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1971réf. 68994Freeport: Books for Libraries Press 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. illustrated most small photos index x 301p. Original black cloth. 26 cm. No Jacket as published. Reprint of the original 1900 edition. Books for Libraries Press hardcover
1997réf. 2082402113501217Shinchosha 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: books Shinchosha paperback
1893réf. 005719London: J. M. Dent 1893. Cocked; coveres slightly creased and soiled; inner hinges cracked; front flyleaf absent. First Edition. Original White Pictorial Cloth. Good. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. J. M. Dent Hardcover
1879réf. 31394Bickers and Son 1879. Bound in full calf with extra gilt illustrated with twelve illustrations in permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery. Bickers and Son unknown
1901réf. mon0003677264Raphael Tuck & Sons 1901T. hardcover. Good. . minor wear and creasing Raphael Tuck & Sons hardcover
1915réf. 25265London and Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack. Very Good with no dust jacket. c1915. First Edition Thus. Leather. Bound by Morrell for Scribners. Color Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 324 pp . T.C. & E.C. Jack hardcover
1921réf. 75237J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1921. Three-Quarter Leather . Very Good/No Jacket. 2 Vol. Vol. 1 1919 Vol 2 from 1921. Brown leather and brown cloth over boards. Gilt borders on cover. Raised bands and gilt on spine. Edges lightly rubbed. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Vol 1 pages are mostly cut vol 2 mostly uncut. Binding tight. Pages and illustrations bright. Size: 12mo - over 6-3/4 - 7-3/4' tall. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. hardcover
1900réf. CHL002New York and Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Co. 1900 Deluxe edition limited issue of 1000 copies printed for subscribers this copy being out of series and unnumbered. Finely bound by Brentano's in three-quarter contemporary style dark blue morocco ruled in gilt and light blue cloth five raised bands to spine stamped in gilt to spine pale gray endpapers top edge gilt. About near fine with toning and light rubbing to extremities interior very clean. Elia is a collection of Lamb's popular essays each of which was originally published in London Magazine. Specifically it includes "The South-Sea House" "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago" "Dream-Children; A Reverie" and "Modern Gallantry" among others. Lamb a long-time clerk for the British East India Company began writing essays under the pseudonym "Elia" which he derived from a former colleague's surname. Lamb wrote in a colloquial and conversational style that made his essays beloved by his Edwardian and Victorian readers. Additionally Lamb included many of his friends and family in his writing loosely disguised by initials and pseudonyms. Mary Lamb Charles' sister and co-author of the popular Tales from Shakespeare 1807 appears as Cousin Bridget. Hard Cover. Near Fine. New York and Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Co. hardcover
réf. 59630London: Chapman & Hall nd. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full straight-grained tan calf gilt border on covers gilt spine morocco spine laabel a.e.g. by Riviere & Sons. very good copy. 1 vols. 8vo. Chapman & Hall unknown
1952réf. 266862London: MacDonald 1952. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full red polished calf a.e.g. by Bayntun Riviere. Some minor rubbing. Brock Charles E. 1 vols. 8vo. MacDonald unknown
1906réf. 3568London: Macmillan 1906. Hardcover. Fine. Full red calf prize binding. Pinewood School in gilt on front board with presentation inscription from school and nice school bookplate inside. Macmillan hardcover
1899réf. 152475Philadelphia: Henry Altemus 1899. Attractive Altemus edition of Charles Lamb's The Last Essays of Elia the second and final collection of the beloved essays he published under the pen name Elia. Duodecimo original decorative paper-covered boards elaborately printed in colors and gilt in the Art Nouveau style with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Lamb and a title page printed in orange and green within a floral border. In good condition with rubbing and chipping to the extremities. The Last Essays of Elia first published in 1833 is the second and final collection of the essays Charles Lamb contributed to the London Magazine under the pen name Elia following the celebrated Essays of Elia of 1823. Ranging from the tender recollections of "Old China" and "Poor Relations" to the comic and the frankly melancholy the Elia essays are the supreme achievement of the English familiar essay prized for their wit warmth whimsy and the intimate voice Lamb created for his alter ego. Charles Lamb spent his working life as a clerk at the East India House while writing essays criticism and some of the finest letters in the language and with his sister Mary he produced Tales from Shakespeare long a standard introduction to the plays for young readers. A devoted friend of Coleridge Wordsworth and Hazlitt Lamb bore lifelong responsibility for Mary who in 1796 killed their mother during an episode of mental illness and the quiet heroism of that life gives the Elia essays their peculiar depth. Henry Altemus hardcover
