Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1931

Dixon, Franklin W.
        The Tower Treasure
      Grosset & Dunlap 1931 - A beautiful 1931 printing in a stunning, fine dust jacket. Book is 1931A-5 and dust jacket, listing to Great Airport Mystery on the front flap, is 1932A-6. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Bookbid]

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.]: Lindley, Ernest K.:
        FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: A CAREER IN PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY
      Indianapolis. 1931.. 379pp. plus frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt. Corners lightly worn, spine a bit sunned. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Very good. Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, inscribed by him to his children: "For my very dear children, James & Betsy, from their devoted Pa. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Christmas 1931." A wonderful association.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana]

Plato (427–347 BC)
        DIALOGUES OF PLATO Translated Into English With Analyses and Introduction by B[enjamin] Jowett
      Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931. 5 volumes. The third edition, new impression. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon polished cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and stamped in blind with panel designs on the covers. xxxvii, 594; 576; ccxxxi, 543; 645; ccxxxviii, 541 pp. A fine set, fresh and clean and very handsome withal. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK AND the best edition of the best translation. Jowett was a great favorite at Oxford University and most famous for his classical translations. Robert Lynd wrote of him in 1925 that “Jowett is one of the few (writers who have the luck to go down to posterity as satellites of the supreme men of genius), and it not likely that for many generations to come English readers will be able to think of Plato without thinking of Jowett’s Plato. He aimed in his translation at producing the effect of an original work...” He accomplished this, not at the sake of scholarship or accuracy, and was able to translate the current of life that runs throughout this great masterpiece. These are considered to be by far the best translations of Plato's DIALOGUES. This revised edition contains a new general Preface which recounts the history of the work and gives some appreciation of Jowett's involvement in the study of Plato. As well, there is marginal analysis and an index of subjects and proper names. The sequence of the Dialogues has been changed, and there are other minor changes of form, and textually very few alterations were made but for important corrections and additions.

      [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]

Bush, Vannevar
        The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations
      In: Journal of the Franklin Institute 212 (July-December 1931): 447-88. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of the first report of Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer. A remarkable technological feat, Bush's invention was the most powerful computing machine prior to the electronic digital computer. "In 1930, an engineer named Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed the first modern analog computer. The Differential Analyzer, as he called it, was an analog calculator that could be used to solve certain classes of differential equations... Utilizing a complicated arrangement of gears and cams driven by steel shafts, the Differential Analyzer could obtain practical (albeit approximate) solutions to problems which up to that point had been prohibitively difficult. The Differential Analyzer was a great success; it and various copies located at other laboratories were soon employed in solving diverse engineering and physics problems" (Britannica). The differential analyzer became a crucial step in the development of the modern computer. In Journal of the Franklin Institute 212 (July-December 1931): 447-88. Quarto, blue library buckram. Ex-libris Dayton Public Library with bookplate on front pastedown and faint embossed stamp on issue title page (Bush article fine).

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

Aesop
        The Fables of Esope Translated Out Of Frensshe In To Englysshe By: William Caxton
      Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931. leather_bound. Publisher brown, full natural sheepskin. Very good in nicked, original board slipcase/No Dust Jacket. Agnes Miller Parker. 146 pages. 31 x 23 Limited edition, copy 56 of 250. Thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker; Bembo type hand-set by Richard O. Jones on special J. Barcham Green of Maidstone paper. Decorative initial designed and engraved by the printer though out. This Welsh press found by the Davies sisters in the early 1920's continued publishing through the 1930's. RODERICK CAVE notes, "During its life, Gregynog published some noble book: how many of which were completely successful is remarkable when one considers some of the difficulties." HARROP 20. Interior clean and very fresh, spine darkened, two centimeter repair at spine head, slight loss at spine foot. From the collection of Haven O' More with his leather bookplate.

      [Bookseller: Royoung bookseller, Inc.]

Ingrams W H
        Zanzibar: Its History and Its People
      Witherby 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First ed 1931. Beautifully bound in modern red half morocco. Complete with 13 plates and two maps, photo f'piece and guard. Super condition, clean no inscriptions. Very, very light occasional dustiness.

