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185345888New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. First Edition. Presumed Third Printing First Issue. Octavo 19.25cm; brown vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine triple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers; iiviii1793pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: "Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author" possibly Jacob Collamer judge and U.S. Senator from Vermont. Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out else very Near Fine. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge 1806-1893 a United States Navy officer. First printed in wrappers in 1845 Journal is the narrative of Bridge's trip on the USS Saratoga "the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless they saw none but Bridge's comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid" Moore Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne p.135. An interesting printing not noted by BAL - "What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding.When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York March 1854 they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs" Note: CLARK A14.1.c1. Presentation copies uncommon with only two noted in Rare Book Hub PBA 2019; Goodspeed 1910. cf.BAL 7597. George P. Putnam & Co unknown books
1845Embry 166971Wiley & Putnam New York: 1845. First edition. Light to moderate foxing spine and edges lightly sunned overall very good to near fine in custom mylar cover. Green textured cloth titled in gilt and decoratively stamped in blind. Blanck's printing B with three lines of type on the copyright page and with imprints of stereotyper and printer not present. Blanck 7597. Wiley & Putnam, New York: 1845. First edition. hardcover books
1845157495New York Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition second issue. Small thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine. Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book1837. With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Wiley and Putnam, hardcover books
1968275113London: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1968. hardcover. very good-. and other places of interest on the West Coast of Africa. 12mo green cloth small area of light soiling to back cover pages slightly wavy throughout. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1968<br/><br/> Facsimile of the London 1845 edition. Author served on the United States Navy ship Saratoga a sloop in the anti-slavery squadron sent to West Africa.<br/><br/> Dawsons of Pall Mall unknown books
1853405812New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. A very good copy with some light spotting to first few leaves and light wear at extremities bookplate of Henry A. Hoffmann and neat ownership signature on front free endpaper. 8vo 7.25 x 5 inches. viii 179 pages. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION BAL printing C with cancel title-page dated 1853. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1. See Hill 183 for the first British edition. <br/><br/> George P. Putnam & Co hardcover books
191256254Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie Imprimeurs-Editeurs 1912. Ninth Edition. 12mo. cranberry limp-leather binding; 171 pages. Very Good covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight. <br/><br/> Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs hardcover books
1982142224Ottawa: Canadian Broadcast Corporation 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>W.O. Mitchell one of Canada's best-loved writers originally wrote the play "Back to Beulah" which was produced as a television film in 1974 and for the stage in 1976. In 1978 the play won the Chalmers Award. It is the story of three patients moved out of the mental hospital and into a halfway house. This treatment was for an intended American adaptation retitled as "Listen to Me" and released in 1982 but since remains unmade. <br/><br/>Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter and playwright W.O. Mitchell and screenwriter Eric Till. Ten leaves. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus unbound. Canadian Broadcast Corporation unknown books
186933020Galveston 1869. Single sheet folded to 7-5/8" x 12-1/4" with the transfer agreement and signatures of twenty-six transferors on page 1 transferring their stock to John Sealy. Page 2 is the manuscript document signed by Sealy transferring those shares to Thomas W. Peirce. Pages 3-4 are blank. On lined paper. Each Receipt is oblong 3-3/4" x 7-1/2" printed and completed in manuscript each including a 2 cent Revenue Stamp with picture of George Washington. Very Good.<br/><br/> The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the Railway Company. Sealy's biography appears in the Handbook of Texas. unknown books
1922S1585New York:: Duffield 1922. 1922. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 128 mm. 8vo. 182 pp. Gilt-stamped dark green cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO Force Parker Esq. Very good. Duffield, 1922. hardcover books
1679212225n.p. London: s.n. 1679. 4pp. 1 vols. Folio 32 cm. Unbound partly separated at fold. 4pp. 1 vols. Folio 32 cm. The Defeat and Pursuit of the Scottish Covenanters. The context here is the late-breaking news of the crushing defeat of he Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Borthwell Bridge on June 22 1679 by government troops under the Duke of Monmouth only 5 days prior the the publication of these relaed events. Several hundred Covenanters were killed 1200 were taken prisoner and marched off to Edinburgh but several -- like William Kelso -- fled to Ireland. His capture and examination is recounted here; a report several boats of rebels sailing to Ireland; and a call for their apprehension by Ormond Viceroy of Ireland on June 30<br/><br/>After the battle the surviving Covenanters were ruthlessly pursued and killed and many banished to America. Wing N972 s.n. unknown books
