Drawings by J Ewbank; Engraved by W H Lizars Historical Sketch by James Browne, Esq AM A MBiblio.com
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1825réf. 002036Edinburgh: Printed for Daniel Lizars 1825. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Quarto 4to. An important comprehensively illustrated late-Georgian topographical survey of Edinburgh featuring the historical text by James Browne alongside stunning scenery compiled by the Lizars printing dynasty.Collation: Verified 100% complete. Collates as: Engraved frontispiece half-title page xiv contents pp. 1-225 plus 51 full-page engraved plates totaling 52 plates including frontispiece.Exquisitely illustrated with 52 crisp detailed copperplate engravings by William Home Lizars from drawings by John Ewbank depicting historic street scenes panoramic vistas castles and monument architecture across the Old and New Towns. Housed in the scarce original publisher's binding of a black leather spine with gilt titles over thick grey paper-covered boards. .Condition: Fair to Good. The original binding is heavily worn and rubbed with notable chipping to the corner tips and edges of the paper boards though the text block remains completely tight solid and square on its joints. Internally the text pages are in a surprising remarkably clean and bright state. The plates exhibit mild to occasionally heavier foxing mainly confined to the outer margins. .Exceptional Engraver's Presentation Provenance: The front free endpaper features a highly significant crisp contemporary ink inscription dated 1829: "John Carr presented by the engraver". This establishes the volume as an authentic direct gift from the master engraver William Home Lizars to John Carr a prominent contemporary Edinburgh merchant for whom Lizars' studio designed commercial trade engravings. A wonderful unique association copy deeply tied to the historical printing network of the city Printed for Daniel Lizars hardcover
1938réf. 059510Akron / New York / Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1938. First Edition . Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10" Tall. 123 Pp. Hardcover Illustrated Boards Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing. A Bright Clean Example Near Fine Trace Of Rubbing In Small Areas At Edges Former Owner's Name On Front Endpaper Later A Mia Pilot. Dust Jacket Bright And Clean Rubbing In A Few Small Areas Along Spine Edges And At Top And Bottom Of Spine With A 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel Thin Strip Of Browning Along Top Edges Of Flaps Still Near Fine. The Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover
1935réf. 059676New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 317 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Blue With Blue Topstain. First Edition First Printing 1935 Van Rees Press No Additional Printings Noted Beige Cloth With Blue Topstain As Published. 1/4000 Copies Of The First Printing. Front Cover Immaculate Spine And Rear Cover Also Bright And Clean Except Some Very Faint Age Toning To Spine -Much Less Than Usual- And A Small Area Of Light Discoloration Near Center Of Rear Cover. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. Beginning To Fray Along Lower Edge Of Spine At Two Lower Tips And Top Two Corners Of Spine; 1" Frayed Along Center Of Rear Spine Edge Only. Contents Immaculate No Foxing Or Marks. Small Previous Owner's Name John L. Garner On Front Endpaper. Front Hinge Slightly Loose But Hinge Sound No Cracks Or Damage Book Is Otherwise Square And Tight. Covici Friede Publishers hardcover
1927réf. 058697Paris: Les Arts et Le Livre / M. Audin et Cie. 1927. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Good. 11 1/2" Tall. 1/1500 copies sur velin teinte. Covers loose one cord holding. 8" x 5 3/4" illustration and title on front cover. covers dampstained at foredge some wrinkling to endpapers only at foredge. Paper quite aged browning at edges. Fine drawings. Scarce. Les Arts et Le Livre / M. Audin et Cie. hardcover
