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1988ref. 157014London: Margaret Ramsay 1988. Draft script for the 1988 British play seen here under the working title "The Power of Prayer" which has been struck through and amended to the play's final title "The Secret Rapture." Copied manuscript annotations throughout noting editorial revisions. Set in 1980s Britain about the impact of Thatcherism on the family of a junior government minister after the death of the family patriarch. Basis for the 1993 film starring Juliet Stevenson Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Penelope Wilton. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright David Hare. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound at the top left corner with a single silver brad. Margaret Ramsay unknown books
1893ref. 291233London: George Allen 1893. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Many full page black & white illustrations and smaller ones throughout the text. Full burgundy polished calf ornately gilt spines. London: George Allen 1893. Very good. George Allen unknown
1893ref. 291233London: George Allen 1893. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Many full page black & white illustrations and smaller ones throughout the text. Full burgundy polished calf ornately gilt spines. London: George Allen 1893. Very good. George Allen unknown books
1978ref. 14591New York: Aperture 1978. Hardcover. First edition first printing. Fine/As New linen-bound hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine tiny spots of soiling in places one small closed tear and a touch of rubbing at the folds. A very nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY WRAPPED IN PADDING IN A BOX. Photographs and introduction by Chauncey Hare. 174 pages; 76 full-page b&w plates; 11.25 x 9.25 inches. LAID IN is a 2-page review of the book by Vicki Goldberg from American Photo. A photo-essay on the insides of the homes of Americans examining the rooms they inhabit and the objects they choose to live with. Hare a one-time corporate engineer who took up the camera as a release from the tedium of his work and then gave up the engineering was looking to "convey images of an America he believes is scarred by alienation." The photographer's first book. See: Parr & Badger Photobook Vol. 2 p23; Roth Open Book p316-17. Aperture hardcover
ref. 3735479New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen 1837. Octavo. Pp. vi 2 217–404. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers with some creases. Light wear to spine ends mild toning a well-preserved copy. Provenance: “C. J. Wister Esq.” First American journal appearance of Robert Hare’s significant paper on voltaic battery construction in which he combined the structural advantages of Cruickshank’s trough with his own deflagrator. Hare’s article placed his American research into direct conversation with Michael Faraday’s electrical investigations addressing questions of current intensity duration and apparatus design. By proposing improved arrangements for galvanic pairs and acid distribution Hare advanced both the efficiency and reproducibility of electrochemical experiments. His work is a notable contribution to early electrochemistry and a scarce instance of American innovation being recognized within the transatlantic development of electrical science in the 1830s. Robert Hare 1781–1858 professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania was one of the foremost American chemists of the early nineteenth century. Best known for inventing the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe he also made enduring contributions to electrical instrumentation and chemical education. His extensive writings in the American Journal of Science and Arts helped disseminate scientific methods and apparatus design at a time when American chemistry was still striving for international stature. Very scarce in its original printed wrappers with other important contributions including two additional articles by Hare: “Description of an Electrical Machine … and some Observations on the Causes of the Diversity in the Length of the Sparks erroneously distinguished by the terms Positive and Negative” pp. 272–280 and “Of an Improved Barometer Gage Eudiometer” pp. 280–285. Also included: “Observations upon certain Atmospherical and Optical Phenomena” by Benjamin Silliman “A Natural System of Botany” by John Lindley “Description of the model of an Electro-Magnetic Engine” by John B. Zabriskie “Notice of a New Mineral Species” by James Dwight Dana “Remarks on the supposed connexion of the Gulf Stream with opposite currents” by Samuel Augustus Mitchell “On the use of the Dynamic Multiplier” by James Dwight Dana and “Description of the Skull of the Guadeloupe Fossil Man” by Louis Agassiz. This copy kept by Charles Jones Wister 1782–1865 Philadelphia-born horticulturalist friend to Thomas Nuttall amateur scientist and American Philosophical Society member. unknown