1905réf. 611127Boston: Bibliophile Society 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Volume I only of five and the only large-format volume. Introduction by Henry H. Harper. Folio. Measuring approximately 9" x 14½". llustrated with facsimiles as well as an etching of Lamb by James Fagan Signed by the artist in pencil. Papercovered thin boards in a chemise and slipcase. The book is near fine with a bit of very light wear and the spine slightly tanned. The slipcase and chemise are good only with toning and wear. Bookplate of Richard Williamson Ellis inside the chemise; Ellis has either affixed a manuscript label to the foredge panel of the slipcase or written the title and his initials there in his neat manuscript calligraphy. Ellis founded the Georgian Press in 1924 and later worked at both Haddon Craftsmen and Curtis Publishing Company. One of 470 copies printed. Bibliophile Society hardcover
1934réf. 0008082Omaha NB: Privately Printed 1934. First edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. 16mo 9 pages printed pink wrappers. Scarce. Copy no. 7 of only 100. The Preface remarks that this essay was found in an 1837 newspaper in Baltimore indicating that this is its first separate appearance. The Preface is signed by M. E. Northwall who surely was Maurice Ellsworth Northwall of Omaha. This copy is inscribed by Harriet Maury on the title-page. Mrs. N. was named Ruth Harriet. With an inserted Errata slip. no copy on WorldCat. A note laid in states that it was printed by Northwall. Privately Printed unknown
1836réf. 55295London:: Edward Moxon 1836-1838. old full gilt morocco a.e.g. Old engraved bookplate in each volume; spines sunned; all volumes tight and sound. 12mo. Edward Moxon, unknown
1903réf. ULAMWOR00fpE.P. Dutton 1903. Very Good. Lamb Charles. The Works of Charles Lamb. 10 volume set. Macdonald William. New York: E.P. Dutton 1903. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed on all volumes. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1971réf. TB30929Barre Mass.: Barre Publishers 1971. First Edition. First printing Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and yellow end papers. In a good glassine dust jacket with a long closed tear to the fold to the rear panel which has been repaired with archival tape. Missing its paper covered slipcase. Signed by the author on the first free end pape. A collection of 36 short stories on 92 pages. One of only 1500 copies printed. This copy is out of series. Barre Publishers hardcover
1965réf. 57856Barre Massachusetts: BARRE PUBLISHERS 1965. First edition. Hard cover. Fine. 9 1/4'' x 6 1/4''. 89pp. Edition limited to 1500 copies. Orginal glassine dust jacket in slipcase slightly toned soiled. BARRE PUBLISHERS unknown
1988réf. 88810New York: Vintage Books 1988. First Vintage Books Edition Stated May be second printing. Trade paperback. Very good. xvi 333 3 pages. Footnotes. Map. A Statistical Profile. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. David Sherman Lamb March 5 1940 – June 5 2016 was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years and then freelanced. David Lamb was born in Boston Massachusetts. For most of his high school education he attended Phillips Exeter Academy where he ran a gambling ring and was nicknamed “The Joker.” At Exeter Lamb was friends with Benno Schmidt who became president of Yale University. Lamb was expelled after the school's administration searched his room and found his locked box of IOUs. He graduated from the University of Maine's School of Journalism in 1962. He began his career with The Okinawa Morning Star then moved on to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Oakland Tribune. He then joined United Press International in San Francisco and Denver; from 1968 to 1970 he worked as a battlefront correspondent in Saigon. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1970 and was based in Los Angeles New York and Washington D.C. as well as being bureau chief in Sydney Nairobi Cairo and Hanoi. He covered the fall of Saigon in April 1975 on assignment for The Los Angeles Times. He was a Nieman Fellow an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow a Pew Fellow and a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California's School of Journalism. He is believed to be the only U.S. newspaper correspondent from the Vietnam War to later live in peacetime Hanoi. The former Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of The Africans gives an entertaining and enlightening portrait of the Arab peoples and their tumultuous world. Derived from a Kirkus review: A refreshing insightful portrait of the Arab people by a reporter with a flair for his craft. Lamb uses his personal experiences as a Middle Eastern correspondent for the Los Angeles Times as a background for this fascinating study of a region torn between regressive religious fundamentalism and the inescapable pull of the modern world. The book is really an anecdotal travel narrative with historical social and political analyses