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1982ref. NB2596New vintage condition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperback
ref. 33312Dunod, collection "Finance et economie appliquee" n.42, 1972. Format 16x24 cm, cartonnage sous jaquette illustree, 558 pages. Jaquette abimee, livre intact mais provenant d'une bibliotheque, avec cachets. Bon etat, petites traces d'usage sur un livre d'occasion.
1924ref. AUB-7408Paris, le Divan 1924. Bel exemplaire broché, non ébarbé, in-8 no 11/30 sur pur fil Lafuma, 77 pages.
1956Above-average but not excessive wear externally. Binding intact. Prior owner' name and small bookshop stamp upon front endpaper. Prior owner's name atop title page and foreward. No other markings. Sound copy. Book
1961A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear to dust jacket. 5 1/2"w x 6 7/8"h. Fourth printing. 64 pages. Color illustrations by Margaret Tempest.
1952Prior owner's name and date (1952) on back of front free endpaper else unmarked. Average wear. Modest openings at each end of backstrip. Binding sound. Decent first edition copy. Book
197563 pages. The 31st and last of Alison Uttley's Little Grey Rabbit books. Binding sound. Faint bit of child's writing upon decorated front endpaper. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. No other markings. Quarter inch chip from bottom of back strip. Overall a quality copy in glossy blue illustrated boards. Book
1965Very fresh in appearance with slight wear overall. Prior owner's name neatly atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket price-clipped. A remarkably well-preserved copy from the first printing. Book
1961A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear and tears to dust jacket. 5 1/2"w x 6 7/8"h. Fourth printing. 64 pages. Color illustrations by Margaret Tempest.
1931107 pages. A very rare first printing copy of this early title from Alison Uttley's beloved Little Grey Rabbit Series. Top half-inch of backstrip missing. Openings of up to one inch at each end of remaining backstrip. Moderate wear externally with bright colour illustration upon front board. Hinges intact. Contemporary Mora Road Infants' School prize-winner's bookplate upon front free endpaper else contents unmarked with light wear and soiling. Minimal foxing to endpapers. Slight lean to spine. Hairline openings to binding at first blank leaf and pages 32, 64, 80 and 97. Overall a quality copy. Book
1929First printing of Alison Uttley's first book - the first title in the Little Grey Rabbit Series. Hinges intact. Somewhat above-average wear externally. We presume backstrip is missing as prior owner has neatly covered spine with tape which closely matches boards in colour. Few minor pencil marks mostly erased from endpapers. Several minor perforations to front free endpaper, first blank leaf, and half-title page, as if by a kitten's tiny claws. Corresponding indentations to title page and following page. One inch chip from lower corner of page 19. Half-inch tear to top edge of page 56. Two small chips from lower corner of page 107. Two-inch tear to lower fore-edge of back free endpaper. Book
ref. 1868100154.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1876ref. 002303London : MacMillan 1876 Bound in dark blue Morocco leather with gilt double borders elaborate gilt spines with five raised bands red spine label aeg 576 pp. An unread copy with light foxing to the end papers spine rubbed at high points and spine gilt somewhat faded. MacMillan hardcover
ref. 6366993-nnew. unknown
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2003ref. x-1592246516Wildside Pr 2003. Hardcover. New. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Wildside Pr hardcover
ref. L3 box81 b1The Book of the Gradual Sayings Anguttara-Nikaya or More - Numbered Suttas Complete Five Volumes. Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 22 24 25 26 27. Translated by F. L. Woodward Volumes 1 2 5 E. M. Hare Volumes 3 4. With an Introduction by Rhys Davids. Published by The Pali Text Society; Distributed by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Volumes 1 2 3 4 Luzac & co. Ltd. Volume 5. Hardcover. The Pali Text Society hardcover
