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1988157014London: Margaret Ramsay 1988. Draft script for the 1988 British play seen here under the working title "The Power of Prayer" which has been struck through and amended to the play's final title "The Secret Rapture." Copied manuscript annotations throughout noting editorial revisions. <br /> <br /> Set in 1980s Britain about the impact of Thatcherism on the family of a junior government minister after the death of the family patriarch. Basis for the 1993 film starring Juliet Stevenson Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Penelope Wilton. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright David Hare. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound at the top left corner with a single silver brad. Margaret Ramsay unknown
1893291233London: George Allen 1893. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Many full page black & white illustrations and smaller ones throughout the text. Full burgundy polished calf ornately gilt spines. London: George Allen 1893. Very good .<br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
1893291233London: George Allen 1893. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Many full page black & white illustrations and smaller ones throughout the text. Full burgundy polished calf ornately gilt spines. London: George Allen 1893. Very good .<br/> <br/> George Allen unknown
3735479<p>New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen 1837. Octavo. Pp. vi 2 217–404. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers with some creases. Light wear to spine ends mild toning a well-preserved copy. Provenance: “C. J. Wister Esq.â€</p> <p>First American journal appearance of Robert Hare’s significant paper on voltaic battery construction in which he combined the structural advantages of Cruickshank’s trough with his own deflagrator. Hare’s article placed his American research into direct conversation with Michael Faraday’s electrical investigations addressing questions of current intensity duration and apparatus design. By proposing improved arrangements for galvanic pairs and acid distribution Hare advanced both the efficiency and reproducibility of electrochemical experiments. His work is a notable contribution to early electrochemistry and a scarce instance of American innovation being recognized within the transatlantic development of electrical science in the 1830s.</p> <p>Robert Hare 1781–1858 professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania was one of the foremost American chemists of the early nineteenth century. Best known for inventing the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe he also made enduring contributions to electrical instrumentation and chemical education. His extensive writings in the American Journal of Science and Arts helped disseminate scientific methods and apparatus design at a time when American chemistry was still striving for international stature.</p> <p>Very scarce in its original printed wrappers with other important contributions including two additional articles by Hare: “Description of an Electrical Machine … and some Observations on the Causes of the Diversity in the Length of the Sparks erroneously distinguished by the terms Positive and Negative†pp. 272–280 and “Of an Improved Barometer Gage Eudiometer†pp. 280–285. </p> <p>Also included: “Observations upon certain Atmospherical and Optical Phenomena†by Benjamin Silliman “A Natural System of Botany†by John Lindley “Description of the model of an Electro-Magnetic Engine†by John B. Zabriskie “Notice of a New Mineral Species†by James Dwight Dana “Remarks on the supposed connexion of the Gulf Stream with opposite currents†by Samuel Augustus Mitchell “On the use of the Dynamic Multiplier†by James Dwight Dana and “Description of the Skull of the Guadeloupe Fossil Man†by Louis Agassiz.</p> <p>This copy kept by Charles Jones Wister 1782–1865 Philadelphia-born horticulturalist friend to Thomas Nuttall amateur scientist and American Philosophical Society member.</p> unknown
189857661Philadelphia: Thomas Allen Glenn. 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Original cloth gilt TEG. Spine toned corner wear cloth marked/soiled. Limited to 300 copies. ; quarto; 89 pages . Thomas Allen Glenn hardcover
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108 pages. Cover photo of Italy's Isola dei Pescatori. Features: Many beautiful photo fashion ads in black and white and color; Five photos of the Moonlight Mist Ball include Vivian Goodman, Prince and Princess Artchil Gourielli, Nina Foch, Mrs. John Leib, Martha Crawford, Mary Elliman, Mrs. John Hilson, Minnie CassattMrs. Edward F. Hutton, Maurice Moore, Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky, Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis, Jr., and W.E. Hutton; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad features color illustration of Mrs. James "Monty" Waterbury fishing; Wedding photos include Hugh Montgomery Adams with the former Leta Margaret Nichols, Francis Arthur Carmody and the former Stalla Marie Carvin, Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Pattison (she the former Charlotte Preble Cabrera), Ensign Robert Woodhull Hopkins, the former Joan Elizabeth Dreher, Martin Hopkins Potter, Jean Drake Dreher, Robert C. Hopkins, and James Bovaird; Article on travel between Paris and Venice; Fur fashion photos with Rosalind Russell; Fashion photos of Mrs. Amory S. Carhart, Jr., Mrs. Dmitri Negroponte, Mrs. Winston Frost, Elinor Patricia Jones, Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson, Jr., Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, Mrs. Charles H. Hornburg, Jr. (formerly Gwenn Welter), Mrs. Robert Hare (formerly Martha Michalis), Mrs. Bertrand Taylor III outside the Hotel Pierre, Mrs. James Averell Clark, Jr., Cornelia Lyman, Mrs. James F. Donovan, Mrs. Daniel G. Tenney, Jr., Mrs. Francis C. Lawrance, Catherine Campbell, Mrs. John S. Radway, Elaine Reed, Mrs. Robert P. Gibb, Mrs. William G. McKnight (formerly Le Brun Rhinelander), Mrs. Fletcher Godfrey (formerly Paulette Bragg), Mrs. Herman Harjes (formerly Tauni de Lesseps), Marguerite Higgins, Geraldine Page, Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps (exiting car at the Waldorf-Astoria), Susan Sexton (at the Drake Hotel), and Mrs. John R. McDonnell (formerly Dorothy Root), at the Lombardy Hotel; Jet vs. Prop - the new concept of jet air transportation, by Henri J. Lesieur, General Manager of Air France for North America; Misia Sert and the Muses (part II) - article with photos of Marcel Proust, Bone de Castellane, Princess "Dolly" Radziwill, Mrs. Eugene Kelly, Jr., Sergei Diaghilev, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Caruso; Photo feature on the farmlands home of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Tilton in Cooperstown; Photos of the Watch Hill residence of Ambassador to Cuba and Mrs. Arthur Gardner; Happy Birthday Oscar (Hammerstein) - a wonderful one-page photo-illustrated note from Richard Rodgers; United States Lines ad includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, Hildegarde (famous chanteuse), Helen Hayes, and Messrs. Burnet, Grant and Vaughan; Half-page phot ad for the Waldorf-Astoria features Los Chavales who will be performing on the Starlight Roof; Color Nash car ad includes black and white photo of Miss Margaret Sullavan; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