      [Bookseller: finecopy]

PARKER, Dorothy
        Death and Taxes
      New York: The Viking Press,, 1931. Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Spine titles a little dulled, partial tanning to endpapers. A superb copy in the jacket with some very minor abrasions to the bottom edge of the upper panel and a small nick at the head of the spine panel. First edition, first impression.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Winston S. Churchill
        India
      This 1931 publication is a collection of 10 speeches by Churchill as part of his campaign against the India Bill over which he broke with his party leadership. Though his cause was lost, these speeches are considered to contain some of the finest examples of Churchill's rhetorical brilliance. The first edition is most commonly found in orange paper wraps. A much rarer version of the first edition was issued in a cased (hardcover) binding, featuring a bright orange coarse cloth. A second printing of the first edition was issued in the same month as the first printing. According to Churchill bibliographer Ronald Cohen: "Few cased copies of the second printing are known." Here is one of those very few - a hardcover first edition, second printing. Moreover, this copy retains the front flap of the extravagantly rare dust jacket. The orange cloth binding is bright and square with sharp corners. The spine is lightly soiled, but not sunned and retaining strong color. There are some holes along the hinge gutters, the largest being 1/2 inch x 1/16 inch at the rear hinge. This defect appears to be the result of thin binding cloth and is consonant with similar defects we have observed on other copies. Despite the flaw, the binding remains tight and sound. The contents are clean, bright, and tight. No spotting. No previous ownership marks. Since this copy bears an important fragment of the original dust jacket, we include a copy of a first edition India dust jacket from our reference collection. We have placed this full dust jacket copy and the original front flap inside a removable, archival quality clear cover. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A92.1.d, Woods/ICS A38(a.2), Langworth p.150.

      [Bookseller: Churchill Book Collector]

CARDOZO, Benjamin N
        Benjamin Cardozo TLS to Professor Tchernowitz 1931
      New York, 1931. Very Good. Signed Letter from Benjamin Cardozo to Prof. Tchernowitz concerning raising funds to further the Talmudic Library& & CARDOZO, Benjamin N. Typed Letter Signed to Prof. Chaim Tchernowitz on Bar Building stationary. New York: July 17, 1931. One page folded quarto.& & My dear Prof. Tchernowitz: / Your letter of July 15 is before me. / I certainly think it would be a fine thing if Mr. Rosenwald would agree to contribute $50,000 to be used for the purpose of publishing the two volumes of the Talmudic Library which will deal with jurisprudence. / I do not feel at liberty, however, to write to him directly upon the subject. The demands upon his philanthropy are almost endless, and he has the wisdom and the vision that enable him to choose between one good and another without advice from me. / Sincerely yours, / Benjamin N. Cardozo& & This is a fine association letter between two lifelong legal advocates, one employed in the service of American secular law and the other in matters pertaining to traditional Jewish or halakahic law. It was Chaim Tchernowitz’s lifelong ambition to combine the two in a way that it would ensure its validity to contemporary life. This letter indicates a previous communication between Tchernowitz and Judge Benjamin Cardozo who was then serving on the New York Supreme Court. Tchernowitz had obviously “put the touch” on Cardozo to use his influence on a wealthy individual to further his vision of Jewish legal education. & & Benjamin N. Cardozo (1879-1938) was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1932 by Herbert Hoover and served until his death in 1938, when he was succeeded by Felix Frankfurter. He was the second Jew after Louis D. Brandeis to serve on the nation’s highest court. Previously, Cardozo served as a judge on the New York State Supreme Court and as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. Throughout his distinguished career he was shaped by his background as a Sephardic Jew. & & Chaim Tchernowitz (1871-1949), Talmudic scholar and Hebrew author, also used the pseudonym Rav Za’ir, which means Young Rabbi. Born in Russia and educated in Lithuania, his life’s ambition was to combine traditional study with modern research in order to rejuvenate Jewish learning. Tchernowitz immigrated to the United States in 1923 and taught Talmud at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. His primary scholarly interest was to produce a full historical account of the development of the halakhah which he succeeded in doing in three volumes. During his lifetime he was recognized as the foremost authority on the history of the Jewish legal tradition and his books are still widely used by students of Jewish law.&

      [Bookseller: Historicana]

RANCHER., ( Lionel Edwards- Illustrates).
        TALLY-HO BACK! (SIGNED)
      Country Life/ Charles Scribner's Sons, London & New York, 1931 First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. - Large 4to. Green cloth, brown leather spine lettered gilt and in gilt on cover. pp 104. 16 plates. Edition de Luxe on what appears to be hand made paper, 100 copies only- this no. 25, signed by both author & illustrator. Very slight rubbing at spine ends, faint mottling at edges, corners very slightly bumped otherwise attractive sound VG+ with protective cellophane jacket. A handsome rare book exquisitely illustrated. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Any Amount of Books ABA]

Hugh Ross Williams
        GODS AND MORTALS IN LOVE
      Hardcover book, 83 pages, containing 9 full color plates from the Dulac American Weekly drawings of 1931. Issued in creme tweed cloth speckled in royal blue, top edge also royal blue. Lettering also designed by Dulac in royal blue ink on the cover and spine. White end papers, book measures 28.6cm x 22 cm.The dust jacket is a magnificant example of art deco design. It is turquoise printed in black and silver, with a design of an androgenous winged archer aiming a bow. It is in perfect condition, with the unclipped price of 12/6 on the inner front flap.This copy is near fine only because of two discolorations on the front and rear endpapers caused by now lost layed in papers. Otherwise it is a beautiful example of a rare and desirable art deco designed illustrated book.Printed in Great Britian by Butler and Tanner, Ltd.See Hughey 84.

