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1961029114UK: Chatto and Windus 1961. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1961. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
19461386DB1946. Vésenaz Genf Pierre Cailler 1946. Klein-8°. XIX 1 S. S. 21-217. Mit 1 Frontispiz u. 25 Tafel nach Lithographien von Eugène Martin. Orig.-Broschur gebräunt u. leicht fleckig. = "Collection écrits de peintres" Bd. 3. Nr. 23 v. 100 GA 1'400 Ex mit 4-zeiliger handschriftl. Widmung von Eugène Martin auf dem fl. Vorsatz. - Leicht gebräunt. unknown
4447155<p>89 pages book of song lyrics no date circa 1940s issued under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the Caribbean Area to maintain morale of the Armed Forces of the United Nations stapled wraps worn closed tears rust marks from staples some small spots stains small loss foredge scarce item.</p> United Services Organization Auxiliary paperback
18758449Montreal: no publisher given - Diocese of Montreal 1875. Hardcover. Fair - good. 16mo 648pp. A fair to good copy in contemporary red cloth with the backstrip replaced with old buckram. Page block split in the middle with just a couple loose pages but all present apart from rear free endpaper. Contents generally clean. Much-faded contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper. A scarce English language edition of this devotional volume by a Catholic priest in Montreal. OCLC notes just a handful pf physical holdings mostly in Quebec. [no publisher given - Diocese of Montreal?] hardcover
19962091202132702127Mekon Selection Book 4 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Mekon Selection Book 4 paperback
1988Alibris.0021686The United Armenian Congregational Church. 1988. Full leather. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. includes letter from Irene Kalfayan taped to 1st page. 90 p. Includes illustrations. The United Armenian Congregational Church hardcover
19264454London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited ; London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney 1926. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xv 312 pp. ; 19 cm. ; OCLC: 3363061 ; LC: PS3505.A153 ; grey cloth with decorative embossed designs with dark grey lettering ; top edge in faded purple ; includes a poetic dedication to Carl Van Doren ; a picaresque medieval novel by one of the mo st underrated fantasy writers in a British edition and fantastically claiming to be based on "Poictesme en Chanson et Légende by G. J. Bülg Strasburg 1785" a wholly fictitious work and author ; Extract from the extended subtitle: "Herewith beg ins the history of the birth and of the triumphing of the great legend about Manuel the Redeemer whom Gonfal repudiated as blown dust and Miramon as an imposter and whom Coth repudiated out of honest love.and hereinafter is recorded the manner of the great legend's engulfment of these persons." ; slight foxing slight marks on bottom of textblock else VG <br/> <br/> London : John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited ; [London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney] hardcover
1998105572<p>Worcester: Mark O'Hanlan. Fine. 1998. First Edition. Softback. 095280591X . Virtually as new. Softback; Dedication on fep from author to illustrator ' To John Allsup with gratitude as ever Mark O'Hanlan'. This is a personal guide to Shropshire & includes some of Malcolm Savilles early Memories of the county which he firt visited in the 1930s. When he died in 1982 he left an unfinished manuscript which has been completed and updated by Mark O'Hanlan in this book . Scarce. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Mark O'Hanlan
19582080202105101279Ryuginsha 1958. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Ryuginsha paperback
1642016944London: Printed for Michael Sparke Robert Milbourne Richard Cotes and Andrew Crooke 1642. Book. Very Good-. Full Leather. 4to. A clean and solid copy in original leather binding with five raised bands and original printer's red stain to all edges. Covers well worn with corners curling inward and leather rubbed from one corner. Hinges split but joints still intact. Eps clipped. Owner's name on front pastedown. Text clean. Binding tight. As is. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair . Printed for Michael Sparke, Robert Milbourne, Richard Cotes, and Andrew Crooke Hardcover
0243255187.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1956008199London: Phoenix House Ltd. 1956. The DEDICATION COPY of this historical tale of the 14th century. Near Fine condition. Clean square and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. The binding is the original blue boards stamped in shiny silver on the spine. In addition to her considerable talents as a biographer and literary historian the author was a gifted artist who attended the Minneapolis School of Art. She has handsomely illustrated this book with endpaper maps and decorated head and tail pieces at the start and end of each chapter. This is the DEDICATION COPY probably one of two -- one per sister. The book's printed dedication is "To My Sisters." On the same page the author has sketched a delightful winged gargoyle. Next to that the author has written: "for my darling Joy signed Marrie." Joy was B. J. Beatrice Joy Chute the author's sister and fellow-author. Among B. J. Chute's books are: GREENWILLOW; THE FIELDS ARE WHITE; THE BLUE CUP; SHATTUCK CADET; THE END OF LOVING; KATIE AN IMPERTINENT FAIRY TALE; and THE GOOD WOMAN. Born in Wayzata Minnesota in 1909 Marchette "Marrie" Chute moved to New York City with her mother and two sisters in the early 1940s. Both sisters Beatrice Joy Chute and Mary Grace Chute later Mary Chute Smith of Morristown N.J. were also gifted writers. Marchette Chute wrote some 13 books and served as president of the American Center of P.E.N. from 1955-57. She was elected to the American Academy of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. Among her other books are: SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON; BEN JONSON OF WESTMINSTER; JESUS OF ISRAEL; THE TWO GENTLE MEN THE LIVES OF GEORGE HERBERT AND ROBERT HERRICK. This is the first UK edition with "First published 1956" so stated on the copyright page. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED to the AUTHOR'S SISTER. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. 191pp. Phoenix House Ltd. Hardcover
