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1933ref. 434312New York: Century Co 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint edition. Octavo. 247pp. Illustrated. Decorative yellow cloth. Owner's name dated in 1933 else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with two small chips along the upper extremities. Ads on the jacket seem to indicate that this edition of the book was published sometime between 1931 and 1933. Book about the famous traveler likely aimed at a youthful audience. An attractive copy scarce in jacket. Century Co hardcover books
1857ref. 409275Farmington and Hartford: Samuel S. Cowles and Geer & Hurlburt 1857. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 54 2pp. Printed brown wrappers. Old glassine repair on rear wrap foxing small chip on front wrap very good. Very good with ink marking on the first page bumped spine ends and corners and rubbing. Inscribed by the author on the front wrap. Samuel S. Cowles [and] Geer & Hurlburt unknown books
1872ref. 401873New York: Charles Scribner & Co 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Very good with ink marking on the first page bumped spine ends and corners and rubbing. Charles Scribner & Co hardcover books
2007ref. 356100New York: Atria Books 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Atria Books hardcover books
1884ref. 360354New York: Druck von Gustav Lauter 1884. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Ex-library with two small ownership stamps both wraps are detached with chipping to the edges else good or better. A scarce German-American imprint. OCLC locates only two copies. Druck von Gustav Lauter unknown books
2022ref. 16287New York: Grand Central Publishing 2022. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Noah Hawley to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x 429pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in white paper over boards with spine lettered in metallic blue. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life-and might end up saving us all. Something is happening to teenagers across America spreading through memes only they can parse. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center in a suburb of Chicago Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister's tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road A man known as The Wizard whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard impregnated and imprisoned in a tower. Noah Hawley's new novel is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners. Unforgettably vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm's fairy tale. It is a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart written with the bravado literary power and feverish foresight that have made Hawley one of our most essential writers.Publisher. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1908ref. 70989New York Cincinnati & Chicago: American Book Company n.d. 1908. 12mo pp. 174 1 ads for Webster's New International and the Third Collegiate which wasn't published until 1916; 10 wood-engravings illustrating fables frontispiece testimonial; small rust stain from paperclip on front endpaper and flyleaf nibbles at the top fore-edge of the lower board otherwise a near fine copy in original blue pictorial boards red cloth shelfback. One of the last iterations of one of the most influential of American books. American Book Company, n.d. unknown books
1831ref. 71210London: published by Black Young and Young foreign booksellers to the King 1831. First English edition used by Webster as a template for his 1841 octavo "reprinted by E. H. Barker Esq. of Thetford Norfolk from a copy communicated by the author and containing many manuscript corrections and additions: with an appendix by the editor"; 2 volumes 4to; 20th-century half green straight-grain morocco gilt-titled direct on gilt-paneled spines; title pages a bit foxed vertical crease on the title of volume II; otherwise a very good sound and clean copy preserving the terminal advertisement leaf in volume I. Early 20th-century ownership signature in pencil of Arno Clapham on the least leaf of each volume. One of the scarcest of the early editions of Webster. Of note is the inclusion of Joseph Worcester's "Synopsis of Words pronounced by different Orthoepists" extracted from the American edition of 1829 which was edited by Worcester and published prior to the rift that developed between the two lexicographers. As to the text of the lexicon itself Skeel notes that it "was reworked by the English editor and was not merely a reprinting" which is likely the reason Webster chose it as a model for his 1841 revision. Perhaps there is an article on the relationship between this English edition and the 1841 octavo but I'm not aware of one. Vancil p. 260; see Skeel 589 and 589A. published by Black, Young, and Young, foreign booksellers to the King unknown books
