1963réf. 1404449New York: Barnes & Noble 1963. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo ix 396 pages. In Good minus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is black with pink print. Dust jacket lacks spine front and rear panels laid in edge wear toning. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and pink paper to boards; wear to spine caps and corners tattering to spine head. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404449. FP New Rockville Stock. Barnes & Noble hardcover books
1949réf. 41820London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1949. Third edition "revised and much enlarged" 4to pp. xvi 1230; text printed in double columns; original blue cloth a bit soiled gilt-lettered spine top edge blue; binding quite shaken joints weak contemporary pencil gift inscription on ffep else interior mostly very good. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd unknown books
1924réf. 52250Paris: Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion 1924. First edition of Partridge's second book 8vo pp. x 11-260; contemporary quarter maroon diced russia over green cloth-covered boards spine ends chipped joints starting; good copy. Original wrappers not preserved. Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion unknown books
1933réf. 45070London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1933. First edition 8vo pp. x 230; original cloth in light blue decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in two shades of blue; jacket spine toned edges a bit worn very shallow loss at spine head not affecting text; interior fine. One leaf of publisher's ads printed in red and black on recto and verso laid in. Methuen & Co. Ltd unknown books
1910réf. 160569Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1910. Hardcover. An edition in very good condition. Volume is tightly bound and free of marks on the inside save a previous owner's signature on front endpage. The spine is slightly cocked and the upper corner of tge cover has a small bend; Written by E. Phillips Oppenheim under the pseudonym Anthony Partridge. Basis for the 1921 silent film Pilgrims of the Night ; B&W; 8vo; 323 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1910réf. 160568Boston: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. An edition in near fine condition housed in dust-jacket of very good condition. No blemishes to interior. Dust-jacket shows typical wear. ; Written by E. Phillips Oppenheim under the pseudonym Anthony Partridge. Basis for the 1921 silent film Pilgrims of the Night ; B&W; 8vo; 323 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1910réf. 160551Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1910. Hardcover. An edition in very good condition. Volume is tightly bound and free of marks on the inside. The cover shows shelf wear and the spine is slightly cocked; Written by E. Phillips Oppenheim under the pseudonym Anthony Partridge. Basis for the 1921 silent film Pilgrims of the Night ; B&W; 8vo; 323 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1911réf. 160563Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1911. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition first printing in very good condition. There is gilt lettering on the cover and a small amount of fading to the spine which is slightly cocked; E. Phillips Oppenheim writing under pseudonym ; B&W; 8vo; 339 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1909réf. 160550Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1909. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition first printing in very good condition with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. THe spine is cocked and a little loose; Written by E. Phillips Oppenheim under the pseudonym Anthony Partridge. Also published as The Black Watcher ; 8vo; 329 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1932réf. 40587London: Longmans Green and Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1932. Cloth. Dust-jacket yellow and red with red lettering. Dust-jacket is scuffed with some edgewear two small chips; Story of the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the American Revolution and his decisions that were conclusive to the American victory; 8vo; 301 pages . Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover books
1906réf. 143536New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1906. Hardcover. VG- interior/very solid covers but with a small red stain on edge of front cover fruit punch and scuffing to back cover. Cream cloth over boards; Art Nouveau decoration and black lettering. 62 pp. with small bw illustrations. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Baker. Illustrations by Victor Perard. Charming story of a sculptor and his pupil in Tsarist Russia/Siberia. Funk & Wagnalls Company hardcover books
1954réf. 59252London: Faber & Faber 1954. Second impression 12mo pp. 107 1; text illustrations; blue publisher's cloth; corners bumped a little cocked very good. Inscribed by Partridge to "Sir Michael Ralcon with the author's admiration and compliments. Faber & Faber unknown books
