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1940réf. 468268Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy bound in red cloth boards with a paper spine label and now showing faint scuffs. Corners joints and endbands slightly rubbed. The original wrappers somewhat foxed are bound in with the spine cover worn mounted on the title page. The text block remains strong: tight and clean with gently age-toned leaves. A well-preserved example overall. Notes; Signed and inscribed by the author. Provenance; Frieda Gumn's copy with her own notes and custom binding. Copious photographs biographical and memorial content relating to the author also loosely inserted and mounted to blanks. Half-title stamped ""Patwa News Agency : Mombasa."" Series; Penguin books ; 287. Physical description; 155 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; World War 1914-1918. Prisoners of war. Personal narratives. Germany. 20th century. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books hardcover
1936réf. 009011Bermuda: Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. 94pp/illus. First and only edition A publication of the Bermuda Trade Development Board folio number #67 of 2000 copies designed by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett and printed by Edward Stern and Company in Philadelphia. The book has 52 illustrations -- watercolors by Adolph Treidler and photographs by David Knudsen F.S. Lincoln and Walter Rutherford each printed one to a page and in excellent condition plus what one might call a rather quaint and dated text. One of the chapters "As a Landscape Architect Sees Bermuda" is by Frederick Law Olmstead. Text Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy. Bermuda Trade Development Board hardcover
1936réf. 007590Bermuda: Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. 94pp/illus. First and only edition A publication of the Bermuda Trade Development Board folio number 1168 of 2000 copies designed by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett and printed by Edward Stern and Company in Philadelphia. The book has 52 illustrations -- watercolors by Adolph Treidler and photographs by David Knudsen F.S. Lincoln and Walter Rutherford each printed one to a page and in excellent condition plus what one might call a rather quaint and dated text. One of the chapters "As a Landscape Architect Sees Bermuda" is by Frederick Law Olmstead. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Bermuda Trade Development Board hardcover
1750réf. 373997Boston: Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle . and by Daniel Gookin 1750. First American edition. xiv 2 200; xiv 2 198 2pp. Publisher's ads on final leaf. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf covers ruled in gilt repairs to joints and hinges spines abraded. Some browning of text with the contemporary signatures of Katharine Whipple in each volume. In a brown cloth open end case. First American edition. xiv 2 200; xiv 2 198 2pp. Publisher's ads on final leaf. 2 vols. 12mo. Mott quoting an American publisher of this work in 1794 wrote "this book has been more read since it was first published than any other in the English language excepting the Holy Bible." p. 16. Apparently another edition of this work was published the same year by Bradford in Philadelphia. American bindings with evidence of gilt rules or tooling from this early period are scarce. Evans 6516; ESTC W30109 Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle ... and by Daniel Gookin unknown
1750réf. 373997Boston: Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle . and by Daniel Gookin 1750. First American edition. xiv 2 200; xiv 2 198 2pp. Publisher's ads on final leaf. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf covers ruled in gilt repairs to joints and hinges spines abraded. Some browning of text with the contemporary signatures of Katharine Whipple in each volume. In a brown cloth open end case. First American edition. xiv 2 200; xiv 2 198 2pp. Publisher's ads on final leaf. 2 vols. 12mo. Mott quoting an American publisher of this work in 1794 wrote "this book has been more read since it was first published than any other in the English language excepting the Holy Bible." p. 16. Apparently another edition of this work was published the same year by Bradford in Philadelphia. American bindings with evidence of gilt rules or tooling from this early period are scarce. Evans 6516; ESTC W30109 Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle ... and by Daniel Gookin unknown books
