The following items, consisting of pamphlets, pocket maps, leaflets, brochures and photographs, were in a leather covered file box/pamphlet bin that went missing in San Francisco: 1. Circular. Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Minnesota Railway Co. w/map 2. Description of the Lolo Trail Painted by Edgar S. Paxson leaflet 3. In the Adirondack Mountains brochure 4. Morrison's Guide to Washington 5. First Annual Report of Central Park 6. Taintor's Guide to Erie Railway and Branches 7. Cutter's Guide to the Hot Springs of Arkansas booklet 8. Colorado Springs booklet 9. Gregory. Savannah and Its Surroundings. Pamphlet 10. Ozalo-tzaete, bromide print photograph by Ben Wittick, Gallup, New Mexico 11. Gathering or procession of Hopi People, silver print, circa 1910 12. Plain Facts About Dakota, 1888. 13. Architecture of Allen & Young, Stockton, California 14. Memoranda of the Late Affair of Honor Between Clingman and Yancey, 1845 15. Full Statement …Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery Societies. Boston, 1836 16. Proceedings of the N.H. Anti Slavery Convention. Concord, 1834 17. The Flags of the Confederate Armies, 1905 18. Kansas Promotional Brochure Showalter Mortgage Co. 19. Great Burlington Route brochure with chromos of railroad car interiors 20. Colt Farm, Rhode Island booklet 21. Semi Monthly Excursion to California. Southern Pacific Company 22. Book sale broadside, mention of books for ladies, 1850’s 23. The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Yellowstone Route, brochure/map 24. I... [more Items Missing from the San Francisco Fair]
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The following books were stolen in Santa Barbara last Friday: 1. Steinbeck, John. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. # 24 of 99 copies, Signed. In slipcase. 2. Agee, James. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. 1941. First edition in dustjacket. Walker Evans photos. 3. James Joyce. GIACOMO JOYCE with five original etchings by Jose Hernandez, each signed, Number 3 of 6 copies housed in a cork case with a copy of the text in French in a paper folding case. Ettan Press, Rancho Santa Fe 1981. 4. Carroll, Lewis. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. First American Edition.1866. Sangorski and Sutcliffe Binding. 5. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Ca. 1645. PRIERES DE LA MESSE, Prayers of the Mass 15 Chapter headings illuminated in watercolor and gold. 6. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 17th. Century. PROPER FOR THE PARISH OF MAISONS...For the days of the two Patron Saints, St. Remy and St. Hilaire. 7. Wilkin, John. Mercury or The Secret of the Swift Messenger. First Edition 1641. 8. The Mother on Sri Aurobindo. 1961 Signed. With a letter explaining how the frontise-piece painting was made, is laid-in. 9. M. Scott Momaday. The Journey of Tai-me. 1967. Santa Barbara. Limited to 100 copies. 2 copies. Leather binding, in slipcase. 10. Five Fore-Edge Painting Books. Small, full leather bindings, rather non-descript. Including Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh. 11. Five City Lights Pocket Poets Books. First Editions. If you have information on any of these items, please contact the Lost Horizons Bookstore at 805-962-4606. [more Books Stolen in Santa Barbara]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Holy Bible (The Judas Bible) Date of publication : 1611 Description : Darlow & Moule, revised by Herbert, and is probably no. 319: the general title dated 1613 (not present presumably) but New Testament dated 1611, the date given by the former vicar. Known as the 'Great She Bible'. Folio, approx 362 x 227mm. If you have any information on this item, please contact Barry Valentine-Ketchum, Staniland (Booksellers), at stanilandbooksellers@btinternet.com or +44 (0) 1572 821493 [more Stolen: 1611 Bible]
