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1929réf. 71012NY: Doubleday Doran and Company 1929. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Pages tanned else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover books
1928réf. 70677NY: Grosset and Dunlap 1928. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper else a very good hardback bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in red. Grosset and Dunlap hardcover books
2002réf. 56982West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A handsome first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a compilation of essays and lectures written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Updike and the editor William W. Peterson. The book is divided into four sections: "The Writer" "The Reader" "The Work of Making a Book" and "The Business of Books." In "The Writer" Updike discusses the importance of being a good writer and the techniques that he has used to achieve success. In "The Reader" he discusses the importance of reading and how it can transform a person. In "The Work of Making a Book" he discusses the process of book making and the importance of having a good editor. In "The Business of Books" he discusses the different aspects of the book business and the importance of bookselling.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002réf. 55512West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a collection of essays and lectures by celebrated authors and thinkers including David Foster Wallace J.D. Salinger and William Updike. Edited by William W. Peterson the book is a unique and illuminating exploration of the craft of writing from conception to publication.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002réf. 55510West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; In this book prominent authors and scholars offer essays and lectures on the craft of writing. Topics include sentence structure plot character development and more. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in improving their writing skills.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
1991réf. 50501Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1991. Third printing. 4to pp. 541. Glossary index. Illustrated with drawings. Paper over boards. Cover slightly bumped at lower front corner o/w a nice copy in slightly scuffed and chipped dj. Heavy. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1905réf. 601886New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition October 1905. 12mo. Publisher's decorative cloth stamped in gold white and black on the front cover and spine. Binding designed by F. Berkeley Smith with his monogram. Illustrated with color plates by Alonzo Kimball. Ink owner name and inscritiption spine is a little darkened and binding a bit cocked very good or better. A handsome clean copy. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1905réf. 386906New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition October 1905. 12mo. Publisher's decorative cloth stamped in gold white and black on the front cover and spine. Binding designed by F. Berkeley Smith with his monogram. Illustrated with color plates by Alonzo Kimball. Spine is a little darkened else near fine. A handsome clean copy. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1784réf. 1352898Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. Hardcover. Quartos two volumes; VG; Rebound in half-red leather with green cloth boards and gilt lettering and ruling to spines; Boards show minimal wear to corners and bottom edges; Text-blocks have moderate age-toning and light foxing to speckled edges light shelf-wear to bottom edges and occasional light foxing to the first several pages of Volume I; Both volumes bear the library stamp of the "Training College Library Avenue Southampton"; Volume I includes a frontispiece portrait of Berkeley and Volume II includes a fold-out map prefacing the title-page; Contents: Vol. I. 4 ci 646 pages; Vol. II. iv 663 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.; RW consignment. Shelved in Room X. 1352898. Special Collections - Downstairs. John Exshaw hardcover books
réf. CA09A-00049John Exshaw. Collectible - Good. Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. 2 volume set. 4to. ci646666pp. Frontis. figures fold-out map. Good book. Spine ends worn and chipped. Joints worn. Boards scuffed and chipped. Back board detached from vol. 1. Front hinge open in vol. 2. Elaborate gifter's inscription on f.f.e. verso of vol. 1. Light pencil notations in both volumes. Some browning and spotting to text pages. Inquire if you need further information. John Exshaw hardcover books
1820réf. 15730London: Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley 1820 First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley first published in quarto in 1784. See Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley p. 262. Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Contemporary diced calf. Double-ruled gilt fillets on covers gilt decorated spine with brown morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers. . Three volumes octavo. . Volume II contains diagrams and an engraved folding plate of Tabula Lusoria. Volume III contains a large engraved folding plate of "The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands. Some corners lightly bumped light foxing old ink signature in each volume. A very good attractive set. Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley, books
1929réf. 217000New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Volume two of ten only. 16mo. measuring 4" x 6 1/4". 204pp. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine. Gutter starting near fine in a fair only dust jacket with much loss of the front panel extremities worn and chipped. Contributions by F. Britten Austin Edwin Baird Marjorie Bowen Ellis Parker Butler Anthony Berkeley Ben Ames Williams J.D. Beresford and Carolyn Wells. Funk & Wagnalls Company hardcover books