1880ref. 67219New York: D. Appleton & Co 1880. Revised edition 12mo pp. 174; original blue printed paper-covered boards worn one page marked the rest clean and sound Japanese ownership stamps on title page and lower pastedown good. "The cheapest the best and the most extensively used spelling book ever published." This was not an exaggeration. Webster's spelling book went through dozens of editions was produced in millions of copies and was exported to multiple countries. Japanese editions contemporary with this copy existed but from the ownership marks it looks like in this case a Japanese student got their hands on an American edition. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1936ref. 63482Toluca Mexico: Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios 1936. 8vo 19 3 leaves; original pictorial red wrappers worn and with a hole not affecting any letterpress on the back wrapper; text toned; good or better. With an inscription from the poet dated November 1936. Noé de la Flor Casanova 1904-1986 was a Mexican lawyer cantautor writer poet and politician who served for four years as Governor of Tabasco from 1943-46 before being removed from office following a scandal. Mexico National Library Berkeley Santa Barbara SUNY Trinity Texas Missouri Pittsburgh and Northwestern State University in Louisiana in OCLC. [Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios] unknown books
1817ref. 64586Hartford: printed by George Goodwin & Sons 1817. Second and last edition of Webster's School Dictionary first published in 1807 published here with an expanded Preface and a larger vocabulary and omitting the chronological table square 12mo pp. v 1 366 contemporary calf rebacked black morocco label on spine; dampstaining mostly to last few leaves margins of flyleaves and corner of title page repaired some pencil scribbling in preliminaries a good sound copy of a scarce book. American Imprints 42857; Skeel 579. printed by George Goodwin & Sons unknown books
1789ref. 64400Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co 1789. First edition 8vo pp. 410 full orig. sheep neatly rebacked old spine laid down preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn else a very good sound copy. A seminal work dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English and particularly its orthography the reform of which grew out of his correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Skeel 651. printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co unknown books
1794ref. 61022Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1794. 12mo pp. 252; front cover perished back cover loosening; textblock a bit toned and lightly dampstained but textually complete. Webster's Reader was first published in 1785. After but two editions the title was changed to An American Selection Phila. 1787. Other 18th-century printings appeared in Albany Hartford Newport Boston and New York. Skeel notes: After this edition Hudson and Goodwin dropped "Connecticut" in their title but continued the numbering. They also discontinued dating their printings which makes placement difficult." Skeel 468; Evans 28039. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1890ref. 60306Tokyo & Osaka: various publishers 1890. 17 volumes 12mo and 8vo all in original blue printed paper-covered boards backed in cloth; condition ranges from fair to near fine. All with the title or variant title of The Elementary Spelling-Book with the following imprints and variations: 1 Tokio: Bookselling Co. after 1866 pp. 3-170 2 Japanese title Japanese mss. notes on rear endpaper; 2 Tokio: Rikugokuwan after 1866 pp. 3-170 2 Japanese title Japanese licensing stamps and ownership stamp on first and last leaves in red; 3 Tokio & Osaka: Rikugokuwan after 1866 pp. 3-170 2 Japanese title Japanese licensing stamp in red; 4 Osaka: Nakagawa ca. 1885 pp. 2 Japanese title 170 2 endpapers printed in Japanese; 5 Tokio & Osaka: Bookselling Co. after 1866 Japanese mss. notes and a drawing on the endpapers sadly defective with the loss of the title-p. and several others; 6 Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan after 1880 colophon gives publisher as Hobunkwan pp. 3-174 6 ads in both Japanese and English; 7 Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan after 1880 pp. 3-174 2 title in Japanese; Japanese licensing stamp in red; 8 Tokio: Maruya & Co. after 1880 pp. 5-174 lacking title-p. printed Maruya ads on rear pastedown; 9 Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan after 1880 pp. 3-174 2 title in Japanese; Japanese licensing stamp printed in red; 10 Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan after 1880 pp. 3-174; 11 Tokyo: B. Tsujioka after 1880 pp. 3-174; Japanese title on rear pastedown; 12 New York: D. Appleton pp. 3-176; printed Japanese text on both pastedowns; 13 New York: D. Appleton pp. 3-176; printed Japanese text on verso of title page last leaf and rear pastedown; licensing stamp printed in red affixed to last flyleaf; 14 New York: D. Appleton pp. 3-128 lacks last signature Japanese text on rear pastedown; 15 Tokyo: Sugimoto after 1880 pp. 3-174 Japanese mss. on front pastedown Japanese text on rear pastedown; 16 Osaka: Sekizenkwan 1887 pp. 3-114 4 Japanese text; Japanese mss. notes on front and back flyleaves; 17 Osaka: Sekizenkwan 1887 pp. 5-114 1 Japanese text presumably lacking a title-p. but there's no evidence of it. various publishers unknown books
