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2019x-0567690210Bloomsbury USA Academic 2019. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 236 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Bloomsbury USA Academic paperback
26467Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D. First Edition. Hardcover. 11"; 296 pages . hardcover
22672This American novelist and popular historian is best remembered for "Country Lawyer" 1939 a memoir of his attorney father's practice in rural New York and its sequel "The Big Family" 1941. Two Typed Letters Signed 7¼" X 10½" and 8½" X 11" Bridgeport CT 1948 January 30 and 1948 March 24. Addressed to Mrs. Madlener -- Elaine Madlener noted Chicago collector and office of The Manuscript Society. First letter is very good with mild age toning and small paper clip impression; second letter is slightly less with minor wrinkles and paper clip stain. Good content to this admirer who wanted some books signed. "I always feel highly complimented when readers want their books autographed" he remarks in the first letter "especially if the request comes after reading." Nice discussion of his current project: "I am in the throes of finishing a novel of old New York. It is the story of the Fabulous Forties when the Croton Aqueduct was being built. I have been reading the newspapers of the day through the microfilm until my eyes are quite ready for a vacation. Papers of that particular period were printed on stock which has become so brittle that they break all to pieces when handled and the microfilm has really saved them from extinction. The Aqueduct was under construction for ten years and I have been fortunate enough to get hold of diaries kept by an old fellow who was curator of a museum there during the time and who was also an enthusiastic member of the Aqueduct family -- which was fought tooth and nail by the well water enthusiasts." In the second letter he editorializes about. well editors: ".I had my editor here and we were polishing off the new copy. My work is pretty messy when it is first finished and it is full of erasures and interlineations. If the editor wants any changes and there was never an editor who didn't want some little change made I like to have it done before the final copy is typed. The printers are very bossy nowadays and they demand the most perfect copy. Then if there is to be serial consideration there has to be a copy for the magazines and another for the moving pictures." Insightful commentary from this noted author. Both letters bear bold full signatures. unknown
18435650London Bradford Leeds etc.: Various 1843. First editions. Two volumes 8vos 17x11cm. Diagrams illustrations charts tables. Recent quarter calf stamped in gilt with black spine labels brown cloth boards. Previous owner's inscription and notes throughout each volume. Some scattered foxing and soiling else very good. <br /> <br /> Tastefully bound set of nineteen nineteenth century almanacs from various authors quite well used by the previous owner A. Beresford of Macclesfield. Includes:<br /> <br /> The Astrological Almanac Zadkiel 1835 1838 with Sherwood Gilbert and Piper catalogue 1840 with catalogue 1842 with catalogue 1843.<br /> Merlinus Liberatus John Partridge 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841. <br /> An Ephemeris for the Year of our Lord William Seed 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842.<br /> White's Celestial Atlas Olinthus Gregory 1838 1843.<br /> <br /> <br /> This set notable for containing relatively early issues of Zadkiel which began in 1831 and with the supplemental book catalogues in three instances; a nice run of Partridge the extremely popular and long-running publication first published in 1680; several issues of the William Seed ephemerides which are very scarce. . Various unknown
1996Q-0948695439Rubicon Press 1996-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Rubicon Press paperback
0948695420.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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2011SONG0199734933Oxford University Press 2011-05-24. Pap/Cdr. paperback. Used: Good. 9.20x1.20x6.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press paperback
190064108New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Hinge is starting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1142817059.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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23453London: Scholartis Press. 1929. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine in dustwrapper. Illustrated with two black and white maps. A very good copy the binding firm the boards with some light water marking. The contents with light offsetting to the endpapers and a little spotting to the text block edges are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which is toned to the spine and extremities has a 3.5cm closed tear to the top of the read spine fold and some dustiness and spotting to the panels. Not price-clipped 15s to the front flap. Uncommon in the dustwrapper. Mottram contributes "A Personal Record" Easton "Broadchalk a Chronicle" and Partridge "Frank Honywood Private". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Scholartis Press. 1929 hardcover
192964566London: The Scholartis Press 1929. Presumed first U.S. edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover is worn and soiled. Some edge rubbing and corners bumped. 405 1 p. Includes maps. Glossary. Occcasional footnotes. Another U.K. edition was apparently entitled "Three Men's War". Ralph Hale Mottram October 30 1883 April 16 1971 was an English writer known as a novelist particularly for the Spanish Farm books and as a war poet of World War I. Mottram went from being a bank clerk in Norwich before the war to becoming mayor there in 1953. The Spanish Farm won the 1924 Hawthornden Prize. He also wrote a biography of John Galsworthy. Eric Partridge founded The Scholartis Press in 1927 and it closed in 1931. He served the Australian infantry during the First World War living through the horror of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. His interest in slang and the "underside" of language is said to date from his wartime experience. The Scholartis Press hardcover
192952283London: The Scholartis Press 1929. First edition this one of 100 copies numbered and signed by each author large 8vo pp. 8 405 1; map frontispiece one additional text map; original black cloth gilt-lettered spine t.e.g.; small dark spot on top edge of text block not touching text covers a touch rubbed very good. Contents include Mottram's "A Personal Record"; Easton's "Broadchalk a Chronicle"; and Partridge's "Frank Honywood Private. The Scholartis Press unknown
192942175London: The Scholartis Press 1929. Large 8vo pp. 405 1; map frontispiece one additional text map; original black cloth gilt-lettered spine; near fine. Contents include Mottram's "A Personal Record"; Easton's "Broadchalk a Chronicle"; and Partridge's "Frank Honywood Private The Scholartis Press unknown
