Search Results: Authors starting with S from Aardvark Rare Books

Virginia: U.S. ARMY 64TH ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC BATTALION (USAFICPA), 1944. Poster. Good Plus. Three informational (propaganda) posters in a series, comprising 4009-1; 4009-2; and 4009-7, each measuring approximately 17 1/2" x 11 1/2". Each of the three shows a central fold crease, and one shows considerable smudging or perhaps dry mold; each is now protected in a stiff, archival sleeve. Bottom corner of each reads "Reproduced by 64th Engr. Top. Bn USAFICPA" followed by the graphic number. We're guessing that these posters did not come out of the far larger mapping divisions in the Topographic Battalion, but were from the "Graphic Arts and Distribution" division, domiciled in Virginia. The artist for each is "BRAD". 4009-1 depicts a tank surrounded by attacking Japanese soldiers who are attemptng to overrun the tank, lobbing grenades, etc. but who are repelled, ostensibly, because, well, it's a tank, and the fact that the soldiers in the tank are prepared. The caption in the top right corner reads:… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: FishDrum Magazine Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback, 8 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xxi, 148. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page. White cardstock covers with black line drawing of cross and title to front and spine. Light soiling to covers. Gentle thumbing; half-inch crease on lower rear corner. Eli Sagan (March 3, 1927 - January 4, 2015) was an American businessman who headed one of the nation's largest manufacturers of outerwear for young women, an autodidact in cultural sociology who wrote several widely reviewed books on the subject and a political activist who served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973. His extensive readings in anthropology and psychology led Sagan to write on the subject of cultural anthropology. He authored several books on the subject, including 1985's At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism,… Read More

Yokohama, Japan: Yamagata Printing Co, 1952. First Edition. Sewn. Very Good Plus / Good (wrap-around dustjackets). Octavo, 8.25 in. X 6 in. Original sewn cloth pictorial covers, with vertical paper label pasted to front with title. Blue cloth to headcap and tailcap of spine. Light age-toning to pages. Full wrap-around decorated paper dustjackets with title to spine and with tuck-in flap. Rubbing, several closed tears, and a touch of sunning to dustjackets. Volume I (1949): pp. ix, 258. Inscribed and signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. Volume II (1952): pp viii, 255. Signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. 1 in. x 1 in. chip to top of dustjacket spine.

London, England: Putnam & Co., Ltd, 1945. Twenty-Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. William Kermode. Slender duodecimo, 7" x 4 1/2." White cloth boards. Original illustrated paper dust jacket, good, chip to front top left corner affecting top of "TH" and 2 closed tears to top of rear board. 2 tiny closed tears to bottom edges. Small chips to top and bottom of spine. Interior pages very clean, blockprints throughout by William Kermode. Charming, beautifully illustrated volume which memorializes a simple, but insightful carpenter, the pseudonymously named Lem Putt, the "specialist" of the title. The Listener describes the work as "A narrative ballad in which sensitiveness of mind is combined with a tough delight in adventure" (rear flap).

Eugene, OR: T.W. Salisbury, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.5 in., pp. 1-293, 1-96, 1-34, 1-77, 1-33, 1-82, 1-42, 1-78. Color tabs on ad-covered cardpaper separators bound between tabbed sections. Tan cloth boards with black advertisements to boards and spine; black title to spine. Advertising to edges. Light rubbing to extremities and light soiling to boards. The phone and address book for Lane County, at the southern end of the Willamette Valley in western Oregon. Loads of advertising. Includes tab-separated sections entitled: Eugene and Rural Route Eugene House and Street Guide Spriingfield Cottage Grove Lane County Reverse Telephone LIst Classified Business Directory and Buyers' Guide.

London, England: Printed for the undertakers, J. Walthoe Sen. and jun. ; Thomas Wotton, Charles Bathurst, Jacob and Richard Tonson, and the representatives of John Darby ... and also for J. Basket ... [and 29 others], 1730. Second Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. Very Good. Incomplete. Sixth Volume missing, presumeably covering 1710 to 1729. (Available in latter-day reprint elsewhere). Fascinating record of crime and punishment, in exhausting detail. Large folios. 14 in. x 9 in. Full calf with decorative borders in blind (except Volume III, which is full mottled calf.) Six raised bands. Black spine label in gilt, with range of trial dates in one compartment, and gilt date stamped in bottom compartments. Title page in red and black. Latter-day rebacking, restoration and reconstitution by conservator. The (outlying) Third Volume is from the Third Edition, published in 1742. It has red edges. Contains transcripts of all trials for high treason, etc. between 1388 and 1709. By way of example,… Read More

