The Press In Tuscany Alley Announces / (i.e. Prospectus For) THE EPHEMERA OF ADRIAN WILSON: An Annotated List 1944-1988, by James Linden with Commentary by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. Published by The Press In Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, 1994..

A beautifully produced Announcement / Prospectus.

Folder / Paper Covers, 9x12 inches, string-bound with 8 pages plus 2 folded sample leaves (pages 129/130 and 107/108) laid into a flap on the inside rear cover. Comes with its original mailing envelope.

Illustrated with a frontispiece tipped-in photograph of the gate entrance to the Press In Tuscany Alley, plus some printed illustrations.

The Prospectus is in FINE condition. The mailing envelope is in GOOD condition with some corner and flap wear, and a couple small scrapes; the envelope has NOT been used for mailing.

About ADRIAN WILSON (from a 1988 NY Times Obituary):

******Adrian Wilson, a book designer and scholar who was considered one of America's leading fine printers, died Wednesday in San Francisco. He was 64 years old.

Working out of a small San Francisco studio known as '"The Press at Tuscany Valley," Mr. Wilson designed and printed scores of books. His many volumes, while little known to the general public, are famous among print connoisseurs, and many are collectors' items.

In 1983, Mr. Wilson won a MacArthur Fellowship.

He is survived by his wife and by his daughter, Melissa Wilson Marshall, of San Francisco.******

THE SAILORS OF KRONSTADT.

A SHOT by SHOT, SCENE by SCENE, FILM BOOK of the 1936 RUSSIAN FILM released with the English title: The Sailors of Kronstadt. Directed by Efim Dzigan it is considered one of the masterpieces of Soviet cinema.

Published in Moscow, 1968. TEXT IN RUSSIAN.

Fully illustrated with hundreds of shots from the film, in the order of which they appear on the screen.

GOOD condition: the covers are worn along their edges, worn through at the corners, bent at the corner tips, but remain solid and the image on the front cover is clear and bright; internally, the pages are just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy, with covers showing some wear.

About the Russian Film WE ARE FROM KRONSTADT (excerpt from Wikipedia and IMDb):

******In 1919, during the post revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair.

Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, characterizing it as being "in the tradition of boys' stories, full of last charges and fights to the death, heroic sacrifices and narrow escapes, all superbly directed", and summarizing it as an "unusual mixture of poetry and heroics". Identifying moments of humour and pathos, Greene claimed that a Fordian poetic sense (i.e. not melodic arrangement, but moral composition) had thoroughly impregnated the film from the first shot to the last, and that the writing resonated with Chekhov's definition of the novelist's purpose, "life as it is: life as it ought to be".******

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Frank L. Baum.

PENNYROYAL PRESS LIMITED EDITION with 63 ILLUSTRATIONS by BARRY MOSER. Limited to 350 copies, this being copy #203. SIGNED by BARRY MOSER on the Colophon Page (the last page).

West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press, 1985.

Hardcover Book in Clamshell Case, 12x13 inches (13x14 inches in case), 268 pages.. Includes the 28 page booklet "Forty-Seven Days To Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Barry Moser".

FINE book in a FINE clamshell case, with a fine accompanying booklet.

A TRULY WONDERFUL (and rare) WIZARD OF OZ.

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Three ANNUAL REPORTS of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of SAN FRANCISCO, for the years 1886, 1890 and 1891. These three reports are bound together in a single book. Each report is bound in with its front wrapper and all its inner pages but lacking its rear wrapper.

Hardcovers, leather spine and corners, 5.5x8.5 inches. The three annual reports bound in. The 1886 report has 90 pages, the 1890 report has116 pages and the 1891 report has 115 pages.

Each report contains lots of information and data about commerce in San Francisco, including, banking, coinage of silver, ship building, the China trade, brokerage, etc.

Condition:

The leather of the cover's spine and corners has RED ROT (it leaves brown marks on anything it touches). Please be aware of this and know how to deal with it. I list this item because I think the three original San Francisco annual reports are important.

The front cover is disbound and the covers are well worn with the leather spine and corners being heavily scraped. Internally, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (Everett E. Farwell), a different previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper (?.?. Steele) dated 1891, some light shorelining and toning to the endpapers; a signature and/or a number written at the top of the front wrapper of each report; otherwise the bound in reports and all their pages are bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Rare ORIGINAL SF Chamber of Commerce Annual Reports. An interesting look at San Francisco commerce in the late 1800s.