The following item has been reported missing: . Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." With Thirty-Seven Illustrations by the Author. London and New York: Macmillan, 1886. 8vo, original decorated red cloth, gilt lettering, a.e.g. First edition. Lewis Carroll Handbook 194; Williams 52; NCBEL III, 978. ¶ The facsimile of the manuscript that was the genesis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, attractively produced in a format somewhat similar to the original Alice. ¶ Inscribed in purple ink on the half-title to a young girl "Dorothy Katherine Comyns Carr / From the Author / Feb. 2. 1888." Dorothy Carr's father, Joseph Williams Comyns Carr (1849-1916), was the well known theatre and art critic, gallery owner, editor, playwright and producer (see the DNB), while his wife Alice was a close friend and occasional costume designer for the actress Ellen Terry, the latter also a lifelong friend of Dodgson. Cloth slightly worn and soiled; rear hinge just starting, but sound; fine copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell box. If you have any information on this item, please contact John Crichton at 415-398-0414 or books@brickrow.com. Still missing as of 5/24/2019. [more Missing: Alice's Adventures Under Ground]
Update 5/24/19: This item has been recovered and is no longer missing! The following item has been reported stolen: Original Century Magazine cover artwork by Frederic Dorr Steele. Blue the predominate color, matted, ~ 20" x 16". If you have any information on this item, please contact Vic Zoschak at 510-814-0480 or vjz@tavbooks.com [more Stolen: Original Century Magazine Cover Artwork by Frederic Dorr Steele]
This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : EVRIPIDIS tragoediae septendecim Authors : EURIPIDE Date of publication : February, 1503 Publisher : Aldus Manutius, Venice Description : XVIIIth century half calf over coloured paper boards, calf label and gilt-lettered title on spine, raised bands. Entirely printed in Greek type. This is the first volume of Euripides: a second volume was published by Aldus the same year If you have any information on this item, please contact Vincenzo Ferro at enzoferro@bibliopathos.it or +39 335 6327764 [more Stolen: EVRIPIDIS tragoediae septendecim]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Manuscript, one leaf, written in French. Date of publication : ca 1839 Description : A peace treaty that should put an end to the first Carlist War in the early 19th century. Contact : Librería Miguel Miranda at libreria@libreriamiranda.com or (+34) 914-294-576 [more Stolen: 1839 Peace Treaty]
The following book has been reported missing: CRANE, STEPHEN. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton, 1895. 8vo, original tan buckram with red and black decorations and lettering. Four pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. First edition. BAL 4071, printing 1; Starrett 3, first state; Wright III, 1257. Inscribed on the front blank by Elbert Hubbard to his wife: "Bertha E. Hubbard / November 21, 1895 / from E. G. H." On the front paste-down is an original ink invitation in a calligraphic hand: "Come & take Pot Luck at the Sign of the Lanthorn and meet Stephen Crane - Tuesday Evening April the seventh at Seven o'clock - One Twenty Six William St. New York." Above the invitation is an ink drawing of a lanthorn. Later bookplate of San Francisco collector William M. Fitzhugh on the verso of the front free endpaper. Apparently other mementoes were once tipped into this copy: something was once removed from the front and rear paste-downs, leaving the usual marks. Cloth a little soiled; very good copy. If you have any information on this item, please contact John Crichton at (415) 398-0414 or books@brickrow.com. Still missing as of 5/24/2019. [more Missing: First Edition of 'The Red Badge of Courage']
The following item has been reported stolen from Ft. Lauderdale, FL: MALTA, Knights of. Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Giovanni Battista Rondinelli, editor. , , , 203, pp. With an engraved title-page and 38 full-page engraved plates, including thirteen with four portraits each (three in one case) of Grand Masters of the Order plus 21 with a large narrative scene enframed by woodcut borders. Folio, 325 x 220 mm, bound in full 17th-century vellum, gilt central arabesque and fillets on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, leather label lettered in gilt, a.e.g. . If you have any information on this item, please contact Peter Kraus at (212) 772-8787 and reference Beth McGowan. [more Stolen:Knights of Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem]
This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Authors : Goya Description : Goya etching: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, approx size in frame 45cm x 35cm If you have any information on this item, please contact Alix de Francia at alix@alixpdf.plus.com or +44 (0)7890 365407. [more Stolen Goya Etching]