, Caldecotts, PEN/Faulkners, Nebulas, Newberys and Burgess. You are guided on which books to collect, how to identify first editions, evaluate condition and care for your collection. Contents: Introduction, Book Collecting, What to Collect: First Editions, Proofs and Advanced Review Copies, Limited Editions, Paperbacks or Paperwraps, Literary Prize Winners, High Spots in Literature, Sources For Books, Knowledgable Buying, Some Suggestions, First Edition Identification by Publisher, Using This Guide, Appendices: Pseudonyms, Book Dealers, Auction… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1918. vi.62pgs.Very Good condition hardcover in a fragmented jacket, preserved as intact by a clear archival cover. Published as World War I was winding down, this portaiture, a journal of love letters which are a combination of poignant, endearing and humorous, provides a standpoint of what it was like to be a soldier stationed on the ground in France during WWI. 60 illustrations by Bill Breck bring life to each letter. Book#2582.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by G. William Breck, Bill Breck. Small 8vo. 7.5 Inches Tall.

Pennsylvania: The Americanist Press, 1967. Sm. 8vo. 81 pgs. Very Good condition softcover in stiff wraps as issued. Limited Edition of 200 copies, a facsimile of the 1860 Rudd & Carleton edition. Publisher's signature penned on limitation page opposite title page. The Americanist Reprint Series. An earnest and thoughtful effortt by Ms. Whitman, a colleague of Poe's, to rectify the notoriously damaging and purportedly inaccurate biography written about Poe by Griswold. Clean and unmarked, with the exception of an inscription on the half title page: "Thomas Michael Kane The Americanists!". #1213.. Signed by Editor.. Facsimile Edition.. Soft Cover, Stiff Wraps. Very Good. Small 8vo.. Limited Facsimile Edition.

USA: Endangered Species Coalition No place, no date. About 25 pgs. Very good condition staple-bound report, light staining and smudging to green covers. Published circa 1994 by the Endangered Species Coalition presumably to fight the backlash against and scapegoating of the Endangered Species Act reauthorization efforts, in light of challenges asserted by proponents of The Private Property Protection Act, Proposition 300 and various press coverages appearing at that time. Topics to be spearheaded include a brief overview of the Endangered Species Act, medicinal value of species, ecosystem protection, environment as early warning system, private property protection, job protection and economic strenghthening. The ESC is a national network of hundreds of conservation, scientific, educational, religious, sporting, business and community organizations working to protect disappearing wildlife and last remaining wild places. It is non-governmental, comprised of almost 400 diverse member groups located all… Read More

Paris: Denoel & Steele, 1932. 196pgs+adv. Very Good condition softcover, original stiff red paper cover. Light wear to edges and corners, bottom of spine chipped. Original paper price tag intact on spine. Internally clean and unmarked, paper is a bit stiff and age darkened. Text block is untrimmed and pages after pg 144 remain unopened (top edges of page gathers are still connected, not cut open to separate pages). Included is a vintage London Transport bus punch ticket, Route 19 1-1/2d, Finsbury Park to Streatham, which was apparently used as a bookmark by a previous owner. Text is in the French language, translated from the German by Marie Bonaparte. Table des Matieres: L'Avenir D'une illusion, Actes Obsedants et exercices religieux, Un evenement de la vie religieuse. In L'Avenir D'Une Illusion ["The Future of an Illusion"] Freud controversially views religion and religious dogma as a "neurotic relic", a necessary step in the development of civilization and… Read More

New York: Freethought Press, 1925. A folded leaflet of Abraham Lincoln ephemera: "Lincoln the Soldier"an address delivered over radio Station WGBS February 12, 1925 by Joseph Lewis (1889-1968), president of the Freethinker Association of America. Fourth printing, the Freethought Press Association, NY. Leaflet is creased from being folded in half, with a smudge to lower right front corner, otherwise clean and unmarked.#2316.. Fourth Printing. Leaflet. Very Good/No Jacket. 5.5x9 Inches. Ephemera.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1905. Very Good condition aesthetically pleasing complete six volume set, small 4 x 6 inch red cloth hardcovers, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edges are gilt, bindings tight. Vol. II Flaubert has rubbing to cloth of front and back covers, else minimal shelfwear. Frontis portraits with protective tissues intac for all six volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI. Note: the red cloth boards of Vol V Alphonse Daudet slightly lighter in tone, page edges are trimmed as opposed to the untrimmed other volumes, and there is no gilt signature present on front board indicating a possible different printing of the same edition. All are copyright 1903, and all but Daudet have 1905 on title page, with Daudet not dated. Each volume begins with an introduction, followed by the authors' works. Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece, Seashore Drama, An Episode Under the Terror, La Grande Breteche, The Conscript, A Passion in the Desert; Flaubert: A… Read More

Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office., 1967. vi.45pgs+2 large foldout maps about 32"x40", in rear envelope, clean, unmarked, undamaged. Sections: Summary, Geology and Mineral Resources: introduction, investigations, geology, mineral resources; Economic Appraisal: introduction, acknowledgments, mining claims, economic appraisal, potential of areas adjoining Pine Mountain Primitive Area-metals, nonmetallics, mineral fuels, conclusions; References Cited; Illustrations. 2 figures within text and 2 large foldouts. Book # 2608.. No Additional or Previous Printings. Soft Cover, Original Wraps. Very Good+. 9 Inches x 6 Inches.

New York: Random House, 1993. Fine pamphlet bound softcover with navy blue self wraps and gilt lettering, pristine condition. Read by American Poet Maya Angelou at the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton 20 January 1993. Pubisher's number line 468C9753. ISBN 0679748385. Book# 2630.. Pamplet Bound Paper Wraps. Fine. 16mo - 6.5 Inches Tall.

Place Not Indicated.: Not Stated Unpaginated. [circa pre-1906] Very Good condition navy blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front cover, boards affixed with vintage 3-hole binding clips which may allow removal of plates for framing if desired. Light rubbing to corners. Clean and unmarked but for gift inscription on front blank dated Dec. 21st, 1906. High quality cream colored paper. One plate has a one inch closed marginal tear and crinkled corner, image not affected. Nineteen photogravures from artwork displayed in the Louvre circa 1906 exhibition, each attributed to "Ed.Hautecoeur, Photo". Contents: The Virgin and Angels (No.1260) Salle VII by Cimabue; Coronation of the Virgin (No.1290) Salle VII by Fra Angelico; The Nativity (No.1343) Salle VII by Fra Phillippo Lippi; The Virgin, Infant Jesus and St. John (No.1296) Salle VII by Botticelli; The Visitation (No.1321) Salle VII by D. Ghirlandajo; The Virgin of Victory (No.1374) Salle VI by Mantegna; The Virgin of the Rocks (No.1599)… Read More

Rockefeller Center, New York: Pocket Books Incorporated, 1949. 292 pgs. Good to Very Good condition vintage paperback. May 1949 first printing of first Pocket Book edition, with Gertrude the kangaroo logo design inside covers and red text block edges, #586 on spine. Binding sound, light rubbing along spine edges and margins, pages are clean and unmarked, with uniform age darkening along margins. A huge variety of stories, articles and poems in a tiny package by renowned writers and poets, this format was originally intended as a small take-along for a weekend holiday or the like. Table of Contents, Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern, Valedictory by MacKinlay Kantor, A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield, The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley, Specter of the Rose by Ben Hecht, Who Lived and Died Believing by Nancy Hale, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.by Carson McCullers, Hookby Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Little Gentleman by Booth Tarkington, LuKundo by Edward Lucas White, The Beast With Five Fingers by… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884. xiii.543pgs. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt and black decoration to front and spine. Attractive, ompact and sound. Unmarked but for previous owner neatly penned on front enpaper. Includes a small clipping of a prayer by Frances Ripley Havergal (1876-1839) a religious poet. Pages slightly and evenly age toned. Closed tear to the middle of two adjacent pages, likely a result of being folded in half at some time in the past, text not affected. A complete collection of works by this poet arranged in sections, including some poems by Elizabeth H. Whittier, as well as various maxims, hymns, ballads and inscriptions. #2557.. 1884. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.

New York Vintage prescription form. Very Good condition vintage oculist's hand written prescription for an eye wash formula, with pharmacist's envelope in which it had been folded, undated, circa early twentieth century. Oculist is Thomas Dixon, M.D. in the Arbuckle Building, 367 to 373 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY . Pharmacist is Thomas Lamb, 84 Livingston St. Brooklyn NY "established 1799". #2444.. Paper Ephemera. Very Good.

New York: Sterling Publishing, 2001. 160pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Detailed photography and instructive diagrams throughout. Chapters: Shaped and Themed Books, Accordion-Fold Books, Pocket Books, Thick Sewn Books, Transforming Everyday Life, Cloth Books, Collaborations, Compilations and Exchanges, Layers and Recesses, Containers: Protection and Display, Materials and Methods. Conclusion. Contributors. Index. Metric Conversion Chart. [Please note the dimensions of this book will not fit into a flat rate envelope.] ISBN 0806958138. Book#2604.. First Edition. Hard Cover, Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Alisa Golden. Small 4to.10.25 x 8.75 Inches.