201522422ENew York: Bleecker Street Film Co. / Trumbo Productions 2015. First Edition. Paperbound 34†x 11†folded into 4 panels. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nominations for the film Bridge of Spies written by Matt Charman Ethan Coen and Joel Coen directed by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Alan Alda and Amy Ryan. Illustrated with stills and production photos from the film. Fine. Mark Rylance won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and the film received nominations for Best Picture Best Original Screenplay Best Original Score Best Sound Mixing and Best Production Design. Bleecker Street Film Co. / Trumbo Productions unknown books
1932214425Boston: Little Brown 1932. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Very fine. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. 1 vols. 8vo. Won the Atlantic $10000 prize novel. Little, Brown unknown books
189329887New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1893. 1st edition BAL v 4 p. 34. Original publisher's grey cloth binding with green & gilt stamping. TEG. Spine sun-tanned. Slight lean. A VG copy. ix 3 200 4 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1893WRCLIT56136New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1893. xii2004pp. Gilt decorated cloth. Frontis portrait. Black- and-white engraved illustrations. Slight fraying to ends of the darkened spine panel binding loosening very slightly a few plates loose but present otherwise a good copy. First edition of this intimate study by the United States Naval officer and Chief of the Bureau of Provisions who graduated with Hawthorne from Bowdoin College in the class of 1825. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author's niece Marian Bridge Maurice in the year of publication. Hawthorne dedicated some of his works to Bridge and remarked that he "was responsible for my being an author." Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1934qms185New Bedford Massachusetts: Reynolds Printing 1934. First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo purple cloth hardcover gilt letters 197 pp. Very Good with lightly soiled & sunned spine. Reynolds Printing, 1934. First Edition. hardcover books
1986134139New Britain CT: REM Miniatures 1986. cloth wrappers paper label in clamshell box. Miniature Books. miniature book 6.0 by 4.0 cm. cloth wrappers paper label in clamshell box. 12 pages. Bradbury REM Miniatures 75. Limited to 333 numbered copies. Hand-colored illustrations by C. Ernest Massmann. Half moon shape. With "Halley's Moon Rock" "sequestered by full moon light" at the time of Halley's Comet in 1986. REM Miniatures unknown books
183920069Boston 1839. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. offered with REPORT RELATING TO EXPENSES OF WARREN BRIDGE. HD29. 7 1 blank pp. Disbound loosening. Light scattered foxing. Good to Very Good. Reports on the bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 2. unknown books
183920407Boston 1839. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed in top margin "K.H.T. from Stedman Bullrick of Concord Mass." Very Good. Report on the two bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 2. unknown books
199031053NY: Evans. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0871316242 . First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Evans hardcover books
1934GG918-002Sacramento CA: California State Printing Office 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pamphlet. 8 3/4 x 4 inches. 20 pp. Illustrated throughout front cover illustration signed "JR Lee" in the plate; text clean unmarked with the exception of 2 ink notations in the table on the rear cover. Previous owner rubber stamp of V. F. Estcourt on the front cover. Very Good. This pamphlet was produced prior to the completion of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge which opened on November 12 1936 six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. The pamphlet contains detailed information on the construction of the bridge quantifying the labor hours and materials needed for the construction of what President Roosevelt declared to be the largest single construction job started in 1933. This pamphlet includes extensive black & white line-illustrations of the features of the bridge and the cities it connects. The pamphlet indicates a scheduled completion date of January 1937 though the bridge was opened in November 1936 ahead of schedule. California State Printing Office paperback books
12750England: York & Son Sepia-toned stereographic photographic image; early view of the traffic on the bridge carriages carts; photographers identifiers at edges title in ink at top in a contemporary hand as well as paper label on back giving itle and photographer's"No. 755. London Bridge with traffic"; no date but circa 1880s; fairly sharp clear image; some light edge tips wear soiling to mount; good condition. Good. York & Son unknown books
19346429Boston: Little Brown and Company 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Very good copy bound in dark blue cloth with light edge fading light foxing edges. In Very good dust jacket bright and colorful with light wear at extremities. 409 pp. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1983208536Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum 1983. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 273 illus. 67 in color two folding. 4to blue cloth d.w. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum 1983.<br/><br/> Brooklyn Museum unknown books
1990Embry 127998Berg 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Berg, 1990. First edition. unknown books
1903WN3811New York: The Aldine Book Company 1903. Original red cloth gilt with wear and fraying at spine ends corners foreedges and joints. Hinges starting book a little shaky. Prior owner stamp on ffep penciled out. Article about Andrew Carnegie fastened to rear pastedown. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Aldine Book Company Hardcover books
