General from Certain Books, ABAA

Framingham Massachusetts: Wallace Nutting Larger format Nutting photograph; approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2"; titled below the image, "Hawthornside" and signed lower right in full Wallace Nutting; no date but circa 1915; Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) American craftsperson, photographer, writer, lecturer; developed what was by far the largest and most prominent photographic operation, employing nearly 200 colorists, framers… Read more about this item

Berlin: Albert Frisch, 1929. 57 pages; a facsimile of the notebook containing the original dramatic piece (debut in 1772) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781) influential German Age of Enlightenment writer, philosopher, dramatist; facsimile 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" approx. size; small previous owner bookplate-ticket of Paul Kempner on front endpaper; light beige plain paper wrap covers;… Read more about this item

Lilburn, Georgia: Fairmount Press, 1999. 477 pages; black and white illustrated with imagery, charts; topics including GeoExchange Conference & Expo; Energy Service & Power Marketing Center; Strategic Gas Forum; Plant & Facilities Expo; Environmental Technology; OSHA compliance; with 70 individual chapters on these topics, by dozens of contributors; including Modernizing a 30 Year Old Office Building A Case Study in… Read more about this item

New York: Various, 1941. Group of 14 pieces of sheet music by Claude A. 'Bennie' Benjamin (1907 - 1889) Virgin-islands born musician and especially prolific writer & composer of popular tunes - member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1984); this group includes: Cancel the Flowers; When the Lights Go On Again; Rumors are Flying; Oh! What it Seemed to… Read more about this item

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1911. 64 pages; illustrated with views of European destinations; and noting that "...American travelers in Europe are cordially invited to make the Eagle Paris or London Bureaus their headquarters while abroad. Efficient and willing clerks are ready to render them any assistance..."; giving extensive information on each of these locations; including individual country listings for:… Read more about this item

New Jersey: City of Jersey City, 1999. Large plan of Jersey City, approx. 29 1/2" x 44" size; map keys listing the District Regulations, including low density residential, office and retail, finance and business district, intensive industrial, altogether a dozen designations; with the list of 50 named 'Redevelopment Areas' per the city's planning, Bay Street to Morris Canal; also showing… Read more about this item

East Hampton Long Island New York: Author Published, 1975. 49 pages; signed by the author on the title page, 'With all good wishes, Marie Earl Olssen'; illustrated with hand-colored plates by the author, with tipped in black and white photograph portrait with two of her bird companions and another two b & w photographs tipped in the text, hand-identified in… Read more about this item

Sag Harbor, New York: Not Published, 1978. The three acts paginated separately; 31 + 26 + 27 pages; title page noted as "Author's - Keep at home"; with many corrections, additions, changes within, especially in the last act; our research indicates that this is an unpublished play; author name & address on title page of John Olden Sherry (1923 -… Read more about this item

Switzerland, 1999. (36) pages; color illustrated with this artists' work throughout; "A thematic series of paintings and mixed media printing"; with portrait and biographical details at back for this Basle printer-artist; titles and sizes of work given; German text; offerings from his work in 2002/03; 6" x 8 1/4" size; spiral bound; light edgewear, soil; in very good condition.… Read more about this item

Italy: No Photographer Noted, 1895. A series of loose plates, with tipped-on photographs on paper in black and white; about 1/2 of the plates with 2 images; sizes vary, with the largest approx. 10" x 13" and ranging to 3" x 6" (for those having 2 plates per page); especially well-taken, with gravure quality and fine detail; views of the… Read more about this item

A Beaune Cote-Do'r France: Jean Dupin, Matire-Imprimeur, 1973. 77 pages; with a preface by Robert Poujade; limited edition # 546 of 550; very well-printed, wide-margined and in large type, inked in turquoise and black on good Velin d'Arches paper stock; French text; approx. 7 1/2" x 11"; original printed paper wraps, with cover ornament; with the original glassine protective over-wrap;… Read more about this item

Saratoga, New York: Not Published, 1892. Approx. 30 pieces of correspondence, of varying length and content, concerning the Peacock and Winne families - apparently Lottie Peacock married Henry Winne - covering their activities & that of family during the last part of the 19h century and early 20th; there is some real estate and inheritance intrigue recounted in the earliest… Read more about this item

Japan: International Newsreel, 1922. Black and white photo of two traditionally-garbed Japanese men seated in a small shop; a ledger visible on floor, hanging notices; Text of attached press notice states "...A customer who comes into the business department of a modern Japanese store to pay his bills, sits on the edge of the "department" and keeps his dirty feet… Read more about this item

Southampton, New York: Author Published 104 pages + (1) page short bibliography list; a photocopied text, printed one side only; the dedication page notes "My sister, Lisbeth Halsey White, Historian of the Town of Southampton 1923-1932, began this series of stories for the girls and boys of Southampton, in 1932. The first two stories, "The Settlement" and "The Indians," are… Read more about this item

East Patchogue, NY: Pride Guides, Inc, 1985. 132 pages; black and white illustrated throughout; history, details of local interest for Montauk, Long Island - fishing, real estate, yachting, more; good overview of 1980s business in the area, with antique shops, bicycle dealers, charter boats, delis and farm stands, marinas, motels, party boats, restaurants and services; also the sporting activities of… Read more about this item

Nassau County, Long Island New York: No Publisher Listed, 1898. Two items; a small broadside, approx. 5 3/8" x 7 3/8" size, printed black on thin tan paper stock, with the headline "Why You Should Vote for Hempstead as the County Seat of the new County of Nassau. The law requires that the County seat shall be located within one… Read more about this item

Milano Italia: Casa Editrice Universo S.R.L., 1954. 26 pages; color illustrated covers and a couple of color images within, the balance in black and white; large format 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" approx.; an Italian fumetti (comic) book which combines the 'photoromanza' photonovel - a romantic story illustrated with photographs, the characters with speech balloons in the familiar comic style… Read more about this item

Milano Italia: Casa Editrice Universo S.R.L., 1954. 26 pages; color illustrated covers and a couple of color images within, the balance in black and white; large format 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" approx.; an Italian fumetti (comic) book which combines the 'photoromanza' photonovel - a romantic story illustrated with photographs, the characters with speech balloons in the familiar comic style… Read more about this item

Long Island, New York: Not Published, 1954. Three typed articles including: "Wayside" (1) page, concerning this house, "...most probably constructed for one of Captain John Underhill's children..."; "Mattinecock Farm" (1) page, concerning the Underhill-Prior family ownership and heritage of the property; "The Underhill Burying Ground" (2) pages, concerning Captain John Underhill, his ancestry, the contribution of Myron Taylor to the… Read more about this item

New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. 55 pages; black and white illustrations by Adolf Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Cy Twombly, Jean Tinguely, Raymond Mason, Lee Krasner, Joseph Cornell, John Kane, with descriptive material on each artwork in the content listings at back; written contributions by John Ashbery, Rupert Barnaby, Guy Davenport, Rackstraw Downs, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, John Hollander, George Pitts; edited… Read more about this item