      [Bookseller: Albert's Art & Illustration]

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
        Tarzan the Invincible (First Edition)
      Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1931. First Edition. First Edition. First hardcover to be published by Burroughs' company. Jacket art by the author's nephew, Studley.& & Very Good plus or better in a supplied, about Fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean, light shelfwear, two vintage seller labels on the rear pastedown, and a faint stain at the heel. & & A lovely copy, with no rubbing to the red titles, in a nearly pristine dust jacket.& & Zeuschner 733.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

RYERSON COLLECTION
        DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS IN THE
      1931 - [RYERSON COLLECTION]. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS IN THE RYERSON LIBRARY OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. By Kenji Toda. Chicago: 1931. 4to., blue wrappers; xxxii + 466pp. With the addenda and supplementary index of titles laid in. This copy is in very good condition, and is the nicest we have seen in many years. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Boston Book Company, ABAA]

JOHNSON, Nunnally
        There Ought to Be a Law and Other Stories
      Doubleday Doran Garden City: Doubleday Doran. 1931. First. First edition. Some soiling to the spine, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Holger, representing Sweden in a tremendous international friendship with that true blue American, Nunnally. June 20, 1931." The recipient, Holger Cahill, was the National Director of the Federal Art Project, Works Projects Administration (1935 to 1943) -- Johnson was either mistaken, or being facetious: Cahill was actually born in Iceland. Author's first book, a collection of short stories. Johnson directed several good films, including The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve, and wrote the screenplays for many more. .

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

Hammett, Dashiell
        THE GLASS KEY
      New York: Knopf, 1931. Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, having been published in London earlier that same year. A Very Good or better copy (slight sunning to the boards but no wear) in a Very Good example of the rare original dust jacket (price-intact, restored by an expert conservator to Fine condition). The book Hammett claimed throughout his life to have been his favorite. One of the most interesting aspects of Hammett's writing in The Glass Key is his refusal to let the reader into the character's minds. Hammett was often quoted as saying that in the real world people only understand actions and speech and in The Glass Key that's all we get. Made into the memorable 1942 film starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. One of his great publishing successes: 20,000 copies sold within a year and the book received uniformly excellent reviews.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

      [Bookseller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ]

HAMMETT, Dashiell
        The Glass Key
      London: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1931. Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration to upper board and spine in white, titles to spine in red. Housed in a royal blue quarter morocco solander box by The Chelsea Bindery. Bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown, foxing to prelims and terminal leaves as usual but an extraordinary copy, cloth remarkably fresh, lettering entirely unfaded. First edition, first impression, first issue. The true first printing of Hammett's most serious book, this was published first in London during Knopf's brief attempt to crack the UK publishing market. The enterprise failed and led in part to the remaindering of this title with Cassell's cancelled title page and binding. Copies of the correct issue in this condition are rare.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

NACHBAUR, Albert
        Eléments de Décoration Chinoise. Motifs décoratifs relevés dans les Temples et Yamens
      Peking: Albert Nachbaur, editeur, 1931. Large 8vo. (12 x 8 inches). Typeset title printed on tissue. 60 hand coloured plates. Red library buckram. A scarce work by Nachbaur with beautiful hand coloured plates.

      [Bookseller: Donald Heald Rare Books]

Broch, Hermann
        DIE SCHLAFWANDLER DER ZWEITE ROMAN; ODER DIE ANARCHIE 1903 (Original Nazi Insignia Stamp and Photograph)
      Rhein-Verlag. Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt stamped type is damaged and chipped along spine. Boards are straight. Corners bumped. Spine is cocked. Binding is tight. Pages clean and in very good condition. This copy belonged to Egon Zill, a German Schutzstaffel Sturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant. Zill's stamp is on the front end sheet and reads: "Doktor E. Zill 2, KOMP, LSSAH 51." On the back paste down is stamped "75578." There are also four insignia stamps (on the end sheets and pastedowns) that read: "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" with an eagle carrying a swastika. The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) was Adolf Hitler's personal Bodyguard Regiment . In addition, there is an original photo pasted to the front end sheet which has been signed. I cannot make out the name, though there is some resemblance in both the photo and the letters in the name to Kurt Nehrling, who was a German Social Democratic politician and member of the German resistance against Hitler. Nehrling "was responsible for supplying information to the Soviet Union and was most famously known for hiding banned books. He was later caught by the SS and killed at the Dachau Concentration Camp" in 1943. ; 325 pages .