1927réf. 058912New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1927. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Good. A Bright Clean Copy. Plain Paper Spine Paper Split Aling Front Edge Neatly Repaired With Archival Materials; Spine Paper Also Frayed At Top And Bottom. 1/8" Fray At Lower Front Corner At Tip. Hinges Solid No Marks Or Damage To Interior. Dodge Publishing Company hardcover
1929réf. 058961New York: Simon And Schuster 1929. Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 293 Pp. With Inner Sanctum Ad For This Title On Verso Of P. 293 Green Cloth Gilt Lettering On Spine Gilt Deer On Front Cover Color Lithograph Endpapers. First American Edition Was 1928 But This Edition Has 1929 Copyright Date And 1929 On Title Page The 1928 Edition States "First Printing In America July 1928" On The Copyright Page. Light Wear Gilt Brilliant No Fraying Former Owner's Information On Half-Title Dated Christmas 1928 Although Title Page And Copyright Page Show 1929. Simon And Schuster hardcover
1974réf. 058992Hong Kong: Leon Amiel Publisher Inc. 1974 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 317 Pp. White Boards Gilt. Undated Circa 1974. Fine In Near Fine Dj With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corner Slight Fading To Spine And To Top And Foredge Of Front Panel Not Price Clipped No Names Or Marks. Leon Amiel Publisher Inc. [1974?] hardcover
1947réf. 058305New York: Henry Holt and Company 1947. First Edition First Printing stated . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. 233 Pp. Orange Cloth. First Printing Stated. Book Is Bright And Clean No Marks Near Fine. Dj Priced $2.75 Very Bright Very Clean Very Faint Water Spotting And Splash Marks 5/8" Tear At Bottom Of Front Flap Fold. Non-Fiction Autobiograp;Hy. Henry Holt and Company hardcover
1933réf. 10947Paris: Flammarion 1933. First Edition. Staplebound. Near fine. Square small quarto unpaginated. 12 leaves of illustrations the first six printed versos only; the second six printed rectos only. With eight color gels laid into their original envelope tipped onto the rear wrapper as issued. There are two each of green blue red and orange. Though the instructions direct the reader to cut them into small peices to be used all eight are intact. As primary colors they can all be combined to create different shades when laid over the illustrations. These French "magic lantern" books are quite uncommon in the trade and especially so in complete unused condition. There is mild soiling to the wrappers with some small chips to the extremities including the spine but the contents are in excellent condition; overall a near fine example. Text entirely in French. Flammarion unknown
1928réf. 035732Stanford University: Stanford University Press 1928. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Photographs And Drawings By Ruth Taylor. Xi1 178 Pp. Beige Wrappers Extra Front And Rear Blank Endpapers Map Endpapers Bound In As Usual At Front And Back. 9 5/8" Tall Rough Cut Second Printing 1928 Considerably Taller Than Later Editions. Book With Slight Signs Of Use No Marks. Per Wikipedia Horace Marden Albright 1890 - 1987 Was An American Conservationist And The Second Director Of The National Park Service. Horace Albright Was Born In 1890 In Bishop California The Son Of George Albright A Miner. He Graduated From The University Of California Berkeley In 1912 And Earned A Law Degree From Georgetown University. Albright Married His College Classmate Grace Noble And They Had Two Children. After Graduation He Worked For The Department Of The Interior In Washington D.C. Albright Became A Legal Assistant To Stephen Mather When Mather Became Assistant Secretary In Charge Of National Parks And Later Assisted Mather When The National Park Service Nps Was Established In 1916. As Legal Assistant He Helped Acquire Land For Several New National Parks In The East. When Mather Became Ill Albright Managed The Nps As Acting Director. He Later Served As Superintendent Of Yellowstone National Park And For A Short Time Yosemite National Park. On October 18 1922 He Was Elected Associate Member Of The Boone And Crockett Club A Wildlife Conservation Organization Founded By Theodore Roosevelt And George Bird Grinnell In 1887. On January 12 1929 Albright Succeeded Mather As The Second Director Of The Nps And Held The Post Until August 9 1933. He Next