December 1933, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Contributions from the Department of Minerology and Petrography Harvard University. No. 116. [From the American Journal of Sciencem Vol. XXVIII, 1934.] 12 pages in light stapled wrappers. Quite Scarce. Personalized (Signed) By the A.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Contributions from the Department of Minerology and Petrography Harvard University. No. 116. [From the American Journal of Sciencem Vol. XXVIII, 1934.] 12 pages in light stapled wrappers. Quite Scarce. Personalized (Signed) By the A.

Pamphlet. [4]p., wraps. Signed by the author on the inside of the front cover. Spotting and discoloration to covers. Good. Poem about proper conduct of life, with many classical and religious allusions. Tucker was a Virginia poet, editor, physician, and psychiatrist.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A series of letters from Norman Tealby to Mr. Frank J. House of 1842 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn U.S.A. from December 1932 to June 1933. 1) Typed and signed, dated 16th December 1932 from his Boxhill Road, tadworth address, 2 sheets, discussing the purchase of some drawings from his illustrations to Joseph Andrews. 2) Typed signed letter, dated 20th January, from his Tadworth address, 2 sheets, further discussing the purchase of the original illustartions for the Bodley Head 'Joseph Andrews'. 3) A typed signed letter with the Tadworth address, further to the earlier letter concerning a dedication sketch to 'Joseph Andrews'. 4) A typed signed letter of march 15th 1933, from his Tadworth address, discussing the possibility of also purchasing his illustrations to Candide, also published by the Bodley Head and enclosing a portrait photograph. Included with this collection. 5) A typed signed letter of 13th May 1933, expressing concern that Mr House has not been in touch in respect of his mooted purchase. 6) An autograph letter, three sheets dated June 14th 1933 from his Tadworth address, regarding Mr. House inability to complete the purchase due to 'The effcts of the world-wide economic depression'. 7) A typed list of the Joseph Andrews illustrations with sizes and prices and some annotations, 2 sheets. 8) A two sheet typed list of illustrations to Candide, with prices, sizes, a few annotations. A single sheet presentation inscription and drawing dated March 1933 as sent to Mr. House. Signed by Author(s).

Offprint [SIGNED]. Quarto; good+/wraps; side-stitched; gray-green spine with no text; front panel with black text; INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, head-edge, front panel; shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; light toning and foxing; 176 pp.; uncut; illus.; tables and text figures; tail-edge, staining; spine and wraps, sunned; joint, split starts; else very good. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #1. 1178554. FP New Rockville Stock.

The second publication of this brochure for the Taliesin Fellowship, first issued a year previously. Inscribed by Wright on the front panel of the wrappers to a young architecture student. A typical - quirky - piece of FLW design and fragile. Although institutionally quite well represented with around 25 on WorldCat, it is inevitably scarce commercially with just two copies appearing at auction, neither signed. Taliesin, sometimes known as Taliesin East or Taliesin Spring Green after the establishment of Taliesin West in 1937, was the home and estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, developed on land that originally belonged to Wright's maternal family. In 1932, the Wrights established the private Taliesin Fellowship, where 50 to 60 apprentices could come to study under the architect. Students helped him develop the estate at a time when Wright received few commissions for his work. Once he began Taliesin West, a winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona, Wright and the fellowship "migrated" between the two homes each year. Wright did not consider the fellowship a formal school, instead viewing it as a benevolent educational institution. Sold together with an original double-weight photograph of Wright (153 x 203 mm), a little silvered and cracked in the emulsion. The original recipient John Gordon "Jack" Rideout (1898-1950) became a noted industrial designer working out of Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio. Rideout always wanted to be an architect but family circumstance pushed him into more immediately lucrative employment in advertising, but after a series of hard-won ascending career moves he ended up heading his own industrial design firm holding a number of important patents, and with an impressive portfolio of accounts. His papers, held by the Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE, include a photograph album with images of Rideout at Taliesin with Wright of around this date. Sweeney 2036 Small square folio (220 x 220 mm), pp. 10; 3 illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, contains lists of Friends of the Fellowship and Fellows, and an application form for fellowship, all printed in red and black on one side only, with one exception, and folded variously to form loose, unbound gatherings of two to four pages each. Includes a perspective drawing, a plan and an aerial photograph of Taliesin, together with one of a group of fellowship members. Central fold of the wrappers reinforced verso with Japanese tissue, old glued repair inside back panel - the original pocket for the loose sheets? - toned, edges lightly chipped, a few small stains to wrappers and pages, overall about very good.