1929869M30London: The Scholartis Press 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition copy of this collection of three accounts of the First World War with maps. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Two bookplates to the front paste down one of which belongs to Sir Nicholas Wall 1945-2017 who was an English judge who was President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales. Illustrated with two full page maps. Collated complete. Ralph Hale Mottram 1883-1971 was an English writer and First World War poet. He was posted to the Western Front with the 9th Norfolk Regiment 6th Division British Expeditionary Force BEF in October 1915 where he assisted in defending the Ypres Salient. Eric Partridge 1894-1979 was a New ZealandBritish lexicographer who served in the Australian infantry during the First World War in Egypt Gallipoli and on the Western Front before being wounded in the Battle of Pozières. Together with John Easton they relate their evocative tales of the First World War. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with just a little bumping to the upper corner of the front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned but generally clean with just the occasional spot to the front of the volume. Very Good Indeed The Scholartis Press hardcover
1929B268London: The Scholartis Press 1929. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fascinating work of three individual accounts of their WWI service. Two of the authors were later popular novelists and writers and the third becoming the foremost authority on the history of the English language and particularly slang.<br /> <br /> Ralph Hale Mottram FRSL 1883 - 1971 was an English writer. A lifelong resident of Norfolk he was well known as a novelist in particular for his "Spanish Farm trilogy" and as a poet of World War I.<br /> <br /> John Easton was a popular English novelist and travel writer e.g. An Unfrequented Highway through Sikkim and Tibet to Chumolaori.<br /> <br /> Eric Honeywood Partridge 1894 - 1979 was a New Zealand-British lexicographer of the English language particularly of its slang. He was born in New Zealand but in 1908 the family moved to Queensland Australia where he studied classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time he also worked for three years as a schoolteacher. He enlised in the Australian Imperial Force in April 1915 and served in Egypt Gallipoli and on the Western Front before being wounded in the Battle of Pozières. His interest in slang and the "underside" of language is said to date from his wartime experience. He returned to university between 1919 and 1921 when he received his BA. He authored numerous books and articles on language with the best know being A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English first published in 1937.<br /> <br /> This copy is near fine in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Slight bumping at the spine ends and corners. End papers show minor darkening on half of each perhaps from newspaper clippings previously laid inside. No other marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ has minor soiling and chipping along the edges and the jacket spine is sun darkened but overall very good. CH. The Scholartis Press hardcover
193069114New York: and London: Harper & brothers 1930. U. S. First Edition stated. Presumed first printing has A-E. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket. Boards weak and restrengthened with glue. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine has fraying at top and bottom. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Bookplate inside front cover. First edition. 375 p. illus. 23 cm. Frontis Map. Map. From Wikipedia: "Ralph Hale Mottram 30 October 1883 16 April 1971 was an English writer known as a novelist particularly for the Spanish Farm books and as a war poet of World War I. Mottram went from being a bank clerk in Norwich before the war to becoming lord mayor there in 1953. The Spanish Farm won the 1924 Hawthornden Prize. He also wrote a biography of John Galsworthy." From Wikipedia: "Eric Honeywood Partridge 6 February 1894 1 June 1979 was a New Zealand British lexicographer of the English language particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II. Partridge was born in Waimata Valley near Gisborne on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge a grazier and his wife Ethel Annabella Norris. In 1907 the family moved to Queensland Australia where he was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School. He then studied first classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time Partridge also taught for three years as a school teacher before enrolling in the Australian Imperial Force in April 1915 and serving in the Australian infantry during the First World War serving in Egypt Gallipoli and on the Western Front before being wounded in the Battle of Pozières. His interest in slang and the "underside" of language is said to date from his wartime experience. Partridge returned to university between 1919 and 1921 when he received his BA. After receiving his degree Partridge became Queensland Travelling Fellow at Balliol College Oxford where he worked on both an MA on eighteenth-century English romantic poetry and a B. Litt in comparative literature. He subsequently taught in a grammar school in Lancashire for a brief interval then in the two years beginning September 1925 took lecturing positions at the Universities of Manchester and London. From 1923 he "found a second home" occupying the same desk K1 in the British Museum Library as it was then known for the next fifty years. In 1925 he married Agnes Dora Vye-Parminter who in 1933 bore a daughter Rosemary Ethel Honeywood Mann. In 1927 he founded the Scholartis Press which he managed until it closed in 1931 publishing over 60 books during this time. From 1932 he commenced writing in earnest. His first major work on slang Slang Today and Yesterday appeared in 1933 and his well-known Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English followed in 1937. During the Second World War Partridge served in the Army Education Corps later transferring to the RAF's correspondence department before returning to his British Museum desk in 1945. Partridge wrote over forty books on the English language including well-known works on etymology and slang. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Corrie Denison and books on tennis which he played well. His papers are archived at the University of Birmingham British Library King's College Cambridge the Royal Institute of British Architects the University of Exeter the University of San Francisco Warwickshire Record Office and William Salt Library." From the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry: He Eric Partridge eventually himself published 'Frank Honywood Private' as part of Three Personal Records of the War London 1929 which ranks as a minor classic of war literature. He was concerned to commemorate his mate Corporal Howard Phillips who had died at Mont St Quentin to attempt to describe the terrible battle of Pozières to expose himself as an example of a soldier broken but somehow carrying on under appalling stress and to write the war out of his system." Harper & brothers hardcover
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20071-0978655311Dreamervision Publishing 2007. Audio CD. New. unabridged edition. 6.40x5.50x1.10 inches. Dreamervision Publishing unknown
2002Q-0670035351Viking Books for Young Readers 2002-04-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Viking Books for Young Readers hardcover
2002161730New York: Viking 2002. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket.; Signed by author on title page.; Golden Kite Awards; 9.8 X 9.0 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages; Signed by Author. Viking hardcover
