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1938réf. 18611New York: The Derrydale Press. Fine. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A most attractive unnumbered review copy of a first edition limited to nine hundred and fifty copies printed by Eugene V. Connett on laid paper. About Fine condition in original cloth bright gilded labels slightly rubbed along spine; "Those who hunt after the fashion of a philosopher seeking to live for a while as a child of nature will be blessed by the wind and the sun and will know a great peace nothing can upset or disturb." - Rutherford G. Montgomery ; 8vo; xx 248 2 pages . The Derrydale Press hardcover books
1843réf. 54775London: Tilt and Bogue 1843. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. li 378 viii 341 1pp. Original crushed Morocco with elaborate gilt tooling and ruling on covers gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spines; raised bands. Gilt edges. Light yellow endpapers. Ribbon markers. Striking 2-vol. set of the poetical works of John Milton with a Memoir and critical remarks on his genius and writings by James Montgomery. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings by John Thompson S. and T. Williams O. Smith J. Linton and others from drawings by William Harvey. This collection contains: A Memoir and critical remarks on his genius and writings by James Montgomery Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agoniste Comus Arcade Minor Poems and Poemata. Very light wear to edges of binding. Some light foxing to first and last few pages of both volumes. Ribbon markers somewhat frayed. Tilt and Bogue hardcover books
1869réf. 35855New York: G. P. Putnam & Son 1869. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XVI 464pp. Original gilt and blind-stamped olive cloth with gold lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Striking mounted sepia photograph of Farragut as frontispiece. Additional engraved title. Decorative tailpieces. This remarkable work relates the cruise of Admiral D. G. Farragut commanding the European Squadron in 1867-68 onboard the Flag-Ship Franklin. David Glasgow Farragut 1801-1870 was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral vice admiral and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead!" by U.S. Navy tradition. biographical detail courtesy of Wikipedia. This work is superbly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page engravings and several in-text illustrations. Each plate is protected with a tissue-guard. Moderate shelf wear. Hinges slightly starting. Tissue-guard protecting the frontispiece is foxed and partly torn. Additional title slightly foxed. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. G. P. Putnam & Son hardcover books
1905réf. 16494New York: The Saalfield Publishing Co 1905. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 140pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Some scuffing chipping and minor staining to binding. Head and tail of spine chipped. Wear to corners and parts of edges. Color frontispiece. Illustrated title-page. Delightfully illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings by Montgomery. Nice copy of this classic series. Binding in good interior in very good condition. The Saalfield Publishing Co hardcover books
1940réf. 64872Washington Providence Montauk etc. One undated; 5 August 1940; and two envelopes postmarked 25 April 1941 and 29 April1943. Monty on Montauk Four substantial boisterous opinionated and occasionally inebriated letters from Flagg to Willis Birchman addressed variously as "Kid" "Country Gentlemen" "Dear Temperamental Meringue" and "Will Bill" who became one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. One letter 4pp. in ink on letterhead of the Providence Biltmore consists of an account of a rather Cutty Sark driven meeting with "Cecil" likely film star Cecil Humphreys with whom he had a long association. Another letter 4pp. written on letterhead of Montauk Manor at Montauk Beach is in pencil and opens with an attractive pencil drawing of a beach scene with cars parked and facing out over the ocean; it relates chiefly to the circumstances of his stay at Montauk and is signed "Cap. Kidd." Another letter 4pp in ink on letterhead of the Hotel Raleigh relates to events surrounding a vague series of meetings in Washington DC involving representatives of the Australian and British governments stops at embassies a meeting with Sumner Welles etc. The last letter dated simply Friday 2pp. in ink is somewhat diffuse but mentions a pending trip to Washington and meetings there perhaps anticipating the stay mentioned in the letter above. Flagg 1877 - 1960 was in his time one of the most prolific and popular of American artists and illustrators. His best known work was one of the most widely distributed recruitment posters for the US military: the iconic image of Uncle Sam captioned "I Want YOU for U.S. Army". Three in ink one in pencil. Folded for mailing otherwise fine accompanied by two envelopes addressed in his hand hastily torn open at one end. unknown books
