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Kaye, John William
The Life and Correspondence of Henry St. George Tucker Late Accountant-General of Bengal and Chairman of the East India Company.
Richard Bentley 1854. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Very poor with all faults. 8vo original brown cloth with embossed decorations and text in gilt. Boards detached several parts from backstrip missing bumped corners light shelf wear. Text block secure and pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5771150
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Gleig, GR (ed) G R
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings First Governor-General of bengal. Compiled from Original Papers Volume 1-3
Richard Bentley 1841. Volume 1-3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Medium brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and light wear. Faint tea ring on front board of vol. I. Frontispiece in vols I. and II. Binding tight. Several pages marked in pencil and a couple marked in pen in Vol I. Page 1 of vol I. has badly chipped edges not affecting text body. Multiple pages marked in pencil several in red and blue crayon and a couple marked in pen in vol II. Mutiple pages marked in pencil and several in crayon in vol III. Some foxing. Red speckled trimmed edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2400grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773331
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Melek-Hanum
Thirty Years in the Harem: Or the Autobiography of Melek-Hanum Wife of H.H. Kibrizlimehemet-Pasha
Chapman & Hall 1872. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Medium green cloth 8vo with decorative black border mirrored on boards. Gilt and black borders gilt lettering and gilt motif on backstrip. Bumped corners and damage. Binding detached with long tears down backstrip seams. Fraying and wear. Back board almost detached from backstrip. Yellow end papers one missing. Pages loose but clear of markings save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN: Chapman & Hall hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773318
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Morgan, Edwin (Author); Whyte, Hamish (Editor)
Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on Work and Life
Edinburgh: Polygon 1990. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked. Jacket inside and page block are lightly foxed. Board spine ends are bumped. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. Polygon Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 616808 ISBN : 0748660771 9780748660773
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Bell, Vanessa; Giachero, Lia, (Ed)
Sketches in Pen and Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook
London: The Hogarth Press 1997. First edition first printing hard cover with unclipped dust jacket both in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear including minor tanning to DJ spine and light creasing to spine foot of jacket and boards. Otherwise red cloth boards are in fine condition pages tightly bound and content unmarked. CN. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Hogarth Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 616969
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Levy, Mervyn
Reflections in a Broken Mirror: Fragments of an Autobiography
Richmond: The Patten Press 1982. A first edition signed limited edition softback numbered 62/350. Cover illustration by Gertrude Hermes R.A. Includes six illustrations. In fine condition with the smallest element of shelfwear to pageblock foot. Cover and content is 'as new'. CN. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good. The Patten Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 616985 ISBN : 0950768995 9780950768991
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Sen, Sri C
Daniel De Foe: His Mind and Art
Calcutta: University of Calcutta 1948. Hardcover no jacket in good condition. First edition. Minor marks tanning and edgewear to the hardcover. Tanning on the page block. Light foxing on the pages throughout. A few creased page corners. The binding is a little weak in places otherwise generally remains sound. All text is clear. CM. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Used. University of Calcutta Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 617202
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Williams, William Carlos
Autobiography
London: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd 1968. First UK printing hard cover in very good condition with clipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Ian Angus former librarian at King's College London and deputy librarian at University College London. Ownership pencilled to FEP. General shelfwear including tanning creasing and wear to dust jacket edges and corners. Pageblock tanned and lightly foxed. Brown cloth boards have gilt detail to spine and are in fine condition Within pages tightly bound content unmarked. CN. First Edition UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. MacGibbon & Kee Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 617691
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Sheppard, Anthony RR (Editor and Introduction); Gould, Warwick (Foreword) R R
The Life and Thought of Marjorie Reeves 1905-2003 Advocate for Humanist Scholarship and Opponent of Utilitarian University Education: An Edition of Her Unpublished Memoirs
Lewiston NY: The Edward Mellen Press 2011. Paperback in good condition. Review copy with stamp on title page and review copy letter laid in. Spine surface covering including strips on both covers are missing. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Paperback. Good. Used. The Edward Mellen Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 617809 ISBN : 0773415513 9780773415515