THREE JAPANESE ARTIST BOOKS. Three Hardcover Books in Dustjackets, 9x11.5 inches, 71 pages each. TEXT entirely in JAPANESE. Each of the 3 books is part of a 24 volume series on Japanese artists. All were published by Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1963 and 1964. Condition: VERY GOOD books, tight, bright, clean and unmarked, in only FAIR dustjackets that have tears chips, creases, some clear tape repairs on the backsides, etc. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These three books will be heavy to ship and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

THREE LARGE FOLIO PLATES based on Original 17th or early 18th Century Engravings. These Reprints were probably printed in the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

The engravings measure 15x21.5 inches, including margins.

They all appear disbound from the same, large folio book, but I do not know which book. My guess would be a German edition. All the plates appear to have been printed in the late 1800s to the early 1900s, and most appear to be facsimiles of engravings from the 1600s and 1700s.

The plates have stamped information just below the images: "Ch. Milsan Sculp." and "Aubriet del Paris 1763", but I believe that information is incorrect.

Condition: The images all have soiling, some spotting, and are creased, chipped and worn at the edges and margins; some have edge tears, some have marks, all have general signs of age. Nonetheless, a wonderful group of 3 large engraved plates, with scenes that are quite lovely. Would look great framed.

Please Note: These Plates will be Shipped ROLLED IN A MAILING TUBE.

Scarce ORIGINAL 1974 TIMOTHY LEARY EPHEMERAL TICKET

"TERRA II" Ticket To Ride. "The Universe Is Perfect!" ONE TRIP Use Before 1999 "Welcome Aboard Terra II My Friends! My Name Is Doctor Timothy Leary!"

Published in [Folsom Prison, Folsom, California, 1974], printed on blue paper, 8.5" x 2.5". Illustrated by Disney artist Dana Reemes who incorporated Robert Crumb's drawing of Timothy Leary (originally published in a 1973 issue of El Perfecto Comics), crediting "R. Crumb" beside the drawing. The ticket also has a facsimile Timothy Leary signature. The Promotional TICKET was inserted into some lucky copies of Leary's 1974 book TERRA II. The Ticket is for ONE TRIP off the planet earth on a spaceship commanded by Doctor Timothy Leary.

FINE Condition: bright and clean. An original Terra II Ticket is almost impossible to find, most seem to have vanished into space.

TERRA II was written by Timothy Leary in Folsom Prison while serving time for possession of marijuana in 1974. His TERRA ll was a prison escape fantasy which involved leaving Earth on an intergalactic spaceship to travel the universe in an endless voyage of discovery and harmony. This period, beginning with his imprisonment in 1973, is known as his "Starseed" period. Proceeds from the sale of TERRA II were intended to help pay expenses of costly legal appeals by Leary to win his freedom from prison. The appeals didn't work, Leary wasn't released until California Governor Jerry Brown pardoned him in 1976.

Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was extremely controversial. A polarizing figure who challenged the status quo with his famous mantra "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." A Cultural Icon who advocated psychedelic drugs, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg called him "a Hero of American Consciousness."

From the collection of Richard Synchef, a noted collector of Beat, Counterculture, and Psychedelic books and oddities.

1931 Louis Epstein's Bookshop, Los Angeles, Catalog. "A Catalogue of First and Limited Editions & Rare Books, Including a First Issue of the First Edition of TOM SAWYER by MARK TWAIN". Booklet / Bookseller's Catalog, printed paper covers, side stapled, 4x7 inches, 36 pages. Published by Louis Epstein's Bookshop, Los Angeles, July, 1931. The Tom Sawyer book is the first item offered, taking up the backside of the title page. It is being offered in this 1931 catalog for $1,450. The rest of the catalog contains your normal mix of 297 rather common first editions with very brief descriptions. No illustrations. This bookseller's catalog is in GOOD condition, the covers have small closed tears, creases, and chips to the edges where they overhang the inner pages, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An interesting look at an offering of the first issue of Tom Sawyer in the midst of the Great Depression.

TRAILS WEST : PARKER COUNTY TEXAS CEMETERIES Northwest Quadrant, Volume IV. By the Cemetery Project Committee, Kaye Vernon, Chairperson, et al. Published by Parker County Genealogical Society, Weatherford, Texas, 1999. Presumed first edition. From the Acknowledgement Page: "The information in this volume has been obtained not only from the markers, but from family records, obituaries, death certificates, family histories, and other sources. Some of the stones read back in the 1960s and 1970s are now missing or are no longer readable..." Plastic spiral bound, blue paper front and rear cover pages, clear plastic front and rear protectors, plain white inner pages, 8.5x11 inches, 334 pages. GOOD condition, coffee staining to the top page edges especially near the spine, and a smaller amount to the bottom page edges near the spine (page edges of the closed book, not affecting the inner pages); a crease to the bottom corner of the front cover, some of the early pages, the bottom corner of the rear cover, and some of the latter pages; a bit of soiling to the covers; otherwise tight, bright, clear and unmarked. A hard to find genealogical study of Parker County, Texas.