1810réf. 25876New York: Published by Prior & Dunning 1810. American edition after the original London edition. "Written to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade. The title piece sketches the history of the islands the misery of the blacks the work of the missionaries and abolitionists and the ending of the traffic which was to mark the beginning of an era of general better feeling understanding and happiness for all" - Ragatz. Contemporary calf. Backstrip lacking front cover detached. A bit tanned else internally clean and good. SABIN 50147. RAGATZ p.530 ref. unknown books
1827réf. 68286Charlestown Navy Yard January 1 1827. Court Martial for a Rude Sailor A brief letter from Commodore William Montgomery Crane to Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard regarding charges brought against a midshipman by the name of Farnifold Green. The letter reads as follows: "Sir I forward herewith Charges & specifications of charges exhibited by Lieut. John White against midshipman Farnifold Green. I have furnished him with the charges & informed him that application would be made for his trial by Court Martial. He is now under suspension. I know nothing of this Officer personally. Lt. White represents his conduct as excessively outrageous & personally abusive. I forward a copy of his letter to me previous to the exhibition of charges not present." "Excessively outrageous" was an appropriate description for Green's actions in the navy. Despite being a noncommissioned officer the Southerner was a perpetual drunk both on and off duty who did little to hold back his invective for his superiors. In the Court Martial Lieutenant White recounted multiple incidents during which Green "repeated a great deal of abusive language; I could scarcely understand what he did say" and that he declared "My name is Green Farnifold Green of North Carolina and care for no Northern officer." He also "threw himself into an attitude for boxing" exclaiming to White "I'll crush you to hell by God!" He was also accused of dereliction of duty and faking illness to avoid work. Unsurprisingly insubordination and drunkenness were not deemed qualities befitting an officer: Green was found guilty of all charges ejected from the Navy. He then applied to John Quincy Adams a Northerner if there ever was one hoping to be reinstated but does not appear to have been successful. William M. Crane 1784-1846 began his naval career in 1799 aboard the U.S.S. United States. In 1807 he was present on the Chesapeake during its fateful encounter with H.M.S. Leopard. He commanded the schooner Nautilus during the War of 1812 where much like the crew of his former ship he was captured by H.M.S. Shannon. After his release he served under Chauncey on Lake Ontario until the end of the war. While serving as the first chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography he was traumatized by the fatal explosion on board the frigate Princeton in 1844 and eventually committed suicide in his own office in 1846. "Despite an untimely demise…Crane's career personifies the professionalism of the nineteenth-century naval officer corps" – ANB. Old folds minor soiling. Near fine. ANB 5 pp.680-81. unknown books
1853réf. 55623Silver Creek NY: Greenleaf & Montgomery 1853. An Unrecorded Steam Power Broadside A seemingly unrecorded early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek New York. Silver Creek on the shore of Lake Erie was founded in the early 19th century by Massachusetts residents incorporated in 1848 and became an important Great Lakes port town until the coming of the railroad. The area had a number of businesses active in producing machinery including Howes Babcock given its strategic location in the country's westward expansion. The present broadside advertises a steam engine works operated by Greenleaf & Montgomery. William R. Greenleaf and Ezekiel Montgomery formed the company to produce steam engines and mill machinery through the use of steam power. Here they argue for the superiority of steam-operated saws touting their ability to cut "twenty-five feet of lumber per minute." The company also advertises their invention of "Mully Heads for Saw Mills" which will "saw more lumber with less power than any sash mill can and are less liable to get out of repair." No copies reported in OCLC the NUC or any other sources we could find. Possibly a unique surviving steam power broadside from Upstate New York in 1853. Letterpress broadside 12¼ x 11¾ inches. Moderate edge wear minor loss near top edge. Some creasing minor soiling and staining. Overall very good. unknown books