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Walters, SM; Stow, EA S M E A
Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow: 1796-1861
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001. Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket both in very good condition. Previous owner's bookplate adhered to front pastedown. Light shelfwear only including minor creasing to DJ edges and tanning to DJ spine. Boards are in fine condition pages are tightly bound and content unmarked. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 617989 ISBN : 0521591465 9780521591461
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Lucas, Reginald
Colonel Saunderson: M.P.: A Memoir
London: John Murray 1908. Hard cover no jacket in good condition for its age. W.H. Smith bookplate adhered to both front and rear pastedowns rear partially removed. General shelf and handling wear including marked wear to board spine head and foot crumpled with small closed and open tears noted. Rubbing and fading to front and rear boards corners bumped. Pageblock heavily tanned foxed and discoloured tanning and foxing leading into pastedowns and endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout however content remains fully legible. Pages are firmly bound text portraits and photographs clear and bright. CN. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. John Murray Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 617990
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MacManus, MJ M J
Eamon De Valera: A Biography
Dublin: The Talbot Press Ltd 1944. June 1944 reprinted hard cover in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Dust jacket is notably shelfworn including tanning creasing chips and nicks. Age-related discolouration present small closed tear to spine repaired. Board corners are bumped pageblock tanned and foxed light foxing to endpapers. Within pages are tightly bound content clear and bright. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. The Talbot Press Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618032
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Hart, Kitty
I Am Alive
London: Corgi Books By Transworld Publishers 1963. Paperback in good condition. General shelf and handling wear including tanning creasing and wear to the cover and edges and notable tanning and foxing to the pageblock this leading into the pages. The head of the half-title page has been neatly cut away about a fifth of the entire page. Spine cocked. Within pages are securely bound and despite tanning and occasional blemishes content is clear and fully legible. Foreword by Lord Russell of Liverpool. CN. Paperback. Good. Corgi Books By Transworld Publishers Paperback
Bookseller reference : 618493
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Fauske, Christopher
A Political Biography of William King
London: Pickering & Chatto 2011. Hard cover with printed boards no jacket intended in very good condition. Light shelfwear to boards including minor rubbing and scratches and light wear to corners. Within pages are tightly bound and content is in 'as unread' condition. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Pickering & Chatto Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618512 ISBN : 1848930100 9781848930100
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Coustillas, Pierre
The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part I: 1857-1888
London: Pickering and Chatto 2011. Part I: 1857-1888. Larger sized hardcover with printed boards no dust jacket in very good condition. A light mark to the page block head. Content is as unread. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Pickering and Chatto Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618696 ISBN : 1848931719 9781848931718
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Coustillas, Pierre
The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part II: 1888-1897
London: Pickering and Chatto 2012. Part II: 1888-1897. Larger sized hardcover with printed boards no dust jacket in very good condition. A few light marks to the page block. Content is as unread. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Pickering and Chatto Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618697 ISBN : 1848931735 9781848931732
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Coustillas, Pierre
The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part III: 1897-1903
London: Pickering and Chatto 2012. Part III: 1897-1903. Larger sized hardcover with printed boards no dust jacket in very good condition. A few light marks to the page block. Content is as unread. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Pickering and Chatto Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618698 ISBN : 1848931751 9781848931756
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Bion, WR (Author); Bion, Francesca (Editor) W R
W.R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917-19
London: H. Karnac Books Ltd. 1997. Hardcover in very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and sunned. Edges and folds are creased with nicks to the edges. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Content is as unread. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. H. Karnac (Books) Ltd. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 618716 ISBN : 1855751798 9781855751798
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Pfau, Richard