Worked For The U.S. Potash Corporation And U.S. Borax And Chemical Corporation Serving Variously As Director Vice President And General Manager. During This Time The Albrights Lived In New Rochelle New York. In 1969 Albright Received The National Audubon Society's Highest Honor The Audubon Medal. The Nation's Highest Civilian Award The Presidential Medal Of Freedom Was Awarded To Albright By President Jimmy Carter On The 64Th Anniversary Of The National Park Service. President Carter Announced The Award In August 1980 And The Medal Was Presented On December 8 By Assistant Secretary Of The Interior Robert L. Herbst In A Ceremony At Van Nuys California. Albright Grove A Grove Of Old-Growth Hemlocks And Tulip Poplars Located In The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Was Named In Albright's Honor. The Albright Training Center At Grand Canyon National Park The Albright Visitor Center At Yellowstone National Park And Albright Peak In Grand Teton National Park Also Bear His Name Stanford University Press paperback
1957réf. 030480Englewood Cloffs: Prentice-Hall Inc 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. Xvii 198 Pp. First Printing. Yellow Boards. Book Very Near Fine Just Shallow Bumping At Ends Of Spine. Dj Not Price-Clipped $2.95 Would Be Near Fine But Has 1/8" To 5/8" Chip Across Bottom Of Spine. Clean And Bright. Prentice-Hall Inc hardcover
1936réf. 029983New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Xx 282 Pp. Blue Cloth With Black Lettering Illustrated Endpapers Name Of Doubleday Doran At Base Of Spine Of Book And Dj Doubleday Doran On Title Page "Fr" Logo On Copyright Page With Copyright Date 1936 And "First Edition" Statement Price $2.00 At Top Of Front Flap With Identification Of The Illustrators Neither Present On The Junior Guild Edition And Code 1126-36 At Bottom Of Front Flap Of Dj. Book Is Near Fine Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners No Names Or Marks. Dj With Color Illustration On Front Panel Same As The Frontispiece Light Wear 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Panel 1/8" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel Both With Associated Shallow Creasing Extending From The Tears. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1891réf. 028835Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe 1891. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 374 Pp. Purplish-Blue Cloth Spine Gilt. Copyright 1889 First Edition 1890 This Second Edition 1891 Date On Title Page With Added Chapter 23 "Some Omitted Incidents" Not In The Original 1890 Printing. Slight Fading To Spine Cloth All Gilt Still Brilliant No Wear Or Marks. Ownership Signature A Prominent Jpl Astronomer And Date At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown. Cranston & Stowe hardcover
1947réf. 027591Philadelphia: Prime Press 1947. First Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 455 Pp. First Edition. Dj With Price Clipped No $3.00 Price Stamped At Top Of Front Flap. Very Lightly Used 1/8" Square Chip At Upper Rear Spine Edge With Adjacent 1" X 1/8" Surface Abrasion Extending Onto Rear Panel. Inscribed By Smith To Sf Dealer Julius Unger. Prime Press hardcover
1925réf. 027623New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Company 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 276 Pp. Lightly Used No Fraying No Names Or Marks Spine With Some Browning. An Interesting Pasadena Copy With A C Vroman Bookstore's Elaborate Gilt Stamped Adhesive Label With Red Swastika At Center. The Label Is Now Rare. Per The Getty Museum Website Adam Clark "A. C." Vroman 1856-1916 Vroman Worked For The Chicago Burlington And Quincy Railroad Company For Sixteen Years Before Moving To California In 1893. Upon Opening A Store That Sold Books Stationery And Photographic Supplies In Pasadena--Which He Gifted To His Employees And Which Remains In Operation As "Vroman's Bookstore" Today--He Began To Pursue His Interest In Photography. From 1895-1905 Vroman Travelled Throughout Southern California And Made Eight Trips To Arizona Colorado New Mexico And Utah Where He Photographed Local Indian Communities. His Extensive Travels And Repeated Collaborations With The Bureau