London, England: Printed by T. Wright, Essex-Street, Strand; and Sold by G. Kearsly, No. 46, near Serjeant's-Inn, Fleet-Street, 1779. Fourth Edition. Leather-bound. Good. NOTE: VERY HEAVY. Large folios. Full calf. Seven raised bands. Contrasting black and red spine labels, in gilt, with gilt library number, stamped in gilt, to spine's bottom. Considerable rubbing to extremities, and on several volumes, boards are detached, but present. Contains transcripts of sundry trials for high treason, murder and attempted murder, assault and battery, perjury, inciting a riot, outlawry, false arrest, and, (only a!) misdemeanor -- the debauching of (Lady Henrietta Berkeley) by Ford Lord Grey; the debauched Lady Henrietta was the sister of Grey's wife, who claimed to love Grey, and ran away with Grey; the trial of Captain William Kidd and associates for Murder and Piracy; An Account of the proceedings against Samuel Johnson, who was tryed at the Kings-Bench-Bar, Westminster, for high misdemeanour, and found… Read More

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co, 1979. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.4 in., pp. 220. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Red-orange paper board with publisher's emblem stamped in blind to front board. Silver title to black cloth spine. Very light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Light creasing and small closed tears to top/bottom of [price-clipped] dustjacket spine and bottom rear panel. A novel of the rivalry and friendship of two competitive climbers. The author, Jame Salter, "took up climbing, scaling rock walls, bivouacking on ledges, in the Rockies and the Alps, with Royal Robbins and others. When he turned in the script to Robert Redford (who was anticipated to play the role in the screenplay), he felt it was his best.... But Redford thought that the hero was too taciturn for the screen. A friend, Robert Ginna, then the editor-in-chief at Little, Brown, suggested that Salter turn it into a novel, which… Read More

London, England: G. and W. Nicol, Pall-Mall, 1814. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Quarto, 10.8 in. x 8.3 in., pp. xvi, [4], 357. Illustrated with fold-out frontispiece entitled "View of Londonderry" and seven additional plates. Subscribers list. Contemporary full calf with thin triple-frame and armorial emblem of two bucks embossed in blind to center of front and back boards. Gilt title and five gilt-edged raised bandlines. Marbled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Previous owners embossment to front free endpaper. Light age-toning to pages. Clean and sharp: Handsome edition. Previous owner's embossment reads: "Dispensary House, Carricart, Lifford, Co. Bcl". George Vaughan Sampson (1763-1827) was born in County Antrim, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was headmaster of Foyle College, Derry for four years before becoming Rector of Aghaboe. This memoir provides a detailed account of the chart and survey of the County of London-Derry in Ireland. The book is divided into… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: Graisberry and Campbell, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5 in., pp. xxiii, [3], 509, [1], 1-42 (appendix); [17] leaves of plates. Illlustrated with hand-colored frontispiece map of County Londonderry (15.5 in x 17.5 in.) and sixteen additional engravings, twelve of which fold-out. Gilt-ruled quarter-calf over marbled boards. Gilt title to black and burgundy panels, and gilt bars, to rebacked spine. Top panel of spine has publisher's gilt emblem from original spine. Marbled edges. Rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners are nudged. Previous owner's bookplate ("Carton Library") and pasted library-location note to front pastedown. Light foxing to title page and occasinal spots throughout. Pages and plates are bright. Plates are in very good plus condition. Engravings include: Map of County Londonderry, Parishes/Incumbents/etc., View of Ben-Yevenagh, View of the Schistose Ridge, View of the Succession of Balsaltic Promontories, View of Stratified and… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." pp. [xiii], 286. Blue publisher's cloth. Corners mildly bumped, some fading to spine. Minor shelf wear. Signed Carl Sandburg to half title. Pencil annotations to last three pages; all else very clean and bright. Collection of free verse poems written and signed by Pulitzer Prize winning author Carl Sandburg. The poet Carl Sandburg was born into poverty in 1878. After working odd jobs and studying at Lombard College, he moved to Chicago and became a writer for the Chicago Daily News. Sandburg gained fame as a poet for his unadorned, uncomplicated yet poignant style of poetry. As biographer Richard Crowder notes, Sandburg, "had been the first poet of modern times actually to use the language of the people as his almost total means of expression" (from Poetry Foundation).

