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Atlay, J B
The Trial of Lord Cochrane Before Lord Ellenborough with a Preface by Edward Downes Law
London: Smith Elder & Co 1897. xii 529pp 2pp book catalogue portrait frontis with tissue-guard four appendices bibliography index. Front hinge slackening. Book plate on the front paste-down. Or navy cloth boards with several marks flecked in places with a few puncture marks by the spine foot and a section of cloth torn but still attached at the upper edge of the front board. Thomas Cochrane the Tenth Earl of Dundonald naval officer and Member of Parliament speculated on securities on the stock exchange. In 1814 rumours circulated alleging that the French were defeated and Napoleon killed. Lord Cochrane and others were charged with conspiring in a fraudulent conspiracy designed to make Government securities rise in value. In his Preface Edward Downes Law Lord Ellenborough's grandson writes that books by successive Earls of Dundonald had contained attacks on his grandfather and that to ensure that an accurate record was presented sent all the family papers to J B Atlay the author of this work. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co Hardcover
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: 028658
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Lloyd Jones, Jenkin
An Artilleryman's Diary. Wisconsin History Commission: Original Papers No. 8
Wisconsin History Commission 1914. xviii 395pp portrait frontis upper 6 cm detached and 5 b/w plates index. Rear hinge broken. Internally a very good and clean copy. Or two-tone boards toned at the spine with spots of foxing and light wear at the edges. The author's time as a battery boy with the 6th Wisconsin Battery from the 1860s from his diary covering the Missippi and Yazoo Vicksbury victory in 1865 with the taking of Richmond Chattanooga Atlanta and Nashville. Edition of 25000 Copies. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. Wisconsin History Commission Hardcover
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: 028880
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A Young Queenslander (Allan, Robert Marchall)
Mesopotamia and India: A Continuation of "Letters from a Young Queenslander"
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. Editor's Preface. 187pp portrait frontis map of Mesopotamia and 15 leaves of b/w plates. Endpapers toned. Some light foxing. Spine rubbed and title faded. Or brown cloth boardswith a few minor marks. Loosely inserted is a rare bookmark with RAMC colours at top and the following wording: In dispatches from Lt-Gen Sir Percy lake dated August 12th from Basra published by the War Office Oct 19th 1916 the name of Captain RM Allan RAMC is 'mentioned'. This is a continuation of "Letters from a Young Queenslander" published in December 1915 for private circulation. Private letters between father and son and dedicated to Captain T J Mitchell. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
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: 028933
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Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles (introduction Sir Philip Game)
The Old Bus
Sydney: Herald Press 1932. 224pp bw ills endpaper maps. Or blue cloth with title plane and mountains in white. Endpapers toned light to moderate foxing throughout some fading to spine. Much nicer than usual example of this volume that did not survive well. Kingsford_Smith writes of his pioneering flights in the Southern Cross. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Herald Press Hardcover
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: 029047
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Hanman, E F 'Haystack'
Twelve Months with the "Anzacs"
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. 160pp few b/w plates. The spine binding is slackening although no pages seem to be detached. Endpapers toned. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name with ownership statement on the front paste-down another prev owners name torn from top of title page. Decorative cloth boards. The boards are heavily silverfished with the decoration on the front board almost the only undamaged part of the original binding. Most of the spine title is still legible. Somewhat ugly but an extremely scarce first edition. An account of the author's time at Gallipoli and in the trenches as a rank and file soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
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: 026991
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Calvert, Hedley; Graeme-Evans, Alex
Always a Competitor. Hedley Calvert. Tasmanian Yachtsman Orchardist and Raconteur
Hobart: Tasbook Publishers 1997. v 311pp index appendix num bw ills col pictorial endpapers. Or blue faux leather in pictorial jacket with integral bookmark ribon. Ribbon somewhat frayed otherwise as new. SIGNED and inscribed by Hedley Calvert at top of title page. Limited edition of unstated limitation. Biography of TAsmanian yachtsman orchardist and raconteur. . Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Tasbook Publishers Hardcover
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: 029107 ISBN : 0646343947 9780646343945
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Annesley, Mabel M (malleson, Constance, editor)
As the Sight is Bent. An Unfinished Autobiography