1788réf. 747801788. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788. An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston. A New Edition. London: Printed for G. Kearsley at Johnson's Head No. 46 Fleet-Street 1788. ii ii 178 pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Later quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine. Wear to spine ends and joints and corners which are bumped front board partially detached but secure small armorial bookplate Carlingford to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior soiling and smudges to a few leaves heavier soiling to p. 178 light soiling to title page and frontispiece which has light edgewear and a short tear to its fore-edge with no damage to image. A good copy. $650. Second edition published the same year as the first. A final edition designated the third was published in 1790. Kingston was well-known for a colorful life of romantic entanglements and scandals. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. The likely previous owner of this copy was the British nobleman and politician Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford 1823-1898 who served as President of the Board of Trade and also served on the Privy Council as Lord President of the Council. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. English Short-Title Catalogue T93420. unknown
1788réf. 747801788. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788. An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston. A New Edition. London: Printed for G. Kearsley at Johnson's Head No. 46 Fleet-Street 1788. ii ii 178 pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Later quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine. Wear to spine ends and joints and corners which are bumped front board partially detached but secure small armorial bookplate Carlingford to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior soiling and smudges to a few leaves heavier soiling to p. 178 light soiling to title page and frontispiece which has light edgewear and a short tear to its fore-edge with no damage to image. A good copy. $650. Second edition published the same year as the first. A final edition designated the third was published in 1790. Kingston was well-known for a colorful life of romantic entanglements and scandals. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. The likely previous owner of this copy was the British nobleman and politician Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford 1823-1898 who served as President of the Board of Trade and also served on the Privy Council as Lord President of the Council. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. English Short-Title Catalogue T93420. unknown books
1776réf. 784871776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Trial. Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788 Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full-Parliament On Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst 1776. iv 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked retaining spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing light gatoring to spine small chip to head of spine corners bumped and somewhat worn small later bookseller ticket to front pastedown front hinge cracked another crack in text block between p. 176 which is lightly soiled and following leaf. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places owner name Horace Witner "1906 or 7" to front endleaf 19th or 20th-century annotations in pencil to endleaves some leaves have marks to margins in same hand lower corner lacking from leaves I4 pp. 35-36 and Ss2 pp.159-160 with no loss to text. $650. Only edition. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1957. English Short-Title. unknown
1776réf. 784871776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Trial. Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788 Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full-Parliament On Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst 1776. iv 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked retaining spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing light gatoring to spine small chip to head of spine corners bumped and somewhat worn small later bookseller ticket to front pastedown front hinge cracked another crack in text block between p. 176 which is lightly soiled and following leaf. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places owner name Horace Witner "1906 or 7" to front endleaf 19th or 20th-century annotations in pencil to endleaves some leaves have marks to margins in same hand lower corner lacking from leaves I4 pp. 35-36 and Ss2 pp.159-160 with no loss to text. $650. Only edition. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1957. English Short-Title. unknown books
1825réf. 189169London: T. Davison Whitefriars 1825. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Small stain on rear hinge. T. Davison, Whitefriars hardcover