1821ref. 60035Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; and Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. 2 volumes 8vo containing 24 issues for the first two years each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper and front flyleaf of volume I small pressure stamps on the title pages and with old stickers on spines. Issue X with gathering '4' in duplicate and wanting gathering '3'. All else very good and sound. Bound in at the back of the second volume is: A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society Including Nine Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1819. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 12 3 1; includes Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society second count American Imprints 48638; A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society including Thirteen Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1820. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 15 1; American Imprints 2176; Address delivered at the Fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society December 25th 1820 by the Hon. Josiah Quincy Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf 1821 pp. 32; American Imprints 6529; Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 2178; Sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 9430; Bogue David. Appendix to No. 4 vol. II of the Friend of Peace drop title pp. 8; not found in American Imprints; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion and Proposing a Remedy. By Philo Pacificus i.e. Noah Worcester . Fifth edition Cambridge; printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Sold by Wells & Lilly No. 97 Court-Street Boston 1816 pp. 32; American Imprints 39872. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters Thomas Paine and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1819ref. 60046Albany: Websters and Skinners 1819. 12mo pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; contemporary home-made calf binding with blind geometric details naively executed and with a few holes in the skin; nibbling to textblock corner resulting in loss of last word on 3 leaves and again on bottom edge with loss of type on 7 leaves tidestain on top edge with the ownership signature of Samuel Kinnes many times on endpapers with the warning "steal not this book for fear of shame for hear sic you see the owner's name." Kinnes dates his purchase of the book twice as 1818. Skeel 176. Websters and Skinners unknown books
1807ref. 60047New Haven: Brisban & Brannan 1807. First edition 12mo pp. 250 original full calf gilt-paneled spine; light dampstaining to the upper gutter; all else very good and sound. Of this small grammar Webster wrote in an 1805 letter to the American publisher Mathew Carey: "I am compiling a Grammar upon what appear to be the true idioms & fundamental principles of the Language--which I hope to have ready for the press within a year." Webster's goal was to lay out the principles of American English based on its own structure thereby discarding previous grammatical systems which served British English. In it he has developed "the real structure and idiom of our language. I have left Lowth and Johnson and mounted to the original writers as far back as the first Saxon laws and annals. The result is that many of the principles of grammar as taught in Lowth formerly and now in Murray whose book is nothing but Lowth's altered and enlarged prove to be totally false; and I affirm that those grammars now taught introduce more errors than they correct" letter from Webster to Joel Barlow Nov. 12 1807. Although this title was not as successful as his series of spellers and readers Webster considered it one of his two most important works. Twenty years later in a letter to Lemuel Shattuck Nov. 18 1829 Webster writes: "My Philosophical and Practical Grammar was first published in 1807 and a second edition in 1822. This work has been but little used; but except for my quarto dictionary I consider it as altogether the most valuable work I have ever published." Skeel 433; Sabin 102375; American Imprints 14192. Brisban & Brannan unknown books
