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réf. 9004160248.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1976réf. 6256Pinnacle Books. July 1976. 403 pages. First Edition. NsarFine Soft cover.Light wear to the top front corner otherwise the book is fine. 7.00"x4.25"x6.9". be11. Pinnacle Books paperback
2024réf. x-1647124824Georgetown Univ Pr 2024. Hardcover. New. 295 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Georgetown Univ Pr hardcover
1969réf. BRA1A47Toronto ON Canada: The Champlain Society 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This copy is number 338 of 825. Volume XLV. This is a tight clean copy . 330pp including index. This book has a number of pages still not opened therefore not read as yet. A digital photo can be made available. The Champlain Society Hardcover
réf. 0471311235.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1998réf. 1305021PN. New. 1998. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
réf. LDM0012662We ship worldwide. 100% guarentee. BRAND NEW unknown
réf. 45644469-nnew. unknown
1884réf. ZB1178333NY: Historical Publication Co. 1884. 14 vols. plates; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards book plate to each front paste down most bindings now lacking the spine covering with covers detached however internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. NY: Historical Publication Co. hardcover
réf. 1350204048.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1833réf. 1027H30London: Edward Moxon 1833-1835. Leather. Good. 8" by 5". None. A smart uniformly bound two-volume set of Charles Lamb's celebrated "Essays of Elia" including the first edition of "The Last Essays of Elia." Uniformly bound in later maroon calf. Two volumes collecting Charles Lamb's celebrated familiar essays written under the persona of Elia. A mixed-edition set comprising: 1835 Elia. First Series. A new edition following the first collected edition published by Taylor and Hessey in 1823. The original collection brought together Lamb's celebrated essays written principally for the "London Magazine." The First Series includes such enduring essays as The South-Sea House Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago Dream-Children; A Reverie A Dissertation upon Roast Pig The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers and The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple. 1833 The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under That Name. The first edition. The Last Essays continues with essays including Stage Illusion Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading The Superannuated Man Old China The Wedding and Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age. The volume opens with Lamb's playful Preface by a Friend of the Late Elia in which he writes of his literary alter ego as though he had died. Uniformly bound in later calf. Externally generally smart. Spines rubbed and faded with slight chipping to spine labels. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in minor loss to calf. Slight fading to perimeters of boards with one or two light handling marks. Scattered spotting to endpapers. Ownership inscriptions to heads of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves and notably to the title pages slightly heavier to the first series. Good Edward Moxon hardcover
1888réf. SET63-D-1London: Macmillan and Co 1888-92. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. A handsome collection of works by Charles Lamb. An English writer essayist and poet Charles Lamb was part of an elite literary group that included Coleridge and Wordsworth. Biographer E V Lucas described Lamb as 'the most lovable figure in English literature'. Included a introduction by Alfred Ainger a critic and biographer. Ainger was a great contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. His work concerning Charles Lamb is considered his best work. A five volume set. In a half morocco binding with cloth boards. Externally smart with light bumping and light rubbing to all. Small tear to rear of Mrs Leicester's School. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co hardcover
1917réf. 947F58London: Blackie 1917 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A children's retelling of Shakespeare's major comedies and tragedies by famed sibling poets Charles and Mary Lamb in a full calf prize binding. A 1917 edition of this work in a full calf school prize binding from the Amesbury School Bickley.Written by siblings and poets Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807 this a retelling of the plays of Shakespeare sensitive to the preferences of children. Mary was responsible for the prose retelling of the comedies and Charles the tragedies. By omitting the histories Roman plays sexual references and subplots the work has proven enduringly popular and never been out of print.While it is the work of both Mary and Charles the title page of this volume identifies only Charles's involvement.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and three further colour plates.School prize inscription to a front blank dated 1918 awarding the work to V. D. Barker.Dated 1917 via the University of Cambridge Libraries. In a full calf school prize binding with gilt detailing. A touch of fading to back strip with light rubbing to front board head and handling marks to front board. Blind stamp to front free endpaper head prize inscription to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Blackie hardcover
1921réf. 2045London: J.M. Dent 1921. Hardcover. Good. The Essays of Elia published 1921 bound with The Last Essays of Elia published 1919. 12mo. pp xxii 294 xi 254. Monochrome frontispiece to each volume and numerous additional illustrations in the text including chapter headpieces and tailpieces and some full-page illustrations. Bound by Riviere & Son stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Pale blue cloth boards half bound in blue calf; spine lettered in gilt and with 5 gilt-decorated raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed and soiled with heavier wear to corners and ends of spine; spine faded. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. A few spots to a couple of leaves at front and rear and a little soiling to preliminaries of both volumes; otherwise pages clean. Binding tight. J.M. Dent hardcover
1902réf. ABE-4733451415Methuen London 1902 Superb and vigorous illustrations by Garth Jones in vignette and full page examples decorate this attractive first printing of what is a first edition thus. The text block is gilt at the top trimmed edge but the other two edges are ragged. The two colour title page has a frontispiece with plate mark. This is the most inviting way in to these various works some of them wise and others wise and witty. An attractive green buckram with gilt design on the front and the spine. Corners are nice and square the text block is firm. This is the best copy of this attractive issue I have seen and great copies like this are RARE. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Methuen London hardcover