1749réf. 988Y19London: Printed for John and James Rivington 1749. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A unique early copy of this poetical religious work from James Hervey gifted by the author to his sister. This copy presented as a gift by the author to his sister Mrs. Mary Hervey. Charming inscriptions pertaining to this to the front free endpaper and rear paste down. Fifth edition. Uniformly bound in full calf with raised bands and gilt to the spine. First published in 1746 Meditations and Contemplations was a highly influential work that reflects on life the afterlife nature and divine providence. Its Meditations among the Tombs is considered a key example of "graveyard poetry". The earliest work by English clergyman James Hervey which is said to have been modelled on Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflexions on various Subjects passing through as many editions within fourteen years. With an engraved frontispiece to both volumes. Uniformly bound in full calf with raised bands and gilt to the spine. Externally with rubbing to the extremities and cracking to the joints which remain firm. With traces of wax to the front paste down of Vol I. Internally firmly bound. Pages are toned with light scattered spotting throughout. With a few ink marks to S7 of Vol I. Good Printed for John and James Rivington hardcover
1810réf. 061455London: Printed by Richard Edwards Crane Court Fleet Street; and sold by T. Hamilton Paternoster Row 1810. Second Edition of Wiclif . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 14 x 12 Inches Tall. Engraved Portrait Frontispiece. The New Testament translated from the Latin in the Year 1380 By John Wiclif D.D. to Which are Prefixed Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Wyclif; & An Historical Account of the Saxon and English Versions of the Scriptures. By Rev. H. H. Baber. LONDON : 1810. Large-paper copy. The first printed edition of Wiclif was edited by John Lewis in 1737 this is the second edition. Hardback. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Double-column text in Middle English; introductory matter in English. Good wide margins; all edges sprinkled. Decorative initials throughout. Contemporary brown calf-leather; spine and corners. Raised bands. Gilt lettered spine; gilt decorated bands. Grey paper-covered boards; gilt ruled. Marbled end-papers. Original grey end-papers. Text complete. Bright tight and clean internally. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. A nice copy in well-reserved binding. VERY GOOD INDEED. lxxii 275 pages. Errata: p. lxxiii. Includes bibliographical references and index. A nice attractive leather binding. Scarce. Referenced by: Darlow and Moule 1014 and: Herbert A.S. Engl. Bible 1537. Folio; approx 14 x 12 inches tall. Heavy book; extra postage needed. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: Printed by Richard Edwards Crane Court Fleet Street; and sold by T. Hamilton Paternoster Row. SCARCE Printed by Richard Edwards, Crane Court, Fleet Street; and sold by T. Hamilton, Paternoster Row hardcover
1846réf. 134371Paris / London: Galignani and Co. / John Mitchell 1846. Hardcover. Good ex-library. perforation stamp on title page--page was reenforced at the same place and slightly toned from the adhesive. some foxing especially at the beginning and end. damp stain affecting bottom page edges margin only. wear to exterior with cloth splitting at hinges and fraying at corners and spine ends. Green library buckram. 399 pp. Galignani and Co. / John Mitchell hardcover
1846réf. 134371Paris / London: Galignani and Co. / John Mitchell 1846. Hardcover. Good ex-library. perforation stamp on title page--page was reenforced at the same place and slightly toned from the adhesive. some foxing especially at the beginning and end. damp stain affecting bottom page edges margin only. wear to exterior with cloth splitting at hinges and fraying at corners and spine ends. Green library buckram. 399 pp. Galignani and Co. / John Mitchell hardcover books
1926réf. 058347New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover no jacket minor flaws to this clean nice-looking copy: mild edge-rubbing to the bottom edge spine ends and corners of the blue cloth the spine is sunned to a slightly lighter shade and the publisher's gold name on the spine is no longer bright the spine also has a few faint blemishes which are faint unless held under bright light moderate tanning to the end-papers and outer edge of the pages the binding is tight and square and the contents are fine; 546 pages . 1926. MacMillan Company hardcover
réf. 9869Genève, H. Georg, Libraire-Editeur - Paris, Ernest Leroux - London, Trubner and Co., 1876 et 1883. 2 volumes in-4, X-520 pp. (Tome I) - IV-626 pp. (Tome II), reliés plein cuir moderne, couvertures imprimées conservées, très bon état intérieur.
réf. 13466Genève, H. Georg, Libraire-Editeur - Paris, Ernest Leroux - London, Trubner and Co., 1876 et 1883. 2 volumes in-4, X-520 pp. (Tome I) - IV-626 pp. (Tome II), reliés plein cuir moderne, couvertures imprimées conservées, très bon état intérieur.
