Cass Philip (4 results)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp [iix], 90. Original blue buckram with gilt Hamish Hamilton oak leaf emblem at front. Colour illustrated frontispiece portrait of Hamish Hamilton by Derek Hill. The influential half-Scottish half-American publisher James Hamilton used the name Hamish, (derived from the Gaelic for James) as his publishing name. Very good indeed, with very light shelfwear. Inscribed by recipient of tribute to a friend.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. George Orwell "London Letter" / Robert Penn Warren (Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring" / Hannah Arendt "Franz Kafka: A Revaluation" / Jean Stafford "A Reunion" / Elizabeth Bishop "Sonds For A Colored Singer" (poems) / Saul Rosenzweig "The Ghost Of Henry James" / Daniel Bell "Word Surrealism".

4to. 32, [2] pp. Printed in yellow & black throughout, numerous colour plates, many black & white text illustrations, photos. Orange & black textured printed softcovers, stylized orange lettering against black on front cover (slight shelfwear, couple minor annotations on first leaf), still NF copy, w/ price-list bound in at rear dated June 1, 1940. First edition of this very scarce lighting fixtures catalogue on the eve of World War II, by one of the leading American manufacturers of domestic lighting in Philadelphia. Cass (1875-1956) has included a broad range of lighting fixtures within this catalogue, illustrating the Royal Series which featured French Gold, Bronze & Gold, and Chrome finishes on glass, the Tudor Series and Salem Series which were Colonial revival lights based on kerosene lanterns, the novelty series under Sport Room, Den, or Summer cabins which featured nautical ornaments including anchors, ship wheels, and sailboatrs, along with their whole line of chrome Lumiline Art Deco Streamline lighting fixtures. Cass began as an electrician in Chicago, and by World War I was established as a battery company salesman in Philadelphia, who afterwards quickly grew to be one of the larger lighting, and industrial equipment manufacturers in Pennsylvania. No copies located in Worldcat (Columbia has copy of 1940 Catalog No. 112).