1895réf. 143535Boston: Roberts Brothers 1895. Second. Hardcover. VG- interior but with sunning to spine and a small red stain to back cover. Spring green cloth over boards; gilt lettering and design. TEG. 192 pp. with no illustrations. Inscribed by Partridge on FEP. Contents include The True Education and the False; An American School of Sculpture; The Outlook for Sculpture in America; Manhood in Art; The Relation of the Drama to Education; and Goethe as a Dramatist. Partridge was a friend of both Rodin and Bouguereau having been born in Paris. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1976réf. 52411London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1976. Second edition "with a few corrections and addtions" 8vo pp. ix 1 204; pictorial paper wrappers light shelf wear to jacket edges top edge spotted near fine in an added protective plastic jacket. Inscribed by Partridge to his friends "Alan and Joan" Steele on half title. Routledge and Kegan Paul unknown books
1944réf. 2341429Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Endpapers a bit toned otherwise an exceptional copy. 1944 Hard Cover. 266 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and seven photographic plates. Includes: Preface - Dexter Perkins; Editor's Introduction; A History of Rochester's Part in the Civil War - Ruth Marsh; Civil War Letters of Samuel S. Partridge of the "Rochester Regiment"; George Breck's Civil War Letters from the "Reynolds Battery"; Civil War Letters of Francis Edwin Pierce of the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry; August Seiser's Civil War Diary or Short Sketches of Campaigns with the Potomac Army; Porter Farley's Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; List of Rochester Historical Society Members; Index. Rochester Historical Society hardcover books
1944réf. 2341465Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Ink name and date on front endpaper endpapers toned. 1944 Hard Cover. 266 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and seven photographic plates. Includes: Preface - Dexter Perkins; Editor's Introduction; A History of Rochester's Part in the Civil War - Ruth Marsh; Civil War Letters of Samuel S. Partridge of the "Rochester Regiment"; George Breck's Civil War Letters from the "Reynolds Battery"; Civil War Letters of Francis Edwin Pierce of the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry; August Seiser's Civil War Diary or Short Sketches of Campaigns with the Potomac Army; Porter Farley's Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; List of Rochester Historical Society Members; Index. Rochester Historical Society hardcover books
1970réf. 52711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1970. First printing. Very good in very good plus jacket. First US edition of this collection of "five magnificent narratives" by the influential Cuban writer. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cornflower blue cloth blind-stamping to front and rear boards gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped $4.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Machine-deckle fore-edge and bottom-edge. Yellow topstain. 10 182. Jacket with light edgewear couple tiny closed tears at bottom edge. Book with some rubbing and marginal toning to boards touch of foxing to endpapers front board slightly bowed. Interior fresh tight. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1955réf. 60273London: Faber and Faber 1955. Third impression. 12mo 19cm. Blue cloth in salmon dust jacket; 1071pp; black and white illustrations by V. H. Drummond. Inscribed by Partridge to Denys and Joane Kelsey on front free endpaper. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Lightly rubbed Very Good or better. Jacket lightly dusty and rubbed with neat cellotape repairs to verso at head and jacket flaps: Very Good. Inscribed by the author who also made ink corrections to the text on the front jacket flap and to the advertisement opposite the title page. Faber and Faber unknown books
1419réf. 021745Washington DC 14 November 1927. Letter. Normal crease from mailing. Fine. A two-page SIGNED letter on Cosmos Club stationery to Greeley excusing his absence at a dinner and explaining his stomach troubles. Partridge was an American sculptor teacher and author. Among his best-known works are the Shakespeare Monument in Chicago the equestrian statue of General Grant in Brooklyn the Pietà at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan and the Pocahontas statue in Jamestown Virginia. unknown books
