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1911réf. R1843New York: harper & brothers 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. New York: harper & brothers 1911. First edition thus. Fine. Blue cloth boards with light shelf wear. Spine gold lettering faded. Top edge gilt has dust damage over time. No marks splits and tears. All books are in the same condition. Just a WONDERFUL fine set makes a great addition to any to any library. harper & brothers hardcover
1840réf. 0009006Philadelphia: Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1840. Second edition revised & enlarged. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 166 pages quarter calf printed boards covers rubbed. This is Poe's remarkable adaptation of Thomas Brown's text-book of conchology. This has added American species coverage and a new Introduction by Poe. Illustrated with 12 lithographic plates by Duval of Philadelphia. Note: with state B of Plate 3 no priority with the title as "Part of Shells" see BAL 16131 16132 . Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover
1953réf. 500494On personal letterhead Crescent Beach St. Augustine Fl. May 11 1953. 4to 1 page. Her letters are scarce; To Mr. Miller: "I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that it will be impossible for me to attend the Luncheon in honor of Fanny Butcher. I am dependent on my husband to drive me with my assorted animal family to my summer home. Fanny Butcher has long been a powerful influence in the field of American Letters. While lesser editors have come and gone she has maintained consistent integrity and the highest standards. Of Fanny Butcher the woman I can only say that to know her is to love her. Her warm heart and completely charming personality are a delight to those of us privileged to call ourselves her friends. To many Moore years of her superb editing and her gilt for friendship!". unknown
2000réf. 9538-1New York: Aperture 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Aperture, hardcover
réf. 2221635Sinclair Upton. Youthful Black and White Vintage Photograph Signed "Upton Sinclair" 8" x 10" on original mount of photographer E. Willard Spurr 165 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena Cal. Signed and inscribed to author/newspaperman Harold D. Carew n.d. but ca. 1930 old stains right side of mount most would mat out. Very good. Carew 1890-1943 was a literary editor Pasadena Star-News from 1923 and author of a 3 volume "History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley" 1930. Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 was an American writer. He was best known for the Jungle his 1906 novel exposing the horrors of the U.S. meat packing industry. His other novels include "The Brass Check" 1908 "King Coal" 1917 and "Oil!" 1927. In the 1940s he wrote an 11-volume series about contemporary American character Lanny Budd who travels through time and meets historical figures; "Dragon's Teeth" 1942 in which Budd meets Hitler won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eight of Sinclair's books have been adapted for film and TV including There Will be Blood 2007 based on "Oil!" and starring Daniel Day-Lewis who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Daniel Plainview.
1994réf. 91510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House hardcover
1926réf. 02708BGarden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1926. A bit of foxing to the end papers bumped and rubbed corners with otherwise light shelf wear and solidly bound; long full-page inscription on the leaf preceding the half-title and the owner's name in ink at the top of the leaf following the dedication page; a very decent collectible copy. . First Edition. Quarter Cloth Boards. VG. Illus. by Walter Jack Duncan pen drawings. . 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover. Doubleday, Page & Co. Hardcover
1839réf. 42745William Blackwood Edinburgh and Thomas Cadell London 1839. 7 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved and printed titles; elegantly bound in contemporary full calf sides with gilt frame border backs with flat bands second and fourth compartments with leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt gilt dentelles brown endpapers ribbon markers one volume wanting volume label else a most attractive set in wholly unrestored period binding. William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and Thomas Cadell, London, hardcover
