1963ref. 15391New York: The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press 1963. Boards. Near Fine. ix 76 pages. 8vo. Publishers red boards gilt. 33 figures including a large foldout chart tables. A crisp clean copy noting previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Boards. Chapters include Direct Cooling and Maximum Output A Theoretical Analysis of 'Geometric Series' of Large Turbo-Generators The New Problems of Design and Design Study of a Single Shaft 750 MW Turbo-Generator. Volume 18 in the International Series of Monographs on Electronics and Instrumentation. The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press unknown books
1961ref. 335074Oxford: Clarendon 1961. hardcover. near fine. 17 volumes including the 5 supplements. Tall thick 4to gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. some minor edgewear and sunning at foot. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1961. A very good solid set lacking the dust wrappers. The supplements are dated 1972 1976 1984 & 1986. "Being a Corrected Re-Issue with an Introduction Supplement and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society and edited by James A.H. Murray et al." Clarendon unknown books
1882ref. 1393106Epping: Alfred B. Davis 1882. Hardcover. Octavo viii 41 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is blue without print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has intermittent spine breaks. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #3. 1393106. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred B. Davis hardcover books
1890ref. ST16866bCambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons at the University Press ca. 1890. 203 x 133 mm. 8 x 5 3/8". 998 pp. MOST ATTRACTIVE HAZEL BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY STOAKLEY LATE HAWES stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers framed by gilt rules and guilloche tooling central panel with delicately tooled cornerpieces featuring grapevines on a stippled background raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with grapevine motif turn-ins with richly gilt frame leather hinges all edges gilt gutter at front flyleaf expertly reinforced with tissue. With presentation inscription on front flyleaf: "Herbert Gardner Travers / from his Godmother / A. S. Burn / August 1891"; below this the ink-inscribed record of the recipient's marriage and the births of his children. Spine gently and uniformly sunned a shade lighter two hardly noticeable small abrasions to rear cover offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers as almost always but still a fine copy in a remarkably handsome binding with few signs of use. The appealing binding on this treasured family Bible was created in Cambridge by Vere Stoakley who took over the workshop of J. Hawes on that craftsman's death in the late 1880s; he signed his work "Stoakley Late Hawes" to acknowledge this connection. The firm specialized in academic bindings to supply scholars from the university and continued in business until the 1920s. The present binding clearly is much more elaborate and beautiful than a simple scholar's binding and this is because it was a special gift presented to a beloved godson probably for his christening. Recipient Herbert Gardner Travers 1891-1958 grew up to be a decorated World War I flying ace who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his five aerial victories. After the Great War he worked in the airplane industry as a test pilot and flying instructor then became a commercial pilot in 1935. He returned to the Royal Air Force at the outset of World War II and was an acting squadron leader. As recorded on the flyleaf of his Bible he married Hermia Edith Margaretta Fraser in August 1919 and over the next 12 years they welcomed children Daphne 1920 Eva 1921 Elizabeth 1924 Christina 1926 and Edward 1931. Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons at the University Press unknown books
1919ref. CNBR440Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1919. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Gill Eric. Twenty-fourmo size 28 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press founded by Harry Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler flourished at Ditchling Sussex from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable" with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged to William Morris. Pepler endeavored to do everything possible by hand believing that such would both produce the best results and also be a "more individual or 'humane'.product". He therefore "preferred the handpress to the machine handmade to machine-made paper and handset founder's type to the products of typesetting machines." N.b. quotes and information from "Three Private Presses" by Brocard Sewell. Per Taylor and Sewell "The Welfare Handbooks were a series of pamplets mainly concerned with social questions written from a Distributist and Roman Catholic standpoint." This volume contains scriptural passages pertaining to the age-old question of the relative merits of wealth vs. poverty vis-a-vis one's relationship with God. Per the title page "Being extracts from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as translated from the Latin Vulgate by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582." ___DESCRIPTION: Brown wrappers printed in black string-bound with one engraving Gill's "Christ and the Money-Changers" P 152; Caslon O.F. type on Batachelor hand-made paper twenty-fourmo size 5 3/8" by 4 1/4" pagination: i-iv 1 2-24. ___CONDITION: Fine overall the wraps clean except for one small spot on the front wrap and without wear or sunning the string binding strong the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; perhaps a touch of sunning around the spine and the aforementioned small spot else fine. ___CITATION: Taylor and Sewell no. A50; Eric Gill Bibliography no. 270. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. S. Dominic's Press unknown books
