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2000ref. 27549Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Jockey Club 2000. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 12.9x12.0x1.1in. Dust jacket in clear protector. Commemorative presentation album illustrated with 51 mounted color photographs of the 2000 December 15th and 17th events on silver foil pages with cellophane protectors. A lavish production. 28pp 4.05lb 12.9x12.0x1.1in The Hong Kong Jockey Club hardcover
1997ref. ABE-14619877748Stone Trough Books 1997 Superb quarter calf leather with cloth sides specially bound issue of ONLY 35 COPIES of which this is number 29. It has a vivid Vorticist cloth cover. Signed on the limitation page with a dedication to one of the greatest poets of the English language my opinion! Ken Smith. CL has written 'For Ken Smith with my thanks for a fine job from Christopher Logue'. A unique and wonderful association copy. Several tipped in photographs. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stone Trough Books hardcover
1765ref. MP009Paris Chez Durand Neveu 1765. Third edition originally published in 1758. In-12vo $10.5 times 16$ cm. xii 285 pp. 3 pp. Table & Approbation. Bound in a handsome contemporary full mottled calf binding. The spine is exceptionally well-preserved featuring five compartments intricately decorated with gilt floral motifs and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco title label reading "AMELIO DES TERRES". Covers show light rubbing and mild surface wear consistent with age but remain sturdy and highly attractive on the shelf. Marbled endpapers intact. The title page features a beautiful decorative woodcut vignette reading: "Essai sur l'Amélioration des Terres. A Paris Chez Durand Neveu. M. DCC LXV. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi." Pages are preceded by a famous dedication address to Madame de Pompadour "A Madame de Pompadour. Madame Parmi les Arts qui ont ressenti les effets de votre pro.". While signed by Pattullo this introductory piece on physiocracy and the economic importance of agricultural reform was famously drafted by the Enlightenment writer Jean-François Marmontel at the request of François Quesnay. Condition Notes: Text block is secure and generally clean with light uniform age-toning and very minor spotting. Binding is worn but structurally intact and retains a very authentic period feel. Note: This copy is sold as-is lacking the 3 folding plates often missing from later printings. An essential mid-18th-century agronomy and political economy tract. Chez Durand, Neveu, Libraire (Paris) hardcover
1968ref. bing27mm035Temple Israel 1968. Hardcover. Very good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good hardcover dedication book circa 1968. Local history Jewish history Binghamton New York. Clean pages. No dust jacket. Temple Israel hardcover
1965ref. I-250-899La savoisienne 1965. Good. No dust jacket. Edition 1965. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. La savoisienne unknown
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1956ref. 008199London: Phoenix House Ltd. 1956. The DEDICATION COPY of this historical tale of the 14th century. Near Fine condition. Clean square and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. The binding is the original blue boards stamped in shiny silver on the spine. In addition to her considerable talents as a biographer and literary historian the author was a gifted artist who attended the Minneapolis School of Art. She has handsomely illustrated this book with endpaper maps and decorated head and tail pieces at the start and end of each chapter. This is the DEDICATION COPY probably one of two -- one per sister. The book's printed dedication is "To My Sisters." On the same page the author has sketched a delightful winged gargoyle. Next to that the author has written: "for my darling Joy signed Marrie." Joy was B. J. Beatrice Joy Chute the author's sister and fellow-author. Among B. J. Chute's books are: GREENWILLOW; THE FIELDS ARE WHITE; THE BLUE CUP; SHATTUCK CADET; THE END OF LOVING; KATIE AN IMPERTINENT FAIRY TALE; and THE GOOD WOMAN. Born in Wayzata Minnesota in 1909 Marchette "Marrie" Chute moved to New York City with her mother and two sisters in the early 1940s. Both sisters Beatrice Joy Chute and Mary Grace Chute later Mary Chute Smith of Morristown N.J. were also gifted writers. Marchette Chute wrote some 13 books and served as president of the American Center of P.E.N. from 1955-57. She was elected to the American Academy of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. Among her other books are: SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON; BEN JONSON OF WESTMINSTER; JESUS OF ISRAEL; THE TWO GENTLE MEN THE LIVES OF GEORGE HERBERT AND ROBERT HERRICK. This is the first UK edition with "First published 1956" so stated on the copyright page. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED to the AUTHOR'S SISTER. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. 191pp. Phoenix House Ltd. Hardcover
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2010ref. 106930Bath: Girls Gone By. Very Good. 2010. Complete & unabridged. Softback. 1847450822 . 4to softback; commissioned by her family and written by Brian Parks an expert on her books. Now out of print for quite along time this is a copy that has a handwritten dedication to the previous owner from the author; 'To xxxx Best Wishes Brian Parks'. Just slight cockling to the book otherwise in excellent condition; overall vg; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author . Girls Gone By unknown