1873réf. 27458Virtue 1873-76. 2 vols. large folio First Edition thus text in double column with engraved frontispieces engraved and printed titles and 37 fine engraved plates all original tissue guards present frontispieces mildly browned; strongly bound in publisher's black half morocco coarse-grain cloth sides ruled in gilt backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments ruled in gilt and blind marbled edges marbled endpapers hinges open but binding entirely sound a remarkably bright clean firm crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. The set comprises Vol. I: Comedies Histories; Vol. II: Histories Tragedies Poems Plays ascribed to Shakespeare; Brief Notice of Opinion on the Writings. This splendid edition of the Bard is illustrated and engraved by some of the leading artists of the period including Leslie Huskisson Maclise Pettie Orchardson and others. The engravings are by Artlett Sharpe Lizars Sherrett Armytage and several more. Of particular interest is the section on attributed pieces - comprising new fewer than thirteen dramas the full texts of which are not easily available elsehwere: Locine; Sir John Oldcastle Part I; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The London Prodigal; The Puritain; A Yorkshire Tragedy; Arden of Feversham sic; King Edward III; George-A-Greene; Fair Em; Mucedorus; The Birth of Merlin; The Merry Devil of Edmonton. A BRIGHT COPY OF AN INPRESSIVE AND IMPORTANT EDITION. Virtue, hardcover
1925réf. 012537New York: The Womanssic Press 1925 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition Stated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Floral paper boards backed in blue cloth. Negligible wear to three cover corners. Gift note. Deckled edges. "As I watch the Christmas candles burn I see in them a symbol of the Great Love which dipped a lustrous spirit into human form that the world in its darkness might be illumined and made beautiful." - P. Twelve. Unexpectedly profound. 96 pp. plus seven blank pages for "My Own Ceremonials.". The Womans(sic) Press hardcover
1790réf. 21624Payne Rivington Davis Longman Dodsley and many others n.d. c.1790. 8 vols. 12mo. on laid paper with eight engraved frontispieces and title-vignettes; most attractively bound in contemporary full tree calf backs framed in gilt with five flat bands ruled and tooled in gilt second and fifth compartments with black leather labels lettered ruled and tooled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with a stylised blossom primrose edges a few light age-stains to backstrips else a remarkably well-preserved bright crisp clean copy. With the small bookplate of Gerard Paxon on front paste-downs. The engravings are by Charles Grignion after drawings by Francis Hayman. The full list of publishers is Messrs Payne Rivington Davis Longman Dodsley White Law Rodson Crowder Johnson Nichols Dilly Robinson Cadell Stuart Bowles Sewell Murray Flexney Baldwin Goldsmith Lowndes Knox Otridge Hayes Piquinet Macqueen & Newbury. The Spectator appeared in two separate series the first edited by Steele and published on weekdays from 1 March 1711 to 6 December 1712 issues 1-555; the second edited by Addison and published thrice weekly from 18 June to 20 December 1714 issues 556-635. The two series were first published in eight successive volumes between 1711 and 1714 and several times during the remainder of the eighteenth century. A beautiful set. NCBEL II 1098. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and many others], hardcover
1811réf. 38124Printed for Thomas Tegg 111 Cheapside 1811. 8vo. LARGE PAPER with fine etched frontispiece original tissue guard present and 6 etched plates ALL DELICATELY COLOURED BY HAND; attractively bound in nineteenth century green half morocco BY CARSS OF GLASGLOW marbled boards ruled in gilt back with five raised bands second compartment ruled and lettered direct in gilt all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt gilt top marbled endpapers uncut a remarkably well-preserved fresh crisp clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. With the binder's ticket on front free endpaper verso and trade ticket of Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow on front paste-down. The charming plates are by Rhodes after Thurston. A SPLENDID EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY EDITION OF SWIFT'S FIRST MAJOR PUBLISHED WORK AND ARGUABLY HIS MOST FAMOUS SATIRE. The notes by Wotton first appeared in the fifth edition of 1710; the unsigned footnotes are by Swift himself. LARGE PAPER COPIES COPIES ARE EXCESSIVELY SCARCE. See NCBEL II 1057-8. Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, hardcover
