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rif. 86268hardcover. 877pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Viking 1974. vg unknown books
rif. 160541hardcover. 205pp. 8vo cloth d.w. Norman: UP Oklahoma 1966. unknown books
1954rif. 151131New York 1954. hardcover. very good-/very good-. 188 pages 8vo cloth d.w. spine faded page edges slightly ruffled. New York: 1954. Very good-. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Salut! Michael Gold." unknown books
2001rif. 200696London: Sceptre 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. 563 pages thick 8vo gray cloth with a gilt-stamped spine dust wrapper. London: Sceptre 2001. Fine. Signed in full by the author on title page. Sceptre unknown books
1963rif. 616417New York: G. Schirmer Inc 1963. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Light bumping to the corners very good or better. For high voice and piano. Plate number 45274. G. Schirmer, Inc unknown books
1852rif. ST20768London: Simpkin & Marshall 1852. FIRST EDITION. 153 x 102 mm. 6 x 4". 64 pp. Publisher's deluxe red pebble-grain morocco gilt covers with graceful Romantic-style frame central panel of upper cover with gilt lettering that of lower cover with gilt ornament spine blind-stamped to resemble raised bands panels with gilt ornament gilt turn-ins pale yellow endpapers all edges gilt. With title page vignette frontispiece portrait of Wellington and three full-page engravings of battles. Printed entirely in gilt on "enamel" gloss paper. Front free endpaper with faint pencilled signature. Binding very slightly soiled joints and extremities a little rubbed trivial soiling to front endpapers otherwise quite a fine copy the text entirely clean fresh and bright with sparkling gold. This now-scarce luxuriously produced little volume celebrates the life and military achievements of Arthur Wellesley Field Marshall and 1st Duke of Wellington perhaps the most widely admired Briton of the 19th century--and does so in glittering fashion. The key facts of Wellington's life and the decisive battles of his storied career are related here in sparkling gold text and images on alabaster white pages. Poet laureate Tennyson's funerary ode described Wellington 1769-1852 as "the last great Englishman" and his death evoked great mourning in response to his life of public service. DNB notes that his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo crushing the emperor's ambition for European dominance put him in a class of his own: "No man certainly no Briton had ever been in such a situation before in Europe the object of universal hero-worship and gratitude." Wellington was particularly notable among senior military officers for his determination to lead his troops on the frontline in battle. The three battles depicted in the illustrations here attest to this: in "The Battle of Assaye" we see him on horseback two horses were shot from under him during the conflict wielding his sword as he bears down on enemy cannon. At the "Battle of Vittoria" he is shown leading the infantry to face the enemy with bayonet fixed. And in the decisive "Battle of Waterloo" scene he is once again with the cavalry wheeling to attack the advancing French. The frontispiece shows Wellington astride his famed horse Copenhagen who was his mount at Waterloo. Our volume concludes with a chronology of principal events in the duke's life. It is notable that such a handsome memorial work was produced so quickly after Wellington's sudden death on 14 September 1852: a contemporary ad in Bent's Literary Advertiser notes our title was published on 15 November three days before Wellington's state funeral on the 18th. Copies of this work are rare: we could trace no auction sales and OCLC records only seven copies just one in North America. Simpkin & Marshall unknown books
1754rif. 60250Cologne: Aux depens de la Compagnie 1754. 8vo pp. 446 vi. Bound in contemporary cald little bowed some staining to the final leaves. With the ownership signature on the title page and fleabes of Margueritte Barthe. A very good copy. Vol 3 only. Aux depens de la Compagnie unknown books
1993rif. 49638Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts 1993. 8vo pp. xi 231. Notes bibliography index. Red cloth. A nice copy in scuffed dj. The Society disbanded in 1840 over disagreements about gender roles religion and socio-economic status. The author concludes that many of the same issues divide women today. University of Massachusetts unknown books
1735rif. 10359Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie 1735. First edn. 12mo pp. 276. aeg. Bound in contemporary calf elaborately stamped on both covers rebacked with new end papers and the original spine laid down. Some light water stain to the top margin o/w a very nice little book. Scarce the OCLC lists 2 Paris printings of the same year noting just three copies. This not listed. A piece of fiction about the Roman court of Nero. Aux depens de la Compagnie unknown books
1734rif. 24539Venetiis: Typis Johan: Mariae Lazzaroni 1734. First Edition printed in Italy. Two volumes. Quarto pp. iv 480; ii 356 xxiv. Bound with 9 folding engraved plates. Title-page in volume one printed in red and black. Bound with the half-title in volume 1 in contemporary vellum. One hinge strarting a little bit o/w a very nice clean crisp set. The OCLC locates 4 copies in this country of 6:CIT STA TYC LRU. Archbishop of Canterbury Potter was a learned classical scholar and first published this work in 1697-1698. It was translated into German and considered the standard for years. It contains a study of the civil government of Athens the religion of Greece; the military affairs of the Grecians. Some of their miscellaneous customs etc. Typis Johan: Mariae Lazzaroni unknown books
1928rif. 21819NY: Schimer 1928. First Edition. Glory Road only. Dedicated to Paul Robeson. 4to self wraps pp. 16. Illustrated cover by Bobri. Moderate wear to the covers and partially disbound good. Wolfe was a Roumanian who found a reminder in American Blacks of the roving gypsies of his native country. He wrote a number of songs on Black subjects. Schimer unknown books
1966rif. 2355NY: Random House 1966. First Edition. Fine in dj. Lepper p. 216. Random House unknown books