1896833A8London: George Allen 1896-1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5" . Not Stated . Augustus Hare's autobiography complete in six volumes bright first edition. A collection complete in six volumes of this extensive autobiographical work by Augustus Hare. The first edition published between 1896 and 1900. Hare was an English author and raconteur; in his autobiography he expresses the hardships of being an adopted child and the devotion to his adoptive mother Maria as well as a great sorrow concerning his home education at Buckwell Place. A majority of his work includes the biographies of members and connections of his family and descriptive and historical accounts of various countries and cities.Telling of the author's life from a personal perspective with particular focus on his childhood his time in Oxford and abroad and his home life and relationship with his mother. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume and illustrations in text throughout as well as thirty full page plates. Collated complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Minor damp mark to front board vol. V. Minor staining mark to outer margin pp. 225-240 vol I affecting a leaf of plates in particular. Internally firmly bound. Odd light spotting to occasional leaf pages otherwise bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good Indeed George Allen hardcover
2017x-0198728514Oxford Univ Pr 2017. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
DADAX1884718590Brand: Oak Knoll Pr 0000-00-00. hardcover. New. 9.00x1.75x11.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Oak Knoll Pr hardcover
DADAX0816320632Brand: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc 0000-00-00. paperback. New. 5.70x0.30x8.20. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc paperback
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19082221889<p>First edition. Octavo. Seven b/w illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Original pictorial brown cloth with design in brown black and cream pictorial wrappers. Dust jacket chips; pencil writing on back panel; rare thus. Fresh bright copy. 343 pages.</p><p>Gift inscription on front free endpaper "Louis Irving from Mrs. Fowler."</p><p>Second title in this sports series for boys.</p> The Penn Publishing Company hardcover books
1862948F36Boston: Prentiss & Deland 1862 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". None. The very scarce first edition of John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hare's discussion of the nature of democratic government and the need for electoral reform. First published in the newspaper The National Era this is the very scarce first separate edition of this work.This essay builds from Hare's earlier work on the single transferable vote 'The Election of Representatives Parliamentary and Municipal' a work which Mill said was 'the greatest improvement of which the system of representative government is susceptible; an improvement which exactly meets and cures the grand and what before seemed inherent defect of the representative system'.Mill and Hare collaborate on this brief article to discuss recent publications on the subject of electoral reform and distinguish between 'representation of all' which ensures that all voices including minorities have a say in governance and 'representation of the majority only' where the majority suppress the rights and interests of smaller groups.American Imprints 48988An informative critique first-past-the-post voting for its tendency to marginalise minority viewpoints. Unbound as issued. Light handling marks to title page with spotting to final leaf. Small closed tear to title page head. Stab marks to gutters. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Prentiss & Deland paperback
2016__9385516647MP–NPA New India Publishing Agency – NIPA 2016. Hardcover. New. 440 pages. 6.00x1.00x9.00 inches. MP–NPA New India Publishing Agency – NIPA hardcover
2020x-1138715336Chapman & Hall 2020. Hardcover. New. 2nd new edition. 400 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. Chapman & Hall hardcover
1979x-0674820355Harvard Univ Pr 1979. Hardcover. New. 508 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. Harvard Univ Pr hardcover
2021x-0367482614Routledge 2021. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.96 inches. Routledge hardcover
2002x-0415941571Routledge 2002. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
2016x-1442258314Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc 2016. Hardcover. New. 3rd edition. 530 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc hardcover
2003x-1859736572Berg Pub Ltd 2003. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 256 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. Berg Pub Ltd hardcover
1712308175London: A. Baldwin 1712. 16 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards black morocco spine label. Covers worn staining to final leaf. 16 pp. 8vo. A reply to Delarivier Manley's The D. of M-h's Vindication 1711 itself a reply to Francis Hare's attack on Swift and the Examiner Bouchain: in a Dialogue Between the Late Medley and Examiner 1711. One of two editions published in 1712. ESTC T125470; Goldsmiths' 4955; Teerink 852A. Provenance: T.A. Hollick pencil attribution sold Sotheby's London 19-20 May 1980 part of lot 24 A. Baldwin unknown
1900e26enC. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Detailed architectural designs of Islington Central Library 16 Pages St. Pancras Public Central Library 28 Pages National Library Wales 38 Pages and Central Library Blackpool 32 Pages; these designs were entered into a competition. Circa 1900. The boards are edge worn with knocked corners fading around the edges and marks. The binding is sound. Small stamp on the front end page. There are no inscriptions or annotations. Tall. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. hardcover
1984466372San Francisco: Black Think Tank 1984. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. A little rubbed and a few passages underlined in light pencil else near fine. Warmly Inscribed by both Nathan and Julia Hare to Black journalist Justine Rector. The first book in the Black Male / Female Relationships Book Series. Black Think Tank unknown