      [Bookseller: New Boston Fine and Rare Books]

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
        A Farewell to Arms
      New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Black cloth with red paper labels. Top edge red.Silver red and black dust jacket has shallow chipping to corners and head and heel of spine. This is the first grosset reprint and is rare in the dust jacket. Book itself is a fine copy.. Reprint. Black Cloth. About Fine./VG. Octavo.

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions]

Beach, William N.; Burnham, John (Foreword); Yard; Robert Sterling (Introduction)
        In the Shadow of Mount McKinley
      New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xiv, 289 pp, folding map, illustrated with paintings by Carl Rungius (one in color) and many photographs by the author. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, in the scarce original dust jacket. One of 750 copies issued, this one inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Geo. Baekeland/In hopes this may interest you/Oct 1 of 51/W.N.Beach." George Baekeland, son of the inventor of Bakelite and heir to the family fortune, was a big game hunter and author of Gunner's Guide (Macmillan, 1948). This is a truly lovely copy; clean, tight, and bright, with virtually no wear visible. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has one closed tear to the front panel and mild edgewear. An important book both for the early history of Mount McKinley National Park and for its big game hunting content, based on the author's diaries kept on expeditions into the Alaska Range in 1922, 1925, 1926, and 1930.

      [Bookseller: Walkabout Books, ABAA]

SASSOON, Siegfied
        Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
      London: Faber & Faber Limited,, 1931. With Illustrations by Barnett Freedman. Octavo. Original illustrated vellum, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the publisher's pictorial slipcase. 15 colour plates and illustrations throughout by Barnett Freedman. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a few minor nicks and toned spine panel. First illustrated edition, first impression, published the year after the first edition. One of a limited edition of 320 numbered copies signed by the author and artist on the limitation leaf. A lovely copy, uncommon in such nice condition.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne
        The Complete Shakespeare Head Works of Brontë Sisters
      Oxford: newly printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published by Basil Blackwell,, 1931–38. 20 volumes, octavo. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, contrasting brown morocco labels, single gilt rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With numerous black and white etchings. An excellent set, handsomely bound and in fine condition. Best Edition of the Bronte sisters. Limited to 1000 copies, this set is complete with all the novels, biographies, correspondence, unpublished writings, poems and juvenilia. The latter limited to 500 copies only. Complete sets are rare.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Aiken, Conrad:
        THE COMING FORTH BY DAY OF OSIRIS JONES
      New York: Scribner, 1931.. Original long galleys, folded as issued. Very good. The author's original working set of long galleys for the first edition, on twelve galleys, with editorial corrections and queries in ink, and Aiken's pencil responses and corrections and revisions scattered throughout, including considerable alteration of punctuation, format and capitalization.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

(CUNARD, Nancy.) CLOUD, Y
        A Note on the Affair of the Surrealist Film L'Age D'Or
      [London: Nancy Cunard,, 1931]. Single folio leaf folded once, printed in black. A few very faint marks, but essentially in fine condition. First and only edition of this enigmatic piece of passive-aggressive propaganda on the side of the avant-garde art against the violent outbreak of Right-wing outrage at the showing of Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel's iconoclastic film L'Age D'Or in Paris on 3 December 1930. The fascist League of Patriots successfully pressured the Parisian police into censoring the film, and this pamphlet – written at Nancy Cunard's behest by the author and political writer Yvonne Kapp (pseud. Y. Cloud), whose first of four novels under that pseudonym "Nobody Asked You" was published in 1932, and who later became a member of the Communist party and biographer of Eleanor Marx – informs the public of this story of reactionary oppression, whilst also taking the opportunity to circumvent the censors by giving an in-depth synopsis of the ardently antiestablishment surrealist film. A pamphlet in French was published simultaneously. This document is important evidence of just what a cultural battleground Paris was in the years preceding those when it would become an actual one.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

GRAHAME, Kenneth
        The Wind in the Willows
      London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1931. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, map endpapers, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard. Cloth bright and fresh, spotting to edges of text block, endpapers, title pages, and occasionally to contents. A lovely copy in the jacket that is only lightly rubbed at the extremities. First edition illustrated by E. H. Shepard, first impression. Originally published without illustrations in 1908. The illustration on page 30 has Rat at the oars when it should be Mole, a mistake that was corrected in subsequent editions. An uncommonly attractive copy.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

ATKINS, Charles Edward.
        THE COMPANY OF CLOCKMAKERS, REGISTER OF APPRENTICES OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOCKMAKERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, 1631-1931
      London privately printed 1931 - FIRST EDITION, 1931. Preface by W. S. Pennefather, Privately printed for the Company. large 8vo, approximately 250 x 180 mm, 10 x 7 inches, colour frontispiece plus 17 black and white plates of portraits, watches and clocks, plus a line drawing, pages: xvi, 1-339, original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, gilt coat of arms to upper cover. Binding slightly rubbed, a neat small ink name and address on both pastedowns, and signature in pencil of first free endpaper, light foxing to first endpaper and blank side of colour frontipiece, otherwise a very good tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING. POSTAGE AT COST. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.]

