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1976rif. 203166Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1976. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 207 pages. Features text by Robert Bartlett Haas. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear. A lovely copy. University of California Press unknown books
1968rif. 66044Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1968. First edition large 8vo pp. li 3 733 1; lexicon in double column; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press unknown books
1886rif. 791321886. London: Stevens and Haynes 1886. London: Stevens and Haynes 1886. Bartlett Adelaide Defendant. Beal Edward Editor. Clarke Edward Preface. The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett for Murder. Held at the Central Criminal Court Monday April 12 to Saturday April 17th 1886. London: Stevens and Haynes 1886. x 313 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 6". Original cloth. Bookplate of "Sir John Hall of Dunglass Baronet" to front pastedown. Some shelfwear and dampstaining binding somewhat cocked. Internally clean. A good copy. $95. The Dunglass family was a noble Scottish family. The plate may belong to Sir John Richard Hall of Dunglass 9th Bt 1865-1928 who was an author and decorated serviceman appointed to Commander Order of the British Empire. thepeerage.com. One of the more unusual and baffling English murder cases it involved liquid chloroform and an incestuous family. Mrs. Bartlett the lover of her brother-in-law was accused of poisoning her husband in order to inherit his estate. How she murdered him remains a mystery however. Although chloroform was found in his stomach no traces were found in his mouth or throat. Unable to determine how she could have killed her husband the jury did not convict Mrs. Bartlett. unknown books
1855rif. 62768Cambridge: John Bartlett 1855. First edition 12mo pp. vii 1 295 1; original blue cloth boards decorated in blind gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities very good. Grolier American 100 64: "There were nine editions in Bartlett's lifetime . This "nest-egg of the mind" the phrase is Christopher Morley's is as essential to the American living-room as the cook book to the American kitchen. John Bartlett unknown books
1916rif. 48327New York: Robert H. Dodd 1916. First edition. Very good. Uncommon early twentieth century catalogue of Cruikshank's original works and illustrated books offered by Robert Dodd dealer and head of Dodd Mead's rare book department. 8.5'' x 6''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. 40 pages. Dodd's printed presentation slip laid in. Moderate toning and soil to wrappers; light scuffing to extremities. Light foxing throughout. Robert H. Dodd unknown books
1855rif. 59316London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co 1855. Large 8vo pp. viii 4 202; engraved title page frontispiece and 20 plates one folding 18 text illustrations; full black polished calf gilt decorated spine in six compartments red morocco label in one marbled endpapers and edges; joints just starting later gift inscription: "Presented to the Supreme Council 33 degrees A.: A.: S.: R.: N. M. J. by William F. E. Gunley of Chicago 33 degrees Chicago Illinois August 7 1939." With the Council's stamp and an earlier bookplate on endpapers; very good. William Henry Bartlett was a prolific illustrator mostly of landscapes and a well-travelled author. His writing was workmanlike and served mainly to frame his illustrations which were popular during his time. He died of a brief illness in the process of producing this book and it was published posthumously. Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co unknown books
1880rif. 519594Oakland California: Privately Printed for the Author / Printed at The Oakland Evening Tribune Office 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 212pp/ Reddish-brown cloth stamped in gold and decorated in black. Binding is faded on spine with moderate wear at tips of spine faint uneven darkening on rear cover slight paper residue on lower front pastedown from bookseller's nameplate else a very good copy with text quite fresh and clean. Author's Private Edition so stated on title page. The author states that 'This series of papers. were originally published in the 'Overland Monthly'. A small private edition in book form has been printed at the insistance of friends who read these essays years ago. If these pages disclose more of the freedom of outdoor life than the philosophy of private meditation it is because the author loves the woods better than the town." from two-page preface by W. C. Bartlett. A collection of nine essays many inspired by travel in California including 'A Week in Mendocino' 'A Day on the Los Gatos' 'Shadows of St. Helena' etc.; one of the essays has a brief discussion of Mark Twain's travels in California pp. 196-197. Privately Printed for the Author / (Printed at The Oakland Evening Tribune Office) hardcover books