London: Museum Press 1964. 157pp index 35 wood engravings. Or green cloth in jacket. Some toning to endpapers some foxing to page edges. Jacket price clipped spine toned some foxing. Mabel Annesley was one of the outstanding British wood engravers of the first half of the 20th century. Here as well as describing vividly scenes and people in England Ireland and New Zealand she throws light upon the artist's special perception of the abstract and physical values of things seen. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Museum Press Hardcover
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: 030098
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Xingjian, Gao
Soul Mountain
Sydney: Flamingo HarperCollins 2000. 510pp. FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH. Previous owners name whited out onhalf-title page otherwise a fine copy of this modern rarity. This translation by noted Australian scholar Mabel Lee was the first English language edition of this winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for literature. At the time of winning the prize less than 500 copies had been sold worldwide in the English translation this from a tiny initial print run. The author preeminent playwright in China was misdiagnosed as having cancer in 1982 and decided to end his days having the best of everything he could afford. After a second test revealed he did not have cancer and facing time in a prison farm Xingjian fled Beijing. For 6 weeks he entered a transendental state of imminent death then received his reprieve from death. This is the story of his journey. Extremely rare as true first. First English Language Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Flamingo (HarperCollins) Paperback
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: 013894 ISBN : 0732266513 9780732266516
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Fletcher, Andy
Diary of NX 20365
Walcha NSW: A C Fletcher 143pp illustrated throughout with b/w photos end-paper maps: North Africa. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. A war diary or summary of events from June 5 1940 when the author enlisted for the A.I.F. to his discharge in Sydney on 15 November 1945. The author was present at Lae Red Beach Finchafen Scarlet Beach Brunei Bay and Miri. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. A C Fletcher Hardcover
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: 016498 ISBN : 0731655958 9780731655953
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de Ocampo, Brooke
Bright Young Things an Insider's View of America's Young style
New York: Assouline 2000. VERY HEAVY. Introduction by William Norwich. 192pp illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs. Interviews by Shax F Riegler. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The influential young group of meritocrats in New York City the Bright Young Things BYTs. Wits and wisdom by Bill Blass C Z Guest Tom Wolfe Brooke Astor Andrew Leon Talley Oscar de la Renta Anh Duong Dominick Dunne Marian McEvoy Slim Aarons Carolina Herrera Bob Colacello Hamish Bowles Eleanor Lambert Frank Zachary Jeffrey Bilhuber Graydon Carter Ricky Clifton. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Photographs by Jonathan Becker. Folio. Assouline Hardcover
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: 016535 ISBN : 2843232058 9782843232053
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Herzog, Bodo
Kapitanleutnant Otto Steinbrinck. Die Geschichte Des Erfolgreichsten U-Boot-Kommandanten in Den Gewasserb Um England
Krefeld: Hermann Ruhl Verlag 1963. 223pp 32pp bw plates bw frontis portrait index 1 col plate. Orblue cloth in jacket. Several notations in Czech/Hungarian numerous additional articles/pictures taped in. Some very light rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Scarce biography if the greatest of Germany's U-Boat commanders of the First World War against England. Text in german/auf Deutsch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Hermann Ruhl Verlag Hardcover
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: 016680
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Temple, Sir William
Memoirs of What Past in Christendom from the War Begun 1672 to the Peace Concluded 1679
London: Printed By R.R. For Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard 1692. vi 392pp. Contemporary paneled calf gilt/maroon leather title label 4 raised bands to spine. Leather slightly worn at hinges starting to crack but holding firm. Page edges evenly toned narrow strip probably prev owners name cut from top of title page. Lacks rear free endpaper and several notations on last blank leaf and rear pastedown. Temple was a 17th century British diplomat who was instrumental in bring about the marriage of William and Mary. His memoirs edited by Jonathan Swift were published in three voumes. The first volume was destroyed in its entirety by the author and the last published some years after his death. This volume is the only volume of the memoirs written primarily for his son to be published in his lifetime. The first edition is differentiated from the second in part by the use of 'past' in the title rather than the 'pass'd' used in the second. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Printed By R.R. For Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard Hardcover
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: 016688
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Baretti, Joseph
A Journey from London to Genoa Through England Portugal Spain and France Volumes I and II Bound as One
