Pamphlet, pictorial covers with picture and titles in blue ink on thin polished yellow stock, measuring 13x19cm, 31 pp, illustrated, pulp stock heavily toned, as expected. Title page title is "The traffic in girls : white slavery as now practiced in America, including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white women" Cover title is " The Dangers of a Large City or The System of the Underworld: Exposing the White Slave Traffic" No publisher identified, no date, circa 1912. Rare Worldcat lists 6 institutions with a copy, with another edition of the same title but with Garden City Publishing as publisher and a date of 1912, in 6 libraries, too. A few tiny nicks to the edges and some soiling to the rear panel.
Presumed first edition of the Play Edition with 'The Story of the Play' by actress Constance Collier, who appeared in the stage production. 8vo, reddish-brown woven cloth, titles stamped in gold, gte, sides untrimmed, in sepia pictorial dustjacket, vii (viii -xvi) (1) 3- 418. Illustrated with drawings from the original publication by Du Maurier, plus 8 duotone photos of scenes or players from the stage version, which featured John Barrymore in the title role, and his brother Lionel in a a supporting part. Du Maurier's novel was published in 1891; the play had its US premiere at the Republic Theatre in New York on April 18, 1917. It was adapted from the novel by John N. Raphael, a London newspaper correspondent, twenty years prior, who showed his work to actress Constance Collier, who was eager to bring it to America, hence her introduction in this edition. Gift inscription dated 1920 on the ffe, with the calling card of the inscriber laid-in. Book ticket for Dennen's Book Shop in Detroit bottom corner of ffe, too. Book near fine; dustjacket has some old verso tape repairs and is worn around edges. Uncommon in any condition.
8vo, stated decond edition on title page, brown cloth, gilt-pressed titles front and back, 165 pages, plus advertisement pages, unpaginated, bound throughout, in adition to adverts on pastedowns front and rear. Some partial transposition of ink writing front prelim and title page, else clean throughout. Cloth to spine fade with a short, open nick midway on spine.
AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE LETTERS. Eleven copies of the AFS (news)letters variously dated between 1943-1945: Nov 1943 No. 19, Dec 1943 No. 20, Oct 1944 No 30, Dec 1944 No 32, Jan 1945 No 33, Feb 1945 No 34, Mar 1945 No 35, Apr 1945 No 36, May 1945 No 37, Jun-Jul 1945 No 38, and Sep 1945 No 40. Founded during WWI AFS were volunteer "ambulancers", largely from American families of substantial means. The service was reconstituted in WWII, sending ambulance units first to France and then to the British Armies in North Africa, Italy, India-Burma and with the Free French for the final drive from southern France to Germany. The letters in these publications are eyewitness accounts, many written as daily diaries, of the work of individual volunteers in those campaigns. Each issue measures 8.5x11", with a photographic or pictorial cover, issues varying in length from 24-26 pages, stapled spines. A few covers detached, most worn about edges.
Inscribed by Cocteau and dated 1923 by him to influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the cover. Title page dated 1924. Presentable copy with a repaired spine that had suffered some loss and was laid back down with covers reattached. Some tape residue from inexpert previous tape repair upper and lower corners of covers where they meet spine. With original glassine that has browned, with spine perished. Louis Vauxcelles (1870 - 1943) is credited with coining the terms Fauvism (1905) and Cubism (1908). Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements and an influential figure in early 20th century art. This copy represents an important association between two French art figures, one the most influential critic of his generation and the other - apart from Picasso, to whom Cocteau dedicated this work - the most influential artist of the 20thC.