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1903Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
1938Milano, Editrice Giochi, 1938, tavola in legno di cm 26 x 38 x 0,5 con griglia in plastica che consente l'inserimento di una scheda prestampata di 24 x 35 cm. Attraverso apposite aperture e bottoni ed un ingegnoso sistema che prevede l'utilizzo di schede prestampate, è possibile giocare in solitario una partita di bridge. "Per i principianti è un efficacissimo e silenzioso maestro e per i giocatori esperti un ideale e pratico mezzo per migliorare il proprio sistema di dichiarazione e la propria condotta di gioco. Unita busta di "Esercitazioni pratiche del gioco del ponte". Serie per giocatori esperti. Gruppo "A" contenente 24 schede prestampate. Busta ancora sigillata. Ed altra busta "Esercitazioni pratiche del gioco del ponte". Serie per giocatori esperti. Gruppo "B" con 24 schede prestampate. Busta ancora sigillata. Dotazione di ogni scatola di "Autobridge" con : a) Un foglio con le istruzioni "Come si gioca all'autobridge". b9 4 schede prestampate (su 8, 4 sono mancanti) ed una plaquette di 4 pp. con la presentazione del gioco e la spiegazione delle otto partite raffigurate sulle schede. c) 2 locandine pubblicitarie. d) cedola postale per ordinare altre schede. TUTTO ALLO STATO DI NUOVO.
1916Best.-Nr. 2210162Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. 1916. 1st Edition . Flexible leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Original flexible leather handbook produced by theVirginia Bridge & Iron Company. Brown leather exterior with gilt to front and spine. Exterior shows edge and corner chips/wear and chipping is also present at top and bottom of spine. Interior binding is good no hinge issues nothing torn or loose. Previous owners name is written on front pastedown and it was also found two more times on interior pages where it was written along the top edge. The blank pages in the back along with the graph paper pages are all handwriting free. Only handwriting found in book were the three signatures in the number 238 written along the page edge of the copyright page. This is the first edition which shows no copyright or print date other than the serial designation of 9-16 September 1916. This is an extremely rare publication with only a few third editions surviving this one being the first. Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. hardcover
2024Best.-Nr. __0192882422Oxford Univ Pr 2024. Hardcover. New. 5th edition. 952 pages. 9.84x7.09x2.48 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
1847Best.-Nr. 48629[London, Eyre and Spottiswoode], 1847. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary blue cardboard. With title label pasted on to spine. Bound with patents: 11701-25. 22 pp. + large folded plate.
1847Best.-Nr. 48629London Eyre and Spottiswoode 1847. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary blue cardboard. With title label pasted on to spine. Bound with patents: 11701-25. 22 pp. large folded plate. Scarce original printed patent for the first fishplate often also referred to as a splice bar or joint bar a metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track. It was put into use as early as 1844 but not patented until 1847.Dissatisfied with the scarf joints then in use for joining iron track he invented the firstrailway fishplate in the form of an unbolted wedge between adjoining chairs in collaboration with Robert Richardson a junior engineer under Peter Bruff on the Eastern Counties Railway. unknown
1828Best.-Nr. 2111902160201307Itamoto's seal is also unknown 1828. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Itamoto's seal is also unknown paperback
2001Best.-Nr. DADAX0415273706Routledge 2001-09-20. hardcover. New. 8.80x5.54x1.58. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
19998vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, gold silk marker, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The true UK first edition, with striking 'Juggling' wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Andy Bridge and issued as a promotional release before the standard trade edition with the usual 'Staircase' artwork. Some copies were released with a boxed set of Single and Single juggling balls, but these are not present here. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
2026Best.-Nr. x-0198959095Oxford University Press 2026. Hardcover. New. 5th edition. 954 pages. 6.89x2.22x9.92 inches. Oxford University Press hardcover