No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1984. Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket both in very good condition from the collection of Stephen W. Hawking; bookplate adhered to FEP. Light shelf and handling wear including minor creasing and tanning to dust jacket. Blue cloth boards are in fine condition pages are tightly bound content unmarked. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. University Press of Virginia Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 619153 ISBN : 0813910382 9780813910383
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Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond
The Life of Sir William Petty 1623-1687: One of the First Fellows of the Royal Society Sometime Secretary to Henry Cromwell Maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland Author of 'Political Arithmetic'
London: John Murray Publishers 1895. Hardcover with green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front no dust jacket. Tissue protected frontispiece and potrait; full-colour fold-out map of Ireland; rough cut page block. Board edges and corners are rubbed light score to front board and cloth puckered slightly to rear board. Light foxing to end papers. Pages are clean throughout and spine is tight. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. John Murray Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 519212
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Butler, Rohan
Choiseul: Volume 1 Father and Son 1719-1754
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket very good condition. Jacket is sunned at spine and edgeworn. Crease to lower leading corner of first 19 pages foxing to page block head remaining page block faintly marked. Spine is tight pages and text are clear throughout. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Clarendon Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 519672 ISBN : 0198225091 9780198225096
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Miller, Arthur
Timebends: A Life
London: Methuen 1987. Hardcover first edition with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Light edgewear to jacket tanning to page block and to page edges faint mark to FEP and to page block head. Boards excellent spine tight and contents clean and unmarked. AD. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Methuen Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 522721 ISBN : 0413414809 9780413414809
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Graves, Robert
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
London: Jonathan Cape 1929. Hardcover first edition first impression second issue. Very good condition book in good condition jacket with original price sticker to front flap. Salmon coloured cloth boards with gilt printing to spine lightly worn at edges. Jacket is tanned at spine and edgeworn with chips and small tears plus taped repairs to spine ends and corners verso. As stated second issue with the infamous Sassoon poem excised and replaced with asterisks. Includes 7 illustrations an errata slip bound in at page 398 and publisher's order-form brochure entitled "War: Robert Graves Ernst Hemmingway F.A. Voigt A.D. Gristwood E.E. Cummings" advertising the selection of First World War memoirs by these writers and published by Cape is laid-in. The spine is tight and the contents are clean throughout. AD. First Edition First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. Jonathan Cape Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 523965
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Green, Roger Lancelyn
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll: Volume I
London: Cassell & Company Ltd 1953. Volume I hardcover without dust jacket in good condition for its age. Boards are marked and edges corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked and page block is discoloured and foxed some of which has leached in to the pages. End papers are lightly foxed writing to FEP and hinge break at REP. The pages and text are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Cassell & Company Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 536668
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MacDonald, John A (Letters of John A MacDonald)
The Letters of Sir John A. MacDonald 2 Volumes Publisher series: Papers of the Prime Ministers; Papers of the Prime Ministers.
Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada 1968 1969. Hardcover 600 626pp. Near fine no dust jacket. Portraits indices appendices fold-out genealogical table. A previous owner's name on the front and back endpaper of each volume. Letters of John A. MacDonald. Publisher series: Papers of the Prime MinistersI & Papers of the Prime MinistersII . Vol. 1 The Letters of Sir John A. MacDonald 1836-1857. Vol. 2 The Letters of Sir John A. MacDonald 1858-1861. Prime Ministers Prime Ministers--Canada. Public Archives of Canada Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 147892
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Altmann, Alexander
Moses Mendelssohn. A Biographical Study
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1973. Hardcover with faded and edge-worn clipped jacket. Sound book with clean pages. . Hardcover. Good. Used. Routledge & Kegan Paul Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 181984
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Ray, Martin (ed)
Joseph Conrad : Interviews and Recollections
Basingstoke Hampshire United Kingdom: The Macmillan Press Ltd. 1990. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light crease at back black cover with gilt lettering on spine and contents in very good clean condition. Age spotting on top of page block. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. The Macmillan Press Ltd. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 190469 ISBN : 0333437853 9780333437858
