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1879réf. P-10563Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1879. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. A superb copy rarely found in this fine condition U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover
1853réf. ZB535157Frankfort: Hodges 1853. 1047 pp. later cloth hardcover ex library else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Frankfort: Hodges hardcover
1897réf. 1598Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Company 1897. Second Edition. 61pp. Duodecimo 18 cm Publisher's gray printed wrappers. Near fine. Recap of a religious debate between Ben E. Rich and Rev. Hartley in the original wrappers. Rare in this condition. Flake/Draper 7188 "From the Ogden Herald of last Tuesday we learn of an interesting event which is to come off at the Tabernacle in Ogden on Thursday and Friday evenings the 8th and 9th of May it will be a discussion between Elder Ben E. Rich of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Reverend Richard Hartley of the Baptist denomination. The former will of course present the Mormon side of the question showing the difference between the principles of true Christianity and the doctrines taught by the various sects of the day while the latter will endeavor to do the same thing in reference to Christianity and Mormonism." - Deseret News 05/07/1884. George Q. Cannon & Sons Company unknown
1874réf. 44717San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company 1874. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's purple pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; 204pp. Boards rather rubbed with some brief splitting of cloth corners bumped and cloth starting to peel at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover spine toned rear free endpaper torn and partly affixed to rear pastedown. Good overall though internally sound and upper cover gilt still quite brilliant. Promotional work by the Rhode Island-born Civil War Major who first arrived in Los Angeles to supervise the postal service only to leave this position in order to found the "Los Angeles Daily Star" in which he promoted California's "post-frontier promise of becoming a pastoral civilization. Truman envisioned a livelihood of hard work though without exertion that would bring into being a culture of prosperity civility and art" Peter James Holliday "American Arcadia" 2016 p. 51. A.L. Bancroft & Company unknown
1855réf. 11227Phillips Sampson and Co. 1855. Half-Leather. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dedicated to Robert Southey. Frontispiece engraving of Jonson. Very large very thick book brown half-leather marbled boards raised spine double-column format for text slight wear to tips very tiny tears along spine top edge rubbed to most edges 944 pages. Good. Phillips, Sampson and Co. hardcover
1870réf. 374867San Francisco 1870. Partly-printed check lithographed by Britton & Rey. Endorsement signatures on verso. Partly-printed check lithographed by Britton & Rey. Endorsement signatures on verso. By 1849 when the great race across the plains had begun Holladay already owned wagon trains gold mines and a fleet of steam boats on the Sacramento River. He continued to expand purchasing the Overland Mail Express Company and by 1864 had put together a nearly complete monopoly of the stage mail and freighting business between the Missouri River and Salt Lake City. unknown
1898réf. 2783New York: John Lane 1898. First Beardsley Edition copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Original aquamarine cloth with elaborately gilt-stamped front cover after Beardsley's design. Fine bright copy. Bookplate of Maurice Wertheim. In open faced cloth slipcase. Beardsley Aubrey. First Beardsley Edition copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. One of Beardsley's consummate works published here for the first time after his death. Ross's warm appreciation of Beardsley is an essential piece of Beardsleyana. John Lane unknown
1867réf. 23914Cincinnati: Ben Pitman 1867. First Edition. 1 vols. Small 4to. Bound in contemp. 1/4 black morocco and cloth. First Edition 1 vols. Small 4to. Inscribed faintly on brown coated paper of the front free-endpaper "Miss Lizzie Headlaw with the affectinate Regards of the Printer. Cincinnati Jany. 1867. Ben Pitman unknown
1816réf. 61036London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F.C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies. by W. Bulmer and Co. Clevelanf-row St. James's 1816. Large Paper Edition. Frontispiece. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. 9 vols. 8vo 26 x 15 cm. Bound in three quarter green contemporary morocco marbled boards. Fine minor foxing. Bookplate. Fine. Large Paper Edition. Frontispiece. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. 9 vols. 8vo 26 x 15 cm. Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F.C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies... by W. Bulmer and Co. Clevelanf-row, St. James's unknown
1816réf. 58689London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol.by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland-row St. James 1816. With portrait frontispiece in volume One. 9 vols. Royal 8vo 24.2 x 15 cm. Bound in near contemporary purple pebbled cloth with paper labels on spines. Very Good. With portrait frontispiece in volume One. 9 vols. Royal 8vo 24.2 x 15 cm. Printed for G. and W. Nicol...by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland-row, St. James unknown
1809réf. 13889London: B. Marshall 1809. Hand colored print engraved by R. Woodman. Image size 19 x 24 inches matted and framed to 27 x 32 inches overall. 1 vols. A few light waterstains to lower margin away from image else fine. Hand colored print engraved by R. Woodman. Image size 19 x 24 inches matted and framed to 27 x 32 inches overall. 1 vols. Siltzer British Sporting Prints p. 178 B. Marshall unknown