1988ref. 25538San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1988. Paperback. 234p. footnotes introductions frontis very good condition first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Stories anecdotes poems. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
1894ref. 007276Private Subscription 1894. Book. Fine. Cloth. TLS Enclosed Signed Also. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.Included is a TLS by English. A friend of Poe. He blame Poe for stealing some of his material.Excellent Copy. Private Subscription Hardcover books
1809ref. List3525New York and likely Connecticut 1809. Three letters 1795 1795 and 1809 totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller 1809 approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at folds and margins intersecting with text very good plus. Overall excellent. Three letters from English immigrants to the United States sent to their cousin “Miss Gifford” in Duffield Derbyshire. The earliest letter from A. Bakewell describes a stroll along the Battery and compares the classes of people in the two countries: “My son Jon’s favorite walk as well as mine is the battery it is a delightful it commands a very fine view of all the ships that come up to this harbour the opposite shores of Long Island Governors Island & Staten Island which are very fertile one very small Island in the water with a number of small boats & barges which are generally sailing is extremely pleasant the Idea that sometime or other I may see the ship arrive which will contain my beloved Husband renders it peculiarly interesting to me . the more I see of this country the more I like it; the lower classes of people are much better informed & from the high price of wages enabled to live more comfortably than in England it is very uncommon to see a beggar here: one very great inconvenience is the badness of servants they are ten thousand times worse than in England . I could get some that is decent here the manner of the ladies here is much more vulgar than the women in England & they were generally very ignorant there are however some exceptions .” February 1795 The writer’s husband is William Bakewell who writes to Miss Gifford in 1809 from what is probably Tolland Connecticut which he renders as “Tolland Ford” reporting on the state of the economy and the 1807 Embargo Act: “I fear the intercourse between this country & England will be stopped for a time . during the continuation of this Embargo which has caused a total stagnation of business . I have since seen Mr Kinder a friend of my Brother’s & who for some time his home being in the country boarded with my Brother’s family in New York. He assures me that with respect to everything he observed there was as much economy as ever compatible with decency & that their table in particular was furnished in a more frugal stile than that of any Merchants he was acquainted with. . I hope to hear from you as frequently as is practicable while the communication is between the two countries for this government will I expect pass a law to stop the intercourse with both England & France until they cease to capture American vessels. . My son Thomas is gone to NYK to wind up his adventure to New Orleans. He had 5000 dollars in silver with him. In the present uncertain state of mercantile affairs it is doubtful whether Mr Kinder will like to make any further adventure.” January 1809 Lastly a 1796 letter from another cousin a sister of “A.” opens by relating her arrival to New York City during an outbreak of yellow fever: “the worst of all was as soon as we missing land which we had so often wish’d to see the Pilot came on Board & told us of the fever being so bad at N York & that every Body that could had left it. I did not know in what situation I should find my Brother & his family or whether I should find them at all but when we came to Anchor a Boy came on board & told us my Brother was at Philadelphia . my sister & Thomas was at long Island just missing the East river. . we staid a fortnight at the enormous expence of 30 Dollars a week for our family we then came to New York the sickness being rather abated we could not get a House or part of one on long Island they being all engag’d at very high prices to people who had fled from New York & for miles round there was not a room to be had. We had thought of going to Albany but there was so many people gone with goods that we suposed the Market was full my Brother was not return’d we at last took this House at a very great rent till May it being a very Healthy situation we came here the following week & have been here ever since.” The yellow fever epidemic hit New York City in 1795 and surged several times prompting the city to finally create a Board of Health in 1805. This is not the author’s only complaint about New York as compared to England: “the Country what I have seen of it is not so pleasant as England there being no hedges all posts & rail fences appears strange to us there are a many very good houses 1 2 & 3 miles round this city which are very pleasant they are built of wood & painted white which looks very pretty & might be made delightful if the inhabitants had any taste for gardening but that the Americans & Dutch have no notion of I could be very comfortable at New York if we was in a way of getting a good deal but we have been spending a great deal and getting but little indeed we have sold most of our goods but the scarcety of cash occation’d by the Fall trade being spoilt with the Fever oblig’d every body to take Bills at a longer date than is usual so that we have rec’d very little there is a vast many English here I have met with some very agreeable acquaintances which I shall be sorry to leave .” March 1796 She also comments that “there is many Blacks here some of the Merchants keep 8 or 10 of them & I believe they are the best servants”. Though New York City had been home to a large community of freed African Americans following the British Army’s 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation most of them had been resettled in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War. The author was more likely observing enslaved people as New York did not pass its gradual abolition law until 1799 and emancipation was not completed until 1827. Of interest to historians of immigration to early republic New York City. unknown books