1740007740London: Printed for the Editor 1740. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece engraving of Matthew Prior by J. Parr Sculpt. viii 472 index 8 pp. Bound by J. Clarke in full calf double gilt rule border to covers spine in six compartments with red and black morocco labels and gilt rules all edges gilt marbled end pages. Very Good Plus the spine repaired in keeping although the repair leaving the end pages rubbed at gutters small period bookplate bearing a dragon the name on the bookplate obscured. covers a bit rubbed and lightly soiled. The text clean and bright. A quite nice ccopy and rather uncommon thus. Printed for the Editor Hardcover
1940047202Hartford CT: The Hartford Seminary Foundation Printed By The Case Lockwood and Brainard Co. 1940. First edition June 1940. Illustrated with black and white plates. Yellowish tan cloth with black spine lettering 62 pages plus colophon 12.5 inches tall. Very good to near fine condition with a minor smudge to the rear cover otherwise fine condition clean pages no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall. The Hartford Seminary Foundation, Printed By The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. Hardcover
1657373385Johannes Jacobi Schipper Amsterdam 1657. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. Ornate engraved dedication page from Historiae Naturalis de Avibus 1657 featuring a Latin tribute to George Nassau Clavering Earl Cowper. Rich with heraldic imagery of unicorn supporters crown and arms it frames a putto inscribing a globe symbolising knowledge. A striking fusion of baroque artistry and Enlightenment intellectual aspiration. Engraving 25 x 33 cms sheet 35 x 46 cms. Text is in Latin. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; Antiquarian & Rare; PRINTS : Historic Interest; Printed before 1700; Latin Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Johannes Jacobi Schipper unknown
1921050580London Uk: John Murray 1921. 3rd Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Maps Illustrations Some In Color. Cii 462 Plate And Folding Map At Rear; Xxii 662 Pp. Two Volumes. Green Cloth Stamped In Dark Green Morocco Spine Labels Gilt. Third Edition Of 1902 1921 Printing. Wear; Beginning To Fray At Ends Of Spine With Small Fray Near Center Of Spine Of Volume I; Front Hinge Of Volume I Just Beginning To Crack. With The Publisher's Publicity Sheet For Ser Marco Polo By Henri Cordier A Supplementary Volume Of Addenda To This Work But The Supplementary Work Itself Not Included Here. Ownership Signatures Of The Late Roger W. Jelliffe Usc Professor Of Medicine. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1919055080San Francisco Ca: Astronomical Society Of The Pacific / Stanford University Press 1919. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates. Xii 257 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing. Light Wear Gilt Brilliant But A Few Small Losses Of Cloth At Edges. With The Rare Correction Sheet "Corrections To The Adolfo Stahl Lectures In Astronomy". <br/> <br/> Astronomical Society Of The Pacific / Stanford University Press hardcover
2002106790UK: Bettany Press. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. 0952468069 . 1st edition softback; vg; reading crease on cover; 346pp; on fep is an editor's dedication; the essential companion to a Jane Shaw collection; includes published Susan short stories; also previously unpublished stories from the author's personal archives now deposited in the National Library of Scotland. Accompanying this are critical essays on the books and a fascinating account by Ian Evans son of the family friends to whom many of his mother's books were dedicated ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Bettany Press, paperback
175343705Neapoli Naples Italy: Excudebat Joseph Raymundi. 1753. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to; 12 335 1 errata pp pages; Mid-eighteenth century sprinkled brown calf raised bands and decorative gilt stamped decoration in spine panels with red title label edges of the text block stained red. The dedication copy of the Latin edition of Dr. John Arbuthnot's last book -- An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies London printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1733. With the bookplate of the dedicatee of this 1753 first Latin edition -- Niccolò Fraggianni. A full page engraved portrait of Fraggianni is included facing the text of the dedication of this edition to him. The binding displays some insect damage along portions of the outer gutter margins and at the red leather titling slip on the spine. Internally there is some minor damage which gets progressively less apparent to the front endpapers the half title and title page. At the rear there is similar damage to the endpapers but just a tiny hole in the gutter margin of the errata leaf. There is also a modest damp tide mark to the blank bottom margins of the final twenty pages. Dr. Arbuthnot was born in Scotland and in early life by training and habit of mind thought of himself as a mathematician. He came to London in 1691 the year his father a non-conforming