Boston: Little Brown & Company 1905. First Edition. Good copy. No jacket. In green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine still legible. Design on front cover. Book is intact but very loose. Clean and unmarked text pages. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Three quarter separation of gutter of front pastedown. Bumping and chipping of ends of spine. Moderate shelf wear. Pictures upon request. Thank you for your patronage. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Little, Brown & Company Hardcover
Springer Publishing Company. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Springer Publishing Company unknown
Referencia librero : GRP111687455 ISBN : 0826113397 9780826113399
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press 1923. Hardcover. Green cloth spine with paper label and red paper over boards with paper label. 120pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece 6 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Internally tight and near fine with binding only a bit edgeworn and quite rubbed. A tight and decent first trade edition of this play by the famed New England book collector whose own collection was quite strong in 18th century British literature. The Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Stephen E. Ambrose. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration pictorial dust jacket. xviii 188pp. Illustrations maps. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A superb tight and scarce first edition of the first book to bear noted historian Ambrose's name -- here as editor. His first solo title a biography of Henry Halleck was published the following year. Not only that but this lovely copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped facing the title page is a Typed Letter Signed from Ambrose 1936-2002 1p 8�" X 11" Madison WI 2 March 1959. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93. Near fine. On letterhead of "The State of Wisconsin State Historical Society" Ambrose tells this long-time officer of the New York Civil War Round Table "I have been asked by the editor of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. to prepare an article on the Civil War Round Tables of the country" and asks Gates "if you will be good enough to help me in my preliminary research by filling out the enclose questionnaire." Boldly signed in full in blue ink. An exceptionally early letter predating by two years Ambrose's first teaching position -- and a handsome first edition of one of his first academic endeavors. The University of Wisconsin Press hardcover
This noted Chicago attorney and socialite was the nephew or renowned architect Daniel Burnham and the husband of influential American Impressionist artist Anita Willets-Burnham 1880-1958. ALS 1p 6�" X 9�" Winnetka IL 4 July 1939. Addressed to David C. Hannah. Very good. Faint folds and mild bit of wear but boldly penned in black ink. Returns not present! "a dollar for the one you were kind enough to lend me the other day" and sends also not included a self-published book "a complimentary copy of some of my Kiddish Rhymes -- you may have seen some of them before." Interestingly the street address Burnham pens at top -- "1407 Tower Road" -- was one of the oldest houses in this toney suburb north of Chicago a circa 1820 log cabin his wife found in 1914 purchased and moved to this location transforming it into a home and artist's studio today owned by the Winnetka Historical Society. unknown
This attorney and Democratic politician served as Cleveland mayor 1912-15 but most importantly as President Woodrow Wilson's influential Secretary of War 1916-21 during the tumultuous World War One years. TNS 1p 8" X 10�" Washington DC 30 April 1920. Addressed to Joseph Cummings Chase 1891-1954. Very good. Lightly age toned with original folds. On "War Department" letterhead Baker thanks this noted artist for "the copy of 'Soldiers All' and keenly appreciate your kindness in sending it to me. It is a book which I shall treasure very highly and there will be many happy days when I shall refer to it and recall the friendships and stirring efforts of those whom you have so happily preserved for us." Boldly signed with his usual diminutive signature. Chase had been commissioned by the A.E.F. to paint portraits of commanding generals and hero doughboys and these were published in the 1920 book "Soldiers All: Portraits and Sketches of the Men of the A.E.F." New York: George H. Doran Company. unknown
This attorney and Democratic politician served as Cleveland mayor 1912-15 but most importantly as President Woodrow Wilson's influential Secretary of War 1916-21 during the tumultuous World War One years. Bold "Cordially yours / Newton D. Baker" in black ink on a 6�" X 3�" sheet n.p. n.y. Fine. unknown
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press 1920. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine with paper label and brown paper over boards. xxi 373pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece numerous illustrations. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and spine age toned. A tight nice third edition. You can call it a bibliophilic classic you can call it a mouldy oldie but in either case it's just a plain old good read. Newton can be rather precious and rather pedantic but it's still a must-read for anyone interested in English literature and how to collect it. The Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover
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