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1948Best.-Nr. 36367Norton. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. A signed stated first edition in tatty jacket showing shelf and edge wear some stainign and foxing with edge/corner wear to boards. RARE. ; Signed by Author . Norton hardcover
1959Best.-Nr. 000014636n.p.: n.p. 1959. Photo Album. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. 28 cm x 38 cm. The album cover is red faux leather with gold lettering and two gold flourishes on the front cover bound with a red tie. Photographs and postcards are mounted with four corner tabs each on black paper. Photographs measure 9 cm x 9 cm to 9 cm x 14.5 cm. There are 23 leaves 46 pages of content. Most of the photographs are in black and white but a handful are in color. With a few postcards pasted in all in color some measure 9 cm x 14 cm and some measure 15 cm x 10.5 cm. Almost every photograph and postcard is accompanied by a typewritten caption of what is depicted captions printed on white paper. The photographs depict landmarks like Stonehenge Tintagel Glastonbury the abbey the Roman Baths Canterbury Cathedral Winchester Cathedral Jane Austen's home Salisbury Cathedral York Minster the Isle of Skye Inverness Grasmere Lake Thomas Hardy's birthplace in Dorset landmarks from his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles Westminster Abbey Samuel Johnson's home in London an orator speaking in Hyde Park Dickens' residence the Tower of London Kensington Gardens and the exterior of the British Museum. The album was put together by an English literature professor who took the trip and let his love of the subject inform his itinerary. The postcards at the end of the album depict the Brontë sisters Byron Wordsworth Dickens and others. Most of the photographs are of just the landmarks but there are a few photographs of people scattered throughout: the crowd listening to the speaker at Hyde Park a women playing with a shetland pony on the side of the highway a man standing in the circle at Stonehenge possibly the compiler of this album and women shopping at the Shambles in York. A visual smorgasbord of English and Scottish highlights. Very light wear to the leaves' bottom edges overall a sharp example. n.p. unknown
2003Best.-Nr. 005227Greenwich Connecticut: Rock Point Press 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A pictorial tour of Greenwich Connecticut. SIGNED by the photographers Franco and Blum. 249 pages of charming full-color photographs. Designed by Ken DeLago and edited by Christopher Franco. A sticker on front inside cover from Hoagland's of Greenwich. Dust jacket is partially price-clipped and has mild edgewear. A lovely book. Rock Point Press hardcover
1851Best.-Nr. 49561New York: Harper and Brothers 1851. first edition. Hardcover. Very good . 12mo. xii 259 pp. First edition of 1851. Brown cloth boards with gilt woodsmen and trees same image in blindstamp on rear board. Frontis of moose plates and vignettes throughout. Yellow endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean with light sunning to edges and spine. Gilt at front a little coppery at very edges. Minimal wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight. Yellow endpapers very good. Text bright and clean. Maine. RGR. Harper and Brothers hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0715120301.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1980Best.-Nr. RENGBRO00fpBookcraft 1980. Very Good. England Eugene. Brother Brigham. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft 1980. 1st edition. 256pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and both ends of spine bumped. Large gift card with letter affixed on front free end sheet. Signed by author on title page. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Price clipped. Edges rubbed and chipped with several short closed tears and some faint creasing along back top edge. Bookcraft hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. 008182Self Published 1968 OVERSIZED. A Thesis Presented to the Department of Music Harvard University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy February 1968. vi 6 355pp; 1 357-676pp illustrated single sided sheets being a copy of the original typed thesis bound in red buckram with binding and hinges tight. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Lorna Marshall / from Nick". From the personal collection of Lorna Marshall 1898-2002 a well known anthropologist that lived among the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert and author of several books based on her studies with her pencil notations and corrections throughout. Self Published hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. BN40534Schattauer Verlag 1985. 1985. Hardcover. Übersetzer Elke Lütjen-Drecoll Zusatzinfo 718 Abb. in zahlr. Einzeldarst. davon 691 farb. Einbandart gebunden Embryologie ISBN-10 3-7945-0950-1 3794509501 ISBN-13 978-3-7945-0950-8 9783794509508 Perinatology Atlases EMBRYOLOGY ATLASES Embryologie Perinatology Embryologie Atlas Perinatology Atlases EMBRYOLOGY ATLASES Embryologie Perinatology Embryologie Atlas ISBN-10 3-7945-0950-1 3794509501 ISBN-13 978-3-7945-0950-8 9783794509508 Übersetzer Elke Lütjen-Drecoll Zusatzinfo 718 Abb. in zahlr. Einzeldarst. davon 691 farb. Einbandart gebunden Embryologie Schattauer Verlag hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 004962Boston: The Christopher Publishing House 1961. Revised Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mary Jane Pollock. In-depth information about the Wampanoags the most notable members being Massasoit and King Philip. 247 indexed pages with photographs and drawings by Mary Jane Pollock. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart cover has light soiling and some chips not affecting any print. The Christopher Publishing House hardcover
Best.-Nr. 14725London: Longman and Co. 1871. First edition thus. First edition thus. Contemporary full red morocco by Riviere decorative borders and corner pieces in gilt to the upper and lower boards six raised bands gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Gilt decorated inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Folio. A highly attractive example the binding square and firm showing a little rubbing and scuffing to the extremities the inner and outer hinges remain firm. The contents although spotted remain firmly bound and without loss or tears to any of the pages. A very attractively bound volume. A photo-lithographic facsimile of the "Booke of Common Prayer" printed by Robert Barker in 1636 and edited corrected and amended by bishops of the church in 1661 and approved by Convocation as the official text of the revised Book of Common Prayer. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Longman and Co. 1871 hardcover
1649Best.-Nr. 00540930Chez Francois Preuveray 1649. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Pamphlet of 14pp. with title page. Signatures: A² B-C² D1. Spine overstitched; text browned and foxed else Very Good. This scarce work reflects part of continental Europe's consternation at the executiuon of King Charles I of England. 'The Trial the Personal Adjournment the Examination and the Death Penalty of the King of England: With the procedure of which he was put to death: And the Harangue he did on the escort .'. Chez Francois Preuveray unknown
1735Best.-Nr. 33237England 1735. Elephant folio 24-1/2" x 30-1/2". Completely in ink manuscript on stiff vellum some words written in larger lettering or bolder print. Bottom edge folded up and held with five red wax seals and vellum strips. Strip of three embossed blue Sixpence Royal tax stamps at left edge "Colony to Saml Clarke" in manuscript directly beneath it. The names of Joseph Lodge Elizabeth Lodge Jonathan Pickering Ann Pickering and John Hamblins written along the bottom edge between the seals. Docketed on verso: "The 9th October 1735/ Joseph Lodge & wife/ Jonathan Pickering/ To John Hamblin/ Joseph Rust." Old folds light spotting and dustsoiling of verso recto quite clean. Beautiful document. Near Fine. A deed from England: Wortham Hall Hopton Botesdale and Thelnetham are all of Suffolk County England. Joseph Lodge 1693-1759 lived and died in Needham Norfolk County England. Elizabeth his wife 1699-1739 died in Norfolk as well. unknown
1932Best.-Nr. BOOKS065903IKeene NH: Sentinel Printing Co 1932. HC. very good blue cloth hardcover. fold-out map in pocket. ORIGINAL 1932 EDITION - Not a print-on-demand. Text is keyed to locations on the large fold-out map - a single map as called for. Sentinel Printing Co unknown
1850Best.-Nr. 20642Salisbury England: Clapperton Bookseller Catherine St. Salisbury 1850. Very good condition. Striking large lithograph on India laid paper of one of the most famous monuments in England published in Salisbury around 1850. Showing visitors to the monument including a horse drawn carriage at far left visitor in top hat at center and a shepherd at the right reclining on a fallen stone his flock visible at the right. With a small oval vignette of the monument from a greater distance at the center below the large image. Below the main image "Pubd. by Clapperton Bookseller Catherine St. Salisbury Price 2s". With a caption at lower right reading "Diamr. of the outer circle of Stones 104 feet. Do. Circle formed by the ditch 312 __ Upright of the great Hexagon 20 feet_ Estimated weight of each 70 Tons." The Clapperton family established themselves in Salisbury in 1820 when the premises at Catherine Street were purchased; Kenneth Clapperton was a bookbinder bookseller printer and publisher. Walter Kenneth's son took over the business and began making fine art prints. He compiled and published the first Salisbury railway timetable and a cyclopaedia entitled 'Clapperton's register of facts and occurrences relating to literature the sciences and the arts'. A guide to Stonehenge Clapperton's Stonehenge Hand-Book Containing the Opinions of the most Eminent Writers on the Origin & Object of that Mysterious Monument of Antiquity. a map of Salisbury and a collection of 14 views of Salisbury all published by Walter Clapperton in the 1850s are at the British Library. Impression 14 3/4 x 10"; on paper 16 1/2 x 11". A bit chipped at edges two short closed tears at bottom edge. Clapperton, Bookseller, Catherine St. Salisbury unknown
1858Best.-Nr. 005750New York: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1858. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. New York: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1858. First Edition thus. The rare first American edition of Eyre & Spottiswoode's book of common prayer. A demure little 24mo size book just over 5" tall; full dark brown morocco boards ornate lacquered brass trim at board edges see scans gilt spine imprinting original owner's name in gilt on front cover scan All Edges Gilt dark brown endpapers hinge-bead-clasp closure with the clasp itself removed by the original owner as was commonly the case because of its interference unpaginated but at least six hundred pages. A quite-handsome Very Good or better; small-scale peripheral scuffing a crack at the front hinge which is nonetheless still quite stoutly integral modest toning to the pages inside and really not much else to point to; clasp as noted was removed by the original owner one Emilie A. Gove sic. A very scarce First American edition in a charming binding. Please see scans. L53n George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
Best.-Nr. 101381Birch Hills SK: New F Historical Club 0-88925-143-6 1980. Cloth 8vo viii 335. Fine no dust jacket. New F Historical Club Birch Hills Saskatchewan 1980. 335p 4to illustrations illustrated e.p.'s. Also available "The Naylor Farm Home; Birch Hills" by Nellie Naylor 1980. Signed by Nellie. $35. New F Historical Club Hardcover
1915Best.-Nr. 2180321915. unbound. Signed Christmas card with the royal crest signed "Mary R" and accompanied with a 5" x 7" black-and-white unsigned photograph of the Queen in an ostrich-plume hat and intricately embroidered and laced dress. Also a 7" x 9" card illustrated with a color engraving of royal forebears with a history and description inside. No place 1915. Very good condition. Queen of Great Britain married to George V. unknown