1963réf. 56852NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1963. First Edition second printing. Signed presentation from Partridge on two front pages: "For the Fields children Mike John and Susie with our best wishes. Ben Partridge." The also signed by Cheney: "and Cora Cheney." On the opposite page Partidge put the information to his asterisk: ":children of the best up-hill down-hill taxi driver on Yang Ming Shan!" The Fields children's father was Capt. Leonard Field who served in the military on Taiwan with Partridge. Uncommon to find signed copies of this title. 8vo. pictorial boards; 111 pages. Illustrated by Paul Galdone. Very Good minor wear covers; contents clean & tight little bumping top corner text. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
2013réf. 398052013. ISBN-13: 9781584774440; ISBN-10: 1584774444. Partridge Eric Compiler. A Dictionary of the Underworld British and American. Being the Vocabularies of Crooks Criminals Racketeers Beggars and Tramps Convicts the Commercial Underworld the Drug Traffic the White Slave Traffic Spivs. Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company 1950. xv 804 pp. Reprinted 2004 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774440. ISBN-10: 1584774444. Hardcover. New. $85. Reprint of the second edition. Thoroughly engrossing A Dictionary of the Underworld offers definitions for such obscure terms and phrases as "witch-hazel man" heroin addict "eason" to tell and "budge a beak" run away. "Once in about every generation a book is published which dominates its field. Such a book is Partridge's Dictionary of the Underworld which is not only the first extensive work on the underworld to appear in the twentieth century but also the largest in the English language. . It is truly a monumental work so monumental that scholars may well be disturbed by its aura of substantiality for it will undoubtedly be cited and quoted or years to come." --David W. Maurer American Speech Vol. 26 No. 1 February 1951 38. One of the great lexicographers of the twentieth century ERIC PARTRIDGE 1894-1979 had a keen interest in slang and unconventional English. He wrote over forty books on the English language and compiled the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Shakespeare's Bawdy and A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Corrie Denison. unknown books
1981réf. 613836Boston: Little Brown and Company 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 244pp. Soiling to the upper spine and small spot at the top of the front panel a few splash marks to the text block and moderate rubbing to the top of the front panel very good lacking the dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and author photo laid in. Inscribed by the author to fine press publisher George Bixby. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2003réf. 51170San Francisco: California Historical Society Press; Heyday Books 2003. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very good . SIGNED. 143pp. Quarto 28 cm Black and white photographically illustrated wraps. The wraps show light edge wear. Signed by the photographer Rondal Partridge on the half title page. California Historical Society Press; Heyday Books paperback books
1985réf. vita9800DeLeon Springs Florida: E. O. Painter Printing Company 1985. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters xviii 149 pp. Fine in a Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Years of research came to fruition in this book a genealogy-history with biographical sketches for the first time of Nathaniel Partridge and his descendants. The odyssey begins in the early seventeenth century with the original progenitor emigrating from England to the prosperous plantation-type English colony of Barbados West Indies. The adventure story continued. By the eighteenth century his descendant sails 1500 miles from Barbados to Charles Town S.C. As Provost Marshal of the Admiralty for the Province of South Carolina Nathaniel Partridge in a series of encounters meets the infamous Stede Bonnet “gentleman pirate” of coastal America. John Nathaniel Partridge the early nineteenth century decendant pioneers in territorial Florida and as a delegate signs Florida’s first Constitution in 1839. His son Henry Edward Partridge an ordained minister served sixty-five years in the itenineracy of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Church. Excerpts from his 1867-1895 Diary relate his ministry mirror a typical life-style of that era and describe his travels. “Another Family With English Roots” a short chapter includes reserach of the William Strangward Family of Nassington “Northamps” Northamptonshire England and their American descendants. E. O. Painter Printing Company, (1985). hardcover books
1965réf. 52263London: Andre Deutsch 1965. First printing of the "revised and rewritten" edition 8vo pp. 239 1; 21 illustrations primarily from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in original orange cloth pictorial dust jacket with faded spine. This copy inscribed by Partridge "Dear John reminiscently less regenerate days - Eric 25 October 1965." John is likely John W. Clark Partridge's sometimes collaborator and professor at the University of Minneaota. Originally published as The Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-18 in 1930. Andre Deutsch unknown books