1841ref. 21251Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1841. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First American Edition. x 2 1-539 pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and blindstamped decorations on the front and rear panels. A bright copy with some fraying at the top of the spine panel and light foxing throughout. With the ownership signature of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch son of the better known mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch on the title page and dated 1842. Cloth. Nathaniel I. Bowditch was Vice President of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1856-1862. Townshend was a skeptic later a supporter of animal magnetism. The first edition was London 1840 with the title "Facts in Mesmerism With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into it" and went through a number of editions. Robert H. Collyer has added an appendix "Report of the Boston Committee on Animal Magnetism as Exhibited by Dr. Robert H. Collyer" to this edition "First American Edition" as stated on the title page There was also a Harper and Brothers edition in 1841 with a page count of 388 pages. Nicely represented in institutional collections but less commonly found in the trade. Charles C. Little and James Brown unknown books
1856ref. 15849New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1856. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Some rubbing fraying of extremities endpapers browned text browned in margins else a good copy. With booklabels of "From Plummer's Cheap Bookstore Davenport Iowa" and "Baldwin's Original Antiquarian Cheap Book Store 199 East Madison St. Chicago" on endpapers also bookplate of Russel van Arsdale Lee. 1 vols. 8vo. Testimony into the validity of mesmerism with chapters devoted to writing of the "causes that have made mesmerism unpopular" on the Mesmeric consciousness and Mesmeric sensation as well as the Mesmeric Medium. A very interesting look into this subject. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
1851ref. 16970London: Chapman and Hall 1851. First Edition. Full leather. Near fine. From the personal library of Charles Dickens the first edition of Sermons in Sonnets by Chauncy Hare Townshend. Octavo vii 323pp. Finely bound in full red morocco gilt trim along borders gilt turn-ins and gilt edges. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine. Bindery's imprint "Chapman & Hall 186 Strand" at top of front endpaper. Solid text block light wear to corners and hinges. Faint toning to endpapers a near fine copy. Includes a bookplate belonging to Charles Dickens affixed to front endpaper with a lion facing left. Another bookplate from the estate sale of Charles Dickens with the notation: "Gadshill Place June 1870." Gad's Hill Place in Higham Kent was Dickens' home from 1857 until his passing on June 9 1870. The contents of the library at Gad's Hill were hand-written by Carles Dickens Jr. who inherited the library upon his father's passing. This copy is found in the Dickens Jr. catalogue Henry Sotheran's catalogue c. 1871 and the Stonehouse catalogue 1878 1935. In addition to writing and painting Chauncy Hare Townshend 1798-1868 studied mesmerism throughout the 1830s. He succeeded Dr. John Elliotson as the chief British exponent of mesmerism. Elliotson introduced Townshend to Charles Dickens and the pair bonded over their mutual interests in hypnotic arts and writing. They remained lifelong friends. Townshend's 1859 poetry book The Three Gates was dedicated to Dickens and in return Dickens dedicated Great Expectations 1861 to Townshend. One of the Sonnets in this volume is addressed "To the Author of Oliver Twist etc. Chapman and Hall unknown 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 books
1844ref. 459687London: Hippolyte Bailliere 1844. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Revised and Enlarged. Tall octavo. 390pp ads. Green cloth gilt. Two owner's names including "E.M. Simms London NW 1865" and the stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the front fly corners a little bumped and rubbed else near fine. Hippolyte Bailliere hardcover books
2026ref. LRB95440Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 539 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1841. This modern reproduction of Facts in mesmerism or animal magnetism: with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it by Townshend Chauncy Hare 1798-1868.; Harry Houdini Collection Library of Congress makes an old or rare text available for consultation bibliographic research and specialized collections. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026ref. LRB36032781Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 598 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1840. Text in English. This work presents a detailed examination of mesmerism a controversial practice in the 19th century. The author Chauncy Hare Townshend approaches the subject with a scientific and dispassionate perspective analyzing the claims and evidence surrounding mesmerism. The book is a valuable resource for historians of science and medicine as well as those interested in the cultural and intellectual history of the period. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
ref. 1025233840.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
