Search Results: Titles starting with M from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)

Philadelphia: Samuel T. Freeman & Co. Auctioneers, 1934. 41 pages. Lg. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. Moderate cover soil; very good. Auction catalog of 323 lots of Currier and Ives lithographs, engravings, American views, maps, and various sporting, Native American, and military scenes. The highlight of the sale was an "important oil portrait" of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale, once owned by James Ross Snowden, Director of the U.S. Mint.

Boston: The Tudor Press, [1927]. 32pp. Program. 10 x 6¾ inches. Color pictorial wrappers; stapled. Half tone and other illustrations; ads. Vertical center crease; very good. [sold with:] [Np: np, 1927]. [1]p. Small Broadside or Handbill. 9 x 6 inches. Half tone illustration. Minor wear at top; very good. Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including cross-dressers in leading and supporting roles. Set on an Arizona dude ranch, the play featured such characters as "a striving youth from Beacon Hill," an "embryo engineer," "Gonzales...ze gr-greatest man in Mexico," and "Peg Murphy a Follies girl, gold digging in the West." The play was written by two M.I.T. students: Philip K. Bates and G. Elbern Hopkins. The program lists the names of all the Tech-Show players and musicians as well as the production and business crews. There were 17 musical numbers including "She Was Just an Old-Time Girl… Read More

Lebanon [Illinois]: College Press, MDCCCL [1850]. [1]p. Program. 7¾ x 5 inches. Bifolium. Removed. Faint foxing; Very Good. Program of lectures ending the first session of the academic year at McKendree College, a Methodist-affiliated school in Lebanon, Illinois. The college was founded in 1828 as Lebanon Seminary, changing its name to McKendree College in 1830 after Methodist bishop William McKendree (1757-1835). Twenty-eight student presenters are identified by name and their hometowns. Topics they declaimed upon include the "Mexican War," "Emigration," "Fourth of July," "Female Influence," "Advance of Science," "John Adams' Prophecy," "Illinois," and "Wealth of America."

[New York, aft. 1908]. [4]pp. 1 Typed Letter with annotations + 3 typed leaves. Sm. 8vos. Wear to edges of leaves with some loss to margin of letter; good. [sold with:] London, June 2, [18]76. [3]pp. 1 Autograph Letter Signed. Sm. 8vo. Bifolium. Accompanied by a cyanotype photo (3 x 4 inches), a magazine clipping, and a newspaper clipping. Folds; separation at some folds; good. Isabel Fiske Conant a.k.a. Isabella Fiske Conant Three typed sonnets and a typed letter by prolific late 19th and early 20th century poet Isabel Fiske Conant (1874-?). One sonnet, "At Edward MacDowell's Grave," celebrates the memory of the composer and founder of The MacDowell Colony of artists in New Hampshire. Appropriately for a composer, the poem evokes musical imagery: "I leave a wild-rose where he rests and sleeps, And yet I know he is not truly here More than in winter-pines' symphonic deeps, Or in arpeggios of the summer year..." Conant's letter makes reference to a "sonnet contest" that she intends to enter, apparently… Read More

[Kansas City?, ca.1928]. 137pp. 11¼ x 8¾ inches. Black cloth with gilt titling on upper cover; orig. cloth reinforced hinges. Pasted-in clippings cut out from the original 1928 Broadway program and theatre publications. Bookplate of Kenneth McM. Dickey. Some fading to spine; rubbing at head and tail of spine and at tips; very good. Typescript for an adaptation of Machinal, a landmark in expressionist and feminist theater. The play portrays the life, trial, and execution of real-life murderer Ruth Snyder, who died in the electric chair of Sing-Sing Prison that same year for killing her husband. In the play, Snyder is simply referred to as "A Young Woman." Despite rave reviews, Machinal's Broadway premiere ran for just 91 performances. It had a number of excellent productions internationally in the following years. Originally produced as a two-act play with ten "episodes," this adaptation presents the play in eight episodes Snyder's life: "Business," "Home," "Honeymoon," "Maternity," "Prohibition,"… Read More

Lynn, Massachusetts: Published by J.F. Ingalls, c.1885. [32]pp. Oblong Pamphlet. 4½ x 6½ inches. Decorated printed wrappers; side stapled. Illustrations. Damage and minor losses to wrappers and in margins of some leaves, not affecting text or illustrations; Good. Late Victorian American textile design and pattern book for decorative knotting and needlework. The techniques of macramé and rick-rack stitching and trimming are described and projects using these techniques are demonstrated. The projects include tassel making, a border design for canvas, a thread and needle case, a sachet and pin cushion, a "fancy cushion for toilette set," a lap robe, and a "tidy of ribbon and lace," a kind of doily. With publisher's ad for worsted cross-stitch patterns, "New 1885 Edition ! Extra Pages!"

New York: Macmillan, 1929. Frontispiece, 211 pages. Near fine in publisher's cloth binding; in a worn, fair-only dustwrapper with some loss to rear panel, now in a new protective mylar wrapper. bjcb 352244 First edition, first printing of this story for young adults. With "Mad" Anthony Wayne commanding the forces, a drummer boy participates in the capture of Stony Point during the American Revolution. From the library of Raymond L.J. Riling, his bookplate.

Philadelphia: Royal Publishing Co., 530 Locust Street, [ca. 1900]. 256pp. 7 x 5 inches. Pictorial wrappers with some general rubbing and minor soil; rubber stamp to title-page from 1966 book sale; good. Bertha M. Clay was the pseudonym of Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884).  A modern-day edition of this book notes that "under a variety of pen names, author Charlotte M. Brame wrote hundreds of romance short stories and novels in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. A Mad Love is a wonderful tale of against-all-odds romance that will enthrall fans of classic Victorian-era love stories." This undated edition, issued circa 1900, is unrecorded in OCLC, which has only recorded a few copies of editions printed in New York during this period.