New York. Printed in Great Britain: Praeger Publisheers 1970. VERY HEAVY. Introduced by Ian Robertson. Vol I: viii 424pp iii index. portrait frontis; Vol II: 419pp iv. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. In the Series 'Travellers' Classics' editor James Morris. This reissue is from the 1770 edition. This was one of the first English narratives of travel in the Iberian peninsula during the 18th century. Travellers' Classics. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Praeger Publisheers Hardcover
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: 017179
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Dodd, William
Reflections on Death bound with Thoughts in Prison and Other Miscellaneous Pieces with The Life of the Author
London: Printed for C. Cooke. 2 volumes bound as one. 135pp index; xiv 125pp; 4 full page engravings decorative engraved endpieces. Original marbled boards with leather spine and corners half-calf. Minimal rubbing to binding. Some minor damp stains on plates and occasional margin. Generally a tight clean copy. No date but engravings dated 1798 and 1800 so c1800. . Cooke's Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Printed for C. Cooke. Hardcover
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: 017729
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Smith, Mabell S C
The Story of Napoleon
New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company 1928. Foreword by Ida M Tarbell. xii 370 pages colored portrait frontis and 15 colored plates 4 maps index. Decorative cloth boards with a bump at the upper edge of the front board in scarce but rather worn dust-jacket which has tape at its edges the spine head and foot and at a repair and covering a 10 mm hole on the front panel. A biography covering Napoleon's life from Corsica to his exile in St Helena. Also included is his effect on the new republic in America the chief instance of which was in his outright sale to Jefferson of the Louisiana Territory. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Drawings By Baron Myrbach. 8vo. Thomas Y Crowell Company Hardcover
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: 019431
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Cammaerts, Emile
The Prisoner at Laeken. King Leopold Legend and Fact
London: The Cresset Press. 1941. xxxvi 268pp appendices maps 2 folding bw frontis. Or buff cloth lacking jacket. Place/year written on half title lacking front free endpaper several clippings in various languages taped in and several brief notes in Hungarian front cover slightly bowed. Examines the charging imprisonment and pardon of Prince Leopolfd of Belgium on charges of desertion in the early years of WWII. Not the prettiest copy but very scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. The Cresset Press. Hardcover
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: 022562
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Sergeant, Philip W
The Empress Josephine. Napoleon's Enchantress. 2 Volumes
London: Hutchinson 1908. 2 volumes. 664pp; index; 34 bw ills. Original blue cloth top edges gilt title in gilt to spine. Cloth somewhat rubbed slight shelf wear to head and foot of spine; moderate foxing with occasional heavy spots. Attractive 2 volume set on the life of the Empress Josephine from her early life on Martinique to the court of Napoleon and beyond. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Hutchinson Hardcover
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: 009446
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Hildreth, Richard
Atrocious Judges. Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression
New York: Miller Orton & Mulligan 1856. 432pp appendix. Or brown cloth with blindstamped borders and gilt title to spine. Some rubbing and cloth slightly chipped at head of spine slight wear to gilt title. Internally there is some moderate to heavy foxing throughout and the endpapers are toned. Compiled mostly from theJudicial Biographies of John Lord Campbell Lord Chief Justice of England with an Appendix containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Includes Roger de Brabancon; Robert Tresilian; Thomas Billing; John Fitzjames; Thomas Fleming; Nicholas Hyde; John Brampston; Robert Heath; Robert Foster; Robert Hyde; John Kelynge; William Scroggs; Francis North Edmund Saunders; George Jeffreys and Robert Wtight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Miller, Orton & Mulligan Hardcover
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: 007096
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Smith, Jesse M (edited by); McGowan, Joseph A (tribute to)
Sketches of Old Sacramento: A Tribute to Joseph A. McGowan
Sacramento CA: Sacramento County Historical Society 1976. Copy #35. Ink signature and inscription from Joseph A. McGowan on ffep. Immaculate and tight textblock and pristine blue cloth binding. Unclipped dust jacket small tear on front top corner small chip on front top edge minimal shelf scuffing along edges of spine. 244pp. including index and list of illustrations. Signed & Inscribed By Joseph A. McGowan. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good in mylar. Illus. by Prints and Maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Sacramento County Historical Society Hardcover
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: SB9130
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Wiesel, Elie
All Rivers Run To The Sea: Memoirs
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. Stated First Edition. HB. Quarter black cloth and white paper covered boards silver lettering on spine 8vo 432 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on half-title page. First printing of the First Edition covering the author's early life and experiences during World War II and the Holocaust. No marks in book biinding tight. In an unclipped dust jacket. Book condition Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
