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1895Best.-Nr. 29276Macmillam 1895. 8vo. with frontispiece illustrated title and very numerous illustrations a number full-page in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary full tree calf boards with elaborate gilt frame border back with five raised bands second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments richly tooled in gilt marbled edges marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a most attractive crisp clean copy. Caldecott's edition was first published in 1876. Macmillam, hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 034949Boston: Desmond 1899. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 13 volumes. Complete set. Ex-library set. Green cloth. Desmond hardcover
1835Best.-Nr. 1094Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. First edition 2nd issue. 12mo. 274pp. First edition 1st issue with "binger of dawn" on p. 247; variant spine label with "No. 1". 12mo. 274pp. Orig. green cloth a bit rubbed rear cover with a crease paper spine label a bit chipped. Carey, Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
1882Best.-Nr. 240607009J. B. Lippincott & Co 1882. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Binding: hardcover Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1882. Dark green cloth with paper titling label on spine. Cloth has stains and scratches joints and edges are rubbed there is chipping on paper label which is darkened.- edges untrimmed. Hinges starting. Gray green coated paper endpapers. - deluxe edition - No. 254 of 500 copies. - illustrations wood engravings - full page illustrations with tissue guards. Illustrations - wear on edges of the cover - binding is tight - pages clean and not brown - location - k-11-b J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. DADAX0824763440CRC Press 1976-02-01. 1. hardcover. New. 7.12x1.25x10.22. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CRC Press hardcover
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1894Best.-Nr. mon0000180516Nelson 1894-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Library Rebind. Hardcover/Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but very useable. Nelson paperback
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Best.-Nr. 5475Paris, Hachette et Cie,1906. 25,5 x 19 cm, x pages d'introduction, suivies de 69 pp. de texte suivies des illustrations de Arthur Rackham, bien complet du frontispice et des 50 compositions couleurs hors texte sous serpentes légendées. Relié pleine percaline verte décorée de l'éditeur, tranches vertes dos lisses, titre doré. Reliure légèrement usée, traces de frottements, coiffes légèrement fragilisées et coins émoussées sinon bon exemplaire. Intérieur très frais. Première édition de la traduction française de la nouvelle d'Irving.
Best.-Nr. 5475Paris, Hachette et Cie,1906. 25,5 x 19 cm, x pages d'introduction, suivies de 69 pp. de texte suivies des illustrations de Arthur Rackham, bien complet du frontispice et des 50 compositions couleurs hors texte sous serpentes légendées. Relié pleine percaline verte décorée de l'éditeur, tranches vertes dos lisses, titre doré. Reliure légèrement usée, traces de frottements, coiffes légèrement fragilisées et coins émoussées sinon bon exemplaire. Intérieur très frais. Première édition de la traduction française de la nouvelle d'Irving.
1905Best.-Nr. 7086William Heinemann. London.1905. EARLY RACKHAM EDITION. Second impression the same format as the First edition published two months earlier. 4to.10.1 x 7.7 inches. Colour frontis and fifty colour plates mounted onto thicker paper and with a printed tissue guard. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustration of Rip Van Winkle stamped in gilt to front board. Lower hinge split to the middle of spine. Apart from some foxing to the first four text pages this is a clean copy internally. A near very good copy of this beautiful book. The first of the famous tipped in colour plate gift books that made Rackham a household name.:. William Heinemann. London.,1905 hardcover
1835Best.-Nr. 133407Paris.: Librairie de Fournier jeune 1835. Board Book. Livre en français. Couverture rigide. Tomes 1 et 2 des Mélanges. Traduit par Mlle A. Sobry traducteur des Contes de l'Alhambra. Reliure demi basane à décor. 306 294 pages. Rousseurs. ref. 133407 Librairie de Fournier jeune unknown
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2019Best.-Nr. x-0367286696Taylor & Francis 2019. Hardcover. New. 158 pages. 9.02x5.67x1.09 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 43096Harrap 1928. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with coloured frontispiece title in green and black 7 fine coloured plates 30 monochrome illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers in half-tone and yellow small neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original green cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top uncut a very good bright clean copy. Latimore & Haskell pp.63-64; Riall pp.164-165. Harrap, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0969985703-11-1Pond Casse. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Pond Casse unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 014277New York City Housing Authority. First Printing. Publisher's original stiff red cardboard covers. Generally rubbed. Square hinges cracked but still firmly attached names written on the ffep. Ghost tape on inside hinge at title page and behind first fold out map which do not interfere with the type or map. Water mark on bottom of first three pages otherwise none. An interesting look into early 20th-century New York City criminology complete with twelve maps on the distribution of arrests juvenile delinquents misdemeanants felons petty offenders and female offenders in Brooklyn and Manhattan. According to the Foreword written by Langdon W. Post the chairman of the New York Housing Authority this was at the time the most thorough crime report of New York City that had ever been published. In archival cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1934. New York City Housing Authority hardcover