1886réf. FLAHIVE-455Hubbard Brothers Philadelphia 1886 Volume II. A near-fine copy of a beautifully illustrated scarce first-edition. Frontispiece intact. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia hardcover
1822réf. b9938Amsterdam: Imprimerie Itallienne et Francaise 1822. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards and blue speckled edges. Shelfwear on the upper tips a small nick on the rear board and a scuffed to the leather on the rear board. Brief biographies of celebrated individuals in all fields. Each biography is two to eight pages and is accompanied by a full-page engraving of the individual. Imprimerie Itallienne et Francaise hardcover
1892réf. 9110St. Louis: Historical Publishing Co 1892. Salesman Sample. Leatherbound. Good. 4to. Pp. c. 100 of discontinuous selections. Illustrated with color lithographs including a fold-out panoramic view of the Exposition halftone reproductions and engravings. Full morocco with blind stamped decorations and titles in gilt sample of the full volume spine tipped inside the front cover sample of alternative decorated blue cloth covers mounted inside back cover numerous explanatory slips bound in. Spine ends chipped corners bumped back hinge parting toning to several slips with transfer to leaves edges toned. A scarce promotional salesmen's dummy of the 832 page "Quadri-Centennial history" celebrating Columbus and America published on the occasion of the 1892 Chicago Exposition. The descriptive slips effusively tout the merits of the volume and its place in every American home. Historical Publishing Co unknown
1886réf. 5010057Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Sound bindings hinges starting. Clean tanned pages. Decorative cloth over boards is water damaged at lower front and back corners of each volume with other general shelf wear. Label at lower spine. Benjamin Perley Poore 1820-1887 was an American journalist editor and author in the mid-19th century. Ex-Library; 9.0" tall; 1090 pages. Hubbard Brothers hardcover
1898réf. 10245Amsterdam: H. Gerlings 1898. First edition. Oblong 4to. 26pp. String binding in spine colorful illustrated boards and lithographs throughout by Bernard Willem Wierink red illustrated endpapers minor chipping and edgewear very good. Dutch children's classic set in Japan. Scarce in original binding and without defects. H. Gerlings unknown
1880réf. 024287Washington: Government Printing Office. First Edition. Original brown cloth. Two small chips on front cover wear on rear cover edge faint stain on fore-edge Good Plus. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1880. Government Printing Office hardcover
1867réf. 040400Washington: Government Printing Office 1867. First Edition. Good to Very Good condition. Owner signature. Government Printing Office unknown
1816réf. 005221London: for many 1816 1816. 9 vols. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" engraved frontis portrait plate in volume one bound in fine 1/2 marbled tan calf ribbed gilt decorated spines gilt lettered blue and red morocco spine label. Inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spines fine internally clean and bright no previous ownership markings or bookplate a VERY GOOD set. London: for many, 1816 unknown
1886réf. 006986London: Walter Scott 1886. This small volume contains a wealth of Jonson: six of his plays and 25 lyrics. Rare. Symonds 1840-1893 is recognized as a significant scholar of the Renaissance; his work is perhaps overlooked due to his controversial for the time expressed attitudes toward homosexuality. A Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers with maroon leather tips and spine. Titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; xxxv 355 pages; top-edge is gilt; textblock on each page outlined in red. All perfectly clear and bright. Near Fine condition; touch of wear to the tips and two small chips to the head and foot of the spine. First Edition. Quarter-Bound. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Walter Scott Hardcover
1885réf. 001930Philadelphia Et.al. & San Francisco: Hubbard Brothers & A.L. Bancroft 1885. This is a Very Good Minus copy of the "Memorial Edition" issued by Hubbard just after the passing of Grant 1822-1885. A large heavy octavo over 3 pounds in weight. Decorative green cloth binding blindstamped and filled with gilt. "Elegantly illustrated." Nice steel engraving of Grant as a frontis. Clean text; 594 pages. The front gutter has split and a few of the prelims are missing. The Title Page is loose but present. Therefore Quercus assigns this a "minus" grading and due to the condition issue offers it as a Binding Copy in need of repair or restoration. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Hubbard Brothers & A.L. Bancroft Hardcover
1886réf. 47241886. POORE Ben Perley. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Illustrating the Wit Genius Eccentricities Ambitions and Intrigues of the Statesmen Ladies Diplomats Lobbyists.That Gather at the Center of the Nation. Phila. 1886. 1st ed. Two vols. Illus. 544; 543pp. Near fine in orig. cloth. unknown
1882réf. 372611882. POORE Ben Perley. The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside Soldier-Citizen-Statesman. Providence 1882. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. 448 6pp. Slight wear at base of spine else a very good copy in orig. full morocco a.e.g. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 300 numbered copies. unknown
1878réf. 74181878. OHIO. WAYNE COUNTY. DOUGLASS Ben. History of Wayne County Ohio From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present. Indianapolis 1878. Illus. 868pp. Very good in orig. cloth. unknown
1896réf. 129661896. BRIERLEY Ben. "Ab-O'th-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories. Edited by James Dronfield. Three vols. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. Oldham: Clegg 1896. First edition. Wolff 815. A very good set. unknown