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1893réf. 009369LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON 1893 Book. Good. No Binding. TITLE: THE HISTORY OF THE POST OFFICE From Its Establishment Down To 1836 plus U.S. MAIL AIRPLANE circa 1950 AUTHOR: HERBERT JOYCE C. B. OF THE POST OFFICE PUBLISHER - LOCATION / COPYRIGHT: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON NEW BURLINGTON STREET LONDON 1893 Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty the Queen EDITION: First Edition assumed with only the 1893 date found on title with verso/copyright being blank ISBN: None CATEGORY: Government Planes History Rare First Edition BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: Reddish SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ approximately PAGES: 460 pages. CONDITION: Book is an ex-library copy from 'Griswold Memorial Library' with two raised seals bearing the name. There are no other indications or codes found from the library. The outside of the book is in good condition for its age; the front and back boards have puffy like spots to cloth which may indicate the book was stored in high humidity guess or it could be from the glue or something used by the publisher; the front board has a small size snag near the left edge; there may have been a library tag removal at the bottom edge of the spine. Book is without marks or writings other than library raised seals pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good copy. Condition of Plane: The plane appears to be aged with a possible rust patina present all over. Three of the four propellers are partially broken away. U.S.MAIL is stamped on the right side past the door. The bottom mechanism underneath the plane will spine the tires when turned. Overall the plane has a rusty old look about it. Not sure able type or model of plane. Not sure about the year or era for the plane. There is a 'BALLOON 15 X 900' written on both tires. The plane is about 13 inches long and from wing to wing is about 18 inches. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: The book is printed in London and appears to be the history of England's post office. No known information is known about the plane at the time of this research. There is a 'U.S. MAIL' stamped to the right of the exit door. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid books will ship immediately to customer it's on the way you are welcome to email about shipment date! We offer free gift wrapping year round on all our products regardless of item's cost. REFUNDS: All ViewFair books prints and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: RSTC 009369 We support FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY nationwide with donations and purchases. RICHARD BENTLEY & SON hardcover
1868réf. 554278Bridgeton N.J.: Joyce Photographer 1868. Unbound. Fair. Carte d'visite. Albumen image with watercolor highlights provided by hand to the stockings belts shirts and caps. 2.5" x 3.75" on slightly larger thick card mount. Image of two seated baseball players; one with the letters "BS" on the bib front of his shirt; the other with an Old English "C" on his. Uncaptioned. Photographer name and address on verso. Only fair condition with the albumen image badly faded and the players' faces visible only with effort. Of most interest are the very early uniforms likely the carte is post-Civil War because of lack of a Civil War-era tax stamp; but almost certainly pre-1870. Joyce, Photographer unknown books
1868réf. 554278Bridgeton N.J.: Joyce Photographer 1868. Unbound. Fair. Carte d'visite. Albumen image with watercolor highlights provided by hand to the stockings belts shirts and caps. 2.5" x 3.75" on slightly larger thick card mount. Image of two seated baseball players; one with the letters "BS" on the bib front of his shirt; the other with an Old English "C" on his. Uncaptioned. Photographer name and address on verso. Only fair condition with the albumen image badly faded and the players' faces visible only with effort. Of most interest are the very early uniforms likely the carte is post-Civil War because of lack of a Civil War-era tax stamp; but almost certainly pre-1870. Joyce, Photographer unknown
1821réf. 9777G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821. THIRD EDITION. 12mo. 7.8 x 4.7 inches. xii 395pp. A very good clean copy in the original publishers paper covered boards. Pages untrimmed. Chipping to the edges of the original printed paper label on spine. Previous owner has covered the spine and board edges with white paper which is chipped and showing loss which allows the original printed label to be seen. Board edges a bit rubbed and bumped. An uncommon survivor in any condition but in the original publishers boards even more so. G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821 hardcover