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1936ref. 6413John Lane The Bodley Head.London.1936. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife Clare on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought by me direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow Clare.: John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936 hardcover
1822ref. V74910London: John Major Robert Jennings & Robert Triphook first edition. 1822 - 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates 52 on India paper including pictorial engraved titlepage and engraved portrait to dedication by Sir Thomas. Lawrence Vandyke and many other famous artists engraved on silver by Cosmo Armstrong Francis Engleheart and others. Subscriber's copy of Volume I only PROOFS No. 97 quarto half red morocco gilt on 5 raised bands with pebbled cloth sides spine extra gilt in compartments corners bumped but no wear or splits cloth a bit spotted All Edges Gilt. Unpaginated engraved Vol.I title 1822 printed title 1824 contents list 8pp Address in English and in French engraved dedication to George IV with portrait 5 Parts each with 10 Plates Part 1st 1821 starting with Charles I - Part 5th ending with George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Each Part has its PROOF sheets as issued 4pp explanatory text before each plate with price 2 Guineas per part. In this PROOF volume the subjects are not in alphabetical order as they were later issued in 1824 2 volumes. Two portaits have a tidemark of former damp some proof leaves are stained or bit foxed a few small marginal tears to text leaves not touching text plates and text pages on heavy paper white and clean throughout. Tissue guards all present. Beautifully engraved cameo portraits of kings generals authors and other famous people each with interesting explanatory text in rare 1st issue volume of proof Parts. John Major, Robert Jennings & Robert Triphook first edition. hardcover
1684ref. V74892London: Printed by Mary Clarke for Jos. Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness. 1684. Hardcover. Very Good-. Octavo 11x17cm speckled brown leather on 4 raised bands with orange gilt spine title label neat small repair to head of spine tips rubbed All edges marbled but darkened 14pp titlepage dedication & contents 272pp errata leaf tipped in collated complete except lacks blank leaf A8. Side notes and good margins monogram engraved bookplate by W.G.R. pages crisp and clean throughout. Supports the succession to Charles II of his brother James Duke of York in spite of p 236 "the moral impossibility of introducing the Romish Religion tho the Prince were of that Persuasion". Very rare Wing W2921 ESTC R27078. Printed by M[ary] C[larke] for Jos. Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness. hardcover
2002ref. 106790UK: Bettany Press. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. 0952468069 . 1st edition softback; vg; reading crease on cover; 346pp; on fep is an editor's dedication; the essential companion to a Jane Shaw collection; includes published Susan short stories; also previously unpublished stories from the author's personal archives now deposited in the National Library of Scotland. Accompanying this are critical essays on the books and a fascinating account by Ian Evans son of the family friends to whom many of his mother's books were dedicated ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Bettany Press, paperback
1926ref. 4454London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited ; London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney 1926. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xv 312 pp. ; 19 cm. ; OCLC: 3363061 ; LC: PS3505.A153 ; grey cloth with decorative embossed designs with dark grey lettering ; top edge in faded purple ; includes a poetic dedication to Carl Van Doren ; a picaresque medieval novel by one of the mo st underrated fantasy writers in a British edition and fantastically claiming to be based on "Poictesme en Chanson et Légende by G. J. Bülg Strasburg 1785" a wholly fictitious work and author ; Extract from the extended subtitle: "Herewith beg ins the history of the birth and of the triumphing of the great legend about Manuel the Redeemer whom Gonfal repudiated as blown dust and Miramon as an imposter and whom Coth repudiated out of honest love.and hereinafter is recorded the manner of the great legend's engulfment of these persons." ; slight foxing slight marks on bottom of textblock else VG London : John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited ; [London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney] hardcover
1976ref. 3122University Alabama : The University of Alabama Press 1976. 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Red cloth with gold device in illustrated dustjacket ; cxvi xxix 594 pp. illustrations one fold-out ; printed illustration of the author laid-in ; ISBN: 0817352287 ; LCCN: 75-19291 ; thick volume reproducing the 1910 Houghton Mifflin edition revised and enlarged ; slight sunning to dustjacket price clipped ; nearly invisible spot on front cover else VG/G University, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 1976. hardcover
ref. 133390939X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 444715589 pages book of song lyrics no date circa 1940s issued under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the Caribbean Area to maintain morale of the Armed Forces of the United Nations stapled wraps worn closed tears rust marks from staples some small spots stains small loss foredge scarce item. United Services Organization Auxiliary paperback