1999ref. 10065New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 1999. First Edition. Fine. Bethany Tudor. Quarto 559 pages; number 43 of 50 copies signed by Tasha Tudor the authors and all the contributors to the book. Publisher's full green goatskin binding; 16 pages of color photos of Ms. Tudor's book covers. A lovely as new copy. Oak Knoll Press unknown
1999ref. 10065New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 1999. First Edition. Fine. Bethany Tudor. Quarto 559 pages; number 43 of 50 copies signed by Tasha Tudor the authors and all the contributors to the book. Publisher's full green goatskin binding; 16 pages of color photos of Ms. Tudor's book covers. A lovely as new copy. Oak Knoll Press unknown books
1837ref. 052447Taylor and Walton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 3rd edition revised. Hardcover. Hardcover 5 volume set. Beautiful matching brown full leather boards with gold ruling. Edge wear light soil scuffing and sunning to boards. Title labels on spines between raised bands. Marbleized fore edges and endpapers. Blank endpapers frontis and title pages of first three volumes more noticeably foxed. Only occasional foxing to text. Volumes 1-3 cover the History of Rome. Volumes 4-5 are the lectures of B. G. Niebuhr covering The History of Rome From The First Punic War To The Death Of Constantine. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . 1837-1844. Taylor and Walton hardcover
ref. Bloomsbury-9781350005440Bloomsbury Academic. Hardback. New. 264 pages Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
ref. Bloomsbury-9781350005440Bloomsbury Academic. Hardback. New. 264 pages Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
2002ref. x-0415941571Routledge 2002. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1895ref. 639M5London: George Allen 1895. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". Unnamed. A pleasing copy of this charming collection of biographical sketches by the English writer and raconteur Augustus J. C. Hare; signed by the author and presented to Agnes Maxwell-Lyte. A first edition copy. Copiously illustrated throughout with black and white in-text illustrations and collated complete with seven plates each with a protective tissue guard. With contemporary author's advertisements to the rear of the text. Featuring the following ink inscription by the author to the front free-endpaper: 'Agnes Maxwell-Lyte from her life long friend the Author Augustus J. C. Hare signed Christmas at Holmhurst 1902'. Agnes Maxwell-Lyte was the oldest daughter of Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte; the renowned English historian and archivist who served as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records from 1886 to 1926. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Externally excellent with slight bumping to extremities and the odd small faint mark to boards. Bumping to head and tail of spine resulting in small splits to cloth. Author's ink inscription to front free-endpaper dated '1902'. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but very bright and clean with only the odd light spot and handling mark to the occasional page. Very Good Indeed George Allen hardcover
2016ref. x-1138920827Routledge 2016. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
2020ref. x-1138715336Chapman & Hall 2020. Hardcover. New. 2nd new edition. 400 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. Chapman & Hall hardcover
2021ref. x-0367482614Routledge 2021. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.96 inches. Routledge hardcover
1711ref. 937Q7London: A. Baldwin 1711 . First edition. Hardback. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. The first edition of two letters written to "a Tory-Member" concerning the management of the War of the Spanish Succession. The first edition. Bound in paper covered boards with renewed endpapers. Comprised of 'The Management Of War. In a Letter To A Tory-Member' and 'The Management Of War. In a Second Letter To A Tory-Member' bound together. These two letters were published one week apart with a note to the rear of the first letter stating "N. B. The Second Letter will be published next Saturday.". Written anonymously by English churchman and classical scholar Francis Hare.A series of letters published surrounding the War of the Spanish Succession in which Francis Hare defended this military endeavour providing support for the war and for the Duke of Marlborough with particular reference to the Flanders campaign. Commencing in 1702 the War of Spanish Succession was starting to lose traction in Britain by 1711 leading to the publication of a number of pamphlets by Hare in support of the war. Bound with the half title. With a number of ink annotations including one reading 'member of parliament in soho square London 1710'. Bound in paper covered boards with renewed endpapers. Externally smart with light cracking to joints and a little chipping to backstrip. Front board tenderly held. Scattered spots to the fore edge. Ink annotations to half title and to the verso of p39. Internally binding is a little strained to the first few pages otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with the odd mark. Good A. Baldwin hardcover
