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1987réf. CCC-1271-85261987-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1987 signed and inscribed first edition W.O. Kirker Cold Spring Kentucky 8 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches tall brown faux leather hardcover no dust jacket as issued gilt lettering to front cover and spine 14 478 4 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers with slight bumping to the lower edge of the front cover and both the upper and lower edges of the rear cover. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page. Otherwise a very good copy - clean bright and unmarked - of this scarce memoir and family history. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~CCC~ 4.0P The memoirs of Ellen Laman Hood 1900-1995 'as recounted to her son Bill and his wife Barbara during a 1984 journey to visit all her previous homesites.' Contents: Coal Valley Illinois 1900-1904; Braddock North Dakota 1904-1909; Walnut Valley Kansas 1909-1911; Fulton Kansas 1911-1914; Grand Haven Michigan: The Laman Family Relations; Tustin Michigan 1914-1916; McBain Michigan 1916-1926; Alma Michigan 1916-1923; Grand Ledge Michigan 1923-1926; Detroit Michigan 1926-1931; Marlette Michigan; Snover Michigan 1931-1936; Sandusky Michigan 1936-1953; Lexington Michigan 1940-1941; Mount Clemens Michigan 1953-1954; Dexter Michigan 1954-1955; Ypsilanti Michigan 1955-1984. hardcover
1917réf. 50881Philadelphia: Bailey Banks & Biddle Co. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine in blue cloth/buckram with gold lettering no dust jacket as issued; minor rubbing to board corners and spine ends attractive poetic bookplate inside front cover else a clean tight copy with all tissue overlays present in a strong binding; a remarkably bright fresh copy; first printing from 1917; 107 pages . Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. hardcover
1840réf. 26260Washington City 1840. Very good overall. Image with blocked tan color shading of the sky and lawn. Depicting the west front of Mt. Vernon at the center of the image with the south and north colonnades servants' quarters and gardener's house visible. Two men in top hats and long tail coats converse at te center; an African American approaches with a package under his arm. Printed below the image "Lith. of P. Haas Washington". 10 1/2 x 7 1/2" on paper 11 3/4 x 9". Slight fox spotting mostly on the margins a few spots below the printed title. unknown
réf. 26259Washington City. Very good overall. A lithograph depicting the eastern side of Mt. Vernon looking south showing the colonnaded facade and piazza opening on a sloping lawn with the Potomac in the background with a steamboat and ships visible. Several visitors stroll about the lawn. Printed below the image "Lith. of P. Haas Washington". 9 1/2 x 7 1/2" on paper 11 3/4 x 9". Slight fox spotting mostly on the margins. unknown
1858réf. 64196original-colour lithograph. Botanical print from "Curtis's Botanical Magazine Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew and of Other Botanical Establishments in Great Britain Vol. 14 of the Third Series or Vol. 84 of the Whole Work. pl. 5066. Walter Hood Fitch 1817–1892 was a botanical illustrator born in Glasgow Scotland who executed some 10000 drawings for various publications. His work in colour lithograph including 2700 illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine produced up to 200 plates per year. His nephew John Nugent Fitch 1840–1927 also produced illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Vincent Brooks 1815-1885 was London based printer and lithographer whose firm took over Day & Son in 1867 to form Vincent Brooks Day & Son. Bergenia purpurascens the purple bergenia is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. This species is a perennial herb and is native to Nepal the eastern Himalayas Assam Tibet south-central China and Myanmar. Useful feature in the garden is the visual interest that its foliage provides by turning a deep beet red during the winter. Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14224#page/1/mode/1up book; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hood_Fitch; https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/vincent-brooks. Condition: very good. Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon. in London.
1904réf. 30England: Edward Arnold 1904. Limited Edition. Hardcover. fine. Octavo. 94 pages. Blue cloth over tan textured boards. Paper title label to front cover and spine. Limited to 200 copies of which this is copy #57. Printed with three drawings by Reginald Savage under the care of C. R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press. This copy has an original drawing by Reginald Savage which is reproduced on page 24 depicting Miss Kilmansegg being thrown from her horse. Unique. Edward Arnold, hardcover
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1860réf. 5077NY NY: Derby & Jackson 1860. Cloth. Very Good . Beautiful book very nice condition lightly scuffed at the spine. Derby & Jackson hardcover
1967réf. 8500Toronto: Peter Martin Associates 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. SIGNED by author Hugh Hood. Dust jacket has some shelf-wear to edges otherwise great condition. Peter Martin Associates hardcover
réf. 1531The Rectory Cossington. Fine. 7" x 4.5" 2 pp. bordered in black mourning stationary following her husband's death in 1842 dated 8 Oct 1846 with mail folds. Content: Making arrangements and appointments "Mr. Moxon begs you will send him a line - he has appointed me to meet hi at Doctors Commons on Friday next at twelve" likely being Edward MoxonDec 1801 - Jun 1858 a British poet and publisher significant in Victorian literature. She likens her unfortunate life situtation to that of a fictional characther "Am I not like the Lady in The Bold Stone for a wife - waiting the consent of the three guardians" 7" x 4.5" 2 pp. on stationary with mail fold. c. 1865. Content: Date established by Hood's comment "I am going to leave the War Office." which he did in 1875; "I send you a picture of Lake House Wanstead - the house where I was born - it was originally the banquet hall of Wanstead House."; Greatly looking forward to the new freedom in his life and lamenting the loss of his pet dog "It seems like a dream almost to think of having my time to myself & I have literary work now I know has to get through. I have just lost a very old favorite - my poor little doy Topsy" 7" x 4.5" 3 pp. Two