Boyer, Ralph L
        "FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits, with engraved titles, each signed in pencil "R. L. Boyer", lower left
      New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. First (and only) edition, limited to 250 proofs only. Image size is approximately 10 x 8 inches, the plate measuring 13 x 9 1/2 inches, with additional margins. Fine condition. Two plates (Washington and Morris) matted and framed. Ordeman, The Aquatints, Drypoints and Etchings of The Derrydale Press, p. 24-5, et seq . An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ., Foxhunter, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, America's oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON, "Napoleon of the Turf"; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS, Yachtsman, owner of the "America" and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS, ESQ., Angler, author of The American Angler's Book, who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, ESQ., "Frank Forester", the father of American sporting literature. A SUPERB SET OF ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS SPORTING PRINTS SERIES

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

Greene Graham
        Rumour at Nightfall
      Heinemann 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Original blindstamped red cloth with gilt titling. slightly cocked. One inch tear to cloth at foot of spine. Retailers stamp to top of Chapter 1. Upper hinge cracked, webbing showing, but firm. Clean clear textblock, without foxing. Lacking DJ. Scarce

      [Bookseller: finecopy]

Colophon [Milne, David] (With David Milne.)
        The Colophon: A Book Collector's Quarterly. Part Five
      New York 1931, 1st Edition. (Hardcover) Unpaginated. Very good. Quarto in original printed paper covered boards with inserts, illustrations and a plates including "Hilltop: a drypoint in two colors" by David Milne. 3000 copies were done of this issue. Light rubbing to boards with some discolouration and wear to ends of spine. Boards lightly bowed with small stain on top right corner of front board. The only way to get a reasonably priced Milne..

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books]

MOORE, CLEMENT, ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA, RUSKIN, JOHN, BROWNING, ROBERT
        The Night Before Christmas; Goblin Market;the Pied Piper of Hamelin;the King of the Golden River
      London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1931. Arthur Rackham's four uncommon Christmas books published between 1931-1934. The Night before Christmas with 4 colour plates in dust jacket with some foxing.The King of the Golden River with 4 colour plates in dust jacket with small chips missing. Goblin Market with 4 colour plates lacking the dust jacket with edgewear o/w fine. The Pied Piper of Hamelin with 4 colour plates lacking the dust jacket and some wear and short tears o/w fine. . 1st of This Edition. Paper Wraps. VG+/VG+. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Octavo.

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions]

Rombauer, Irma S
        The Joy of Cooking
      St. Louis: A.C. Clayton, 1931.. First edition of this classic cookbook that since publication has sold over 15 million copies. Octavo, original blue cloth. In near fine condition with light wear to the extremities. A very fresh copy, scarce in this condition. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box.

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

Rombauer, Irma
        The Joy of Cooking. A compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Illustrations
      St. Louis, MO: by the author/printed by the A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. Octavo, [32] + 395 pages. Privately published by the author in an addition of 3000 copies. First edition of the most iconic of American cookbooks. Closed tear to page 211. A bit of staining to front edges of a few pages. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth professionally rehinged with original spine laid down. Overall near very good. Laid-in is a page, inscribed by the author "To Louise, with many thanks for her contributions. Lovingly, Irma". Judging from the dimensions, the page is likely a preliminary from the 1936 edition of the same title. Also included is a three page ALS, from Rombauer's nephew, Paul Albert Hoeffer, addressed to Mrs. Guida, and speaking about the death of Rombauer, and of other matters.

      [Bookseller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food, Wine & th]

Janniot, Alfred with a preface by J. Charbonneaux
        Le Bas-Relief du musee des colonies (First Edition, inscribed by Janniot and the principal architects and designers of Rockefeller Center)
      Paris: Librairie d'art Louis Reynaud, 1931. Small folio. Portfolio by Alfred Janniot, French sculptor who contributed to the bas-relief sculptures of Rockefeller Center in New York City. The portfolio is a record of Janniot's bas-reliefs on the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, delivered in 1931 for the Paris Colonial Exposition and designed by Janniot between 1928 and 1931. The work he contributed to Rockefeller Center is the gilded panel "Paris and New York Joining Hands Above Figures of Poetry, Beauty and Elegance" on the façade of Le Maison Française (circa 1930).& & INSCRIBED by Janniot on the title page. Additionally, an inscription on the front pastedown to John Amore is signed by six of the architects of Rockefeller Center and two of its most important contributing artists. The architects who have signed include John R. Todd, L. Andrew Reinhardt, Henry Hofmeister, Wallace Harrison, J. Andre Fouilhoux, and George N. Pauly. Reinhard and Hofmeister are credited with Rockefeller Center's basic scheme, with Raymond Hood contributing significantly to the design of the main buildings. The artists who have signed are Rene F. Chambellan (who co-designed and cast the Atlas sculpture and designed several promenade fountains) and Gaetano Cecere (sculptor).& & Folded title sheet with an introduction (in French) and 66 full-page plates printed on rectos only. In a folding photo-illustrated portfolio with brown silk tie as issued. Plates Near Fine, portfolio Very Good with some wear along the hinge folds.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

