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1993rif. 374781The Easton Press 1993. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Deluxe genuine fine red leather binding with extra gilt decoration on inside edges. The Harvard Classics Eliot Edition/Millennium Edition. Book is like new very fine. Bookplate on back of flyleaf no name. Binding tight and pages crisp. Gilt staining has no scratches. A wonderful crisp and clean copy of this deluxe edition of this Harvard Classics volume. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. The Easton Press hardcover
1993rif. 346314Easton Press 1993. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Deluxe genuine fine red leather binding with extra gilt decoration on inside edges. The Harvard Classics Eliot Edition/Millennium Edition. Book is like new very fine. No writing names or ownership markings or bookplates. Binding tight and pages crisp. Gilt staining has no scratches. A wonderful crisp and clean copy of this deluxe edition of this Harvard Classics volume. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. Easton Press hardcover
1993rif. 207293Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1993. Eliot Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded bottom and side edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Harvard Classics. Easton Press hardcover
2010rif. x-1616401540Cosimo Classics 2010. Hardcover. New. 478 pages. 8.70x5.90x1.70 inches. Cosimo Classics hardcover
1937rif. 101227New York: P. F. Collier 1937. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Wear to crown and heel. Corners bumped. Toning to pages; The Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. P. F. Collier hardcover
2001rif. 101468Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Millenium Edition. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Edited by Charles W. Eliot.; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Easton Press hardcover
1909rif. 92864New York: P. F. Collier & Son 1909. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Edge wear. Spine sunned.; The Harvard Classics; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. P. F. Collier & Son hardcover
rif. 697401712Cosimo Incorporated . Hardback. New. pp. 478 Cosimo, Incorporated hardcover
rif. 6103997321Cosimo Incorporated . Papeback. New. pp. 474 Cosimo, Incorporated unknown
1861rif. 175255Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1861. Hardcover. Good. Good. Hardcover bookplate former owner's signature pencil markings throughout slightly loose binding pages browned rubbed at spine ends and corners. Ticknor and Fields hardcover books
1861rif. RO60071498Ticknor & Fields, Boston. 1861. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 471 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Ex-libris illustré en noir et blanc (Armoiries, Arthur William Patrick Buchanan, Montreal) encollé au dos du 1er plat. Mors fendus et manques sur les coiffes. Dos légèrement taché. Quelques cahiers se détachant.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
rif. 40094in which he has asked Carlyle a favour he explains that he presumes "you to be a German Scholar and as I am ambitious enough to hope to become one I venture to ask you if you will so far oblige me as to give me a list of the books most likely to facilitate the study of the language. I have an intense desire to understand Goethe & Schiller in their own language." Carlyle has listed a German Grammar and a Dictionary but says "they or almost any two such books that are handiest Lessing's Fabels to attempt reading - push along with energy with constancy keeping your eyes well open." 4 lines by Carlyle on the final sheet of 4 sides 8vo. London 25th October Gotthold Ephraim LESSING 1729-1781 was a German writer philosopher dramatist publicist and art critic and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. unknown
rif. 23157the Night cometh wherein no man can work" London 24th September mounted with a contemporary engraving Carlyle may have been asked by an autograph hunter to provide a signed quotation with the autograph hunter expecting a signed quotation from one of Carlyle's own works. What Carlyle actually provides is among the more ominous and sombre texts from the New Testament a speech in which Jesus suggests he must work now in his ministry since death is near: "the Night cometh when no man can work" John 9:4. Any comment or quotation from religious literature that Carlyle is interesting as his relationship with religion is among the most hotly debated aspects of his life and work. unknown
rif. 605002"Grace Carlyle" in purple fountain pen ink on a vintage tan album leaf. 5" x 4 1/8"; very good; 1923. Scarce! Signed inscribed and dated: "Hollywood Sept - 12 - 1923 - Grand-As-her Studio To my erstwhile daughter from her intrepid mother - with love and greatest admiration Grace Carlyle." Grace Carlyle appeared as Mrs. Trent in the 1924 silent film "By Divine Right" with Jeanne Carpenter. Provenance: from the estate of silent screen child actress Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown
rif. 22677Chelsea 19 February 1862. 1 page 7 x 4 inches in good condition laid down. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 historian. unknown