1932rif. 617731New York: The Bibliophilist Society 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. Illustrated by John Alan Maxwell. Translated by Joseph Thomas with his preface Dated March 1841. "Notice of Le Sage" by Jules Janin. Octavo. xxiv 324pp. Magenta cloth with spine gilt and forest green topstain. Fine in a moderately worn very good dust jacket with modest loss at the spine base affecting the publisher's name several very short tears and the red portion of the spine sunned. First published in 1707. The Bibliophilist Society hardcover books
1850rif. 542023Boston: Phillips Samson & Co 1850. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Small nicks on the cloth at the spine ends small finger pressure mark on front gutter tiny ink spot on foredge and some scattered foxing but a nice and fresh near fine copy. An attempt by the important educator reformer and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe to promote the cause of her pupil author Delia Bacon in the aftermath of a matrimonial breach of promise suit and her prosecution in the court of public opinion by the authorities at Yale whom Beecher felt had thwarted her case. Bacon would seek solace in her research popularizing the notion that Shakespeare's works were actually written by a group of writers including Francis Bacon and Walter Scott. A very nice copy seldom found thus. Phillips, Samson & Co hardcover books
1952rif. 461205Utica New York: State Hospital Press 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Small quarto. 11pp. Not illustrated. Printed wrappers. A bit of foredge creasing throughout just about near fine. Reprinted from the Psychiatric Quarterly Supplement Vol. 26 1952. Uncommon. State Hospital Press unknown books
1942rif. 437877New York: International Publishers 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. 19th printing. Octavo. 309pp. Orange cloth. Ownership signature of Alvah Bessie slight wear on the boards near fine without dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Alvah Bessie and his wife: "To Alvah & Helen Let us persist! Viva the literature of the People and its writers like Alvah! Comradely Mike Gold. SF May 9 1954." Also laid in is an invitation to Gold's Memorial Service as well as a letter from Gold's widow thanking Bessie for his friendship and his note after Gold's death. An important book written during the 1920s from the underside of the Jazz Age and anticipating the socialist and labor-oriented fiction of the Depression. Gold whose real name was Irwin Granich also wrote for the radical magazine The Liberator. A splendid association. International Publishers hardcover books
1959rif. 589546Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 383pp. Binding very slightly cocked with the tiny impression of an owner name no ink or pencil on the front fly and a bit of light evidence of pencil erasure in the table of contents near fine in modestly worn near fine dust jacket with a very short tear on the rear panel. Contains James Baldwin's classic story "Sonny's Blues" as well as contributions by John Cheever Flannery O'Connor Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud William Eastlake and others. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1961rif. 569294Garden City New York: Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company Inc 1961. Softcover. Very Good. Dolphin edition. 392pp. Printed wrappers. Moderate toning and wear on the wraps very good or better. Contains the story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin. Other contributors include John Cheever Flannery O'Connor Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud Herbert Gold and others. Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1959rif. 569292Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 383pp. Spine very faintly sunned else fine in a modestly worn about near fine dust jacket. Contains the story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin. Other contributors include John Cheever Flannery O'Connor Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud Herbert Gold and others. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1990rif. 575426Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence 1990. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Tan wrappers. Fine. Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence unknown books
1997rif. 575428New York: St. Martin's Press 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Glossy illustrated wrappers. Slight waviness else about fine. St. Martin's Press unknown books
1978rif. 577597New York: Arbor House 1978. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Orange wrappers. Fading on the spine thus near fine. Arbor House unknown books
1981rif. 577707New York: Arbor House 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Some toning else near fine. Arbor House unknown books
1926rif. 561078Jacksonville: H. & W. B. Drew Company 1926. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in just abut fine dust jacket with very minor wear. Inscribed by the author: "To Anne Martin - one whom I have known long - and loved since I just knew this volume is presented with the author's compliments. P. D. Gold Washington DC May 23 - 1935." The dedicatee of the book was Florida's Governor John W. Martin; presumably Anne Martin was a relative of the Governor's. H. & W. B. Drew Company hardcover books
1720rif. 540914London: Printed for E. Curll 1720. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. xix 5 320 8pp. eight-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates one of which shows images of sign language. In the original calf with blind tooling on both covers neatly re-backed in 19th century calf with a red spine label and wove endpapers. The boards are darkened and worn at the corners four text leaves are slightly creased some intermittent toning about very good. The author of this popular account of an enterprising deaf-mute has been attributed both to William Bond and Daniel Defoe and has yet to be resolved in favor of one or the other. A scarce copy of the first edition in the original boards ESTC T69700. OCLC locates only two copies. Printed for E. Curll hardcover books