(CRANACH PRESS) RILKE, Rainer Maria
        Duineser Elegien
      London: Printed by Kessler at The Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press,, 1931. Elegies From the Castles of Duino. [English translation by Vita & Edward Sackville-West.] Large octavo. Original japon-backed mulberry paper boards, titles to spine gilt. Text printed in both English and German. Lightly rubbed, minor scratches and small white mark to lower board, spotting to boards, edges of text block, and scattered through contents. A very good copy. First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 230 numbered copies on handmade paper signed by the translators. There were a further eight copies on vellum. A truly beautiful book produced by Germany's finest private press. Kessler initially set up the Cranach Press with the intention of producing German translations of major international works of literature such as Virgil and Shakespeare. This joint production with the Hogarth press represented a slight departure, printing in both English and German Rilke's masterpiece, one of the finest poetical sequences in the German language.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

STEVENS, Wallace
        Harmonium
      New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1931. Octavo. Original grey boards, black cloth backstrip, printed paper label to spine, dark red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco slipcase. An excellent copy in the jacket that is tanned along the edges and spine panel, with a couple of short splits at the corners and tape repairs to the verso. Revised edition, originally published in 1923. Presentation copy inscribed from Stevens to Alfonso Ossorio, on the front free endpaper, "To the painter from the poet" and with Alfonso Ossorio's inscription beneath, "Gift of Dunstan Thompson, Cambridge Mass., '34, A.". Ossario has also added an elaborate emblem reading "A 12" in red and black ink to the half-title. It would appear that the poet Dunstan Thompson requested Stevens inscribe the books for Ossorio, the abstract expressionist artist. Thompson was the editor of the literary magazine Vice Versa, and admired Stevens, whom he called "one of the best poets writing in America today", though he qualified this with, "This statement is to be taken as a truism, not as a compliment. In fact, considering the present impoverishment of poetry, it is no compliment at all" (dunstanthompson.co.uk). He was also a good friend of Ossorio, who drew his portrait in 1942.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

SEUSS, Dr
        Boners; [together with] More Boners
      Viking Press, New York,, 1931. 2 volumes, 12mo. Original red and green cloth respectively, titles in black to spine and front boards. With the dust jackets. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss. Boners bumped to spine, light rubbing to edges in lightly spine faded dust jacket nicked to corners. More Boners near fine in lightly spine faded dust jacket with larger chips to corners. First Editions, First Printings. Both books inscribed, 'With Best Wishes / to Arnold A. Rogow / Dr. Seuss' True first editions like this are very scarce; inscribed copies are extremely rare. Arnold A. Rogow was an author and political scientist who trained as a psychoanalyst.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Burr, Malcolm (1878-1954)
        In Bolshevik Siberia, the Land of Ice and Exile
      London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1931. 1st Edition. Description: 224 p. Front. , plates, map. 23 cm. Subjects: Siberia (Russia) --Description and travel. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Uncommon in the dw.

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd.]

COWARD, Noel
        POST-MORTEM
      Garden City: Doubleday, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine sunned, lacking the dustwrapper. Very Good copy with an exceptional association. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "Dear George/with my love/Noel" to George Cukor, with his bookplate created by Paul Landacre on the front pastedown. Cukor directed "My Fair Lady," "The Philadelphia Story," and part of "Gone with the Wind," among many other films.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Wilkins, Sir Hubert
        Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition
      [New York]: Brewer, Warren & Putnam 1931, 1st Contributor's Edition Limited to 29 Numbered Copies. () xiv, 347pp. Very good. Folio. Original 1 / 2 textured leather over cloth boards. Gilt and silver title and starburst design to spine. Head of spine bumped. Boards slightly rubbed / discoloured. Fore and bottom edges of text block uncut with some foxing, top edge gilt. Signed limited studio portrait by Hal Phfye of Sir Hubert Wilkins as frontis. Internally clean and tight. Copy # 14 of 29. Includes errata slip. Housed in the original metal box. Attractively printed and heavily limited edition of the account of the Wilkin's plans to take the Nautilus under the polar ice to the North Pole. The expedition was plagued with troubles, and although some of the scientific goals of the expedition were met, the Nautilus did not reach the pole, was crippled and eventually sunk off the coast of Norway. This limited account of the planning includes numerous illustrations..