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: NX8320
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Kipen, Israel
A Life to Live: An Autobiography
Melbourne: Chandos Publishing 1989. x 314 pages. Many b/w photos. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Signed simply "Israel" and inscribed by the author. Scarce. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Chandos Publishing Hardcover
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: 7533 ISBN : 0959279326 9780959279320
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Harris, Reg; and Bowden, Gregory Houston
Two Wheels to the Top. An Autobiography By Reg Harris with Gregory Houston Bowden
London: W.H. Allen 1976. 218 pages. Many b/w photos. Index. Flawless and scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. W.H. Allen Hardcover
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: 6759 ISBN : 0491019572 9780491019576
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Eardley-Wilmot, Sir John E
A Famous Fox-Hunter. Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith Esq or the Pursuits of an English Country Gentleman
London: Sampson Low Marston and Company 1893. vii 212 pages plus 30-page publisher's catalogue and many interesting advertisements. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard and six other b/w illustrations. Original pictorial boards worn and rubbed at extremities. Corners bumped. Small bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. . 5th Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Sampson Low, Marston and Company Hardcover
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: 6379
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Ryo Hiranuma Biography Compilation Committee Edition
Ryo Hiranuma People and Achievements <Japanese Version>
Japan Book Culture Association 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Japan Book Culture Association paperback
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: 2111902153201582
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Holloway, James Lemuel
The Story of My Life
Dallas TX: Clyde C. Cockrell & Son 1938. Author's inked signature and inscription on fep dated March 4 1938; minor age toning else textblock is clean and tight; Laid in an appreciation program of Bishop Chas. C. Selecman and Bishop W.C. Martin; Blue cloth bindingworn at the spine tips and board corners; Light bowing to the front cover rubbing to the edges and corners. 104pp. Signed & Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Clyde C. Cockrell & Son Hardcover
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: SB15666
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Dunham, Jim; Frost, H Gordon; Silva, Lee; Schreier, Konrad F; Good, Clyde, et al
Guns & Ammo Guide to Guns of the Gunfighters
U.S.A.: Petersen Publishing Co. Good. 1975. First Edition. Paperback. 0822700956 . 224 pages. Loaded with wonderful photos. Dozens of features on topics such as Wild Bill Hickok the James Gang Wyatt Earp Billy the Kid Bonnie & Clyde The Wild Bunch The Texas Rangers Pat Garrett and special features on gun trickery frontier gun leather and test reports on original arms and modern replicas. Average wear. Binding intact. Small inkstamp atop back cover. A sound copy of this interesting work.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Guns & Ammo Guide to Guns of the Gunfighters Wild Bill Hickok the James Gang Wyatt Earp Billy the Kid Bonnie & Clyde The Wild Bunch The Texas Rangers Pat Garrett and special features on gun trickery frontier gun Leather True Crime . Petersen Publishing Co. paperback
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: 877G4673 ISBN : 0822700956 9780822700951
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Paar, Jack
P.S. Jack Paar
New York New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1983. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. signed on fep. edgewear with light soil on d/j red and yellow book contents are clean. Doubleday Hardcover
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: 006660 ISBN : 0385187432 9780385187435
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Warren, Louis Austin
Lincoln's Parentage & Childhood : A History of the Kentucky Lincolns Supported By Documentary Evidence
The Century Co. 1926. 392pp. Black cloth spine with maroon cloth covers no DJ VG small scrape lower spine edge EX-LIB minimal markings end pages are maps index bibliography chapter notes b&w photos Lincoln's Parentage & Childhood A History of the Kentucky Lincolns . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Century Co. Hardcover
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: w221132052
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Shaw, Frank H
In the Days of Nelson
London: Cassell And Company Ltd. 1910. Undated. 1910 Christmas gift inscription on ffep usual age toning else textblock is clean and tight; Stamped illustration on front cover bumping to head and foot of spine creases and indentation on spine near head lightly sunned and character-soiled binding. Wear at the spine extremities; 344pp. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Cassell And Company Ltd. Hardcover
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: SB15463
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DIPPIE, Brian W (editor).