Chicago, IL: Holiday Press, 1938. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good Only. Limited to 240 copies Holiday Press. 1938. Photographs of Lincoln Life Mask and of Carl Sandburg are by Steichen. Black cloth over marbled boards, with gilt-stamped narrow black leather title strip design wrapping around boards. Deckled fore-edge Rubbing and mayhaps some gnawing) to extremities and last blank. Otherwise clean copy of Sandburg's uncommon little tribute. A Lincoln and Whitman Miscellany by Carl Sandburg.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.4 in., pp. 450. Signed in felt pen by the author and populist Vermont senator on the front flyleaf. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Blue paper boards with silver title to spine. Protected in mylar.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc, 1945. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus. Salvador Dali. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 111. Boldly signed by famous Surrealist artist to front free endpaper -"Salvador Dali, 1945", in thick black ink to front free endpaper. Gray cloth beveled boards with embossed maze design, in blind and with gilt title on red stamped panel to front and spine. Light fraying to extremities and sunning to spine. One or two small smudges to front board. Bottom corners lightly rubbed-through. Unmarked interior. Sunning to edges of dustjacket, with fully-intact price of $2.50 to top of front flap. Protected in mylar. Stated First Edition. Maurice Sandoz was born on April 2, 1892 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Maze (1953) and Spring-Heeled Jack (1950). He died in 1958 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The book tells the story of a Scots who abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the… Read More

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clean, sharp corners,, bright text block. Dustjacket illustration features "Portrait of Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241). xliv + pp. 652, including index. Review copy with publisher's slips laid in (a trifle creased). "...Sato and Watson have p;ut together not just a compilation of Japanese poems, but a primer for the study of the tradition itself, beginning with the 8th century 'Kojiki' and 'Man'yoshu' up through the startlingly Westernized poets of modern Japan...This is a landmark anthology." (Publishers Weekly, quoted on front dustjacket flap).

Chicago, IL: American Bible House (Formerly L.P. Miller & Co.), 1894. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Octavo. Navy blue stamped cloth, ruled, bordered and embellished with black embossments, and lettered in gilt. Rear board repeats front, but in red faux-leather cloth, ruled/embellished in blind, with much brighter gilt to center vignette ("Ideal Womanhood and Motherhood: How Attained") Folding front flap of stiff cloth which repeats title. Beveled leading edge to front board only. Lovely patterned front endpapers. Rear endpapers non-pareil marbling, in red, navy, white, black, and tan. Front hinge started (unrepaired, but easily repairable) with mull showing, but holding. Flap in rear pastedown contains 29- page staplebound pamphlet entitled: "Plates Illustrating Maternity; A Book for Every Wife and Mother", with many anatomical diagrams printed to the pages. Flap itself shows a 1 1/2 in. tear near top which does not interfere with removing or replacing the pamphlet. Chapters on 1) The Young Wife; 2)… Read More

New York: Thomas Kelly, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Matching set of two: Large Quarto, 11.8 in. x 9.5 in. Vol I: pp. xxxiii, [8], 6-291, [1]. Vol II: 293-649. Illustrated with twenty-nine steel plates (most with tissue-guards), hundreds of drawings, and thirty-three color maps. Dark green full morocco with multiple decorative gilt frames and Irish harp in gilt to fronts and backs. Beveled boards. Gilt title, five raised bands, with decorative floral designs to each spine panel. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to edges; corners all lightly nudged. Decorative dentelles; rich red marbled boards in nonpareil pattern, to endpapers. Light spotting to front endpapers and first title page. Very occasional spotting to pages and tissue-guards. Unmarked interiors. A lavish, elegant edition. Savage, John. An American journalist and miscellaneous writer; born in Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 13, 1828; died in 1888. He came to New York in 1848, and subsequently in Washington became proprietor of The States,… Read More

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6.25 in., pp. xvi, 412. Inscribed, signed, and dated (1914) by the author on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt frame, door-knocker design, and title to front. Gilt door-knocker and title to spine. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, with fraying to bottom of spine. A few stains, moisture marks, and light soiling to boards. Corners bumped and just showing. Semi-gloss paper. Front hinge tender, but holding; crack to hinge at pp. 192/193, but threads holding.

New York: Brewer & Warren Inc, 1930. Second Printing Before Publication". Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 7.7 in. x 5.2 in., pp. 344. Red cloth boards with black title and bold poison design to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top and bottom of spine; sunning to spine. Top front corner lightly nudged. Creasing to top corners of pp. 1-18 and 302-312. Between 1923 and 1939 Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) wrote ten novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1930, in Strong Poison, she introduced a leading female character, Harriet Vane, the object of Wimsey's love. Harriet appears sporadically in future novels, resisting Lord Peter's proposals of marriage until Gaudy Night in 1935, six novels later.

New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Dustjacket.. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account based on the volumnious notes and sketches that Curry has kept since. his youth, of his early home life on a Kansas farm, the exhuberant enthusiasm of the high school and college athlete, his professional art training at the Kansas City and Chicago Art Instiututes, the hard and successful struggle with reality in the commercial art field, the study and experience in the European academy and art museums, and the years of fruitful activity since 1929 directed toward new forms and a distinctly American art... This book is "another volume. in the series devoted to outstanding American artists...on the premise that… Read More