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Elliot, F
Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople
John Murray 1893. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 8vo red cloth gilt text and decorations to front and spine moderate exterior wear and soiling some light staining to front and rear covers small tears to top edges and along rear edge of spine. Decorated endpapers bookplate to front pastedown secure binding pages clean frontispiece and first signature loose but still attached maps and illustrations. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5771027
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Dickson, Violet
Forty Years in Kuwait
Allen & Unwin 1971. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN:0049200321 Allen & Unwin paperback
Bookseller reference : 2921300 ISBN : 0049200321 9780049200326
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Gregory, J W
To the Alps of Chinese Tibet: An Account of a Journey of Exploration Up to and Among the Snow-Clad Mountains of the Tibetan Frontier
Seeley Service & Co. Limited 1923. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2921239
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Stratil-Sauer, Gustav; Whyte, Frederic (Trans)
From Leipzig to Cabul: An Account of My Motor-Cycle Ride to Afghanistan and My Nine Months' Imprisonment in That Country
Hutchinson 1924. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: Hutchinson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2921121
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Steele, Sarah L
The Right Honourable Arthur Macmurrough Kavanagh: A Biography
Macmillan 1891. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large 8vo with green cloth. Gilt stamp on front board gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2921219
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Edwardes, SM (ed) and James, HEM S M H E M
Memoir of Rao bahadur Ranchhodlal Chhotalal C.I.E.: Late Member of the Legislative Council Bombay and Founder of the Mill Industry of Gujarat
William Pollard & Co 1920. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN: William Pollard & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773294
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Kaye, JW J W
The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm G.C.B. Late Envoy to Persia and Governor of Bombay; From Unpublished Letters and Journals Volume 1-2
Smith Elder and Co. 1856. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Medium 8vo with marbled boards and brown leather half binding. Raised bands gilt borders and gilt lettering on sun faded backstrip. Front board detached and backstrip semi detached. Lightly bumped corners and some general wear. Marbled end papers and edges. Frontispiece with tissue guar in vol I. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2050grams ISBN: Smith, Elder, and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773336
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Beha Ed-Din
The Life of Saladin. Saladin or What Befell Sultan Yusuf Salah Ed-Din 1137-1193 A.D. Composed by the Learned Imam Grand Kadi of the Moslems Beha Ed-Din Abu El-Mehasan Yusuf.
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund 1897. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and on the backstrip. Pages uncut. Binding loose at the spine. Foxing on edges of pageblock. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8624718
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Ainsworth, WF W F
A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition Volume 1-2
Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1888. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Larger blue cloth 8vo with red borders and lettering on front board and sun faded backstrip. Blind border and publisher motif on back board. Bumped corners and minor general wear Some chipping to backstrip ends of vol II. Badly split hinge to front of vol II. Fold out map in plate of frontispiece in vol I. Binding tight. A few pages marked in pencil. Light foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2250grams ISBN: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773316
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Etherton, PT P T
In the Heart of Asia
Constable and Co Limited 1925. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Constable and Co Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5773113
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Bredon, J
Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career
Hutchinson 1909. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Hutchinson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5771175
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Davis, E J
Life in Asiatic Turkey. A Journal of Travel in Cilicia Pedias and Trachoea Isauria and Parts of Lycaonia and Cappadocia.
Edward Stanford 1879. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo original red cloth with decoration and lettering in black and gilt. Boards are heavily worn and soiled front board is water damaged spine is torn along most of rear edge and some small pieces are missing from its head and tail edges. Front hinge split and rear board coming loose text block shaken but intact pages clean with intermittent pencil. Complete with illustrations and map. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN: Edward Stanford hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5771080
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Hammond, Catherine R
Island of Peace in an Ocean of Unrest. The Letters of Dorothy von Moltke. An Extraordinary Woman's Letters Witness Germany's Descent into Chaos.