1825réf. 22339Printed by Nicol at the Shakspeare Press for John Major Fleet-Street 1825. 8vo. First Major Edition Large Paper with a copper-engraved frontispiece mounted on India Paper 10 fine copper-engraved plates mounted on India Paper and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text; handsomely bound in later nineteenth century red full crushed morocco BY MYERS back with five raised bands tooled in gilt second compartment framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design all edges gilt elaborate gilt doublures marbled endpapers a splendid crisp clean copy in superb signed period binding. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate and binder's ticket on front paste-down. LARGE PAPER STATE OF THE FIRST MAJOR EDITION of Walton's great biographical collection issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 Wotton 1665 Hooker 1670 Herbert and 1678 Sanderson. The plates are all early proofs on India Paper; the plate 'The Advocate' is engraved as 'The Pleader'. A LOVELY BRIGHT COPY IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING. JOHNSON RATES THE WORK 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'. [Printed by Nicol at the Shakspeare Press for] John Major, Fleet-Street, hardcover
réf. 113947Spoleto Firenze C.I.S.M.E.L. 1980 - 1998. 19 vols. 25 & 31 cm Vols. 1/15 in publisher's paper wrappers; vol. 16/19 in cloth; weights 40 KG hardcover
1965réf. 000795NY: Viking. First Edition first printing. Hard cover in original dust jacket. Published NY: Viking 1965. 78pp. Illus. w/ 51 b/w photos by Levitt. Black cloth w/ white lettering colored end papers. Oblong 8vo. 7 3/4" x 9 1/4." Photographs of scenes she witnessed in the streets of Harlem Yorkville and the Lower East Side in New York City. Mild ex-office copy. "Department of Education" rubber stamp on front and rear f.l. "duplicate" written over front stamp. Small blank pocket neatly glued to rear pastedown. No other markings. Book is clean straight and tight with no signs of wear. Cloth and pages clean no smudges or marks. Cover lettering bright and sharp. Minor bump curl to tips of fr. cover. Minute rubbing spot to lower tip. DJ is Very Good NOT price clipped price of $6.50 w/ mild fraying at crown/ heel sl. edge curl very light foxing spots on interior side with two areas of sweating at the interior front panel edge fold some visible on inside front panel. Very good in VG dj. Scarce . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1965. Viking unknown
1911réf. 197778First edition. Small folio. 66 plates on coated paper 23 in color; portrait. Original green cloth stamped in gilt with color portrait on upper cover t.e.g. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1923réf. 229165First edition so stated; "E-X". Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped shallow chip across top of jacket spine; two short tears. Some foxing top edge. Very good. 406 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Booksellers re-order coupon on rear dust jacket flap intact. BAL 3536. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
réf. 500659no date 4 lines in purple ink: "And in the hereafter angles may Role the Stone from the grave away! John G. Whittier." 4 1/2 x 7" with integral leaf. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. unknown
1903réf. 31020Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. 1903. Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with fine coloured frontispiece original tissue guard captioned in red present illustrated and printed titles 12 fine coloured plates all original tissue guards captioned in red present and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text; most handsomely bound in red half morocco BY HENRY YOUNG OF LIVERPOOL watered red silk boards ruled in gilt back with five raised bands ruled in gilt second compartment lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with sporting images gilt top marbled endpapers fore-edge very faintly spotted else a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. Sumptuous edition of a sporting classic in elegantly themed contemporary binding. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., hardcover
1889réf. 26556J W Arrowsmith Bristol 1889. 8vo. First Edition First Issue with very numerous illustrations throughout; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with dragonfly motif gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Complete with 3pp publisher's advertisement at end. An elegant copy of the late-nineteenth century classic. Carter & Sadleir V-6. Muir 'Points' p.133; Sterling 498. J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, hardcover
1936réf. 01938ANY: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. 1936. 1st edition with Farrar & Rinehart colophon on title page; spine and outer edges of binding faded else contents clean and tight; occasional underlining in pencil; Lacks dust jacket; 309p. including index. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good. 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
1978réf. 16962MAHS Meath Archaeological and Historical Society Dublin 1978. 8vo. First Edition with pedigree endpapers; original brown cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EMINENT NAVAL HISTORIAN J H OWEN. THE HALF-TITLE BEARS THE FOLLOWING SIGNED INSCRIPTION IN HIS NEAT SCHOLARLY HAND: 'GIVEN TO ME BY THE AUTHOR ELIZABETH HICKEY AT SKEYNE CASTLE CO. MEATH. 8TH SEPT 1988'. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Written by Elizabeth Hickey under the pseudonym Basil Iske and published in a very small print run in 1978 this is the author's first full-length historical study. It records the life of William Nugent and makes an informed case for his possible authorship of the play and sonnets of Shakespeare. MAHS [Meath Archaeological and Historical Society], Dublin, hardcover
