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The Redbridge Book Co.
A Fictitious Bookstore in Delaware County
Membership(s): ABA
Established in 1967, The Redbridge Book Co. issues four print catalogues a year and monthly e-lists of new arrivals. Contact us if you'd like to be added to our mailing list. Cheers!
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Landmark Book 1st Edition Signed by Both Authors
Human Sexual Response
$2,000.00Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. First Edition of the co-authors’ first book. Inscribed “with compliments” and signed by both Masters and Johnson. An uncommonly nice copy, externally fine, binding slightly cocked, edges of text block lightly foxed (not affecting internal text), slight tinge of offsetting from front flap, in a fine dust wrapper save for some light edge wear. “After many years of secretly documenting how the human body responds during sex—and coming up with remarkably effective treatments for their patients—Masters and Johnson became suddenly famous with the publication of their first landmark book. In a real sense, Masters and Johnson symbolized the triumph of modernity and medicine over religious taboos and cultural ignorance. Their “facts of life” felt far more definitive than ancient religious screeds or even Freud’s theories. Sex had left the church and entered the clinic. Instead of consulting with black-clad ministers or rabbis, Americans would rely on doctors in crisp white. At great risk to their livelihoods and reputations Masters and Johnson provided men and, particularly, women with the freedom and fundamental knowledge to make vital choices in their relationships, while highlighting medicine’s position at the forefront of social debates about human sexuality.” (The Real ‘Masters of Sex’: LIFE With Masters and Johnson; Time Magazine; July 9th, 2014)
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One of 25 Copies, Red Ozier Press Highspot
Paul’s Blues
$1,200.00New York: Red Ozier Press, 1984. Large 4to quarter cloth. Limited to 115 copies (90 in wrappers) signed by composer and artist, this is one of 25 copies bound in Claire Maziarczyk’s wastepapers over boards. Very slight indentation lower front board, still easily a fine, unread and bright copy. In an essay on Red Ozier, press bibliographer Michael Peich highlights this title: “Red Ozier published dozens of titles that are distinguished examples of the physical book. One book, Paul’s Blues, deserves mention for its combination of solid typography and interesting art. The text reproduces songs that the composer Ned Rorem wrote based on lyrics composed by Paul Goodman. In the introduction Rorem discusses his association with Goodman and how the songs were written in 1947. Following the introduction is a reproduction of Rorem’s fair-hand manuscripts for each of the three songs, the printed lyrics of the songs, the composer’s journal entries from around the date of Goodman’s death on 3 August 1972, and an afterword by Rorem. The manuscript is a complex mixture that is both solemn (Rorem’s tribute to his friend) and entertaining (the songs themselves). [Press founders] Ken and Steve solved the textual complexity by choosing a straightforward, elegant typographic presentation. The only adornment in the book is Rivers’ energetic title page which addresses the creative collaboration between poet and composer; in an almost excited way it prepares the reader for the text that follows. The finished product is a masterful job of keeping all the elements of the text in perfect balance and harmony. It is a high point of production from the press because it combines, with almost disarming ease, classical typography with a new technology (the title page was reproduced by color Xerox and transferred to the sheets).”
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Scarce Anthology of Modernist Poetry
Profile. An Anthology Collected in MCMXXXI
$750.00Milan: John Scheiwiller, 1932. First Edition. An enormously important poetry anthology, one of only 250 copies, this is #44. Anthology features many of the key Modernist writers of the period, including James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, W.B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, and many others, including Pound himself. Pound has also contributed an introduction and occasional commentary. 142 pages, in original green wrappers folded over stiff white blanks. A very good copy; spine toned and a little chipped at the ends, light toning to edges, two corners a bit rubbed, clearly a read copy with some weakness. OCLC lists only 6 copies, all in U.S. libraries. Gallup B28. A rare book that does not often come on the market.
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"My Herrick" Inscribed to Flint's Sister
One Hundred and Eleven Poems.
$500.00Selected, arranged & illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. One of the 445 copies bound in quarter cream parchment with blue cloth boards. Title and device in gold on the spine. Illustrated with two watercolour paintings and 40 crayon drawings. Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Flint on the colophon. Additionally, Sir William has inscribed the copy for his sister Charlotte: “My dearest Lottie’s copy of my Herrick, from Willie, April 1955”. Flint’s reference to “my” Herrick indicates how personal a venture this book was for him. As press proprietor Christopher Sanford explains in Cock-a-Hoop: “This was a book that I printed for the artist at his request and expense. Indeed the type was already set when he asked me to make it a Cockerel, and all the subsequent details of its production were exactly to his specifications. The illustrations were no commission for Sir William but as he maintained a long-sustained labour of love, a painter’s tribute to a great poet.” Spine a little discolored, boards lightly spotted, very slight bowing and some foxing to the page edges, still very good or better in a similar slip case, a couple of small snags, some rubbing and browning. A nice Association copy.
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Signed by Both Authors
White Mars, or, The Mind Set Free
$550.00London: Little, Brown & Co., 1999. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Aldiss and signed by Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Penrose’s is an uncommon signature. Fine in like dust wrapper.