1836rif. 3467031836. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Old folds wax seal remnants very good. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Carlyle writes to John Sterling 1806-1844 for an account of his - famously poor - health offering the help of his wife and quoting from Goethe. Sterling was a Scottish author. A follower of Coleridge he was entrusted to edit his unpublished theological writings. Carlyle much admired Sterling's anonymously-published novel set during the French Revolution Arthur Coningsby 1832 and first met Sterling in person at John Stuart Mill's office in February 1835. In October 1839 Mill published Sterling's a controversial essay on Carlyle. They carried on a correspondence from the time they met until the end of Sterling's short life. Carlyle and Julius Hare were put in joint care of Sterling's papers and Hare published Essays and Tales in 1848 but Carlyle was upset with how it turned out and published his Life of John Sterling in 1851 using most of their correspondence in a highly edited form ODNB. Henry James Sr. who visited Sterling near the end of his life on the Isle of Wight called him "a perfectly delightful man just the antipodes of Carlyle and the only man Carlyle had any sincere attachment to" Boston Sunday Herald 17 April 1881. The full text of the letter: Chelsea Saturday Morning My dear Sterling - If it will not hurt you to write pray send me a little Bulletin with your own hand. I hear nothing but more or less contradictory accounts the average of which is a vague statu-quo. Your Doctors undoubtedly have done well to seclude you; this I must say tho' I suffer by it like others. If at any hour it become medically permissible for you to be talked to pray send me word. But above all things mein Lieher get fast well again. We miss you terribly; it is many long years since I in particular saw a face like yours. Courage Hoffnung und Ergebung! Die Zukunjt decket - Schmerzen und Gliicke. Dock ungeschrecket - Dringen wir vorwdrts I am to be at your Father's to-night seeking my Wife: the answer to this cannot come by post till Monday. Jane bids me say "If there were anything in the world she could do! She is the most disengaged woman in London at present." I believe the message is sincere to the fullest extent. God bless you and keep you my dear Friend! Yours brüderlich T. Carlyle. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle Vol. 1 London: John Lane 1904 p. 1-2 unknown
1853rif. 0145161853. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter 8" x 9-7/8" addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter. unknown
1836rif. 3467031836. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Old folds wax seal remnants very good. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Carlyle writes to John Sterling 1806-1844 for an account of his - famously poor - health offering the help of his wife and quoting from Goethe. Sterling was a Scottish author. A follower of Coleridge he was entrusted to edit his unpublished theological writings. Carlyle much admired Sterling's anonymously-published novel set during the French Revolution Arthur Coningsby 1832 and first met Sterling in person at John Stuart Mill's office in February 1835. In October 1839 Mill published Sterling's a controversial essay on Carlyle. They carried on a correspondence from the time they met until the end of Sterling's short life. Carlyle and Julius Hare were put in joint care of Sterling's papers and Hare published Essays and Tales in 1848 but Carlyle was upset with how it turned out and published his Life of John Sterling in 1851 using most of their correspondence in a highly edited form ODNB. Henry James Sr. who visited Sterling near the end of his life on the Isle of Wight called him "a perfectly delightful man just the antipodes of Carlyle and the only man Carlyle had any sincere attachment to" Boston Sunday Herald 17 April 1881. The full text of the letter: Chelsea Saturday Morning My dear Sterling - If it will not hurt you to write pray send me a little Bulletin with your own hand. I hear nothing but more or less contradictory accounts the average of which is a vague statu-quo. Your Doctors undoubtedly have done well to seclude you; this I must say tho' I suffer by it like others. If at any hour it become medically permissible for you to be talked to pray send me word. But above all things mein Lieher get fast well again. We miss you terribly; it is many long years since I in particular saw a face like yours. Courage Hoffnung und Ergebung! Die Zukunjt decket - Schmerzen und Gliicke. Dock ungeschrecket - Dringen wir vorwdrts I am to be at your Father's to-night seeking my Wife: the answer to this cannot come by post till Monday. Jane bids me say "If there were anything in the world she could do! She is the most disengaged woman in London at present." I believe the message is sincere to the fullest extent. God bless you and keep you my dear Friend! Yours brüderlich T. Carlyle. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle Vol. 1 London: John Lane 1904 p. 1-2 unknown books
1853rif. 0145161853. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter 8" x 9-7/8" addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter. unknown books
rif. 605002"Grace Carlyle" in purple fountain pen ink on a vintage tan album leaf. 5" x 4 1/8"; very good; 1923. Scarce! Signed inscribed and dated: "Hollywood Sept - 12 - 1923 - Grand-As-her Studio To my erstwhile daughter from her intrepid mother - with love and greatest admiration Grace Carlyle." Grace Carlyle appeared as Mrs. Trent in the 1924 silent film "By Divine Right" with Jeanne Carpenter. Provenance: from the estate of silent screen child actress Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
rif. 1645433080.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 1684017807.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 0526333146.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1900rif. 000165New York: James Pott & Co 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 18mo. Bound in green cloth with decorative gilt boarder on front board with portrait of Carlyle in center. 320 p.p. 1 p.p. ads. Light rubbing on spine with small grey spot on rear board. Some stains on fore-edge. Top edges gilt. In fine condition. An interesting collection of quotes from the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle 1795-1891 with passages for each day in the calendar year. James Pott & Co hardcover
rif. 0332146359.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