1860rif. 57986New York: Derby & Jackson publishers no. 498 Broadway 1860. 12mo pp. iii-vi 216-354 4 ads paginated 29 6 5 4; ads on recto of rear free endpaper; frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Brady; original brown blindstamped cloth gilt-stamped spine; spine faded small hole in front free endpaper all else very good. Eugene Field's copy with his signature dated Dec. 6th 1893 at the top of the title page; his forged signature of "A. Lincoln" on the front pastedown an ink certification on the verso of the rear free endpaper by Sonya Garfield a notary public for Cook County Illinois attesting to a statement on the rear pastedown by Eugene Field II viz.: "This 'Life' of A. Lincoln came from the library of my father Eugene Field. It is a first edition and bears the original manuscript signature of A. Lincoln. This volume was presented to my father by H. H. Kohlsaat publisher of the Times Herald who was a very dear friend of my father and was prized by him very highly as a very rare Lincoln item. Eugene Field II June 18 1935." With the pressure stamp of Sonya Garfield signatures of two witnesses one Gillespie and a W. Maxwell and the ownership signature of H. H. Kohlsaat crossed out presumably by Field on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a 5" x 4" photograph of Eugene Field by S. L. Stein Milwaukee inscribed at the top "With very much love to H. H. Kohlsaat from Eugene Field 1894. Derby & Jackson, publishers, no. 498 Broadway unknown books
1954rif. 56486Providence: The Urban League of Greater Providence 1954. 8vo pp. 76; 4 full-page illustrations from contemporary sources; fine in original printed gray wrappers. The Urban League of Greater Providence unknown books
1871rif. 56338Providence: Providence Press Company printers to the state 1871. 8vo pp. viii 94; vignette title page tables throughout; original gray printed wrappers; near fine. Providence Press Company, printers to the state unknown books
1894rif. 57846Boston: B. B. Russell Co 1894. 8vo pp. 3 6-319 1; printed self-wrappers rear wrapper wanting; spine largely perished; stitching sound. Title page inscribed "with love and best wishes of the author." Originally published by J. Howard Brown Co. circa 1882 with the subtitle A story of the blighting curse of polygamy. "The practice of plural marriage commonly known as polygamy stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890 when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882 is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman Marion Wescott who marries a Mormon elder Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife Marion attempts to flee during the night toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband however and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion Henry and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure." University of Nebraska Press Wright III 5347. B. B. Russell Co unknown books
1829rif. 56027Plymouth Mass: published by Ezra Collier Allen Danforth printer 1829. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-312; contemporary mottled calf; red morocco label; textblock slightly toned; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription of Josiah Ames 1834. Parris 1806-1827 began his medical practice in Attleborough MA in 1825 and died only two years later. He composed most of these writings between the ages of 12 and 18 and they were posthumously discovered by his friends and family who desired printed copies. The text is mostly comprised of poems and discourses on various subjects. American Imprints 39969. published by Ezra Collier, Allen Danforth, printer unknown books
1938rif. 90842London: Heath Cranton Limited 1938. 1st edition. Paperback. Very Good. 40p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Browning on backstrip and cover edges. Moderate foxing. INSCRIBED on hllf-title by Bartlett to Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. Poetry. Heath Cranton Limited paperback books
1810rif. 55963Portsmouth N.H.: printed at the Oracle Office 1810. First edition 12mo pp. xi 2 134-148; bound without Physiognomy a Poem by Joseph Bartlett Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell 1810 pp. 19 1; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; last gathering extended; good and sound. It has been asumed by some including me that Physiognomy a Poem was issued with Aphorisms. The contemporary binding on this copy with no evidence of any removal belies that assumption. The book is dedicated "To all my enemies . I now most humbly supplicate that you would take this little volume into your malignant keeping I pray you to oppose it do all you can to destroy it . don't fear my anger or my vengeance be inattentive to my mortification and be regardless of my distress: I know your goodness your friendship and attachment and rest assured that your most vigorous opposition and your most virulent slander will be duly appreciated and receive the proper acknowledgment." American Imprints 19474; Sabin 3760. printed at the Oracle Office unknown books