Notre Dame, Ind.: Lit Press, 1969. 106pp. Sm. 8vo. Cloth binding in a lightly-soiled dustwrapper with a few short tears. A near fine copy. First edition, first printing. Includes contributions by Charles Bukowski, Diane Wakoski, Doug Blazek, d.a. levy, t.l. kryss, Wayne Zade, Ottone M. Riccio, Lyn Lifshin and others.

Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Company, (1908), but c.1912. 97, [2]pp. "Beadle's Frontier Series" No. 21. Pictorial chromolithographic wraps; side stapled. 7 x 5 inches. Printed on pulp paper. Brief wear at head and tail of spine; small losses at corners of some leaves, not affecting text; brief separation of rear wrapper along upper joint; good to very good. Twenty-first title in "Beadle's Frontier Series" of dime novels first published 1908-1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The plot involves the Native American Chiricahui Comanche tribe and is set in the Colorado River Valley in the Llano Estacado or Staked Plains region of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. The somewhat incongruous cover shows what appear to be Kentucky-like frontiersmen with buckskin fringed coats and leggings and a powder horn. Ref. The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book - J. Randolph Cox - Google Books ["Beadle's Frontier Series," p23] accessed online.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., (1978). First Edition. 337pp. 8vo. Hardcover with some foxing to top edge else near fine in a fine dustwrapper. "Based on Crowley's personal papers, diaries, and correspondence, made available to a biographer for the first time." (dust jacket) With an introduction by occultist Israel Regardie, Crowley's secretary for three years.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 205, [1]pp. Hardcover. Fine in a like dustwrapper. First edition, first printing, thus. Twenty-four short stories by Géza Csáth (pen name of József Brenner), Hungarian writer, playwright, musician, and physician. Selected and with an introduction by Marianna D. Birnbaum. Translated by Jascha Kessler and Charlotte Rogers.

New York and London: The Century Co., (1924). Frontis., [6], [1-2], 3-250pp. 7½ x 4¼ inches. Publisher's cloth. Near fine in scarce and very good dust jacket. Biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) by French pacifist and Nobel laureate, Romain Rolland. The first European biography to bring attention to Gandhi and his philosophy of non-violence. A handsome copy.

New York: L.B. Fischer, MCMXLV [1945]. 303pp. Octavo. Publisher's cloth binding. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has some edge-chips and light soil; not price-clipped. First American edition, first printing. The author's first book and with a foreword by Edith Sitwell.

London: Faber and Faber, (1993). 240pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Illustrated. Pages evenly toned per paper quality used by the printer else near fine in like dustwrapper protected in a new mylar wrapper. First edition. Signed by Louis Malle on the title page.

[America, c.1920s]. Mammoth Photograph. Approx. 25 x 30 inches. Sepia tone. Very good. Poignant, an unusual, extremely large-format or "mammoth" studio photograph of an American bridal party. We've never seen a wedding photo so large. Even the wedding party is immense. In this oversized studio photograph-over 5 square feet-we see the bride and groom; the best man and two groomsmen; a maid of honor and sixteen bridesmaid's; a boy ring bearer; and five flower girls. That's 28 people! A wonderful photograph for its unexpected, striking effect.

[Canada: Self-Published, 2013]. 35pp. First edition[?] Hardbound with dust jacket. Illustrated. Bright clean copy in fine to as new condition. "The story of a man from Deep Creek, Virginia and how he became a man of New York City, and a father to be adored. This is every daughter's story of unraveling her loving father." (sub-title)

New York: Liveright (1939). First edition. 102 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Two small holes to front hinge; a very good and clean copy. Lieberman was a Russian Jew who emigrated to America as a young man. he is noted for his 1916 poem "I Am an American." In 1940, Lieberman joined the New York City Board of Education, and this copy was inscribed and signed by him while he was there: "To Louise Veo whose presence brightened the ninth floor of the Board of Education building, with best wishes of the author. Elias Lieberman."

New York: Books for the Few, MCMXLI [1941]. 245, [1]pp. 8vo. Patterned cloth, without dustwrapper, if issued. Minor traces of of binding edge-wear; near fine. Limited to 1050 copies illustrated by G. Christopher Hudson; this copy out-of-series. A verbatim reprint of the 1909 edition of The Maniac: A Realistic Study of Madness from the Maniac's Point of View. A very handsome example.

[Np, c.1916]. [14]pp. Manuscript Fair Copy. Seven 8vo. leaves. Folds, very good. Manuscript fair copy of the detective story "Pearls and Canes" by mystery writer William F. Vassall. Set in New York City, the short story recounts the mysterious theft of a pearl necklace. Handling the case are the cool Mr. Thorne and his hapless assistant George Barron. This Sherlockian couple-with Barron playing the amanuensis and hapless assistant role of "Dr. Watson" to Thorne's "Sherlock Holmes"-are consulted by a woman who is expecting a messenger in disguise bearing a valuable parcel. The woman explains that the messenger, who arrives by ship the next day, will be delivering to her a pearl necklace given to her by her father. Her father, who had long worked in India, had the pearls made into a necklace by a London jeweler. A telegram from a Detective Murdock of Scotland Yard urges her to have a detective meet the boat. George Barron-"silly as a goose" in an emergency-goes to meet the vessel. What could go wrong?… Read More