Delineator, Signed (6 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author. Pages taped and frayed. Reading copy only.

Hardcover. Folio. Three full issues in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers bound together in green cloth with white hand-lettered spine lettering (though NOT ex-library). 70pp, 90pp, 80pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), advertisements. Near fine. Tight, bright and superb trio consisting of the LAST THREE ISSUES of this monthly, which was founded in 1899 as a ladies' fashion magazine whose real purpose was to showcase the American Fashion Company's dress patterns. By the 1920s it had become one of the largest women's magazines in the country, and by 1931 boasted circulation of more than 2.5 million copies. It changed ownership in 1937 and was merged with another late 19th century women's magazine, "The Delinator," but after two years ceased publication. The first of these three issues features, amongst its usual selection of specials, fiction and feature articles, a complete novel by then-popular Margaret Culkin Banning, "The Open and Shut Case," the second features Faith Baldwin's short story "Literary Shrine," and the third features Fannie Hurst's short story "Play That Thing." This bound volume includes a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed from Faith Baldwin, 1p, heavy stock 5½" X 3ĵ" correspondence card, Norwalk, CT, 17 December [1960]. Addressed to Delmar Reiter. Near fine. In part: "Swamped. Col. Blizzard: ice now -- so glad you liked Xmas story. I'll have a different type in Jan. issue Good H[ousekeeping] Yes I've known Yankee ever since it started. I know the publisher too." Signed simply "Faith," the whole penned in her typical green ballpoint. A wonderful trilogy of the final three of this famed monthly, with excellent letter from one of their best-known contributors. Baldwin (1893-1978) was a popular and prolific sentimental novelist well known from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Subtitled 'A Compendium of phreno-Organic Science, this was one of Fowler's early books on phrenology, with one of his earliest head charts. Publisher's original brown gilt decorated cloth with design of a human head with brain map. This copy belonged to Commander Ralph E. Duncan of the marine corps, USNR, and bears his stamp on the endsheet. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Title page filled out in pencil, SIGNED by the author and dated Oct. 30, 1880. 174 pages plus advertising in very good condition; edges and endpapers yellowed. Many illustrations. Previous owner's name on ffep. Brown hardcovers with gilt titles and illustration on the upper cover. Spine faded and a little worn, corners bumped and frayed. Covers lightly scuffed. Binding tight. GOOD+ Size: 5 x 7 1/2. Signed by Author(s). Book.

FIRST EDITION. THE PRACTICAL PHRENOLOGIST; and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents---, O. S. Fowler, 1869, first edition, a vg copy in the publishers original gold-gilt and blind stamped cloth. Signed by the author with his subject's name also inserted on the title page. Illustrated.

1st Ed. Sm. 4to. vi,[2],136,[2]p. Engraved portait to title page, engraved figurative headpiece, engraved plate, engraved tail piece of Hollar's monumental stone last two leaves of text with sm. closed silked marginal tears, engraved headpiece of Prague. Some pencil markings and notes to Repertory of Hollar's works, some browning, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered label to spine, minor marking. With the neat inscription of 'John St. Aubyn 1774 pd. 0-7-6' to head of title page with signature of Cudworth Bruch Augt. 1765' to verso of title page.ESTC T31705 'Dedication signed: G. Vertue. With a final errata leaf.'George Vertue (16841756), engraver and antiquary '. But during his lifetime the most substantial published manifestations of his labours were his accounts of the works of Wenceslaus Hollar (1745) and of the medallist Thomas Simon (1753) .' US$811.