1851rif. 89584New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 1st American ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis engraved 2nd title-page map 32 steel-engraved plates vi 2 218p. plus 2p. publisher's adverts. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. 26cm. Partial tear in lower corner of tissue guard for frontis. Former owner's name "Joseph K. Brick" of Brooklyn N.Y. on recto of blank following free front endpaper. An appealing copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1689rif. 313961Gloucestershire England 1689. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane 305 x 540 mm. Cut vertically down the center with significant loss of text. Verso worn but text on recto clear and bright. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane 305 x 540 mm. The parties involved in this document hailed from Bourton-on-the-Hill and Nether Swell Gloucestershire both in the Cotswolds district of England. The document which has been cut in half vertically a contemporary practice for such documents appears to concern the rights of widows. An attractive item related to Gloucestershire history written in English in a clear and unfaded hand. unknown books
1977rif. 159930London: Poetry Book Society 1977. First edition. Softcover. Includes poems by Fleur Adcock Susannah Amoore Elizabeth Bartlett Alan Brownjohn D.J. Enright Vicki Feaver John Fuller Roy Fuller W.S. Graham Thom Gunn Michael Hamburger Molly Holden Ted Hughes Andrew Motion Barry Palmer Tom Paulin Peter Reading Anne Stevenson and Hugo Williams. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Poetry Book Society unknown books
1988rif. 86847New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company 1988. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. 305p. Original black leather. 22cm. Faint lettering title etc. on backstrip. Copy No. 19 of an unstated number which were SIGNED by Giamatti on a special printed page bound in preceding the title-page No jacket presumably as published. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1851rif. 83975London 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 38p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Modest gnawed or torn area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket "Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer". An illustrated 66-page version was also published -- we don't know if there were any differences in the text. paperback books
1864rif. 46446Boston: Little Brown & Co 1864. 12mo pp. x 480; near fine copy in original green cloth. Presentation copy from Bartlett inscribed on the front pastedown to Joseph A. Willard "from his friend and brother the author or editor. Aug. 27 1864." A year prior to the publication of this edition Bartlett had joined Little Brown and in 1878 became senior partner. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1998rif. 131858Cedar Rapids IA: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 1998. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran December 12 1998 through February 14 1999. Essay by Donald Bartlett Doe and Lesley Wright who also right the rest of the captions as well. Includes numerous illustrations. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some minor fading near the spine. Errata slip laid in. Uncommon. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art unknown books
1848rif. 44581New York: Bartlett and Welford 1848. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 412; original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt spine; a few cracks to spine; hinges reinforced preliminaries foxed else very good and sound. Late 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown contemporary ownership signature on title page. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. Bartlett and Welford unknown books
1849rif. 44402New York: Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith 1849. First London issue the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848; lg. 8vo xxviii & 412pp. bookplate on front pastedown front hinge separated at joints cracked at joints chipped at extremities paper label on spine rubbed and partially perished with loss of half of lettering the 12 shilling price remains; otherwise clean and reasonably bright in original blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Vancil p. 20. Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith unknown books
1848rif. 44488New York: Bartlett & Welford 1848. First edition 8vo expanded to small folio xxvii 1 412; the whole interleaved in folio throughout; 20th-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards; generally fine; judging from the soiling on the page edges this copy was interleaved at an early date much earlier than the relatively modern binding but there are no annotations on the interleaves. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. Bartlett & Welford unknown books
1999rif. 124290Chicago IL: Richard Gray Gallery 1999. First edition. Softcover. 32 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 4 through April 9 1999 in Chicago and February 13 through March 13 1999 in New York. Brief essay by Tom Armstrong. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in stapled wrappers in a very near fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Richard Gray Gallery unknown books