1969ref. 900343Boston: Godine 1969. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies fifty of which were numbered I - L and signed by Spender. This is one of the unsigned issue. Marbled paper-covered boards cloth spine with paper label. Issued w/o dustjacket. Fine condition. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Godine hardcover books
1998ref. 1337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
1944ref. 619044New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corporation 1944. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Lyrics in English and Spanish. Single bifolium making four pages. Exterior lightly rubbed and light edgewear very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 12182-2. The front cover features a picture of Dinah Washington who recorded this song. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation unknown books
1727ref. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover books
1942ref. 615721London: Oxford University Press 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition. Volume V only. Slightly cocked spine pencil notations toning on the boards and bumped corners thus very good with owner name on the front free endpaper. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1947ref. 80020Columbia M. O.: University of Missouri. Very Good. 1947. Softbound. OCLC: "Preface -- I. The western lawyer and jurist -- II. The American migration -- III. French and Spanish influences in Missouri -- IV. Courts codes and judges in territorial days -- V. The practice of law in territorial days -- VI. Courts codes and judges in early statehood -- VII. Practicing law in early statehood -- VIII. The lawyer as a community leader. Ex-library 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches complete in 144 bright pages. . University of Missouri paperback books
1818ref. 16976Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828 and later 'Dan Smith His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso listing the births of members of the McNees family in the late nineteenth century. This is the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny River and the first Bible in English printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. Note: this is a well used copy but in good condition. Rare. Hills 349; Not in Darlow and Moule . Cramer and Spear unknown books
1938ref. 26834Yanaginobaba Sanjo Kyoto Nippon: Nippon Flower Arrangement Society 1938. Boards. Very Good. 50 leaves. Oblong quarto 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches "Silk" decorative cloth over boards with original paper label on front board. Ties at spine as published. Cloth separating at spine folds mostly front cover. Leaves printed on recto only. Title page preface plus 48 leaves each with a color image of the arrangement and text in Japanese and English describing the composition composer etc. Apparently lacking blank flyleaf before the title page. Tape repair to front pastedown. Stain to front cover upper left. Clean internally. Boards. Nippon Flower Arrangement Society unknown books
1995ref. 306740New York: Rizzoli 1995. hardcover. near fine/very good. Packed with 586 illustrations 458 in color. 352 pages. Square 4o black boards d.w. New York: Rizzoli 1995. First American edition. A near fine copy--light wear to fore-edge; in a very good wrapper scuffed and creased at rear cover. Rizzoli unknown books
2000ref. 300059London: Parkstone 2000. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Bakst. Illustrated throughout in color. 184 pages. 4to glossy pictorial boards d.w. on short tear at corner. London: Parkstone Press 2000. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper Parkstone unknown books
2008ref. 263365New York: William Morrow 2008. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illus. 8vo two-toned boards d.w. New York: William Morrow 2008. Very good William Morrow unknown books
1995ref. 220409New York: Rizzoli 1995. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Packed with 586 illustrations 458 in color. 352pp. Square 4o black boards d.w. New York: Rizzoli 1995. First American edition. A very good copy. Rizzoli unknown books
1751ref. 204039London: W. & J. Mount & T. Page 1751. unbound. very good. Sea Chart. Uncolored engraving. Image with text measures 18.5" x 11.75". From the "English Pilot" a composite sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This map of St. Peters in Newfoundland was part of the fourth book "The West-India Navigation" published by W. & J. Mount & T. Page in 1751. The Mount family was active in publishing in various manifestations for many generations from the 1650s to 1800. On the back of the page is a beautiful print of two Auks along with a description of the birds and their abundance in this area. These birds were eventually hunted into extinction. W. & J. Mount & T. Page unknown books
1734ref. 130729London: Read 1734. hardcover. very good. 2 vols. folio contemporary 3/4 calf; spines worn marbled boards rubbed inner hinges strengthened light browning p. 229 of vol. II torn with loss of text. London: T. Read 1734 1735. Very good. Trials begin with Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 and conclude in 1722. Included are the trials of several conspirators in the murder of Thomas Overbury. Read unknown books
ref. 96325London. hardcover. very good. Includes 14 color engravings and 2 black and white engraved portraits by H. Heath T. Wright Isaac Cruikshank William Heath R. Cruikshank and T.H. Jones. Neatly mounted in a scrapbook. Slim folio 3/4 morocco a.e.g.; corners bumped. N.p. London ca. 1840. Very good . unknown books
ref. 97712hardcover. many illus. 490pp. 4to cloth d.w. London: Jane's 1984. vg unknown books
ref. 49374hardcover. 428pp. 8vo cloth. Englewood Cliffs 1969. History of the 1968 presidential campaign by the staff of the London Daily Express unknown books