Of American Ethnology A Research Unit Of The Smithsonian Institution. In His Photographic Work Vroman Concentrated On The Daily Lives Customs And Ceremonial Activities Of The Hopi Zuni And Navajo Peoples. A Member Of The Pasadena Camera Club He Often Travelled With Other Photographers Involved In Its Activities Such As His Friend Los Angeles Times Editor Charles Fletcher Lummis. In 1897 Vroman Was Employed By The Bureau Of American Ethnology To Photograph Katzimo "Enchanted Mesa" In Central New Mexico. His Sweeping Views From Its Summit Were Used As Evidence Of The Prior Native American Habitation Of The Area And Were Later Published In Benjamin Brooks's Book The Enchanted Mesa New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1904. In 1899 Vroman Again Accompanied The Bureau Of American Ethnology To The Southwest This Time On A Survey To Document The Pueblos And Cliff Dwellings Of New Mexico. Several Of The Photographs He Made Were Included In The Smithsonian's Multivolume Handbook Of American Indians North Of Mexico Washington: Government Printing Office 1907 An Encyclopaedic Classification Of Over 2500 Cultural And Linguistic Groups. In 1901 Vroman Served As The Official Photographer On The Museum-Gates Expedition An Archaeological Survey Of The Southwest Led By Ethnologist Walter Hough. Alongside His Work On Native American Communities Vroman Documented Spanish Missions In California Over A Ten-Year Period 1895-1905 Often With Friends And Photo Enthusiasts Who Constituted The "Club Of Four" A Group He Founded. In Addition To Vroman The Group Comprised Homer Eachus Hoopes H.C. Chatfield And G.J. Kuhrts. A Collector Of Netsuke Miniature Japanese Carved Objects Vroman Toured And Photographed In Japan In 1903 And 1909. He Also Made Photographs In France And Germany 1912 Canada 1914 And On The East Coast Of The United States 1914. Vroman's Images Of Native American Peoples Have Long Been Regarded As Respectful Portrayals In Part Because He Purportedly Gifted Prints To Numerous People He Depicted. More Recently However Re-Evaluation Of His Work Has Revealed A More Complicated History Situating His Aesthetic Choices Within The Scientific Aspirations Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology A Prominent Institutional Exponent Of Social Evolutionary Theory. Robert M. Mcbride & Company hardcover
1916réf. 024409New York: The Platt & Nourse Co 1916. First Edition . Illustrated Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. Copyright By Platt & Peck Published By Platt & Nourse Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Blue Green And Red. Two Pages Ads At Rear With Listings For Four Story Hour Titles And Seven Five Little Stars Titles. Book With Illustrated Embossed Cover Lightly Worn With Some Points Of Fraying Along Edges. Dj Clean Tears At Spine Edges And Flap Folds A Little Loss At Center And Bottom Of Spine A Few 1/4" To 3/4" Edge Tears Loss Only Of About Half Of Publisher's Name At Bottom Of Spine. Small Child's Decorative Bookplate On Front Pastedown. The Platt & Nourse Co hardcover
1958réf. 022432New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company 1958. First Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. 114 Pp. Red Cloth. First Printing. Near New Fine In Fine Dj. "Here Is A Clear Dramatic Explanation Of Earth And Its Position In The Universe. In Addition It Gives Us Completely Up-To-Date Facts About Space And Space Travel." As Indeed It Does Excellent For The Youngest Readers. Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
1935réf. 025581New York: Basic Books Inc. Publishers 1935. First Edition . Grey Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 87 Pp 1 Pp Note About The Author And 2 Pp Catalog At End.Light Blue Boards Stamped In Blue And Red. First Edition. Three Castaways Set Up Their Own Economic System. Near Fine No Marks Bright And Clean. Dust Jacket Priced 50 Cents Light Wear At Head And Tail Of Spine And At Tips 1" Split At Lower Front Flap Fold. Per "Tellers Of Weird Tales" Willard E. Hawkins Was Born On September 27 1887 In Fairplay Colorado. He Was An Author Editor Publisher And Public Speaker With Stories In Amazing Stories Astounding Science-Fiction The Blue Book Magazine Breezy Stories The Cavalier Chicago Ledger Fantastic Adventures The Green Book Magazine Imagination The Red Book Magazine Science Fiction Super Science Novels Thrilling Wonder Stories Western Outlaws Western Rangers Western Trails And A 1923 Tale In Weird Tales. Hawkins Also Worked As An Editor With The Loveland Reporter At Age Nineteen Denver Times Rocky Mountain News Rocky Mountain Hotel Bulletin And American Greeter. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers hardcover