1916réf. 39403Smith Elder & Co. 1916. 8vo. Second Impression thus with portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present plates in photogravure all original tissue guards present and facsimiles; in splendid Winchester College prize binding of full tan calf BY RIVIERE boards framed in gilt upper board blocked in gilt with College arms back with raised bands second compartment with green leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments richly tooled in gilt gilt top gilt doublures gilt dentelles marbled endpapers uncut fore-edge very lightly spotted some light and generally inoffensive spotting mainly marginal to text else a remarkably bright fresh copy in well-known and much sought-after prize binding. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER RECTO. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED TO CHARLES OMAN BY WINCHESTER COLLEGE IN 1920 AND BEARS THE PRIZE BOOKPLATE COMPLETED IN MS ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Loosely inserted is a printed invitation card to Oman from the Corporation of London to a formal dinner in 1954. Lee's life of Shakespeare was first published in 1898 and reached its sixth edition in 1908. His new edition rewiritten and greatly enlarged appeared first in in 1915 with the present Second Impression issued in 1916. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1825réf. 7819Talboys & Wheeler and W. Pickering Oxford 1825. 11 vols. 8vo. with engraved armorial vignette on titles; attractively and strongly bound in contemporary full tan calf sides with gilt frame border backs with five raised bands second and third compartments with red and black leather labels lettered in gilt all other compartments richly ruled and tooled in gilt doublures tooled in blind all edges marbled one volume neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down six labels three red and three black missing but residual lettering wholly legible in blind backstrips rather scuffed and age-worn particularly on sixth volume joints mildly rubbed but all bindings entirely sound else a handsome internally crisp and spotless extended set in elaborate period binding. This set includes all half-titles but was bound without the engraved portrait of Johnson often present in first or third volumes. Published in the series 'Oxford English Classics' this edition was supervised by Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and later Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The set was originally to comprise nine volumes see titles; the tenth and eleventh volumes containing the 'Debates' were issued as supplements. Volume one contains Murphy's 'Essay' first published separately in 1792. In volume nine 'Journey' retains the dates of August 13 'Lough Ness' and September 20 'Skye' but corrects the error about the Macleods. Courtney & Nichol Smith pp.166-7; CBEL II p.614 Talboys & Wheeler, and W. Pickering, Oxford, hardcover
1825réf. 12152Galignani and Didot Paris 1825. 4 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with 2 engraved portraits frontispieces in first volume original tissue guards present neat mid-nineteenth century signature on front free endpaper verso some mild spotting to portraits and guards some very light age-staining to text; handsomely bound in contemporary olive full calf BY PURGOLD sides with multiple frame border comprising two gilt frames and two elaborate floral frames in blind backs with four raised bands ruled in gilt second compartments with black leather label lettered and ruled in gilt fourth compartments numbered and ruled in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled and ruled in gilt and blind all edges gilt gilt doublures marbled endpapers sides and backstrips lightly age-scuffed very neatly rebacked in calf to style with old backstrips laid down second and third volumes with small patches at head of backstrips a good firm example of the great romantic binder's style SIGNED BY PURGOLD AT FOOT OF FIRST BACKSTRIP. A very good example of the great romantic binder in his heyday and only five years before his death. At this stage he was still working from Cassette 18 before his relocation to rue de Roule and collaboration with Bauzonnet. In his comparison of the three great craftsmen of the 'triumviri' Ramsden nominates Purgold as 'perhaps the best binder of the three He is also in spirit as in name the least French of the three'. Ramsden p.6. Galignani and Didot, Paris, hardcover