thrown in; it is well-written intelligent often amusing and hard to put down. The Islamic religion and the Arabic language are the only real unifiers of this huge region whose per capita income ranges from $42000 Qatar--oil to $310 South Yemen--cotton and where attitudes toward change range from cautiously enthusiastic Oman to openly negative Libya. Most Arabs Lamb says are not extremists but feel caught in the middle of conflicting views and are hurt by the ethnic stereotyping they often receive in the Western press; they are hospitable and friendly to individual travelers and have an infectious sense of humor. Lamb does too and in detailing the ironies of Middle Eastern life--the behavior of Egyptians in traffic jams the difficulty of bringing western women into Saudi restaurants where signs read "women must behave in a modest and bashful manner at all times"--he manages to present his subject with both sympathy and quiet criticism. He discusses politics and international relations with sultans visits peasants in their roofless homes and devotes pages to the Palestinian view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Still even for a reporter as well-traveled as Lamb the culture remains very difficult for non-Arabs to penetrate. An enlightening and enjoyable book--a must for anybody with an interest in the Middle East. Vintage Books paperback
1978réf. 15025London: Eyre Methuen 1978. First edition. Text block age darkened as usual with the cheap paper used top page edges spotted else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The hardbound issue is uncommon and this copy an excellent example. 15025. Octavo boards. Signed by Lamb on the title page. The scarce hardbound issue a bind-up in boards of paperback sheets produced for the British library market. Collects twelve stories by Frederick Cowles Barry Pain Lafcadio Hearn Bernard Capes E. F. Benson William Hope Hodgson and others. Eyre Methuen unknown
1877réf. mon0004172991A.S BARNES AND COMPANY 1877-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . 2-volume set. Rebound in green buckram. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Minor wear tanned pages. Due to the excessive size and weight of this set additional shipping will be requested for expedited and international orders. A.S BARNES AND COMPANY hardcover
1879réf. 005793New York: D. Appleton 1879. Original pictorial yellow cloth. gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Spine bottom and corners very slightly rubbed. First Edition. Very Good. D. Appleton hardcover
1879réf. 000342New York: Appleton and Company 1879. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. 4to. 256pp. Contents include the Colonial Period Later Period and Modern Period. Many famous houses such as that of Frederick Church Washington Irving; many in Newport RI not the Vanderbilt mansions yet to be built the White House. Homes from Saratoga Charleston Cambridge Tarrytown Virginia and on and on. Illustrated by 103 B&W illustrations. Slight shake to inner hinge. Pages clean as in pictorial decoration on cover spine. Minimal shelfwear. Gilded foreedges. Overall VG. Appleton and Company unknown
1889réf. 183591New York: White and Allen 1889. Softcover. Fair heavy wear to wraps damp staining along all edges spine torn and pages loose but all accounted for. Tan wraps red and blue lettering; 86 pp bw illustrations throughout. Includes: Program of celebration.--First paper. The inauguration of Washington 1789. Read before the New York historical society Oct. 2 1888--Second paper. Washington as president 1789-1790. New York city the seat of government.--Third paper. Historic homes and landmarks. The Battery Bowling Green and vicinity. Includes advertisements. White and Allen paperback
1901réf. 178153London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd 1901. Leather bound. VG- overall wear and staining to leather boards corners bumped fraying to edges pages of text and illustrations are very clean and clear. Two volumes in tan full leather boards with gilt stamped design on front cover gilt tooling five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering all edge gilt bw frontispiece with tissue guard for both volumes. Volume one xvii 355 pp illustrated throughout in bw. Volume two xiv 308 pp illustrated in bw throughout. This edition is limited to 250 copies. This copys is not numbered but is signed by Frederick James Furnivall editor and Harold Copping illustrator. Volume 1 has list of comedies on page 347: The Comedy of Errors; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It Twelfth Night; or What You Will; All's Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; The Tempest; The Winter's Tale. Volume 2 List of Tragedies on page 309 include: Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet Prince of Denmark Othello Macbeth King Lear Timon of Athens Pericles Prince of Tyre and Cymbeline. Includes six additional tales by Furnivall: Love's labour's lost Merry wives Julius Cæsar Troilus and Cressida Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. Includes introductions and additions by F. J. Furnivall. Illustrated by Harold Copping. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd hardcover