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG Award Winning Japanese Female Writer - PHOTOS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORABILIA Kanagawa Museum 1989

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG including Manuscripts, Books, Photos, and Personal Memorabilia. The exhibition, THE HEART OF THE STORY, was held at the Kanagawa Modern Literature Museum in 1989. The catalog was published by the Kanagawa Literature Promotion Foundation in conjunction with the exhibition. First Edition. TEXT IN JAPANESE.

Softcovers, 7x10 inches, 32 pages. FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

About TSUNEKO NAKAZATO (from Wikipedia):

******Tsuneko Nakazato, b.1909 d.1987, was the pen name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls' Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19.

In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story Noriai bashi. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including Mariannu monogatari (Maryann's Story, 1946) and Kusari (Chain, 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American. Her novel Utamakura (Song Pillow, 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983.

Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death due to colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is at the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura.******

SAPATQ'AYN: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEZ PERCE ARTISTS - Signed by 11 contributors - 10 Artists and the author of the Preface.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 7.5x10 inches, 56 pages. Filled with artwork and bios of 20 modern Nez Perce artists.

Published by Northwest Interpretive Association and Confluence Press, Seattle and Lewiston, 1991. First edition. Limited to 500 hardcover copies, as stated on the colophon page (the last page).

Signed by Timothy Nitz, the Preface author, and by 10 artists: Rose Frank, John A. Grant, Gary Greene, Doug Hyde, Maynard White Owl Lavadour, Keven Peters, Hollyanna Pinkham, Audrey Redheart, Leroy Seth, and John Seven Wilson III. Each artist signed their name beside their contribution.

NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean and clear,

in a NEAR FINE dustjacket. A lovely copy.

SIGNED COPIES are uncommon.

(1) BAGHDAD: IMAGO MUNDI, AND OTHER FOUNDATION LORE, by Charles Wendell. Published by Cambridge University Press, [1971]. A separately bound reprint from International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1971. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the front cover. Booklet, paper covers, 7x10 inches, 30 pages (numbered 99-128). GOOD condition, some creases and edge wear to the covers, a crease to the upper corner of the inner pages, and some minor hand corrections to the text, presumably by the author; overall a solid, bright, presentable copy.

(2) THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD OF SIRAT AL-NABI, by Charles Wendell. A separately bound reprint from MUSLIM WORLD / Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1972. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the front cover. Booklet, paper covers, 6x9.5 inches, 30 pages (numbered 12-41). VERY GOOD condition, tight, bright and clean.

About CHARLES WENDELL (from a UC Santa Barbara website):

******Charles Wendell, b.1919 d. 1982, Professor of Eastern Languages; Germa nic and Slavic Languages; Religious Studies; Eastern Languages: University of California Santa Barbara.

Charles Wendell was a brilliant linguist, fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Latin, and Greek. In 1967 Wendell joined the faculty at Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor of Arabic. He was later advanced to Associate Professor with a joint appointment with the Eastern Languages Department, where he continued to teach Arabic, and with the Religious Studies Department, where he offered courses in Islamic religion.

A meticulous scholar, Wendell, whose articles were erudite and enlightening, contributed to several important books on Middle Eastern culture and civilization. But his interests were quite broad, ranging from the history of early Islam to intellectual developments in modern Egypt. Early in his scholarly career Wendell's translation of Muhammad Abduh by Osman Amin was published by the American Council of Learned Societies. Later books included The Evolution of the Egyptian National Image: from its Origins to Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid and Five Tracts of Hasán al-Banná (both by UC Press). At his death Professor Wendell was engaged in a long range, two volume project on the 8th century Arabic classic The Book of Kalilah and Dimnah. Planned and begun were a new translation of the work and a full volume to "deal as exhaustively as possible with the biography of the author and his historical and cultural ambience." Such thoroughness was typical of Wendell's scholarship.******