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books]

Dickens, Charles
        The Chimes
      London: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. Brown Boards with black design and bright gold gilt to upper board. Spine darker than boards. Gold gilt top leaves. SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Limited edition of 1500 copies this being no. 315. Fine interior pages. Tight. Housed in Slipcase in good condition with tape reinforcing the spine. Beautiful book. From my Grandfather's private Christmas collection. Always happy to send detailed photos.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

      [Bookseller: Laura's Rare Books]

DICKENS, Charles [Arthur RACKHAM]
        THE CHIMES
      London: Limited Editions Club, 1931. hardcover. Spine a bit darkened, as usual, but gilt bright. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Arthur Rackham. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11-1/2") bound in decorated buckram with gilt highlights; 166 pages. Designed and printed by George Jones. Copy #397 of 1500 illustrated with six full-page black and white illustrations and fourteen smaller black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

(HAMMER, VICTOR). MILTON, JOHN
        SAMSON AGONISTES
      Florence: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1931. No. 51 OF 95 COPIES. Hardcover. 340 x 229 mm (13 3/8 x 9"). [78] pp. No. 51 OF 95 COPIES. In a peculiar amateur binding of blue crushed morocco, upper cover with short black and orange lines onlaid at upper left and lower right corners, centerpiece of onlaid black coffin-like ornament entwined by an orange snake, flat spine with onlaid orange sword with gilt titling, ivory moiré silk endleaves. In a matching velvet-lined orange linen folding box with orange morocco back and lip, onlaid sword on back. Printed in black and bistre. Front flyleaf with bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim. Leather a little spotted, soiled, and with slight variation of color, isolated very trivial flecks of foxing, otherwise a fine copy, the text brilliantly white and clean, and the binding unworn. This is a scarce copy of the first privately printed work produced by the eminent artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1967). Milton's version of a Greek tragedy recounting the biblical story of Samson and Delilah appears here in the uncial type Hammer designed and had cut by Paul Koch. Hammer was born in Vienna and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts there. He moved to Florence in the early 1920s, and in 1929 founded a private press, Stamperia del Santuccio, which was housed in an old Italian villa. With the help of a Florentine craftsman, Hammer built a wooden press based on an early example in the Laurentian Library, and it was on this press that the present item was printed. The Stamperia del Santuccio operated in Florence until 1933, and then in France and Vienna before its founder fled to America with his family after the Germans invaded Austria. Hammer's wooden press, which had been in storage in Europe during the war, was shipped to the University of Kentucky in 1954, and Hammer again began issuing books under the Stamperia del Santuccio imprint. The types he designed were all uncials, because he felt that style was needed "for the loftier expression of the philosopher and the sacred language of the past." Our binding is not great art, but it is certainly a good try by an inventive amateur, and any shortcomings it may have are easily outweighed by the beauty and rarity of this item. The work is not listed by ABPC since at least 1975, and copies are almost never seen in the marketplace.

      [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Mediev]

Richard Rogers Peabody
        The Common Sense of Drinking ~1st Peabody (proto Alcoholics Anonymous)
      Boston, Mass: Little, Brown and Company, 1931-04. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Acceptable. First Printing of the First Edition. Fair (2 of 10) There is rub-through to the corners. rubbing to corners, shelf wear, chips to spine ends/corners. Vintage bookplate inside cover. minor dampstain to top & rear corner. 191 pages. There is a vintage store sticker on the fly from a previous seller in Boston Mass. Textblock firm. 1931 in title page, Published April, 1931 on copyright page. Bagged for protection. [Seminal work on the treatment of alcoholism and a major influence on Alcoholics Anonymous's founder Bill Wilson. Richard Peabody, a Harvard educated Bostonian, pioneered psychological-based treatments of the disease; the basis for this book was his 1930 paper "Psychotheraputic Procedure in the Treatment of Chronic Alcoholism" and his articles on various medical journals of the time.] [Peabody, of the Boston blueblood scions, was an alcoholic who helped pioneer the philosophy that alcoholism was an actual disease, rather than merely a weak constitution manifesting poor behavior. He went on to provide counseling services to many in NYC. It is generally regarded that some of his phrases ("Half-way measures were to no avail"; "Once a drunkard always a drunkard." and even the step program were liberally made use of by Bill Wilson.] [Himself a recovering alcoholic, Peabody became associated with the Emmanuel Movement, centered in Boston, eventually becoming a lay therapist who "helped educate his generation of medical doctors about the hopelessness of the alcoholic's condition. He also won a very modest acceptance of lay therapists and co-workers with psychiatrists in treating alcoholics. He trained other recovering alcoholics to carry on the same work ." Peabody's book grew out of his paper "Psychotherapeutic Procedure in the Treatment of Chronic Alcoholism," originally read before the Harvard Psychological Society and published in the January 1930 issue of the journal Mental Hygiene, followed by short articles on the same subject published in the June 19, 1930 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine and the October 1930 issue of the British Journal of Inebriety. His book strongly influenced Bill Wilson when he was writing the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, expresses many of the key AA concepts, and contains a number of passages repeated almost verbatim in the Big Book. See the discussion in chapter 8 "Richard Peabody and The Emmanuel Movement: An Early Breakthrough in Boston" in Mel B's New Wine: The Spiritual Roots of The Twelve Step Miracle (Hazeldon, 1991).] [The Common Sense of Drinking by Dick Peabody - a book that attempted to provide a solution to the 'drink problem' in the years immediately preceding the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. This book also provided inspiration for Bill Wilson as he wrote the book Alcoholics Anonymous in late 1938 and early 1939 - with several of the important phrases and verbiage that Wilson appropriated when writing that book including: "Once a drunkard always a drunkard." (p. 82), and "Halfway measures were of no avail." (p. 99)]. * * * * * * * * * * {FREE Media Mail Shipping! Images available for any item, just ask. Any images shown next to the listing that have our www.aCastleofBooks.com watermark on them are the exact item you will receive, all other images are for reference only. Free delivery confirmation for domestic orders. Books with Author signatures are guaranteed authentic. We understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging. We stand behind our descriptions 100%. All items will be shipped securely to insure that they arrive in exactly the same condition in which they left. May have small easily erasable pencil markings on first page. Our Packing Slips do not contain any pricing information so you may order items as Gifts or for Dropship without concern. We ship every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning. All items subject to prior sale. Why the odd prices? We run a percent discount for our Biblio listings, which insures Biblio has our lowest prices online, but does give odd change.}