1913réf. 198327Chicago: Open Court Pub Co 1913. Hardcover. Good. Good Piece of spine coming off. Pages soiled on bottom corner. Open Court Pub Co hardcover books
1954réf. 116745IN: Library of Liberal Arts 1954. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Writing and notations in text. Light browning of pages. Cover rubbed with some staining and browning. Library of Liberal Arts unknown books
1713réf. 140947370London: Henry Clements 1713. First Edition Third Edition. First edition first printing of George Berkeley's work of philosophy. x 166 vi 44 pp. Octavo bound in full contemporary mottled calf laced in boards. Blindstamped ruled borders red morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Bound together with the third edition of another work by Berkeley also published by Henry Clements in 1713: Passive Obedience Or the Christian Doctrine Of Not Resisting the Supreme Power Proved and Vindicated upon the Principles of the Law of Nature. In a Discourse Deliver'd at the College-Chapel. Very Good with moderate wear to boards cracking to leather at extremities minimal chipping at head and tail of spine and rounded and bumped corners. Joints repaired leather coated with preservative. Previous owner names have been torn from free endpapers cut more carefully from upper margins of first two leaves. Several 18th century ink markings and inscription "Owner / 1720" remain on the endpapers. The two books are printed on different paper stock. Three Dialogues is slightly tanned with scattered foxing to margins; Passive Obedience is heavily toned. Both books collated complete. From the library of William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the front pastedown. George Berkeley 1685 - 1753 was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman who advocated the view that objects cannot exist without being perceived. He wrote Three Dialogues in order to expand on the ideas expressed in his most notable work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Passive Obedience is a call to obey established authorities God above all. That a third edition was published just one year after the first is testament to the intensity of Enlightenment debates about the relationships between individuals and church and state. Henry Clements unknown books
1891réf. 92699New York: The Berkeley Lyceum 1891. Very Good. Modest-sized broadsheet flyer. 24 cm. Text printed in red on both sides. Two horizontal creases. List of 30 "patronesses" printed on other side. The first patroness listed is Mrs. Valentine G. Hall who was the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt whom little Eleanor went to live after her mother's death. We were unable find information about a "Summer Home for Colored Women and Children" other than an online reference identifying it as organized in 1890. The Berkeley Lyceum unknown books
1931réf. 2351723Garden City New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight pages clean bright and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. 273 pp. 8vo. The ransacked flat and the garroted body meant a simple burglary to Scotland Yard. but the Yard overlooked the innocent bit of rope that Roger Sheringham found. The seventh Roger Sheringham mystery novel by popular British crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox who wrote as Anthony Berkeley Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Roger Sheringham stories were Berkeley's most popular mysteries though he also wrote quite a few stand-alones. The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
1971réf. 599029New York: Harper & Row 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 480pp. Illustrated. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps rubbed most notably on the spine spine bumped and with a few surface abrasions a few page edges with small creases very good. Includes contributions by Timothy Leary Eldridge Cleaver Stokely Carmichael Jerry Rubin Buckminster Fuller Alan Watts Ken Kesey and many others. Harper & Row unknown books
1874réf. 69444Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1874. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. Full Description: BERKELEY George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. With Prolegomena and with Annotations Select Translated and Original by Charles P. Krauth D.D. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. First American edition of the book which shook the intellectual world with its theory of immaterialism. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 144 mm. 2 blank 424 2 blank pp. Publisher's full orange cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Previous owner's ink name on front and back pastedown. Some minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Otherwise about fine. "The principle which underlay all Berkeley's philosophical writing was based on a rejection of all speculation such as Locke's about the meaning and necessity of matter as a primal necessity to any theory of human understanding. Briefly Berkeley maintained that no existence is conceivable or possible which is not conscious spirit or the ideas of which such a spirit is conscious. This presupposes complete equation of subject and object: no object can exist without a Mind to conceive it. Without the pre-existence of the Mind mater and substance cause and effect can have no meaning. In the Principles externality absolutely independent of all mind is shown to be an unreal impossible conception: true substance is the conscious spirit and true causality the free action of such a spirit. Physical substance and causes are relations among phenomena arbitrary though by the action of the Mind constant. Connexions between them are viewed subjectively as the suggestion or associations of the human mind and objectively as the operation of the Universal Mind. Thus the universe is the sum of human experience and forms a symbol of the divine universal intelligence: esse est percipi" Printing and the Mind of Man. Norman Library 196. PMM 176. HBS 69444. $1500. J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
1928réf. 170815New York: Doubleday Doran 1928. First American Edition preceded by the First UK Edition. Basis for the 1941 film "Flight from Destiny" starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Thomas Mitchell. Moderate offsetting to endpapers boards lightly edgeworn overall Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Jacket spine with fading and a narrow chip to the center just affecting the H in Anthony with chipping to the spine ends and the top left corner of the front panel. Doubleday Doran unknown books
1716réf. 1277391716. First Edition. LORD GREY OF WERK BERKELEY Henrietta. The Trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk et al.É For Unlawful Tempting and Inciting the Lady Henrietta BerkeleyÉ to Unlawful LoveÉ with an Intent to Cause Her to Live in a Scandalous Manner. London: J. Morphew 1716. Slim octavo period-style full paneled calf raised bands red morocco spine label. $2000.First edition of the verbatim transcript of this sensational 17th-century trial in which Lord Grey was charged with seducing the under-18-year-old sister of his wife ""with an intent to cause her to live in a scandalous manner with the said Lord Grey."" Handsomely bound.The prosecution of this scandalous case was ably handled by George Jeffreys; the defense was equally capable and the verbatim transcript of the proceedings vividly portrays the case's high emotional charge. ""In 1682 Lady Henrietta became a well-known figure of scandal when still a minor and under 18 following the revelation of her love affair with Ford Grey Lord Grey of Warke 1655-1701 the husband of her elder sister Mary. The intrigue seems to have begun in 1681 and continued for about 14 months before it was discovered by Lady Henrietta's motherÉ Eventually the earl of Berkeley launched a lawsuit for unlawful seduction against Grey and his accomplices which was brought before the court of king's bench on 23 November 1682. Henrietta herself appeared at the trial but with her evidence the lord chief justice told her 'You have injured your own reputation and prostituted both your body and your honour and are not to be believed' State trials 9.176. As the court was breaking up the earl attempted to take his daughter away with him whereupon Henrietta announced that she was married to William Turner Grey's servant. A scuffle broke out in the courtroom as she refused to return home and her father tried to seize her by forceÉ The trial attracted a great deal of publicity and the story of Lady Henrietta's affair with her brother-in-law became the inspiration for Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister the first part of which was published in 1684"" ODNB. Bound with half title. Old ink annotations to verso of half title; small duplicate stamp to final text leaf.Only occasional faint foxing to text. Fine condition handsomely bound. hardcover books
réf. 8887paperback. 48 pages. 8vo cloth-backed stiff printed wrappers spine soiled; ex-lib. Bristol 1923. "Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence pain-food-ease and established the surgical treatment of duodenal ulcer on a sound basis." G-M 3535 1910 edn. unknown books
1987réf. 337876New York: Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group 1987. Magazine. 84p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches personal ads explicit color and b&w photos of nude men exposing uncircumcised genitals good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group unknown books
1987réf. 339595New York: Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group 1987. Magazine. 84p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches personal ads explicit color and b&w photos of nude men exposing uncircumcised genitals good condition gay men's magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. African American and Hispanic American models included. Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group unknown books
réf. 5880Scarce autograph letter signed 2pp by Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 Boston book designer and printer possibly to Thomas Niles a partner in the famed press of Roberts Brothers. Written on Updike personal stationary with printed header ìD.B. Updike Decorative Printing and Book-Making 6 Beacon St. Bostonî and dated Aug 29 1893 ìDear Mr. Miles: Will you kindly send a list of books published by you by ìH.H.î to Mrs. Harold Brown Bellevue Avenue Newport R. I. with the portion of the catalogs in which they seem marked or turned down. And truly much obliged D. B. Updike.î Letters by Updike are quite scarce. D. B. Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. He obtained his first book-related job as a temporary volunteer in the library of the Providence Athenaeum. In 1880 he was offered a job as an errand boy at Houghton Mifflin and Company of Boston where he worked at the firm for twelve years moving up to the advertising department where he prepared copy. In his last two years with the firm he was transferred to the Riverside Press at Cambridge Mass. where he learned about the mechanics of printing and displayed an aptitude for designing books. Upon leaving Houghton Mifflin in 1893 Updike founded the Merrymount Press. unknown books