1998réf. 233203Reprint Co 1998-10-31. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 7x1x10. Hardcover First edition with a dust jacket. Jacket has a small tear at the top edge but is otherwise very good. Internally the text is Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. Reprint Co hardcover books
1970réf. 80873New York NY.: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1970. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This book is hard-bound in salmon colored cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine in a dust jacket with light soiling and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations in black & white and color. . The Viking Press hardcover books
réf. 28717MONTGOMERY Dennis. A LINK AMONG THE DAYS. Richmond: The Dietz Press 1998. 8vo. Wrappers. 320 pages. First edition. The first full-length biography of Doctor W.A.R. Goodwin the man who encouraged John D. Rockefeller to fund Colonial Williamsburg. Cover creased and lightly spotted. unknown books
réf. 36248MONTGOMERY James. POEMS OF JAMES MONTGOMERY. London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1860. 4to. Deluxe decorated publisher's cloth. Frontispiece xx 380 pages. First edition thus. Illustrated with one hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster John Gilbert Duncan and others. The book is illustrated in McLean's Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings. While the binding is unattributed Ball and others believe the design is by Albert Warren. Some sporadic foxing to first and last few leaves else very good. unknown books
réf. 28357MONTGOMERY Charles F. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PEWTER. New York: Weathervane Books 1973. 8vo. Cloth spine boards dust jacket. x 246 pages. First edition. Illustrated study of American pewter from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries featuring the Winterthur collection. Included is a catalogue of pewterer's maker's marks. Dust jacket rubbed else very good. unknown books
1936réf. 140948510Santiago Lima Pittsburgh et al.: No publisher 1936. Good. Archive of correspondence ephemera and newspaper clippings from the collection of Mal T. Melchades Thomas Montgomery. Overall Good condition with some soiling staining and toning. Born in Pennsylvania in 1878 Montgomery became a railroad traffic expert and worked in Pittsburgh Mexico Argentina Chile and Puerto Rico. This collection dates mainly from the late 1920s and early 1930s and includes the following: -1928 scrapbook mottled and stained on the front board containing Chilean newspaper clippings relating to transit. Also tipped in is a carbon copy of a letter to Senor Montgomery noting that an "unfair" complaint printed in a Lima newspaper had been instigated by an army officer annoyed that his stop wasn't more conveniently located. Other articles are more complimentary; one scrapbook entry heaps praise upon Montgomery for his skillful management of the challenges of running buses through a densely populated city with narrow streets. - 6 small leatherette notebooks dated 1923-1932 including 4 pocket diaries and 2 booklets filled with ruled or graph paper. Entries are minimal and consist mainly of names addresses and appointments. The 1932 diary was issued by the Westinghouse International Electric Company and features Spanish-language information about the company and a foldout map of South America. Moderate to heavy wear to notebooks; one lacking covers. - 2 group photographs in which Montgomery appears. The larger creased and somewhat stained is annotated in red ink and features two ambassadors as well as "yours truly." - 24 pieces of ephemera from South America including bus and tram ticket books annotated business cards and a pamphlet about the influence of communism on Chile. - Correspondence and memoranda. Includes a study of a proposed bus service between Santiago and San Bernardo an opinion piece on scheduling a proposal for Green Bus Lines in Queens and an analysis of service improvements in Argentina. The last notes at the end that "the men are impossible in Tucaman but the manner in which they are controlled is the cause of most of the trouble." Workers were discharged before an investigation then recalled when exonerated with a mea culpa from the Manager -- a manner of proceeding not likely to inspire respect. An interesting collection that sheds light on the challenges of transportation planning in the Americas. [No publisher] unknown books