1792ref. 58418Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1792. 12mo pp. 3-131 pp.1 2 & 132 pastedowns; original sheep-backed blue paper-covered wooden boards; leather rubbed; covers soiled; rear board split vertically internally reinforced in the margins with surgical tape not obscuring any lettering; pages toned and lightly soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown: "Reumah Chase hear Book stele not this Book for feair of shame for hear you se the oners name. Reumah Chase Hear Book 1802." Evans 25002; Skeel 417. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1810ref. 57390Concord: printed by George Hough 1810. 8vo pp. 177 3; contemporary marbled wrappers; front flyleaf with tape repair spine partially perished text toned; otherwise good and sound. With a separately printed copyright slip pasted to the verso of the title page. "For some time he had been making a thorough study of the doctrine of the Trinity and in 1810 he published Bible News . setting forth conclusions which were essentially Unitarian. The Hopkinton Association of Ministers to which he belonged passed a vote condemning the book" DAB. American Imprints 22088. printed by George Hough unknown books
1821ref. 57146Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. Ten issues in all 8vo the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters William Cowper a poem "Pity for Poor Africans"; and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Most inside front wrappers and the back wrappers are generally advertising Worcester's text books geographies spellers gazetteers etc. as well as other books published by West & Richardson Joseph T. Buckingham and Cummings & Hilliard. Present in this gathering are: Vol. VIII - XII Boston 1817-1818; Vol. II nos. 3-5 Cambridge 1819; Vol. II no. 12 an Vol. III no. 1 Cambridge 1821. Several of the issues bear the ownership signature of the deacon and sawyer Eleazar Spofford for whom see Wikitree.com. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1839ref. 50059New Haven: S. Babcock 1839. First edition small 8vo pp. viii 9-248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good sound copy with an important presentation "To Professor Silliman with the author's regards." A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is a bit faint. With Silliman's bookplate on the front pastedown and the subsequent bookplate of Henry McIntosh. In a quarter brown morocco clamshell box. Silliman was perhaps the best-known scientific man in America in the first half of the 19th century a highly respected professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale and a long-time friend of Webster's. Like Webster he was an editor a compiler of textbooks and a prominent Connecticut citizen and Yale alumnus. Skeel 574. S. Babcock unknown books
1809ref. 50149New York: published by subscription.and sold at the Theological and Classical Bookstore of Williams and Whiting.J. Seymour printer 1809. First edition 8vo pp. 23 1; without a title page as issued; original blue printed wrappers; one short tear and a small piece missing from the corner of the front wrapper; all else very good. "In 1808 Webster and Judge Thomas Dawes of Boston one of his wife's brothers-in-law discussed religion in their correspondence. Webster on December 20 1808 wrote a detailed letter summarizing his religious experiences and beliefs; Dawes acknowledged it on February 6 1809 expressing rather liberal views and on February 23 Webster wrote a long answer which became the present text.The compiler believes this printing to have been the first separate edition" Skeel. It was also published in the Panoplist and the Missionary Magazine United edited by Jedidiah Morse. The verso of the front wrapper and both sides of the back wrapper contain a brief summary of the firm Williams & Whiting and publisher's advertisements. Skeel 706. published by subscription...and sold at the Theological and Classical Bookstore of Williams and Whiting...J. Seymour, printer unknown books
1803ref. 43744New Haven: Joel Walter 1803. A new edition "improved and enlarged" 12mo pp. iv 2 137; disbound remnants of calf spine still present; last leaf detached but present; pages quite browned and frayed along edges else mostly very good and sound. Skeel 683: "Of the original contents No. VI 'The Grace of God in Dollars' and the Conclusion have been omitted.The essays from p. 75 to the end are new under the heading 'Additional Numbers Written and First Published in 1803.' Joel Walter unknown books
1815ref. 43750New-York: E. Duyckinck 1815. Small 12mo pp. 108; disbound; pages uniformly browned some dampstaining throughout else very good and sound. Skeel 692. E. Duyckinck unknown books
1799ref. 43749N.p.: Printed for and sold by the book-sellers 1799. Small 12mo pp. vi 72; disbound; mostly fine. Evans 36688; Skeel 678. Printed for, and sold by the book-sellers unknown books