1883réf. 6729Gibraltar: Unpublished 1883. Hardcover. Good. From the governor's residence in Gibraltar a manuscript record of British colonial officials staff naval and army officers in the Crown Colony which was used by the Governor's household as a social register for entertaining Gibraltar's elite and prestigious visitors including the second in line to the British throne Prince Albert Victor. An additional pleasure of the manuscript is that it includes a page-long listing of the officers of the 'Royal Dublin Fusiliers' who were stationed in the colony in 1884-5 with whom served the fictional Major Brian Tweedy father of James Joyce's Molly Bloom who remembers her time with her father in Gibraltar in 1885 the moment covered by this manuscript in the famous soliloquy which ends Ulysses: 'Yes I said yes I will Yes.' The manuscript is written in Army Book 129 issued '7 Dec 1883 Army Forces Stores' bound in worn half reversed calf over blue paper covered boards 31 × 19cm. The inner hinges are cracked although the binding is sound if delicate. An Index precedes a 'Precedence List made out for H.s Excellency's Levée of 6.1.83' - an event that would have been presided over by Governor Sir John Adye the ultimate presumed owner of this volume. This is followed by the Colonial Office's 'Precedency List' starting with The Governor 'Staff' in a mixture of red and black ink with a series of symbols possibly relating to their dinner invitation status alongside positions occupied and often their addresses in Gibraltar annotated regarding redeployment and transfers. There are 62 pages of comprehensive entries with particular interest attending mention of the legendary father and son American consuls with their addresses p.13 'Horatio Jones Sprague Esq; John Louis Sprague Esq Mrs and the Misses Prince Edwards Road'. The manuscript makes a second start at page 20 when Sir Arthur Hardinge took over from Adye as Governor whose departure is annotated in red ink 'Retired 2 Nov. 86. Sir G Hardynge'. The social element of the manuscript is signalled in two labels to the covers on the upper cover 'People to ask' and on the lower cover the tantalising phrase 'People Dinners and Dates'. This relates to the second section of the manuscript at the back of the book which details dates and invitees to a series of 'Dinners' beginning in December 1884 and concluding in December 1887 by which time Governor Hardynge had taken over. These are written in a very tricky hand many of the names annotated with a miniscule '2' presumably a couple or a cross - meaning unknown. The most prestigious event in the four years covered by this record 1883-1887 involved the visit to Gibraltar of the eldest son of the future Edward VII Prince Albert Victor who died before his father became king. On 30th March 1887 early in Governor Hardynge's tenure he hosted dinner for: 'Prince Albert Victor Major Miles. Capt. Hon A Grenville Equerry Sir H and Lady Temple Colonel and Mrs Montmorency.' On May 21st the Governor seems to have entertained the young Prince once again along with a large party at a 'Picnic Waterfalls.' A line is drawn across the dinner dates two days before the retirement of Sir John Adye as Governor with an intimate gathering held the night before he left Gibraltar comprising just '3 Adye girls Col Layard Major Dulton Cap.t Church Ward and Hickson.' Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1883 Unpublished hardcover
1821réf. 152837London: for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. Third Joyce edition constituting upon its first publication in 1797 the first abridgement of Smith's Wealth of Nations a conscious move by the editor Jeremiah Joyce to turn the bulky two or three volumes of the original into a more manageable textbook of economics. Octavo 174 x 102 mm. Contemporary marbled sides and vellum tips sometime rebacked with brown sheep spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription to front pastedown of Edgar MacCulloch likely the expert on Guernsey folklore 1808-1896 above later stamp of Elizabeth College Library in Guernsey. Very minor rubbing very light spotting and creasing to pages. A very good copy. hardcover
1804réf. AQ21202Cambridge: Printed by and for B. Flower 1804. 324pp. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities occasional marking else a crisp unpressed and generously margined copy displaying several untrimmed fore-edges and some marginal paper flaws. With occasional neat early underlining of key passages suggesting a close reading a handful of single-word manuscript translations into French early ink-stamps of Wm. McKendrick to early blank preceding title and following leaf and later ink inscription to modern blank fly. The second edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended to be used as a textbook: as the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' the work was to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763-1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 or the by then well known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth century into a single convenient octavo volume. Mizuta 82. Second edition. 8vo. Printed by and for B. Flower hardcover
1899réf. 13741London: Chatto & Windus 1899. First edition. Bookseller blind stamp WH Smith to upper corner of front free endpaper offsetting to endpapers some moderate foxing mild rubbing to cloth at corner tips and spine edges two small spots to rear cover a very good copy of a scarce book. 13741. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-325 326: blank 327: publisher's device 328: blank 32-page catalogue dated "Sept. 1899" inserted at rear original burgundy cloth front panel stamped in tan white and black spine panel stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. "Wonderfully lurid sensational horror stories in full-blooded manner of Victorian melodrama; story titles such as 'The Corpse Light' 'The Cave of Blood' and 'A Night of Horror' say it all." - Robert Knowlton. Reference: Ashley Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction p. 68. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-70. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 130. Tymn ed Horror Literature 3-66. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 192. Bleiler 1978 p. 62. Reginald 10482. Not in Wolff. Chatto & Windus unknown