1896ref. 792A33London: George Allen 1896-1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5" . Not Stated . A first edition of Augustus Hare's autobiography complete in six volumes. A collection complete in six volumes of this extensive autobiographical work by Augustus Hare. The first edition published between 1896 and 1900. Hare was an English author and raconteur; in his autobiography he expresses the hardships of being an adopted child and the devotion to his adoptive mother Maria as well as a great sorrow concerning his home education at Buckwell Place. A majority of his work includes the biographies of members and connections of his family and descriptive and historical accounts of various countries and cities.This extensive work tells of the author's life from a personal perspective with particular focus on his childhood his time in Oxford and abroad and his home life and relationship with his mother. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume and illustrations in text throughout as well as thirty full page plates. Collated complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities minor chipping to the head of the spine of vol. II and minor marking to the odd volume. Minor cockling to the spine of vol. IV and VI. Internally firmly bound. With a light minor foxing affecting the first and last few leaves particularly otherwise the pages are generally very clean throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece and illustrations in text throughout to each volume as well as thirty full page plates. Collated complete. Very Good George Allen hardcover
1939ref. PEEPSHOW000222New York World's Fair. 1939. First edition. 12.7 x 16.4 cm. Six-panel peep show including the front and rear boards which opens out concertina-style to show the Grand Concourse from the 1939 New York World's Fair. The front panel depicts George Washington looking into the die-cut peephole.Very near fine. Lacks the original mailing envelope. New York World's Fair. hardcover
1828ref. 21756MEDPhiladelphia PA: J. G. Auner/Carey Lea & Carey 1828. 310pp. Original full-leather covers w/ gilt title on black leather spine label. Binding moderately soiled and scuffed. Pencil notes to endpapers. Previous bookseller's small label to top corner of front paste-down. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper; owner's initials on title page. Light foxing throughout. Illust. w/ b/w figures. Overall still a sturdy copy. Hard Cover. Good or Better/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. G. Auner/Carey, Lea & Carey Hardcover
2024ref. x-3031109732Palgrave Macmillan 2024. Paperback. New. 775 pages. 9.26x6.11x1.55 inches. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
2023ref. x-3031109708Palgrave Macmillan 2023. Hardcover. New. 775 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.63 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
1902ref. BOOKS341523New York NY: Thomas Whittaker. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. circa 1902. Revised and Englarged. Hardcover. 2-in-1 written in English and Dakota Language . 24mo. 412pp. cover light shelf wear to edges and corners corners and spine tips lightly bumped dark small stain to rear cover and spine small light stain spots to front cover otherwise quite good; front and rear pastedowns and free-endpapers lightly stained very few very light spots to first and last three pages of text block otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Thomas Whittaker hardcover
1930ref. 198034Gaylordsville Connecticut: Slide Mountain Press 1930. Edition 309/450 signed by author and artist. Hardcover. Good Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/foxed; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/foxed; interior is lightly toned with occasional foxing; binding is solid. Esherick Wharton. Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine; 104 pp. untrimmed; richly illustrated. Illustrations are black and white woodcuts by Wharton Esherick. Slide Mountain Press hardcover books
1854ref. 316226London: Thomas Bosworth 1854. 216 2pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth front hinge split. 216 2pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title-page; "From the Author." Dickens who was also interested in mesmerism dedicated Great Expectations to Townshend and gave him the maunuscript. Townshend desicated his volume of poetry The Three Gates to Dickens. This is his second book on mesmerism andrare. Thomas Bosworth unknown
1854ref. 316226London: Thomas Bosworth 1854. 216 2pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth front hinge split. 216 2pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title-page; "From the Author." Dickens who was also interested in mesmerism dedicated Great Expectations to Townshend and gave him the maunuscript. Townshend desicated his volume of poetry The Three Gates to Dickens. This is his second book on mesmerism andrare. Thomas Bosworth unknown books