1973réf. 140946622New York: Walker and Company 1973. First American edition. First American edition. 192 pp. with illustrations. Bound in navy cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket with a hint of toning else Fine. An uncommon book about the search for a Loch Ness Monster-type cryptid in Scotland's Lake Morar. Walker and Company unknown books
1920réf. 140945685Boston: The Page Company 1920. First edition. First edition. xvi 301 1 4 12 pp. Bound in publisher's original ribbed turquoise cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated onlay to upper board ruled in blind. Near Fine light shelf wear bookplate on front free endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. An attractive copy. A collection of short stories in the enduringly popular Anne of Green Gables series. The Page Company unknown books
1966réf. 140942054Cleveland OH: 7 Flowers Press 1966. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 11 leaves plus cover text on rectos only. Side stapled wrappers. Very Good folded horizontally front wrap toned and a little stained. One of 200 copies. A scarce mimeo publication from Cleveland poet and activist d.a. levy's 7 Flowers Press. 7 Flowers Press unknown books
1916réf. 170525002Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth printed in black. Very Good. Spine toned cloth lightly soiled and with a water spot to the rear cover light wear to spine ends. Gilt stamping to front cover has almost all but tarnished to black as is very common with this title. Top edge of page block shows a stain foxing and a patch of wear. Previous owner initials in ink and small bookseller ticket to front free end paper. Pages foxed heavily throughout. The first of Canadian-born author L. M. Montgomery's books to be published by a Canadian publisher. The poem "The Watchman" was recited at the author's funeral. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart unknown books
1940réf. 625483Chicago: Scott Foresman and Company 1940. Softcover. Near Fine. Unknown edition. Code "12.44" on copyright page possibly indicating a 1944 edition. Illustrated by Eleanor Campbell. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Quarter canvas and illustrated paper wrappers. Top corner a bit bumped else near fine. Scott, Foresman and Company unknown books
réf. 147921hardcover. 638pp. 8vo cloth; binding lightly soiled. N.Y.: Random House 1965. unknown books
1957réf. 1673Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co. Limited 1957. Wraps. Near fine. Eleanor CAMPBELL. SCHOOL READER. Eleanor CAMPBELL illustrator. 12mo; 64pp; stiff pictorial yellow wrapper title on front in black 2 vignettes of children at play on front black cloth shelf back; unused condition; darkened fore edge of front wrapper small chip to top edge else near fine. Part of the Dick and Jane series of school readers featuring Dick Jane Father Mother Baby Spot the dog Tim and Puff the cat. W.J. Gage & Co., Limited unknown books
1966réf. 71817NY: Fleet Publishing 1966. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 217ppindex. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper else a very good hardback in a price clipped and lightly rubbed jacket. Fleet Publishing hardcover books
1927réf. 603799New York: Harper & Brothers 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Decorations and illustration by Aaron Douglas. Introduction by Alain Locke. Octavo. 430pp. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards with applied paper spine label. Contemporary bookplate of Lowell Thorsen Blanchard on front pastedown rubbing at the edges of the fragile Douglas-decorated papercovered boards modest loss at the paper spine label lacking the rare dust jacket. A collection of 20 plays for the Negro theatre by both Black and White writers including Jean Toomer Georgia Johnson Willis Richardson Lucy White Eulalie Spence Ridgley Torrence Eugene O'Neill and Paul Green. Exceptionally scarce. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1898réf. 11482Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co 1898. Very Good. Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co. 1898. First Edition. Octavo. 96 pp. Front cover and nine interior black and white illustrations by Denslow. Illustrated paper wraps. Wraps edgeworn with some chipping. Binding is sound. Pages toned and a bit brittle but unmarked. Housed in a custom-made clamshell case. Scarce bit of advertising work done by Denslow two years before The Wizard of Oz. No copies in retail at time of this writing and scarce in auction records. Greene & Hearn p. 207. Montgomery Ward & Co unknown books
1919réf. 15986RAINBOW VALLEY Stokes 1919 first edition a bright vg copy with some light wear. $215.50 postpaid a bit more to the west coast. Stokes unknown books