1926réf. 009438Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1926. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Xiii 198 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Dark Blue. First American Edition First Printing With 1926 Date On Title Page. Solid Copy No Fraying Or Marks Or Damage Light Wear Very Faint And Light Soiling To Covers. Small Brentano's Bookseller's Ticket On Rear Pastedown. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1925réf. 015419Leeds Glasgow Belfast Circa 1925: E. J. Arnold & Sons Ltd. 1925. 1st Edition . Green Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. 15 Pp. Green Printed Wrappers. First Printing. One Of The Author's Own Books Signed By Her Daughter With Their Address In Richmond Kent. E. J. Arnold & Sons Ltd. unknown
1978réf. 002425Los Angeles County: Edith Carolyn Lee 1978. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Fine. 11 " Tall. Scarce Set Of These Self-Published Books Illustrated By The Renowned Illustrator Eulalie Nee Banks Later Wilson Who Was An Important Children's Book Illustrator From The 20'S Into The 1950'S And Who Painted Nursery Room Walls For Such Hollywood Figures As Charlie Chaplin And Also Many Commercial Murals. This Set Is On Heavy Porous Paper Stock With The Copyright Notice At The Bottom Of The Inside Cover. The Volume Of "Skippy The Elf" Has An Additional Box Handd Rawn On The Reverse Of The Cover With The Legend "Little Elf Skippy's Coloring-Story Book To: - " With A Colored Holly Leaf With Berries All Done In The Style Of Eulalie With The Inscription Below "Dear Little Girl Helen With My Love Skippy" . Edith Carolyn Lee unknown
1950réf. 024799Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1950. First Edition . Staples. Very Good. 11" x 8 1/2. 8 Pp Large Format Sf Magazine With Title Etc At Top Of First Page Publisher's Info At Bottom Of Last Page Containing Just This One Story. The Copy Of Forrest Ackerman But No Marks. Ziff-Davis unknown
1919réf. 015430London 1919: James Hewetson & Son 1919. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good. 57 Pp. Top Edge Gilt; Deckled Edges. Printed By Bales And Wilde Chesterfield. Includes "Sally And The Organ-Boy" A Short Story First Published In "Little Folks". Nicely Inscribed To "Kathleen" By The Author And Dated Easter 1919. With A 4 1/4" X 3 1/8" Photograph Of The Author Reclining Beneath A Tree; This Is The Only Known Photograph Of The Author; The Photograph Is Neatly Mounted On The Front Pastedown. A Clean Copy Spine Aged/Tanned Two 1" Square Areas Of Tan Discoloration On Front Cover Near Spine. Small Area Of Fraying At Two Upper Tips Also Fraying Along Top And Bottom Of Spine. Scarce. James Hewetson & Son hardcover
1925réf. 015420Leeds Glasgow Belfast Circa 1925: E. J. Arnold & Sons Ltd. 1925. 1st Edition . Green Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. 15 Pp. Green Printed Wrappers. A First Edition. An Unused Example One Of The Author's Personal Copies. E. J. Arnold & Sons Ltd. unknown
1949réf. 015435New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1949. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good/Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Generally Solid Tight Clean But Worn With Fraying At Corners. Dust Jacket With Wear Half Inch Chip At Bottom Of Spine Removing Later Part Of Publisher's Name And Light Chipping At Corners Those At Corners Being Up To 1/4" Deep. Not Price Clipped $2.50. Nicely Inscribed "With Best Wishes For The California Trip / Love / Elizabeth Bleecker Meigs / Bill Averill's Wife / Averill Harriman Is A Cousin"; Inscriptions By Elizabeth Meigs Are Scarce. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc hardcover