1829Best.-Nr. 31868London: John Murray 1829. 2 volumes. First English edition. 8vo in the very rarely seen original printer's tan paper over paper covered boards the spine panels with printed paper labels. xv 407; viii 421 2 ads pp. A pristine and unused set internally very fine and fresh and very clean the bindings sturdy and attractive with only a bit of expected age or evidence of shelving. As fine a set as one can hope to find. FIRST EDITION THE ENGLISH ISSUE which appeared only a few weeks after the American. In spite of the near simultaneous release the text of this English edition does differ a bit from its American counterpart. Despite Irving's use of an imaginary chronicler Agapida who’s dialog livens up the flavor of the text the CONQUEST OF GRANADA was the product of careful historical research in Madrid. Irving was serving as a titular diplomat a post which gave him access to considerable resources as well as access to the most important inner social circles. It remains an excellent history on the expulsion of the Moors from Spain. This work along with his THE ALHAMBRA highlights both Irving’s scholarly abilities and his eloquent writing style. John Murray hardcover
1836Best.-Nr. 34555Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. 2 volumes. First edition first issue state BAL of both the copyright page in Volume I and the footnote on page 239 of Volume II. Volume II with a folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart west of the Mississippi to the Pacific a map referred to by Wheat as “.an important milestone of Western mapping.” 8vo bound in contemporary polished calf over marbled paper covered boards sometime rebacked incorporating the original materials and contrasting red and black lettering labels gilt. xiii 14-285; ix 10-279 pp. A very good copy with expected age to the binding the original materials expertly included in the rebacking. IMPORTANT AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND SCARCE IN FIRST EDITION. This is Washington Irving’s chronicle of the Hunt and Stuart expedition written by Irving at the request of John Jacob Astor. Astor financed the first U.S. overland expedition to the Pacific after Lewis and Clark. The “Astorians” as the party led by Wilson Price Hunt was known took an entirely different route then Lewis and Clark thus this book chronicles a number of important firsts through unexplored territory. Hunt’s party was the first to navigate the Snake River the first to cross the Tetons and Oregon Blue Mountains and the first to come through the Union Pass. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard hardcover
1820Best.-Nr. 1306411820. IRVING Washington KNICKERBOCKER Diedrich. A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. London: John Murray 1820. Octavo early 20th-century half red morocco gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt. $1500.First English edition of Washington IrvingÕs first major production.Published under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker one of Irving's many pseudonyms A History of New York is ""a monument of mock-eruditionÉ perhaps his greatest book"" ANB. Irving began this literary parody in response to Mitchill's Picture of New York 1807 ""but instead found himself writing a comic history of old New York in a compound of sense and nonsense which still brings chuckles of laughter reminiscent of nothing so much as Don QuixoteÉ this is the first completely original American non-scholarly book"" Grolier American 100. The success of ""Knickerbocker"" won Irving literary fame in America and Europe. ""Though this was one of the first-fruits of his inventive talent it is risking but little to affirm that in its peculiar qualities it has not been surpassed by any later effortsÉ of its accomplished author"" Allibone I:935. Sabin notes that ""Indeed it will not be saying too much to assert that a large portion of the readers of the present day owe their knowledge of the history of New York to the interest created by this unrivaled performance."" First published in 1809; the title page of this first U.K. printing states it is ""a new edition."" Bound by Root & Son. BAL 10227. Howes I83. Sabin 35152. Grolier American 100 28. Contents with faint foxing; sides and edges slightly rubbed spine gently toned small area of discoloration to lower front corner. A very good copy handsomely bound. hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 9381Paris, Hachette, 1906. In-4 de X-69-[2] pages, suivies des planches puis de [2] pages. Plein vélin ivoire, dos lisse orné du titre doré, premier plat d'un portrait en pied de Rip Van Winkle et du titre, dorés, tête dorée.