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Uncommon Limited Edition Signed by Photographer
Sex and Landscapes
$500.00Mary Boone de Pury & Luxembourg Catalog 2001. Limited edition 486 / 500 copies signed by Newton. A fine copy in wrappers.
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Bound by Bayntun in Half Morocco
The Shakespeare Head Edition of Fielding’s Novels
$1,750.00Oxford. Basil Blackwell, publishers to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. Complete in ten volumes. Limited edition 1030 sets of which 1000 were for sale. Beautifully bound by Bayntun binders in half morocco. Top edge gilt; spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine set.
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Signed by Leading 19th Century Economist
The Condition Of Labor: An Open Letter To Pope Leo XIII, with Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labor.
$500.00United States Book Company, New York, 1891. First edition, seemingly issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers, this is the scarce cloth edition. Signed by the author without personalization adding “regards”. Recipient’s small note below signature indicating receipt date. In this book, Henry addresses the issue of labor conditions in the late 19th century, particularly in the United States. He argues that the capitalist system is inherently flawed and that it leads to the exploitation of workers. Henry presents a detailed analysis of the economic and social factors that contribute to the poor conditions of labor and offers solutions to improve the situation. The book is written in the form of an open letter to Pope Leo XIII, who had recently published an encyclical on the issue of labor. Henry’s letter is a passionate plea to the Pope to use his influence to bring about change and to advocate for the rights of workers Some gingerness to the hinge in middle of the book, spine tips scuffed, corners rubbed. Very good.
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Scarce Hardbound Edition Signed by Poet
Living At The Movies
$650.00New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First edition of the poet’s third collection of poems and first to be issued by a commercial publisher. Issued in both hardcover and wrappers simultaneously, this is the scarce hardbound edition. Estimates put the print run for the hardbound edition at a couple of hundred, with few likely distributed to the public. Signed by the poet on the title page and very uncommon thus. Darkening to board edges as is common for this title. Small spot to text block, last page has a small stain and some bleed through from the rust colored end paper. Overall, a better than very good copy. Pictorial dust wrapper, featuring wraparound cover artwork by Larry Rivers and Ted Berrigan blurb, presents very nicely indeed, overall very good, not clipped and without any tears, chips, fading or rubbing but a little tanned at the edges, slight staining to rear flap, front flap a little creased, and verso of dust wrapper is textured, cause indeterminable, with the result that the front and rear panels are not tactilely smooth.
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Limited Edition 75 Copies Signed by Artist
Prologue to Ask the Dust
$650.00Magnolia Editions, Okeanos Press: San Francisco, 1990. John Fante’s gritty, tersely lyrical novel Ask the Dust has been praised by critics and writers for more than 60 years; Charles Bukowski once wrote that “Fante was my god.” This previously unpublished manuscript, found by Joyce Fante five decades after its composition, was written by Fante as a condensed preview of the novel for his publisher. Issued by the Black Sparrow Press a year later, this is the scarce limited edition, one of only 75 copies (110 total) accompanied by a series of etchings excised in hardground, aquatint, and drypoint by John Register and is signed by the artist. A fine copy, slipcase with small area of damp staining (book unaffected). A lovely production.
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A Founder of Johns Hopkins Medical School
Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
$900.00Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1923. Third Edition Revised. Likely a Christmas gift to a close colleague with a full page inscription from Kelly. Howard Atwood Kelly was one of the four founding chairs (along with William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and William Welch) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and creators of the Hopkins legacy. Kelly was a clinical innovator, performing the first successful Cesarean section (C-section) in Philadelphia in 1888, and pioneered the use of radium in the treatment of gynecological cancer. The consummate clinician, his name is behind the Kelly clamp and he is the one identified with the test to find the ureter by stimulating its peristalsis by touching it with a forcep. His lasting legacy was the residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Hopkins and the generation of leaders he trained. The recipient is almost assuredly fellow physician James R. Rankin of Muncy, Pennsylvania. In 1905, Rankin accompanied Kelly and Osler to Great Britain, “sharing with them their meetings with eminent British surgeons, attending clinics and having the honor of speaking at a banquet in London’s famous Guild Hall tendered the distinguished Americans by the Royal College of Surgeons” (Rankin obituary). A very good copy, top edge gilt, deckle edges, two interior pages severely browned from inserted news clipping. Accompanied by the quite scarce dust wrapper, also very good, dust soiled, two small chips to spine, edge wear and a few edge tears.
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With Holograph of Poet's Most Widely Known Work
Selected Poems
$1,500.00Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1955. First edition. Unique copy, inscribed on the front pastedown and featuring a holograph of ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, commonly viewed as the poet’s most widely known and frequently anthologized work. From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. First published in 1945, the poem drew directly from Jarrell’s own involvement with military aircraft and airmen during WW2. “While the people and events of World War II are commonly found in Jarrell’s poetry, this poem is unique for its lack of wit. Indeed, the grim tone of this poem places it firmly in the Modernist movement of literature.” Jarrell reportedly “admitted to fearing most of his reputation as a poet is tied up in [this poem]. But, there are certainly worse outcomes for a poet’s career in this poem which has been referred to as the best war poem ever written.” Bottom corners a little scuffed, else nearly fine in good dust wrapper with unprofessional repairs to interior.
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