1975réf. 1000W5Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press 1975; 1976; 1978. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A lovely first edition set compiling the letters of writers and siblings Charles and Mary Anne Lamb illustrated throughout. A set of very smart first editions which collect the letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb sent between 1796 and 1817.All three volumes are first editions.Each volume features a monochrome frontispiece portrait in addition to further plates: volume 1 features 4 double-sided monochrome plates volume 2 features 2 further monochrome plates and the very scarce volume 3 features 2 double-sided monochrome plates. Collated complete.Features a pair of letters marking a 1985-1986 correspondence between a David Gould and the Cornell University Press in which Mr Gould expresses a desire for further volumes of this title which the publisher states are 'in limbo' and not available for purchase. Signed by Michael R. Romano Sales Manager. Bound in original green cloth. Externally very smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd minor mark to spines. Slight age toning to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Mild spotting to text block edges. Very Good Indeed Cornell University Press hardcover
réf. 22827No date or place. On 7.5 x 14 cm piece of laid paper laid down on part of a leaf from an album. In fair condition on aged and spotted paper. The letter reads: 'G Dr. respects to Miss Lusada - begs she will please to accept the enclosed - 3 more Letters will follow - wch. shall be sent. to Miss Lusada - Dr. is gone to dine with Mr. Morgan who desires his Compts. and informs Miss L. that he will send to her soon the little Mathematician'. The recipient was in fact Abigail Lousada the bluestocking daughter of Isaac Barrow Lousada sic of Devonshire Square. See her obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine April 1833 where her 'superior talents' are described. She translated the works of the Greek mathematician Diophantus into English and in 1817 Benjamin Gompertz dedicated his 'Hints on Porisms' to her declaring: 'the mathematical studies are among the number of your scientific researches'. No date or place. unknown
1956réf. 912T24New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1956. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smart copy of this painstaking study of the life of Suleiman the Magnificent and his reign. With a portrait frontispiece. Scarce. A study of the history and legend of Suleiman I commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over at least twenty-five million people. With reference to his widespread conquests where he instructed his men to refrain from massacring the defenders as was customary at the time as well as his personal household full of jealousy particularly in the harem. Written by Harold Albert Lamb an American writer novelist historian and screenwriter whose work often related to Asia and the Middle East. In the original black cloth binding. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd mark or spot to the panels. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
réf. 15791Coombe Bissett 1947 1949. 3 ALsS all on letterheads of Coombe Bissett Salisbury; 27 April and 25 May 1947 and 11 Oct. 1949 total 5pp. 12mo and 8vo. The first letter begins 'My sister Dorothy has told me of your idea of having a drawing of your husband. I shall be pleased to undertake this though I regard it as the most exacting branch of my trade.' Describes in detail what the process would entail. The second cancels a sitting 'Owing to a muddle about the future to which I am especially liable'. The third letter is one of condolence: 'Although I must be among the very last of the fortunate to get to know & to love Robert I must try to add my poor word to the great stream of tributes that I know will be reaching you - . I want ardently to try & tell you how I loved every minute of those delightful hours I spent with Robert - sometimes with you sometimes alone talking & drawing in that thrilling special privilege of scrutiny to which he submitted with such welcoming grace . But I have said nothing of him - his wonderful warm good sense his aesthetic judgements always so sympathetic to my taste his angelic directness & candour the fascinating humour benign philosophy.' Coombe Bissett, 1947, 1949. unknown
1871réf. 864M9Porto: Imprensa Portugueza 1871. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A very scarce and smart copy of this play The Golden Key written in Portuguese. A very scarce work in a half calf binding. The play The Golden Key in five acts written in Portuguese by J. Ricardo Cordeiro Junior. This play was performed for the first time at the Theatro da Trindade on the 21st March 1868. A page of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In a half calf binding. Externally very smart except for the odd very light rubbing to the extremities and boards and small bump to the top extremity of the rear board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed Imprensa Portugueza hardcover
1915réf. 48865London: Robert Scott 1915. Boards have only the lightest of wear and remain in clean and clear condition white boards with a gilt image of a jester. Gutters weak and cracked foxing throughout images unaffected protected by tissue guards pages clean and tidy includes tipped in letter from Buckingham Palace to owner no scans of letter. Dec Cloth Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mulliner May. 4to. Robert Scott Hardcover
réf. 15387Watermark 1804. n.d. Watermark 1804 ` 4pp. 4to 2pp. of text 44 lines not bound 2 stab marks printed by J. Barfield Wardour St Soho nr fine. It opens "Ah e'er I sail for Naples to attend/ The last sad moments of my dearest friend . . . This was the Epilogue to the ill-fated Drury Lane.production of May 1802. It was also published within a discussioln of the play in "Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 3 vols 1865 II.194-199 and is also printed in the 1802 edition of Miss Mary Berry's Works. Only separate issue. Watermark 1804 unknown
réf. 32788481like new. unknown
1909réf. 11364London / New York: J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton & Co. 1909. First edition thus. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 8vo 23.5 cm. Publisher's red cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations on front cover and spine. 12 colour plates including frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers have some toning. Very minor shelfwear. Binding is sound. Hinges are good. No writing/markings. No dust jacket. 304 pages. Prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays for young readers illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging with tracking and insurance. Heavy/oversize book. May require additional postage for overseas shipment. J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton & Co. hardcover
réf. 0901361178.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback