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1972réf. 595494Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Forward by Mircea Eliade. Small quarto. xxvii 564pp. Binding a trifle cocked topedge modestly foxed and a few light foxed spots on the preliminary pages very good or better in a price-clipped and very lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Indiana University Press hardcover books
1974réf. 260474Beaverton Oregon: The Touchstone Press 1974. First edition No. 26 of 1200 copies; inscribed by the author on dedication page. Illustrated with color photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream cloth green rexine spine. A fine copy. First edition No. 26 of 1200 copies; inscribed by the author on dedication page. Illustrated with color photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's adventures fly fishing around the world nicely illustrated. Inscribed by the author "To A- O- whose camp-fires I have shared from a ranch called San Carlos to a lake called Enchanted all better than owl Lee Richardson". Bruns R-59WH/6/Angling The Touchstone Press unknown books
2012réf. 314405Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Some b/w illustrations. 370 pages. 8vo dark blue cloth d.w. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. First edition. Small stain on fore edge of the text block. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Oxford University Press unknown books
1930réf. 329636London: William Jackson Books Ltd 1930. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Dorothy Richardson and John Austen and with a signed wood-engraving by John Austen laid into the book total printing of 125 copies. 26pp. 8vo. White cloth is lightly tanned at top edge lightly bumped at tips of two corners else a near fine copy. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Dorothy Richardson and John Austen and with a signed wood-engraving by John Austen laid into the book total printing of 125 copies. 26pp. 8vo. Signed by Dorothy Richardson and John Austen on the colophon leaf and with a signed numbered wood-engraving by John Austen limited to 130 copies laid into the book as issued. The engraving entitled "The Rustic Lovers" measuring circa 6 by 5 inches is signed and numbered in pencil by John Austen. William Jackson (Books) Ltd unknown books
1867réf. 42473Hartford CT: American Publishing Co 1867. Greatly expanded version of Howes R253. With more than 200 illustrations. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Brown gilt-stamped cloth. Head and tail of spine bumped and frayed else very good. Greatly expanded version of Howes R253. With more than 200 illustrations. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. A trip through Texas on the U.S. Mail coach from Preston to El Paso with observations on the country. Sabin 70980; Raines p. 173 American Publishing Co unknown books
1900réf. 251507London: Horace Marshall 1900. First edition. Frontispiece in two states coloured and uncoloured as are all plates in book several folding facsimiles. viii 308 pp. Bound in three quarters green morocco spine gilt faded to brown t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Frontispiece in two states coloured and uncoloured as are all plates in book several folding facsimiles. viii 308 pp. Signed by Author on verso of title-page and with an ALS from author tipped in about his book and an edition by the Publisher to whom this is addressed. Horace Marshall unknown books
1902réf. 244957Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. London: Chapman and Hall 1902. With 16 Illustrations reproduced from the engravings by E.F. Burney and a Portrait of Richardson. 20 vols. 12mo. Bound in three quarters publisher's green morocco with heavily gilt spine t.e.g. Some foxing otherwise fine. With 16 Illustrations reproduced from the engravings by E.F. Burney and a Portrait of Richardson. 20 vols. 12mo. J.B. Lippincott. London: Chapman and Hall unknown books
1985réf. 12971New York: William Beadleston Inc 1985. Softcover. VG age toning to spine pages crisp unmarked. Quarto. Softcover. White wraps mylar DJ. 112 pp. 15 color numerous bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. An odd tribute to the body of work inspired by Marie-Thérèse Walter a woman Picasso took as a mistress when she was seventeen bore him a child and who finally ended her own life when he died. His passion for her and consumption of her is displayed in the works in this exhibit contrasting her with his wife and revealing a great deal of his psychology. Exhibition dates: Oct. 31 to Dec. 14 1985. William Beadleston, Inc paperback books
1808réf. 40252Boston: Printed by Munroe Francis & Parker Shakespeare Bookstore no. 4 Cornhill 1808. Second American Edition. 187pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf morocco spine label front cover detached. Second American Edition. 187pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The second American edition of the first known American publication on Shakespeare Philadelphia 1788. Richardson 1743-1814 was a professor of humanity in the University of Glasgow. First published in Edinburgh in 1774 this work contains essays on Hamlet Macbeth on the melancholy Jaques Imogen King Richard the Third King Lear Timon of Athens and "On the Faults of Shakespeare." In this last essay Richardson faults the admirers of Shakespeare with excessive indulgence of his faults: "I am inclined to believe and shall now endeavour to demonstrate that the greatest blemishes in Shakespeare have proceeded from his want of consummate taste .". Jaggard p. 263 Printed by Munroe, Francis & Parker, Shakespeare Bookstore, no. 4, Cornhill unknown books
1902réf. 31697London: Chapman and Hall 1902. Illustrated by E.F. Burney and Thomas Stoddard. 20 vols. 8vo. 3/4 red pebbled morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. about fine. Illustrated by E.F. Burney and Thomas Stoddard. 20 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1982réf. 84261Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art 1982. First edition. 4to. 103 pp w/select bibliography. Spine sunned else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art unknown books
1722réf. 42146London: J. Knapton 1722. Richardson Jonathan the elder 1667-1745 and Jonathan Richardson the younger 1694-1771. An account of some of the statues bas-reliefs drawings and pictures in Italy &c. with remarks. 50 357 5pp. London: J. Knapton 1722. 196 x 120 mm. Paneled calf ca. 1722 rebacked one corner repaired. Occasional foxing but a very good crisp copy. First Edition. Richardson the elder was among the foremost British painters of the eighteenth century; his son Richardson the younger was one of the greatest collectors of drawings of all time. The two collaborated on the present work on Italian art compiled by the elder Richardson from material gathered by his son during a tour of Italy. "This was a very popular book and was used by young men as a basis for their Grand Tour. It was said that the book became the basis for future purchases of art by wealthy collectors and therefore shaped English interest in foreign old masters. It also provided an important model for Johann Joachim Winckelmann's History of Art 1764" Wikipedia. . J. Knapton unknown books
1993réf. 2334496Washington DC: Island Press / Shearwater Books 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x1x9. Rorer Abigail. First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1993 Hard Cover. xviii 283 pp. Edited by Bradley P. Dean introduction by Robert D. Richardson forward by Gary Paul Nabhan and illustrations by Abigail Rorer. This work is Thoreau's last important research book which remained unknown to the general public for one hundred and twenty-five years. A description of the ecological succession of plant species through seed dispersal. Thoreau draws on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. Island Press / Shearwater Books hardcover books
1843réf. 1177231843. First Edition. RICHARDSON William. The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire. York: Robert Sunter 1843. Two Volumes. Elephant folio 18 by 24 inches early cloth rebacked and recornered in later dark green morocco all edges gilt. $6500.First edition of this monumental production with two hand-colored title pages a hand-colored dedication leaf 34 hand-colored full-page plates 24 hand-colored half-page plates 22 uncolored full-page plates some tinted and a map.The dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the 16th century left Yorkshire with a rich collection of monastic ruins captured here in a series of plates by artist William Richardson in a work that rivals the great Holy Land by David Roberts. Locations included here are Whitby Abbey Kirkstall Abbey St. Mary's York Rievaulx and Kirkham Abbeys Fountains Roche Abbey Byland and Newborough Guisborough Mount Grace Selby Abbey Bolton Priory Bridlington Priory Old Malton Priory Joraulx Abbey Sallay Abbey Sawley Abbey Monk Bretton Priory Coverham Abbey Eggleston Abbey Easby Abbey Grey Friars Richmond Howden Kirkham Priory Marrick Nun-Monkton Ellerton and Rosedale Priory. The plates were printed by the lithographic firm of William Day frequently referred to as ""Day and Hague"" because of the fine work of Belgian draughtsman and watercolorist Louis Haghe the foremost lithographer of his time. ""The firm of Day and Haghe raised lithography to perhaps the highest point it ever attained"" Abbey 340. Perhaps not surprisingly this is the same firm that printed Roberts' Holy Land. Issued in two versions one entirely uncolored and the other with many of the plates hand-colored. This copy without the uncolored plate labeled number 49 by Abbey not present or listed in the uncolored copies and often not present but in the plate list in colored copies; in this copy Abbey's plate number 74 ""Howden Tombs"" has been bound in its place. Abbey Life 381. Scattered foxing to some text and plates. An impressive production. hardcover books
1986réf. 76265NY: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow 1986 1988. First editions. 591 462 pp w/indexes. Two volumes both spine sunned else very near fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to the first volume. For the pair: NY: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow unknown books
1998réf. 71953London: Little Brown 1998. First edition. ix 242 pp w/glossary of Spanish terms. Fine in fine dust jacket. London: Little, Brown unknown books
1934réf. 71157Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop 1934. First edition. 75 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket with wear along the top edge. SIGNED by Richardson on the half-title page. Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, unknown books
1974réf. 68585Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1974. First edition. 39 pp. Spine badly sunned else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series Number #17. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, unknown books
1934réf. 54476Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop 1934. First trade paperback printing. 75 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, paperback books
1984réf. qmsc162New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1984. Octavo cloth & boards hardcover xix 548 pp. Near-Fine with foxing age darkened spotting to page edges; in a Near-Fine dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: Jesse Stuart may have been the most original of twentieth-century writers and the only one to have achieved so much in so many genres: poetry; the short story; the novel; the essay.The emphasis in this book is on Jesse Stuart’s life with authentic sometimes surprisingly intimate insights into his thoughts and attitudes toward his family growing up schooldays work experiernces college life and friendships the days of hunger and learning at Vanderbilt the W-Hollow nights filled with starlight and poetic fire. McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1984). hardcover books
2006réf. qms605Middlesex: The Aviation Hobby Shop 2006. First Edition. Octavo softbound slick stiff full-color photo. illus. wrappers 432 pp. Fine As New. Each country is listed by alphabetical order of the ICAO prefix of the country then by four columns giving the following information: Registration; Aircraft type and subtype; Construction number/Manufacturer’s serial number; Immediate past identity. The Aviation Hobby Shop, (2006). First Edition. paperback books
1994réf. 1013221994. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. 8vo 327pp. Frontispiece. Dark blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. § First edition. With numerous references to Blake. Not in Bentley BB or BBS. unknown books
1971réf. 39695NY: Knopf 1971. First edition. 315 xvi. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. NY: Knopf unknown books
1976réf. 16200Oakville: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions 1976. First trade paperback printing. 79 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Stamped “Review Copy” on the first leaf. Oakville: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions paperback books
1862réf. 66012Richmond VA: Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office 1862. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Forceful advocacy for secession primarily based on the evils of abolitionism. Parrish & Willingham 5778. Original printed blue wrappers; some interior soiling text uniformly browned but a very good copy. Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office unknown books