      [Bookseller: A Castle of Books]

WALTON Izaak and RACKHAM Arthur [Illustrator]
        THE COMPLEAT ANGLER Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being A Discourse Of Rivers Fishponds Fish & Fishing Not Unworthy The Perusal Of Most Anglers
      George G. Harrap & Co., 1931.. With author's signed watercolour sketch entitled 'After Lunch' depicting Walton sleeping on the river bank on half title and handwritten letter dated 15 June 1932 on his Stilgate writing paper describing the sketch and the locations from which the book's illustrations were drawn tipped-in on prelim. 4to. Original gilt tooled full green morocco, top edge gilt (a bright VG copy). Pp. 223 (with previous owner's - the recipient of the letter - neat inscription), illus with coloured plates and b&w vignettes in text. .

      [Bookseller: Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd]

(RACKHAM, Arthur) WALTON, Izaak
        The Compleat Angler
      London, George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,, 1931. or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 12 colour plates, captioned tissues, numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Some light browning to a few leaves, an excellent copy in a fine binding. Limited edition of 775 copies, signed by Rackham.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

RACKHAM, ARTHUR, Illustrator. WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON
        THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION
      London: George G. Harrap, 1931. ONE OF 775 COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Hardcover. 270 x 203 mm (10 5/8 x 8"). 223, [1] pp. Introduction by Henry Williamson. ONE OF 775 COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Original vellum-covered boards, gilt titling and decoration on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and UNOPENED. Illustrated title page and endpapers, 24 illustrations in the text, and 12 COLOR PLATES (including frontispiece), all BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Hudson, p. 172; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 66-67; Coigney 313; Oliver 276. Three minuscule dots near top of spine, otherwise A VIRTUALLY FAULTLESS COPY, and rare thus, especially because the vellum soils so easily. Hudson says that in this work Rackham turned to an emphasis on "historical costume and river landscape, in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful." The copyright page indicates that the text is reprinted from the fifth edition of 1676, the last to be revised by the author, but with the spelling modernized. Walton (1593-1683) lived in turbulent times, and he suffered personal tragedy (he endured the deaths of both his wives and eight of his nine children), but, largely because of the present work, he is forever identified with quietude and serenity. First published in 1653, his "Compleat Angler" is the classic work on the art of angling, infused with wise fish lore, written by an indomitable angler who knew every haunt of fresh water fish in the south of England. But, as Day says, "the love of angling is only the outward sign of a gentle inward grace, the soul of a thoroughly good man who loves peace and quiet meditation. If any one man created the idyll of the English countryside, it was Walton." It is this world that Rackham's illustrations bring charmingly to life.

      [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Mediev]

[RACKHAM, ARTHUR]. Walton, Izaak
        (Rackham, Arthur) The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
      London: Harrap, (1931). Large octavo. 224pp. First edition. One of 775 copies signed by Rackham. Illustrated with twelve color plates and numerous line drawings, as well as silhouette endpapers celebrating the joys of fishing. Very slight soiling to binding; otherwise, a fine, unopened copy in gilt-decorated vellum. T.e.g.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]