1845Best.-Nr. 157495New York Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition second issue. Small thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine. Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book1837. With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Wiley and Putnam, hardcover
1845Best.-Nr. 157495New York Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition second issue. Small thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine. Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book1837. With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Wiley and Putnam, hardcover books
1853Best.-Nr. 319176New York: George P. Putnam 1853. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth spine taped down. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1 George P. Putnam unknown
1853Best.-Nr. 319176New York: George P. Putnam 1853. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth spine taped down. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1 George P. Putnam unknown books
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780826462176Sheffield Academic Press. Hardback. New. 208 pages Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780826462176Sheffield Academic Press. Hardback. New. 208 pages Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26802Mainly from London and Westminster. Dating from between 1855 and 1907. The notable London firm of P. S. King & Son 'Publishers Parliamentary and General Booksellers Bookbinders and Printers' was in existence for more than a hundred years having been established according to its own account in Parliament Street in 1819 and still active until 1941 when it became P. S. King and Staples under which name it traded for around six years. An advertisement for the Staples Press Limited in The Times 14 February 1946 lists among incorporated companies: 'P. S. King and Staples Limited Publishers Parliamentary and General Booksellers Publishers to the London. County. Council. and Iinterational. Labour. Organisation. Printing and Bookbinding Westminster. Founded 1819.' The present collection mainly consisting of correspondence addressed to the founder Philip Stephen King himself is in fair condition aged and with occasional damp staining affecting in particular half a dozen items. Among the 36 items in the collection are signed autograph letters and notes almost all in 12mo from 26 individuals among them: Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley: on letterhead of Hams Hall Minworth Birmingham no date; 'H. B.': on letterhead of the House of Commons Library 7 January 1881; Edward Baines: 32 St Mary's Road Canonbury 25 January 1860; John Aloysius Blake MP for Waterford: Waterford 14 October 1859 listing addresses and making an addition for an entry in a biographical publication; Thomas F. Brady: on letterhead of the Office of Irish Fisheries 12 April 1873; Sir Edward Cholmley Dering: Pluckley 5 September no year 'I have left orders for my journals and Parliamentary papers to be packed and sent to you: Try and sell the former and if not I suppose you must take them as waste at 25/ per cwt but as they are complete I shall hope you will be able to dispose of them to advantage'; T. de Cavalier de Cuverville 'Capitaine de Vaisseau Commandant le Trident': calling card with autograph note in French addressed from Brest 29 December 1880; Charles Louis Léon Dufresne de la Chauvinière French Naval Attache: postcard in English from 12 Wilton Place postmarked 27 January 1881; Ashurst Turner Gilbert 'A. T. Circestr' Bishop of Chichester: Palace Chichester 4 February 1856; H. S. Hallett of the Society of Arts 102 Park Street Grosvenor Square 20 January 1887 'I have been asked to treat the same subject as the Address you have printed for the Society of Arts so I hardly know whether it is worth while to keep any of the "Addresses" After it is delivered the resolutions passed and perhaps a few press notices might be added so I should be obliged if you will not at present break up the type as we might require further copies. Of course I have not the slightest objection to your printing for you own use or sale any copies you might wish for.'; Agnes R. Hawksley: two from Lingholt Grayshott Haslemere one on letterhead 10 and 13 April 1904 from the former: 'Thank you so much for the autograph of the Duke of Wellington . I also send a letter I have of Conan Doyle's with pleasure'; <John> Healy: on letterhead of the House of Commons Library; Bolton King: on letterhead of Gaydon Warwick 9 October 1902; William Knight Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St Andrews: on letterhead of the Castle House St Andrew Scotland 20 October 1902 'If you have two by Dr. Chalmers I would ask the favour not for myself