1928Best.-Nr. 855London: George G. Harrap 1928. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. Small 4to. 102 pages. Limited edition of 250 copies of which this is number 9 signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham. Cream vellum boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Text block with gilt top edge; other edges uncut. Pictorial endpapers. Eight tipped in colour plates; black and white drawings in the text. Boards moderately soiled and with dark streak on front. Light foxing affecting a few pages. Binding firm. George G. Harrap hardcover
1832Best.-Nr. 25081London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1832. 2 volumes. First Edition the UK issue the true first issue printed prior to the American issue according to BAL. 8vo in fine and beautiful contemporary bindings of full red crushed morocco the boards decorated with a bright and thick gilt frame of stylized morning-glories and additional gilt ruling the spines with elaborate gilt floral compartments between gilt tooled bands two compartments gilt lettered additional gilt lettering at the foot board edges gilt tooled as are the turn-ins a.e.g. viii 312; 295. A very fine set richly bound. Internally near pristine and perfect the bindings extremely well preserved all solid and sturdy. THE TRUE FIRST EDITION AND A FINE SET IN VERY HANDSOME BINDINGS. RARE IN RED MOROCCO BINDINGS. While serving as a diplomatic attaché to Spain Irving had access to the fabulous library of Obadiah Rich and engaged in scholarly research. This detailed description of the Alhambra and account of the legends surrounding the famous monument was one of the fruits of this research. The flavor of Irving’s writing is scrumptious in a manner quite fitting to the Moorish landmark. Though an American Irving published under the Crayon pseudonym was quite the literary celebrity in Europe. He was lionized by both the English and French and for several years the intimate of such notable men of letters as Scott Byron and Moore. There are a number of his works in which the London issues not those printed in New York or Philadelphia are the true first editions. It may be that the more cultured societies of Europe at that time were quicker to recognize literary genius then the more provincial Americans of the period. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover
1836Best.-Nr. 1301841836. First Edition. IRVING Washington. Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. Two volumes. Octavo original patterned blue-gray cloth Volume I rebacked with original spine laid down; housed in a custom clamshell box. $2000.First edition first issue with the folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart Òan important milestone of western mappingÓ Wheat 157.In 1811 Wilson Price Hunt and his party of Astorians explorers financed by John Jacob Astor the most powerful fur merchant of the time embarked on the first expedition to the Pacific Northwest after Lewis and Clark. Steering away from the Missouri route of Lewis and Clark they traveled across unexplored territory becoming ""the first party to see the Black Hills Laramie Mountains of Wyoming first to come through the Wind River Mountains via Union Pass first across the Tetons first to attempt navigation of the 'mad' Snake River in Idaho and first to cross the Blue Mountains in southeastern Oregon"" before arriving at their final destination of Fort Astoria a small settlement founded by sea explorers financed by Astor in today's northwest Oregon Roscoe and Larkin 44-54. Irving was selected by Astor to write an account of the journey and to keep faithful reports of the terrain explored. Astoria is ""crowded with incidents of Indian subtlety or ferocity as well as with descriptions of the manners and peculiarities of the fierce lords of the great plains and the vaster mountains before civilization had enervated or corrupted them"" Field 760. First issue with copyright notice on verso of Volume I title page and garbled footnote on page 239 of Volume II. In BAL's cloth B no priority. BAL 10148. Graff 2158. Howes I81. Langfeld & Blackburn 35. Sabin 35130. Wagner-Camp 61:1. Bookplates early owner signatures.Moderate foxing to text folding map with expert paper repairs; cloth with mild rubbing Volume I with expert restoration to spine. A very nice copy in the original cloth. hardcover