TWO BOOKS by COMPOSER DANIEL GREGORY MASON - SIGNED & INSCRIBED Association Copies. (1) TUNE IN AMERICA, by DANIEL GREGORY MASON. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931. First Edition, so stated. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the AUTHOR to PIANIST HARRY KAUFMAN and his wife: "Cordial regards to / Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman / Daniel Gregory Mason / June, 1932." Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 5.5" x 7.5", 206 pages. Condition: VERY GOOD book, the covers have some toning to the edges and spine, there is a newspaper review taped onto a blank prelim page that has offset and left pieces of tape to the page and the facing page, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that is heavily sunned at the spine and margins, has a couple closed tears across the spine, is chipped with tears at the spine ends and corners, and has spotting, but is still in one piece and doing its job. (2) THE CHAMBER MUSIC OF BRAHMS, by DANIEL GREGORY MASON. Published by the Macmillan Company, New York, 1933. First Edition, with the date 1933 on the title page, the statement "Published May, 1933" on the copyright page, and with no indication of additional printings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the AUTHOR to PIANIST HARRY KAUFMAN: "Why you read this, remember / our playing the G major / Violin Quintet, at Westport, / September 7, 1933. / To Harry Kaufman / Daniel Gregory Mason." Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, 6.5" x 9.5",

276 pages. GOOD condition: The covers are worn through at the spine ends and corner tips, have spotting and rubbing at the margins, and lightly bumped corners; internally the pages are lightly toned, as normal, otherwise tight, bright clean and unmarked. A solid copy. Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) was an American composer and music critic. Harry Kaufman (1894-1961) was a CONCERT PIANIST and MUSIC TEACHER at the CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, Philadelphia. For 17 years he headed the Institute's Department of Accompanying. During this time his former piano teacher JOSEF HOFMANN was director of the Institute.

(1) OLIVIA PARKER: WEIGHING THE PLANETS.

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston / A New York Graphic Society Book, 1987. First hardcover edition, so stated on the colophon page (the last page). ISBN: 1821216678.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered boards, 9x12 inches, 80 pages.

Illustrated with 59 b&w photographic plates, each printed on its own page.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, tight, bright, clean and clear; in a GOOD dustjacket that has some creasing to its edges, wear to its corner tips and spine ends, and is lightly toned.

**SIGNED and INSCRIBED** on the half title page: "for Eleanor and Tom / With hopes for future projects from tins to computers. / Libby / Olivia Parker". Laid in at the front is a printed Christmas / Happy New Year letter from John and Olivia (Libby) Parker describing family events that took place over the year, something obviously sent to family and close friends.

(2) UNDER THE LOOKING GLASS: Color PHOTOGRAPHS by OLIVIA PARKER. Introduction by Mark Strand

A New York Graphic Society Book / Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983. ISBN: 0821215566.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered boards, 9.5x11.5 inches, 88 unnumbered pages.

Illustrated with 43 color photographic plates, each printed on its own page.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, bumped at the spine ends, otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear; in a GOOD MINUS dustjacket that is sunned / yellowed at its spine and margins, worn at its corner tips and spine ends, and has some shelf rubs and superficial scratches, but is still bright and doing its job well.

**SIGNED and INSCRIBED** on the half title page: "for Eleanor and Tom / With best wishes / Libby / Olivia Parker". Laid in at the front is a printed Christmas / Happy New Year letter from John and Olivia (Libby) Parker describing family events that took place over the year.

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TWO FIRST EDITION LIBRARY BOOKS. Hardcover Books in Dustjackets. Published by the First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, various dates (FEL was founded in 1987 and ceased operations in the mid 1990s).

THE FOUNTAINHEAD, by AYN RAND. Condition: VERY GOOD book, some light stains to the top page edges, otherwise near fine, sharp, tight, bright and clean; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket that has wear to the spine ends and corner tips. A very presentable copy of the book and its dj. The First Edition Library information card is laid in. Lacks the slipcase.

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH, by SAUL BELLOW. Condition: NEAR FINE book, sharp, tight, bright and clean; in a NEAR FINE dustjacket. A lovely first edition facsimile. The First Edition Library information card is laid in. Lacks the slipcase.

First Edition replicas with all first printing points present.

About FIRST EDITION LIBRARY Books:

First Edition Library books are EXACT facsimiles of the original first edition, first printings. The aim was to publish the best of American literature as it first appeared. FEL replicas have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as well as points of issue as the originals. The sewn bindings, stamping and even the original price on the jacket flap are all exact replicas. The only marks identifying FEL books as not being the originals is "FEL" printed at the bottom of the rear dustjacket flaps, and a First Edition Library statement on the copyright pages (printed in its own block to distinguish it from the facsimile original first edition copyright statements).

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