Scottish minister had died. In London the following year Arbuthnot published 'Of the Laws of Chance' -- more or less a translation from the Latin text of Christiaan Huygens's 'De ratiociniis in ludo aleae.' This is widely thought to have been the first work on probability published in English. Arbuthnot became the tutor to a well-born son of a member of Parliament follwed his charge to Oxford where he met many eminent figures of the time -- including Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys. Arbuthnot felt that he would benefit in life by the formal possession of an advanced degree but did not have the necessary financial backing to spend years as a student. Thus impelled by circumstances he set what I believe must be an all-time speed record for obtaining an earned doctoral degree. He returned to his native Scotland entrolled as a doctoral student in medicine at the University of St. Andrews on 11 September 1696. On that busy day Arbuthnot defended seven theses dealing with medical subjects -- and was awarded his doctorate before that same day had come to a close. Arbuthnot used this new medical degree along with what must have been a vast repertoire of conversation and helpful advice to take advantage of a chance meeting to become physician to Prince George and then to his wife Queen Anne. For ten years he moved in higher and higher circles eventually becoming a member of the Royal household. And even after Queen Anne died without arranging for the continuing support of Dr. Arbuthnot and her other inner staff he never strayed far from the various London circles of power and high achievement. Today he is probably best remembered as a founder of the "Scriblerus Club" -- with his friends Pope Gay Swift Thomas Parnell Harley and Bolingbroke. Because Arbuthnot became famous among these friends for ducking credit as author of a number of poems and satires and his numerous contributions to the works of others. Certainly few would dispute that Arbuthnot had a major influence on Swift's "Gulliver's Travels -- which he saw in various manuscript drafts -- during which he almost certainly influenced its satirical portrayal of the Royal Society the real version of which Arbuthnot had been made a member in 1704. The traditional notion is that this book was not particularly important in the history of medicine since while the idea of "fresh air" is both pleasant and beneficial -- the air could hardly manage to carry pathogens responsible for spreading major disease. When Fielding Garrison wrote his pioneering American history of medicine in 1913 he mentions Dr. John Arbuthnot in his survey of the English Eighteenth century and treats him as the creator of "John Bull" -- friend to Swift and Pope and incidentally physician to Queen Anne. And it was not until four years after Garrison's death that scientists first were able to "see" a virus using the newly developed electron microscope. Naples became a center for publication of medical books in Latin during the eighteenth century. The translator of this text into Latin Fortunatus del Felic held the chair of experimental physics and mathematics at Naples University. He expanded his Lain text on a local point of interest. Dr. Arbuthnot's 1733 English text -- Section XVII of the first chapter -- refers to the "mortiferous Stream in the Grotto del Cane near Naples." The 1753 Latin text contains 8 full double columns of notes on four pages devoted to the nature and literature of this unusual place ranging from classical times forward. Moreover since the grotto represents one of earth's most unusually concentrated exhalations of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere there is more potential interest in Dr. Arbuthnot's fascination for this location and what it might meanfor the earth and life on the planet in the twenty-first century than might have been the case a century ago when this eighteenth century book was usually dismissed by historians of medicine and science as a relatively minor work. Through this Latin translation Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice 1723 – 1789 also known as the second Comte de Panzutt attracted the attention of Albrecht von Haller -- who influenced Felice to move to Swizerland where he eventually became one of the most important publishers of his time. More about the status of this copy as "the" dedication copy. While it sometimes occurs that the dedicatee of a book has many copies to distribute to friends and colleagues it really does appear that this copy has a unique status. We can find no other copies in library catalogues of copies in which the distinctive bookplate of Niccolò Fraggianni is reported. Moreover there is an ink inscription about the history of our copy following the death of Fraggianni in February of 1763. "Quondam / Nunc Aloysii Ranatila Scarpacci / Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctoris / 1768." . Excudebat Joseph Raymundi hardcover
1390353419.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1979059352Colorado Springs: Colorado College 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xi 198 Pp. Brown Cloth Spine Gilt. First And Only Printing. Fine. <br/> <br/> Colorado College hardcover
63-5830Harmondsworth UK : Penguin Books 1987. 8vo. Paperback 240 pp. Very Good. Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell most signed presentation copies inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson was Gerald Durrell’s right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo now Durrell Wildlife Park. Association copy. Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin Books, 1987. paperback
19252082702114602487Not Available 1925. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
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