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1914Best.-Nr. 136644Boston: Small 1914. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-2 3-672 673-676: blank note: last two leaves are blanks four inserted plates including color frontispiece by P. J. Monahan original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind pictorial endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by England on the verso of the frontispiece: "A ma Bonne Amie / Madamoiselle Carney / avec mes meilleurs / voeux / George Allen England / 22 fevrier 1914." An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33 and 1995 1-33. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 p. 294. Page edges just a bit dusty a bright fine copy. #136644 Small unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 140885New York: Avalon Books 1967. Octavo cloth. First separate edition. Fourth book of the five-volume Avalon reprint of DARKNESS AND DAWN an important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. The trilogy was first published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913 and first published in book form in 1914 by Small Maynard and Company. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33 and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904D. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #140885 Avalon Books unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 140886New York: Avalon Books 1967. Octavo cloth. First separate edition. Fifth book of the five-volume Avalon reprint of DARKNESS AND DAWN an important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. The trilogy was first published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913 and first published in book form in 1914 by Small Maynard and Company. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33 and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904E. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with some rubbing to black ink background on front panel. #140886 Avalon Books unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 137319New York: Avalon Books 1965. Octavo five volumes cloth. Later edition. A five-volume reprint of this important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. The trilogy was first published as serials in Cavalier in 1912 and 1913 and first published in book form in 1914 by Small Maynard and Company. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33; and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Reginald 04904A-E. Spotty fading to spine panel of DARKNESS AND DAWN offset from old asphaltic-edged dust jacket protector along upper and lower edges of front cover and rear covers of BEYOND THE GREAT OBLIVION else a fine set in nearly fine to fine dust jackets the first being price clipped the jacket for THE AFTERGLOW with minor creases to flaps and several with mild foxing to upper edges of flaps. An attractive set. #137319 Avalon Books unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 137424London: Jonathan Cape 1968. Octavo First edition. The author's first novel. Acclaimed adventure story about two POWs who escape from their captors who track them in the African wilderness to subdue them not destroy them. Basis of a film starring Malcom McDowell. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #137424 Jonathan Cape unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 14630New York: Macmillan 1936. First American Edition. Octavo 20cm. Original red cloth boards lettered in black on front cover and spine; 316pp. Clean tight copy Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper severely sun-darkened on spine but still legible and with a few marginal chips; only Good. Novel of Irish dockworkers in the Liverpool slums based largely on Hanley's own experience growing up in an Anglo-Irish immigrant family during the early years of the 20th century. This was just the second of the remarkable Hanley's many novels to be published in the U.S. following The Furys 1935. Macmillan unknown books
1860Best.-Nr. 132051Boston: Published by Henry Hoyt 1860. 12mo frontispiece original blue cloth stamped in gold and blind cream endpapers. Later edition. An early U.S. edition of THE MINE; OR DARKNESS AND LIGHT 1858 the author's fifteenth book. Spine ends chipped sound internally clean a very good copy. Scarce. OCLC reports no holdings of this edition and no edition earlier than this one. #132051 Published by Henry Hoyt unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 8373New York: Small Maynard & Co 1916. First Edition. Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge internal; bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: ".young bank employee falsely convicted of embezzlement spends two years in Sing Sing before being cleared." Octavo. Small, Maynard & Co unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 106752Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1920. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-394 inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan original blue-green cloth front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam which he believes to be the true religion. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-74 and 1981 1-68. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915 pp. 177-79. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 284. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-195. Top edge of text block just a bit darkened the endpapers printed on flimsy pulp paper stock are intact and the hinges tight remarkable for this book a nearly fine copy. A quite superior copy of this book and very uncommon in this condition. #106752 A. C. McClurg & Co. unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 84218Boston: Small 1914. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-2 3-672 673-676: blank note: last two leaves are blanks four inserted plates including color frontispiece by P. J. Monahan original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind pictorial endpapers. First edition. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33; and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 p. 294. Some slight dulling to spine panel minimal wear to extremities small spot on rear panel a very attractive tight nearly fine copy. #84218 Small unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. 116309London Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons 1876. Octavo original bevel-edged decorated brown cloth stamped in black gold and blind. First edition. Short stories written by A.L.O.E. after her arrival in India "to amuse and through amusement to instruct the people of the country of her adoption" author's preface. Charlotte Maria Tucker 1821-1893 was "one of the most successful writers of fiction for Victorian children. In 1848 Charlotte underwent a conversion to strict evangelicalism. Her father died in 1851 and she never married devoting herself to a life of useful spinsterdom. Tucker was active in helping the London poor before 1851 but did not publish any fiction until after her father's death. Her first work was the unabashedly didactic CLAREMONT TALES OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BEATITUDES 1852. The last years of Tucker's life were extraordinary. At the age of fifty-four she went to India as a missionary having taught herself Hindustani and spent the last eighteen years of her life as a Zenana visitor i.e. calling on secluded Indian women. She was also an active educationalist converting the natives to Christianity as she taught them. She eventually died at Amritsar having long been weakened by illness in 1885. Some of her later work. has an Indian setting and flavor of narration." - Sutherland Victorian Fiction pp. 641-42. The correct first printing; early gift inscription dated 1877 on half title page. Several faint stains to cloth mostly rear cover a very good copy. #116309 T. Nelson and Sons unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 3865Cambridge Massachusetts: New England Science Fiction Association 1971. Large octavo pp. i-viii ix x-xiv 1 2-82 double columns cloth. First edition. This five-year index compiled by Anthony Lewis includes all American and British science fiction magazines published during the period 1966-1970. Intended as a continuation of The MIT Science Fiction Society's Index to the S-F Magazines 1951-1965 1966 compiled by Erwin S. Strauss the Lewis index employs the Strauss triple listing format by magazine by story title and by author. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 14-10. Burgess Reference Guide to Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror 129. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #3865 New England Science Fiction Association unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 118159N.p.: n.d. circa 1910. 1910. Oblong octavo brown cloth stamped in gold on front and spine panels. Ten black and white photographs reproduced by photogravure each measuring approximately 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches 14.6 x 20 mm all captioned most with stock number and imprint "F. F. & Co." on the image. Tipped onto the first leaf is an envelope containing a handwritten letter on Haddon Hall letterhead signed by R. W. Hand extending an invitation to a Mr. Berolzheimer to visit the house. Haddon Hall is a medieval manor house the most complete and interesting of its period in England. Fine. #118159 n.d. [circa 1910]. unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 85587Cambridge Massachusetts: New England Science Fiction Association 1971. Large octavo pp. i-viii ix x-xiv 1 2-82 double columns cloth. First edition. This five-year index compiled by Anthony Lewis includes all American and British science fiction magazines published during the period 1966-1970. Intended as a continuation of The MIT Science Fiction Society's Index to the S-F Magazines 1951-1965 1966 compiled by Erwin S. Strauss the Lewis index employs the Strauss triple listing format by magazine by story title and by author. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 14-10. Burgess Reference Guide to Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror 129. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #85587 New England Science Fiction Association unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 106753New York: The H. K. Fly Company Publishers 1916. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-350 351-352: blank note: last leaf is a blank five inserted plates with illustrations by John Sloan note: title page states "Frontispiece by C. D. Williams" but all illustrations including frontispiece are signed by Sloan original terra cotta cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A representative example of the SF novel as political propaganda. "More lively and better written than most of England's socially oriented fiction but with many long essay sections on war and the munitions industry." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 677. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-69 and 2004 II-384. Clareson The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915 p. 240. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 285. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Bleiler 1978 p. 69. Reginald 04906. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-197. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 1098. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 p. 294. Some patchy fading to cloth as is usually the case with this book a very good copy with fairly bright cover stamping and clean interior. One of England's more uncommon titles. #106753 The H. K. Fly Company Publishers unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 90392Boston: Small 1914. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-2 3-672 673-676: blank note: last two leaves are blanks four inserted plates including color frontispiece by P. J. Monahan original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind pictorial endpapers. First edition. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33; and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 p. 294. A fine bright copy. An excellent copy of this book. Quite scarce in this condition. Front and rear flaps of the rare dust jacket are laid in. #90392 Small unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 37487Boston 1863. Folio broadside 9-1/4" x 13-1/2". Printed beneath the caption in three columns each column separated by a rule. Blank upper left corner with a slight smudge. Very Good plus. The Society founded in 1863 published numerous articles to promote support for the Union emancipation and victory. Its folio broadsides are far scarcer than the octavo imprints of the Loyal Publication Society in Philadelphia. The first of several articles reports on the stunning election results in Pennsylvania and Ohio: "The people of this country-- the great democratic masses-- without regard to parties or prejudices are determined to maintain their government in all its integrity and strength. Both the peace men of the North and the war men of the South received a stunning blow yesterday." In Ohio the traitor Vallandigham "has been beaten by an unprecedented majority." And in Pennsylvania the Copperhead Woodward has been repudiated. Another article expresses hope that the small farmers of the South and "are thoroughly tired of the war." The final article reports on Kentucky's Joseph Holt's advocacy of the use of Negro soldiers. Sabin 52696 reference. unknown books
1841Best.-Nr. 37610Boston: J.A. Collins 1841. Original printed and illustrated green wrappers ink stain along half the front wrapper's blank inner margin with engraving of Lady Liberty surrounded by slaves and freedom-loving white people. Stitched. 36pp. Title page and text illustrations. Lightly foxed. Very Good. A scarce Almanac also appearing with a publication date of 1840. The Almanac is noteworthy for its excellent content on the Amistad incident including portraits of Cinque and others. "Things for Abolitionists to Do" recommends working to establish schools for free children of color. Also included are "Hints to Anti-Slavery Debaters;" an "Ecclesiastical Roll of Infamy" listing northern clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church who voted for a resolution prohibiting "colored persons to give testimony against white persons;" and a "Congressional Roll of Infamy" of Northern congressmen who voted for the Gag Rule prohibiting Congress from entertaining petitions to abolish slavery in Washington D.C. As to the presidential campaign the authors say "President Van Buren and General Harrison have both publicly taken the side of the oppressor against the oppressed and the God of the oppressed. Both of them glory in it." Dumond 83 this imprint. Drake 4222. J.A. Collins unknown books
1887Best.-Nr. 2437Gloucester Massachusetts 1887. Cards. Cream card stock. Very good. 15 x 12.5 cm. Decorative folding menu with an elaborate array of dishes served on Sunday August 21 1887. Faux tortoise shell embellishment held to cover with wooden toothpick. Foxing to areas around embellishment. unknown books
1835Best.-Nr. 291674London: Willaim Darton and Son 1835. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Darton's Counties of England complete with 42 decorative engraved map 3 of which are folding with original hand-coloring. The maps have attractive vignettes of sights within each county and references to the "Hundreds" and "Market Towns and Market Days". Some offsetting as is usual. This is a later state of "Complete Atlas of the English Counties" begun by Thomas Dix of North Walsham and completed by William Darton in 1822. Undated but the imprint on most maps reads "London: William Darton & Son 58 Holborn Hill" which was Darton's company name only between 1835 and 1837. Rebacked in calf with a new spine label. Very Good binding. Willaim Darton and Son unknown books
1777Best.-Nr. 36809London 1777. Large folio unbound and untrimmed. 708 1 errata 1 blank pp as issued. Occasional light toning else Near Fine. ESTC explains that the Journal whose entries end on 18 September 1760 was not printed until 1777. Entries appear on a variety of topics some concerning the French and Indian War. For example a bill would prohibit exportation of goods from America to anywhere except Great Britain page 37; King George decrees the "vigorous prosecution of a just war with France" page 301; Great Britain and Prussia will cooperate against France and keep America page 304. ESTC T166648 7 copies in five locations all in England as of May 2020. unknown books
1736Best.-Nr. 698131736. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. The City Charters and Geographical Boundaries of Bristol England Bristol England. Bristol. The City Charters. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors Recorders Sheriffs Town-Clerks And All Other Officers Whatsoever. As also of a Common-Council And the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with And Corrected According to the Latin Originals. To which are Added The Bounds of the City By Land With the Exact Distances from Stone to Stone All Round the City. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. 297 15 pp. A few errors in pagination text complete. Copperplate frontispiece. Final advertisement leaf. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece joints and head of spine reinforced gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor scratches stains and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to board edges small chip to lettering piece corners bumped and somewhat worn hinges starting. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves. $500. Only edition. Includes details on the recently completed 1736 survey indicated by the exact location of some 74 boundary stones on the Gloucestershire side and of 29 on the Somersetshire side. One example: "Stone 1. On the bank of the River of Avon near a limekiln on the East and a sluice on the West call'd Woodwell's-Lake standeth the first stone." This is indeed the only edition; a copy at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas Austin with a suggested date of "1735" must surely be a mistake. OCLC locates 12 copies in North America 3 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania. English Short-Title Catalogue T143949. unknown books
1843Best.-Nr. 36025Northampton: Printed at the Gazette Office 1843. 20pp. Stitched lightly dusted Very Good. The Convention expresses "strong confidence in the ultimate triumph of the silk cause in this country." Edward Dickinson of Amherst the Treasurer of Amherst College and father of Emily Dickinson was President of the Convention. Animated discussions of silk worms and silk are printed. American Imprints records the 1842 first edition but not this 1843 second. OCLC locates four copies as of June 2019. Printed at the Gazette Office unknown books
1736Best.-Nr. 694771736. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. The City Charters and Geographical Boundaries of Bristol England Bristol England. Bristol. The City Charters. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors Recorders Sheriffs Town-Clerks And All Other Officers Whatsoever. As also of a Common-Council And the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with And Corrected According to the Latin Originals. To which are Added The Bounds of the City By Land With the Exact Distances from Stone to Stone All Round the City. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. 297 15 pp. A few errors in pagination text complete. Copperplate frontispiece. Final advertisement leaf. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf rebacked in period style lettering piece and gilt-edged raised bands to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards and board edges corners bumped and somewhat worn. Moderate toning a few leaves somewhat darker occasional light foxing to margins minor worming to margins in a few places with no loss to text early owner signature of Marmaduke Coules to recto of frontispiece. $500. Only edition. Includes details on the recently completed 1736 survey indicated by the exact location of some 74 boundary stones on the Gloucestershire side and of 29 on the Somersetshire side. One example: "Stone 1. On the bank of the River of Avon near a limekiln on the East and a sluice on the West call'd Woodwell's-Lake standeth the first stone." This is indeed the only edition; a copy at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas Austin with a suggested date of "1735" must surely be a mistake. OCLC locates 12 copies in North America 3 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania. English Short-Title Catalogue T143949. unknown books
1762Best.-Nr. 35410London: Mark Baskett 1762. 2 819-822 2 blank pp. Disbound persistent spotting at bottom blank corners. Else Very Good. ESTC N56739 4 locations. Mark Baskett unknown books