Charles M. Russell Word Painter: Letters 1887-1926.
NY:: Abrams. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0810937646 . 764 illustrations including 474 color plates. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Abrams, hardcover
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: 39412 ISBN : 0810937646 9780810937642
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HUBBARD, Elbert
Little Journeys To the Homes of Great Business Men
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1909 1910. Miriam Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mo 221 pages quarter suede-backed boards spine scuffed at head ex libris Victor Michael Gore a Michigan attorney and Regent of the University of Michigan. <br /> <br/><br/>The Business Men are Peter Cooper Andrew Carnegie George Peabody A. T. Stewart H. H. Rogers James J. Hill. With portraits. McKenna 182. Printed in four colors with designs and intials by Dard Hunter and issued as volume 25 of the Little Journeys. The Roycrofters hardcover
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: 0008383
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Crawford, Alan
C. R. Ashbee : Architect Designer & Romantic Socialist
London: Yale University Press 2005. Name/date to half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 499pp. Charles Robert Ashbee was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life around the start of the 20th century - as an architect designer and social reformer. Inspired by the anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris he started a craft workshop in London's East End in 1888 before moving it out to the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden in 1902. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. Yale University Press Paperback
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: 026826 ISBN : 0300109393 9780300109399
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Butler, Ruth
Rodin: The Shape of Genius
Yale University Press 1993. Signed with first name only and inscribed by the author First Edition with full numberline 4to size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 592 pages with some black and white photographs and photo illustrated dust jacket Some jacket: "Rodin scholar Ruth Butler draws for the first time on closely guarded archives and letters to disentangle the facts of this legendary artist's life from the myths that have grown up around him. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred archival photographs this book proves new interpretations of the motivations execution and reception of Rodin's extraordinary artistic creations. Quoting extensively from letters to and from Rodin the author captures his voice and those of his contemporaries throughout his long life. The author reveals how much Rodin suffered when his powerful work - so different from the accepted style of his time - was rejected by his patrons and she discusses the ironic contract between Rodin's acclaim in the world at large and the opposition he faced in France much of it the result of the political conflict of the Third Republic." The author wrote several other publications about Rodin. She spent more than ten years working on this biography. Some wear to jacket with edgewear sunned spine quarter of an inch tear on back of jacket one inch tear on front camouflaged in spine and another one inch tear to bottom of front inside jacket flap; bumped corners. Pages 45-48 are creased at bottom corner. There is some light soil or possibly foxing to top of book and a teeny light spot or foxed spot to outside pages. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Yale University Press Hardcover
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: 005503 ISBN : 0300054009 9780300054002
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Acocella, Joan
Mark Morris
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1993. Stated First Edition 4to size hardcover with dust jacket; 306 pages plus glossy black and white illustrations throughout From jacket: "Mark Morris is the most exciting and important choreographer to have emerged in the last two decades.Morris has already produced more than 80 dance works and their originality brashness and beauty have made him one of the signature American artists of our time. The author's probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artists. Written with Morris' cooperation part biography part critical study it describes how he has lived and how he turns life - and music and narrative - into dance. Including 78 photographs covering the entire corpus of Morris' work to date." Wear to jacket with a taped repair to a large tear on the left side and a one inch tear at top right; fingermark on outside pages. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover
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: 005258 ISBN : 0374202958 9780374202958
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Beatty, Fredericka
William Wordsworth of Rydal Mount: An Account of the Poet and his Friends in the Last Decade