réf. 2092902141700920Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
2009réf. Manohar-9780415440059Routledge 2009. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2009réf. Manohar-9780415440059Routledge 2009. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
1735réf. 268209London i.e. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne 1735. The fifth edition corrected. 8; 8 pp. Folio. Modern half calf. Near fine. The fifth edition corrected". 8; 8 pp. Folio. Foxon V44 & P1135 Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne unknown
1735réf. 268209London i.e. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne 1735. The fifth edition corrected. 8; 8 pp. Folio. Modern half calf. Near fine. The fifth edition corrected". 8; 8 pp. Folio. Foxon V44 & P1135 Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne unknown books
1742réf. 89655London: J. Roberts 1742. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Fair. 80 pages. Some page foxing noted. Some moisture staining around edges at early pages. John Hervey 2nd Baron Hervey PC 13 October 1696 – 5 August 1743 was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol he obtained the key patronage of Walpole and was involved in many court intrigues and literary quarrels being apparently caricatured by Pope and Fielding. His memoirs of the early reign of George II were too revealing to be published in his time and did not appear for more than a century. In 1725 he was elected M.P. for Bury St Edmunds. Hervey had been hesitating between William Pulteney afterwards earl of Bath and Robert Walpole but in 1730 he definitely took sides with Walpole of whom he was thenceforward a faithful adherent. He was able to render valuable service to Walpole from his influence with the Queen. Through him the minister governed Queen Caroline and indirectly George II. Hervey was vice-chamberlain in the royal household and a member of the Privy Council. In 1733 he was called to the House of Lords by writ of acceleration in his father's Barony. After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole he was dismissed July 1742 from his office. An excellent political pamphlet Miscellaneous Thoughts on the present Posture of Foreign and Domestic Affairs shows that he still retained his mental vigor. He predeceased his father but three of his sons became successively Earls of Bristol. Miscellaneous thoughts on the present posture both of our foreign and domestic affairs: humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament and the people. Author: John Hervey. Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography Bibliotheca Americana Sabin Americana 1500--1926 contains a collection of books pamphlets serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres sermons political tracts newspapers books pamphlets maps legislation literature and more. Per Sabin this was published anonymously. By John Hervey Baron Hervey. J. Roberts paperback
1932réf. 002745New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1932. Book. Fine in Wraps as Issued. Stapled Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered First Edition. #619/1000 copies printed " for presentation to friends of the author and the publishers". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on verso of front wrapper "Autograph for Eugene L. Delafield Esq. by Hervey Allen". Delafield was a noted New York book collector 1907-2001 the bulk of whose collection now resides in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library. Laid in is a 1 page letter signed with the initials "H.A." that reads- "One of the few remaining copies of my first book- newspaper reviews with the exception of the "Weakling" which was printed in El Paso and sold to the troops along the Mexican Border in 1916. As you remember I told you I destroyed perhaps foolishly a few copies that remained in my possession and have been able to get ahold of only one or two since then that turned up in an old trunk. I am not anxious to have this book known as it contains verse written when I was very immature." On the back of this letter in a different hand presumably Delafield's is "written circa 1925". Indeed very few copies of Allen's 1st book survive today and after a promising start as a poet Allen turned to fiction and became best known for his novel "Anthony Adverse" which became a huge best-seller and was made into a memorable movie winning 4 Oscars. Farrar & Rinehart Paperback
1932réf. 002745New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1932. Book. Fine in Wraps as Issued. Stapled Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered First Edition. #619/1000 copies printed " for presentation to friends of the author and the publishers". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on verso of front wrapper "Autograph for Eugene L. Delafield Esq. by Hervey Allen". Delafield was a noted New York book collector 1907-2001 the bulk of whose collection now resides in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library. Laid in is a 1 page letter signed with the initials "H.A." that reads- "One of the few remaining copies of my first book- newspaper reviews with the exception of the "Weakling" which was printed in El Paso and sold to the troops along the Mexican Border in 1916. As you remember I told you I destroyed perhaps foolishly a few copies that remained in my possession and have been able to get ahold of only one or two since then that turned up in an old trunk. I am not anxious to have this book known as it contains verse written when I was very immature." On the back of this letter in a different hand presumably Delafield's is "written circa 1925". Indeed very few copies of Allen's 1st book survive today and after a promising start as a poet Allen turned to fiction and became best known for his novel "Anthony Adverse" which became a huge best-seller and was made into a memorable movie winning 4 Oscars. Farrar & Rinehart Paperback books