mail folds small ink smudge on rear previous auctioneer note in pencil on blank verso. From the daughter of poet Thomas Hood and sister of humorist and editor Tom Hood. Content: Returning Mr. Hall's manuscript a memorial about her father "I return your M. S. with many thanks. It is so charming."; She goes on to clarify details about the history of the property at Winchmore Hill and thank him for his work "I must once more express my sincere pleasure that you are yourself superintending the publication of your memorials". Jane Hood married to the editor humorist and often pracitical joker Thomas Hood. Thomas was always a frail man and had a prolonged illness in the final years of his life. Frances Freeling Broderip 1830 - Nov 1878 was an English children's writer. She was named after her father's friend Sir Francis Freeling the secretary to the general post office. She was married to the Rev. John Somerville Broderip and moved to the family's home Cossington Manor. In 1857 Mrs. Broderip commenced her literary career by the publication of Wayside Fancies which was followed in 1860 by Funny Fables for Little Folks the first of a series of her works to which the illustrations were supplied by her brother Tom Hood. Tom Hood Jan 1835 - Nov 1874 was an English humorist and playwright and son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. A prolific author in 1865 he was appointed editor of the magazine Fun. He founded Tom Hood's Comic Annual in 1867. He also wrote two books on English verse composition several children's books in conjunction with his sister Frances Freeling Broderip and a body of magazine and journal articles. Hood drew with considerable facility and illustrated several of his father's comic verses some of which were collected in his father's book Precocious Piggy. unknown
1856réf. 0000548Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1856-1857. vols. I-II 1857; vols. III-IV 1856. Four volumes issued as part of the series "The British Poets" and with the spine titles thus but complete in and of themselves. 16mo. lvi 320 iv 344 283 1 and v 280 pages plus frontispiece portrait in vol. I. 4-page ads in vol. I before front free endpaper. Original dark brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. 17.4 cm. Chips and wear to spine ends; corners bumped and a little worn. Name on front pastedowns. Frontispiece and first title page foxed and some scattered foxing elsewhere; last forty or so pages in vol. I with corner creases. Good plus. Reprints. A made-up set using different printings but one apparently assembled many years ago with the same early owner's name and notations on the endpapers. The bindings are of uniform design with a trifling difference in the shade of the cloth on the third and fourth volumes. Thomas 1799-1845 was a poet known for his humorous verses and for his later topical poems including The Song of the Shirt "The Workhouse Clock" The Lay of the Labourer" and The Bridge of Sighs. Little, Brown, & Co. hardcover
2017réf. 2-1976705525Independently published 2017. Paperback. New. 774 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.94 inches. Independently published paperback
1863réf. 023618Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas 1863. Brown cloth 8vo. Folding track chart 9 full page tinted lithos including frontis 4 b/w plates full page plan of ruins at Ascension Island 6 text illustrations. Appendices of fossil remains in New Zealand cannibalism in Fiji etc. Hood made stops at Niue Samoa Norfolk Island and New Caledonia and he gives an account of Pitcairn and the Bounty and the descendants of the mutineers on Norfolk. Ex-library rebacked with spine strip laid on white library lettering on spine shallow pitting wear to board edges moslty to corners age browing to edges faded name to fep binding tight. First Edition. Hb. VG/None. Edmonton and Douglas Hardcover
1852réf. 41061852. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 245mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Tasmania. Australian native botanical lithograph from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Small ink inscription on descriptive text. unknown
1843réf. 25501843. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of the Blue Mountains. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
1854réf. 5291854. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 250mm by 170mm sheet. Native of New Zealand. Walter Hood Fitch was one of the most famous botanical artists of the Victorian era.From 'A Century of Ferns' by Sir William Jackson Hooker.With accompanying descriptive text. unknown
1862réf. 25801862. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 250mm by 150mm sheet. Native of King George's Sound Western Australia. Walter Hood Fitch was one of the most famous botanical artists of the Victorian era. Australian native botanical lithograph from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
1846réf. 5231846. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 320mm by 255mm sheet. The lamented Allan Cunningham discovered this plant on the banks of the Brisbane River Moreton Bay Queensland. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by a photocopy of the original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
1854réf. 5251854. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 250mm by 170mm sheet. Native of Swan River Tasmania New Zealand. Walter Hood Fitch was one of the most famous botanical artists of the Victorian era.From 'A Century of Ferns' by Sir William Jackson Hooker.With accompanying descriptive text. unknown
1848réf. 25441848. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Swan River. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Small ink inscription on descriptive text. unknown
1843réf. 25381843. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Western Australia. Walter Hood Fitch was one of the most famous botanical artists of the Victorian era. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Minor ink inscription on descriptive text. unknown
1844réf. 25511844. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Tasmania. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
1851réf. 25451851. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Swan River. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Small ink inscription on descriptive text.A couple of faint foxing spots. unknown
1854réf. 5191854. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. From Curtis's Botanical Magazine. unknown