New York: E.P. Dutton 1939. 8vo size green cloth bound hardcover with bright gilt titles on the spine; 307 tanned pages; illustrated with 8 plates including a frontispiece portrait by Inman William Wordswoth 1770 - 1850 was a major British poet. He served as the British poet laureate for several years before his death. Tanned pages endpapers and inside covers penciled numbers inside front cover; original bookseller's sticker on fep a small light mark on bottom of book and a small area of shelf soil on bottom. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Inman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
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: 005278
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Burton, Katherine
Mightily and Sweetly
Paterson New Jersey: St. Anthony Guild Press 1948. Rare volume. The life story of Mother Josephine of the Sacred Heart Provincial Superior of the Hartford Community of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Foreword by John LaFarge S.J.; Imprimatur Henry J. O'Brien D.D. Bishop of Hartford. Author Katherine Burton was known for her religious biographies. Green cloth leatherette with dull gilt titles on spine and front cover. 277 toned pages with some black and white photographs on glossy stock including frontispiece. Edgewear small nick to leatherette finish on back of spine seam; name on fep; cracked binding between title page and frontispiece. Contents include Early Years of the O'Connor Family; Mary Ann O'Connor Enters the Religious Life; Sister Josephine; Mother Josephine; The Golden Jubilee much more. Quotes are for illustrative purposes and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity. . First. Leatherette. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. St. Anthony Guild Press Hardcover
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: 004583
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Alcantara, Tomas Polanco
Jose Antonio Paez Fundador De La Republica
Caracas Venezuela: Ediciones GE 2000. 574 pages. Text is in Spanish. From back: "En 1830 bajo la autoridad politica de Jose Antonio Paez desaparecieron las Intendencias y nacio la Rupublica de Venezuela en su forma y con las caracteristicas que posee. Por esta razon no puede vacilarse en artribuir a Paez el caracter de creador de Venezuela." Moderate wear to jacket and crease to bottom inside fold of jacket. Photographs and quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their respective copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ediciones GE Hardcover
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: 004800 ISBN : 9806386191 9789806386198
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Tyler, Moses Coit
Patrick Henry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1887. Incredibly rare First Edition 12mo size hardcover; 398 toned pages. This book has been professionally rebound probably in the 1930s in blue cloth or buckram with yellow titles and gray endpapers. Ex-library with typical treatments to accession and deaccession. Sunned bumped and worn spine has blue cloth Dewey label. Corners are lightly bumped and lightly worn. The pages are fragile and brittle. The top corners of pages 55-62 and 245 are chipped with some loss of text. Pages 67 89 91 95-100 205 and 287-290 are chipped at top corner pages 235 and 332 are chipped on page edge; the top corner of pages 114 and 175 are detached and laid in and the corner of page 175 has a small stain. Pages 15 81 103-106 115 129-143 153/158 177 181 189-191 201 and 331 have tears of varying sizes. Seven pages are mended with tape which has darkened and in some cases stained the abutting page. One of the signatures groups of bound pages for pages 245-284 has a broken top stitch. We also noted several tiny check or ticks marks in the text. There is some soil to outside pages which are tanned. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. . First. Cloth. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
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: 002833
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Oliver, Andrew
A History of Latin Literature in Graphic Form
Boston: Private Press 1952. Signed and inscribed on fep Private Press; 1952 Numbered edition: No. 401 is handwritten on title page. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover; unconventionally paginated in Roman Numerals throughout - about 45 pages to this delightful slim English language volume. The author provides eight "bullet point" mini biographies for each "classical" historical notable. The book is organized by order of the subject's birth rather than by alphabetical order and the author has resisted slipping into Latin even to quote Caesar's "Veni Vedi Veci" or other well-known Latin lines. Contents include: Andronicus Naevius Ennius Pacuvius Statius Terence Cato Elder Accius Lucilius Varro Cicero Caesar Nepos Lucretius Sallust Virgil Horrace Ovid more Ex-school library with typical treatments. Accessionment stamp on inside front cover has transferred some ink onto fep; and deaccessionment treatment on fep has transferred some ink onto inside back cover. Bumped and worn corners and head and heel of spine; sunning to spine and covers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Numbered. Private Press Hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 003580