but for the University of St Andrews to have one of them framed under his portrait in the classroom where he lectured; and in exchange for it you might have a letter of some eminent man'; J. A. Langford: on letterhead of Birmingham Morning News 27 June 1872; T. Latimer: on letterhead of 143 Fore Street Exeter 3 June 1886 'You by your pen are doing the best for England - as a good King might be expected to do. I hope that we shall soon be out of this element of bitterness. It is shocking to hear liberals abusing John Bright for not being true to G.O.M.'; Sir Wilfred Lawson damp-damaged: 1 Grosvenor Crescent 6 April 1896; <Leone Leor>: 12 The College Doctors Commons 8 December 1855; Gerald Loder: on letterhead of 23 Brunswick Terrace Brighton; James Lowther: his signature across stamp as part of receipt by him dated 8 May 1875 on Autograph Note by King on his letterhead 'P. S. King from Parliament St. Depot for sale of Parliamentary Papers and Acts of Parliament' Canadian Government Building King Street Westminster 7 May 1875; E. G. McKenzie: on Admiralty letterhead 31 December 1880; T. T. Beaty-Pownall on Lord Knollys's behalf: on Buckingham Palace letterhead 31 July 1907 damp damaged; R. Addison Smith: on letterhead of the Scottish Conservative Club Edinburgh 4pp. 12mo beginning by discussing 'the so called faggots in todays "Scotsman"'. Also 3 Typed Letters Signed from Lord Knollys on letterheads of Windsor Castle Sandringham and H.M. Yacht Victoria and Albert 1904 and 1907 acknowledging presentations of material to King George V all three damp-damaged. Among the other items is the King's own extraction of the printed 'Autograph and MSS. Section Including the Collection of First Numbers of Newspapers and Magazines etc. of Mr. P. S. King' from the printed catalogue of the Crystal Palace Exhibition pp.128-249 marked up in manuscript and with the pink printed wraps of the catalogue. Heavily damp damaged and with an manuscript letter also damaged signed by Henry Gillman General Manager of the Crystal Palace Company on letterhead 13 November 1897 informing King of the return of his manuscripts to Brighton. On the reverse of Gillman's letter King has transcribed a report of the exhibition of his collection from the Journal of the Society of Archivists and Autograph Collectors August 1897. Mainly from London and Westminster. Dating from between 1855 and 1907. paperback
2025Best.-Nr. x-0198888899OUP Oxford 2025. Hardcover. New. 4th edition. 1136 pages. 9.96x7.00x2.28 inches. OUP Oxford hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. SONG1600223133Rainbow Bridge Publishing 2007-03-01. paperback. Used: Good. 8.50x0.16x10.88. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rainbow Bridge Publishing paperback
1999Best.-Nr. SONG0198764901Oxford University Press 1999-08-12. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.80x1.40x9.80. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
1845Best.-Nr. 306297New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter morocco richly gilt spines raised bands t.e.g by Stikeman. Foxing and staining to text throughout. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1837 and gave the proceeds of this popular work his first to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.b1 Wiley & Putnam unknown
1845Best.-Nr. 306297New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter morocco richly gilt spines raised bands t.e.g by Stikeman. Foxing and staining to text throughout. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1837 and gave the proceeds of this popular work his first to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.b1 Wiley & Putnam unknown books
Best.-Nr. 24523n.p.: n.p. n.d. Hardcover. Near fine. Accordion-type album bound in the Oriental style silk boards. The first double page is in calligraphy: "Words by Jin Zhaojing; Verses of Logou". Then follow six double page lovely ink and color views of the bridge from different viewpoints. Near fine condition. . n.p. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 24523n.p.: n.p. n.d. Hardcover. Near fine. Accordion-type album bound in the Oriental style silk boards. The first double page is in calligraphy: "Words by Jin Zhaojing; Verses of Logou". Then follow six double page lovely ink and color views of the bridge from different viewpoints. Near fine condition. . n.p. hardcover books
1925Best.-Nr. LIST0213New York 1925. Very Good. A large-scale rendering of the plans for the Greenpoint Avenue bridge over Newtown Creek. The bridge connected Greenpoint to the Blissville neighborhood in Queens. The bridge is the sixth in this location. unknown