Paperback. Book Condition: Very Fine. Nebbadoon Press 2013. Signed by Author Hammond on Half-Title page with Presentation notation with date. First Edition. 1st Printing. 367 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Also signed by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke. Size: 8vo. An Extraordinary Woman's Letters Witness Germany's Descent into Chaos. Signed Biography Religion::Christian Science 0423 paperback
Bookseller reference : 139570 ISBN : 1891331442 9781891331442
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Dick, Philip K
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1974
Novato CA / Lancaster PA: Underwood-Miller 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 311pp. Cloth. Introduction by William Gibson. A bright fine copy in fine dustjacket. Dustjacket art by Ilene Meyer. ; Octavo. Underwood-Miller hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37689
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Gleason, Ralph J
The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
New York: Ballantine Books 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Ballantine Books 01623. The story of The Jefferson Airplane The Grateful Dead Big Brother and the Holding Company The Quicksilver Messenger Service The Fillmore Auditorium Bill Graham The Family Dog and the coming of age of rock'n'roll in San Francisco. With many b&w photographs. Faint corner crease to back cover. A near fine copy. ; Small octavo. Ballantine Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 37746
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Hale, Edward E
Giants of the Republic Embracing the Lives Deeds and Personal Traits of Eminent Statesmen Great Generals Noted Reformers Successful Men of Business.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston & Co 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 707pp. Beige pictorial cloth decorated with the United States flag and stamped in gold red and black. With numerous full page and in-text illustrations and portraits. Biographical sketches of George Washington Robert Fulton John Jacob Astor Cornelius Vanderbilt Marshall Field Thomas Edison Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Harriet Beecher Stowe and many others. Light wear to extremities and covers spine is a bit toned. A very good copy. ; Quarto. John C. Winston & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38417
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Waldo, S Putnam
Biographical Sketches of Distinguished American Naval Heroes in the War of the Revolution Between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain; Comprising Sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle Com. John Paul Jones Com. Edward Preble and Com. Alexander Murray. With Incidental Allusions to Other Distinguished Characters
Hartford CT: Published by Silas Andrus 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. x ii 1 14-392pp. Contemporary full calf spine with gilt lettering and decorations. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Murray and two inserted plates with engraved portrait of James Monroe and of the Monument erected by Edward Preble. Foxing throughout front cover is almost completely detached. A good copy. Howes W26. ; Octavo. Published by Silas Andrus hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38583
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Hale, Edward E; Hale, Edward, Jr
Franklin in France. From Original Documents Most of Which Are Now Published for the First Time. Complete in Two Volumes
Boston: Roberts Brothers 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. xvi vi 478pp; x iv 470pp. Brown cloth with gilt portraits on front panels top edges gilt. With illustrations. Scarce Roberts Brothers Publishers leaflet describing volume I of this set laid in. Cloth is worn and stained and slightly different in color front hinge of volume I weak small stains to edges not affecting text. Both volumes are solid. Very good-. ; Octavo. Roberts Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38642
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Heinlein, Robert A
Grumbles from the Grave
New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 281pp. Cloth backed boards. Includes a brief biography and a selection of Robert Heinlein letters. Edited by Virginia Heinlein. Fine in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39035 ISBN : 0345362462 9780345362469
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Calloway, Stephen
Aubrey Beardsley
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. 225pp. Cloth. Published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death. Profusely illustrated. Fine in fine dustjacket. ; Large Octavo. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39125
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[Juan Marquez]
Vita del venerabil padre f. Alfonso d'Orosco religioso dell'ordine del n. padre s. Agostino
Bologna 1661. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8 199pp. Later dark red morocco with gilt fillets cornerpieces and centerpieces on the sides spine with five raised bands and elaborate gold tooling sprinkled pastedown endpapers. All edges gilt. Title vignette. The biography of Spanish Roman Catholic priest Alonso de Orozco Mena of the Order of Saint Augustine who was beatified in 1882. Text in Italian. Translated by Luigi Torelli. Minor wear to extremities very mild scattered foxing tiny hole to spine small stains to rear panel. Lower corner of page 147 is torn barely affecting text. A near fine copy. Scarce. ; Octavo. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39328
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Canemaker, John
Winsor McCay: His Life and Art
New York: Abbeville Press 1987. Hardcover. 223pp. Red cloth stamped in blind on the front and in gold on the spine. Introduction by Maurice Sendak. The author reviews and fully analyzes McCay's achievements in print and film examining his work in relation to his life his family and to American culture. Profusely illustrated. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Quarto. Abbeville Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39959
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Mullaney, Dean, ed
Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles
San Diego: IDW Publishing 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. The Library of American Comics. 392pp. Cloth. Introduction by Jim Steranko. Biographical essay by Bruce Canwell. Complete in one volume: Scorchy Smith. Also 140 pages of Sickle's bravura illustrations for storiesby Hemingway Michener Solzhenitsyn and Faulkner; his important World War II drawings for the U.S. military; and the first biography of the artist who helped change the face of 20th Century illustration. A beautiful fine copy in fine dustjacket with a minuscule nick to the upper edge of rear panel. ; 28 x 28 cm. IDW Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39961
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