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McGovern, George
Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern
New York: Random House 1977. Very Rare Signed Copy. Signed and inscribed on fep. 8vo sized hardcover with dustjacket; 307 pages plus a section of black and white photographs on glossy stock. Photo illustrated jacket. From flap: "George McGovern's refreshingly candid autobiography throws a unique spotlight on the American political process. At the same time is shows a husband and father struggling with the conflicting claims of the heart and demands of a public career." George McGovern 1922-2012 was an United States politician serving as a United States Representative and Senator for his home state of South Dakota. He was the Democratic Party presidential candidate in 1972. Throughout his career McGovern was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Among his awards is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was the author of more than dozen books. Purchased and signed in Massachusetts the only state in which the majority voted for McGovern and not Richard Nixon in the 1972 Presidential campaign spawning "Don't Blame Me I Voted for McGovern" bumper stickers. Edgewear to jacket; some light foxing or soil to top of book dusty top. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. Signed by Author. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House hardcover
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: 000313 ISBN : 0394419413 9780394419411
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Howlett, Duncan
No Greater Love: The James Reeb Story
Boston: Skinner House Books 242 pages with some black and white photographs From back: "A comparatively unknown minister who labored for social justice and rehabilitation in Boston's Roxbury community James Reed went to Selma Alabama in 1965 to make a peaceful stand for civil rights. His brutal death at the hands of unknown assailants catapulted his name into headlines around the world and focused a nation's eyes on the growing civil rights movement." Contents include: Clear and Ever-Present Purpose A High School Boy Learns Compassion The Fuller Life in Christ Total Christian Commitment The Dimensions of Life Chaplain Reeb Integrity of the Mind and Heart Unitarianism The Lay Ministry Noble Leader Taking the Church into the Community The Light Within Man Needs Help The Work that Had Hardly Begun Selma A Man Becomes a Martyr The March to Victory Considerable wear and creasing to covers curled front cover. Average handling wear to text with some curled page tips. Pencilled price on fep. Last for pages index has small spots or transfer. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. Soft Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Skinner House Books Paperback
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 000091 ISBN : 1558963170 9781558963177
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Zeltserman, Dave
Fast Lane
Holicong PA: Pointblank 2004. Flat Signed by author on title page "A different version of this book was previously published as In His Shadow" 195 pages From jacket: "Denver private eye Johnny Lane is so busy he has to contract out his overflow cases. When a young woman approaches him to find ther birth parents he's willing to take the case for almost nothing. Almost. It would be a breath of fresh air compared to all the lowife cases he is now stuck with.and there is something about the woman. The last thing Johnny expects is the path this case leads him down. As the chasm between words and reality grows wider past and present deeds start unraveling with deadly force." Bookseller's notation on fep; teeny spots on rep in the far margins of page 110 114 and 148. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pointblank Hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 001308 ISBN : 1930997620 9781930997622
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Hall, Edwin Presley MD
A Doctor Reminisces
Huntsville Alabama: The Strode Publishers 1978. Very rare title. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 332 pages. From jacket: "Dr. Edwin Presley Hall typifies the successful physician's dedication and opportunities. From jail physician to ship's surgeon; from coal mine doctor to army medical officer; from veterans hospital chief surgeon to private practice; his medical career has spanned a full life and encompasses much of the world. The Alabama native is the son of an early 'doctor on horseback' in Albertville. The reader surveys the life of a young intern and resident physician as Dr. Hall recounts his experiences at Louisiana State Charity Hospital at Shreveport and at hospitals in Vicksburg Mississippi; Washington DC and New York City. and in the army during World War II serving in North Africa Italy and Germany." Dr. Hall died in 2002. Jacket is rubbed and has some wear and a couple of quarter inch tears; slightly bumped corners under jacket; inside front cover fep and following blank page are discolored perhaps from a now-gone piece of newsprint. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Strode Publishers Hardcover
