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1878réf. 59495New York: Wheat & Cornett Printers 1878. First ed. 12mo. 63 pp. Mohawk River Valley New York romantic fiction. Wright III 3082a. Fine. Orig. illus. red wrappers. #6923. Wheat & Cornett, Printers unknown books
1797réf. 004958Wilmington DE: Peter Brynberg 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Paper darkened. One page torn with no loss; rear blank and endpaper partially present. Very Good. Duodecimo 4" x 6-3/4" bound with the half-title page in original sheep leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 6 pages. Evans 32249. Hervey a popular and bombastic Divine had an influence on William Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs." Two of the works in this collection--MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE TOMBS and THERON AND ASPASIO--decisively influenced the imagery in Blake's well-known poem "The Tyger." Peter Brynberg hardcover books
1937réf. 003888Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines just a trifle dull. About Fine in an about Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #1377 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1972réf. RVOGMOU00kwSierra Club 1972. Very Good. Voge Hervey H. Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra. Smatko Andrew J. San Fancisco: Sierra Club 1972. 356pp. Indexed. 16mo. Flexible cardboard covers gilt lettered. Book condition: Very good with some creasing near the spine. Sierra Club unknown books
1988réf. UHERSOL00twMichael Joseph 1988. Very Good. Hervey Albert. A Soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-43. Allen editor Charles. London: Michael Joseph 1988. 224pp. Illustrated. Glossary. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1988réf. UHERSOL00afMichael Joseph 1988. Very Good. Hervey Albert. A Soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-43. Allen Charles. London: Michael Joseph 1988. 224pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped spine ends. Subtly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1934réf. RALLANT00RJBFarrar and Rinehart 1934. Very Good. Allen Hervey. Anthony Adverse 2 volume set. Wyeth illustrator N. C. New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1934. 592 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good with lightly rubbed and subtly bumped edges Light soiling on back covers and spines which are slightly sunned. Farrar and Rinehart unknown books
réf. 05781New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1933. Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the US for 1933 & 1934 ALLEN Hervey. Anthony Adverse. Decorations by Allan McNab. New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1933. First edition first printing. Octavo 8 1/2 x 6 inches; 216 x 152 mm. xii 1-1224 pp. Title-page printed in blue & black. Publisher's blue cloth front cover bordered and titled in gilt spine lettered in gilt. Original printed dust jacket with $3.00 on front flap spine slightly darkened extremities of inside fold neatly strengthened. A good copy. The novel contains three volumes: The Roots of the Tree The Other Bronze Boy and The Lonely Twin and each volume contains three "books" making for nine books in total. The story follows the eponymous protagonist Anthony Adverse through several adventures around the world. This includes slave trading in Africa his business dealings as a plantation owner in New Orleans and his incarceration and eventual death in Mexico. The novel was the Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the United States for two consecutive years: 1933 and 1934. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933 unknown books
1940réf. 555899New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Illustrated by Lyle Justis. 153pp. Edges with some fading else very good in a spine-sunned heavily worn good only dust jacket with splitting at the front folds. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1948réf. 463381New York: Rinehart & Company 1948. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate reproducing a painting by Andrew Wyeth. Publisher's beige cloth over boards. Front hinge is tender holding firm modest toning an attractive good or better copy. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1929réf. 410231New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First regular edition. Gilt lettering on black cloth. Modest edgewear very good lacking the dust jacket. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1924réf. 337918New York: The Century Company 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplate else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. Author's account of his search for romantic adventure mostly in the Orient. Many of the author's stories were made into successful movies including Shanghai Express. Lengthily Inscribed by the author in 1925. The Century Company hardcover books
1866réf. 281585London: Printed for private circulation 1866. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. Self-wrappers. 8pp. The Chamberlain Pedigree compiled by William Hervey Norroy King of Arms. Copied from the original roll in the possession of Joseph Chamberlayne-Chamberlayne includes coats of arms and royal descents of the Chamberlain family. Presumably prepared for the family. Horizontal and diagonal creases small ink stains on front wrap bottom left corner very good. OCLC locates no copies. [Printed for private circulation] unknown books
1929réf. 34045New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper with some light overall soiling and a small chip to the rear panel. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1876réf. 10861Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1876. First Edition. 518pp. Quarto 30.5 cm In the original 3/4 leather over matching dark brown boards with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. Complete with all plates and the large map. Good only. Front hinge split. Bookplates on the front pastedown. Shelving number faded on the backstrip. In 1859 U.S. Army topographical engineer Captain James H. Simpson explored the Great Basin of Utah mapping a direct300-mile wagon route from Camp Floyd to Genoa Nevada. This faster route which avoided the older southern paths was crucial for the Pony Express the Overland Mail the telegraph line and later the Lincoln Highway. The report was submitted in 1861 but publication had to be deferred because of the Civil War. Portions however appeared in the author's 'The Shortest Route to California.' Flake/Draper 7724. Fales & Flake 170. Graff 3791. Howes S501. Moffat 57-59. Paher 1802. Sabin 8135. Wheat 999-1000. Government Printing Office unknown books
1923réf. 622542New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue papercovered boards titled in silver. Small red leather gilt bookplate of Anne J. Smith on front pastedown which has offset onto the facing page else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eugene Delafield. Yale University Press hardcover books
1878réf. 57528New York: Wheat & Cornett printers no. 8 Spruce St 1878. 16mo pp. 63 1; original pictorial red wrappers printed in black; near fine. Seems like there are too many fine copies currently being offered which makes me suspect this was once a remainder. Wright III 3082a noting only the Huntington copy. Quite a few in OCLC however. Wheat & Cornett, printers, no. 8 Spruce St unknown books
1979réf. 41575Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press 1979. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 313; text diagrams; original cloth in white dust jacket printed in black and red; damage to top 1 1/2 inches of spine affecting both jacket and cloth light edge wear the rest very good. Second half of this study devoted to applying the theory to Mandarin Chinese. Scottish Academic Press unknown books
1930réf. 6001881930. Softcover. Very Good. An early treatment script of the film Shanghai Express. Measuring 8½" x 11". 22 mimeographed pages printed rectos only stapled along the spine. Front page detached from staples front page and a bit of the second page with scattered ink markings moderate chipping toning and bumping along the edges thus about very good the text largely clean throughout. An early 22-page treatment script for the famed film Shanghai Express written by Harry Hervey who is generally only credited with writing the short story from which the film was based. The second page includes a list of characters which differs slightly from the film most notably a character named Laura Mason who seems to be the film's character Shanghai Lily played by Marlene Dietrich. Also different is the character Captain Esme Simpson who appears to be the film's character Captain Donald Harvey played by Clive Brook. The film directed by Josef von Sternberg and released in February of 1932 also featured noted Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as Hui Fei. An interesting piece of Pre-Code Era Hollywood likely printed in very small numbers for a select group of people. unknown books
1937réf. 1400932New York: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club 1937. 1480/1500. Hardcover. Octavo three volumes. In Very Good condition. Gray and brown slipcase has slight wear including tape mended edges with few small chips to the fore edges. Paper label to the back panel. Bound in the publisher's maroon cloth bearing gilt lettering to the pictorial spines. Boards have slight wear including mild sunning to the spines and faint scuffs. Text blocks have slight wear including mild age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edges colored black. Frontispiece. Minimal wear including slight age toning and few slight marks to the interiors. Illustrated. Number 1480 of 1500 copies. Limited numbered and signed copies. Signed by Edward Wilson. CONTENTS: Vol. One "The Roots of the Tree" xiii 431 pages -- Vol. Two "The Other Bronze Boy" 493 pages -- Vol. Three "The Lonely Twin" 685 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire about rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Multi-Volume Area. . 1400932. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1933réf. 014938New York CIty: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Large thick 8vo. 1244pp. Beautiful First Edition with Rinehart's logo on the copyright page as called for. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over flexible boards with borders and titles in gilt on front board and spine. . Square tight and clean throughout with no foxing and barely a hint of toning Mild surface and edge-wear. Spine gilt mildly dulled. Very well-preserved for such a large book. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket $3.00 has a couple of chips to the spine ends and a few closed edge-tears. Spine and edges toning. Still solid and complete. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase with leather spine labels titled in gilt which is mildly rubbed. Inscribed signed and dated by Allen on the front end-paper in the year of publication "Inscribed to G. Selmer Fougner with the cordial best regards and best wishes of his ever Hervey Allen September 16 1933". Gustav Selmer Fougner 1884-1941 was an author and journalist who wrote for the New York Herald and the New York Sun where he was the chief European correspondent during WWI. He was probably best known however for his wine critic column in the Sun "Along the Wine Trail" as well as his 1941 book "Dining Out In New York". Laid in is publisher's review slip. Also the chemise has a built-in pouch which contains some ephemera about the book news articles etc. including a TLS from the author's secretary regarding a book from another author. A very pretty collectable copy and a great presentation. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1938réf. TB19905New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First Edition. First printing Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text block on the spine and embossed likeness of author's signature on the front board. In a very good- price clippped dust jacket with 1/3" chips from the corners of the front panel and from the corners of the spine area. A novel of the Civil War written with the historical accuracy for which Hervey Allen was noted. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
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
1944réf. TB11176New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1944. First Edition. First printing Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with a gift inscription on the first free end paper. In a very good- dust jacket due to a price clipped front flap a lightly faded spine area and shallow chipping at the ends of the spine area. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The second volume in The Disienherited series. This is an unusual variant as it lacks the pasted missing last line of text on page 298 which is pasted in on most 1st editions. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1948réf. TB11175New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1948. First Edition. First printing Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards. In a very good- dust jacket due to 1/3" chips across the upper edge of the spine area & wear at the panel edges but with the price intact. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The third book in the series of historical novels of the early American frontier called The Disinherited. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books