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: 001674
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT BUSINESS MEN
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mos 208 153 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; vol. 2 spine faded to lighter brown rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The Business Stars are Robert Owen James Oliver Stephen Girard Mayer A. Rothschild Philip D. Armour John Jacob Astor Peter Cooper Andrew Carnegie George Peabody A. T. Stewar H. H. Rogers James J. Hill. With portraits. See McKenna 181 - 183 . Designed by Dard Hunter. The Roycrofters hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 20220688
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT TEACHERS
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mos 152 176 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; spines faded to lighter brown rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The Teachers are Moses Confucius Pythagoras Plato King Alfred Froebel Booker T. Washington Thomas Arnold Erasmus Hypatia St. Benedict Mary Baker Eddy. With portraits. McKenna 164 165. Designs by Dard Hunter and issued as volumes 22 & 23 of the Little Journeys. Note: the spine title stamping of vol. 1 does not match vol. 2. The Roycrofters hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 20220683
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT LOVERS
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mos 164 153 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; vol. 2 spine faded to lighter brown rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The Lovers are Josiah and Sarah Wedgewood William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft Dante and Beatrice John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Parnell and Kitty O'Shea Petrarch and Laura Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Balzac and Madame Hanska Fenelon and Madame Guyon Ferdinant Lassalle and Helene von Donniges Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton Robert Louis Stevenston and Fanny Osbourne. With portraits. See McKenna 131 - 133 . Designed by Raymond Nott. The Roycrofters hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 20220687
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mos 176 189 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed ribbons; spines faded to a lighter brown. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The good men and great are Socrates Seneca Aristotle Marcus Aurelius Spinoza Swedenborg Kant Comte Voltaire Herbert Spencer Schopenhauer Thoreau. With portraits. McKenna 102-104. The Roycrofters hardcover
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: 20220677
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1911. Miriam Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mo 159 149 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; spines faded to lighter brown rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The Statesmen are Thomas Jefferson Daniel Webster Henry Clay John Jay William H. Seward Abraham Lincoln Washington Franklin Hamilton Samuel Adams Hancock John Quincy Adams. With portraits. McKenna 195. The Roycrofters hardcover
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: 20220682
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GOOD MEN AND GREAT
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1910. Miriam Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mos 143 167 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; one scuff minor wear to tips of spines. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The good men and great are George Eliot Thomas Carlyle John Ruskin William Gladstone J. M. W. Turner Jonathan Swift Walt Whitman Victor Hugo William Wordsworth William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Dickens Oliver Goldsmith William Shakespeare Thomas Edison. With portraits. McKenna 191. The Roycrofters hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 20220676
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HUBBARD, Elbert
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF FAMOUS WOMEN
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1911. Miriam Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits. 12mos 149 153 pages stamped half brown sheep plain boards t.e.g. untrimmed; vol. 2 spine faded to lighter brown rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier <br/><br/>The Women are E. B. Browning Madame Guyon Harriet Martineau Charlotte Bronte Christina Rossetti Rosa Bonheur Madame De Stael Mary Lamb Elizabeth Fry Jane Austen Empress Josephine Mary W. Shelley. With portraits. See McKenna 163 for the 1908 edition - this edition not cited . The Roycrofters hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 20220684
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