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1858176630London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. Circa1858. Engraving 12.5 x 18.4 cm margins a little toned but in very good condition. Fine engraving prepared for R. Montgomery Martin's "Indian Empire". . (The London Printing and Publishing Company). unknown
1854000018325New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1854. first edition. hardcover. Good . Octavo bound volume of six issues no individual paper covers Three quarter leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers. 684 pages. Illustrated. The March April and May issues contain the first appearance of the novella: The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles" written by Herman Melville under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor. The novella consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" about the Encantadas or Galapagos Islands related by an anonymous narrator. The sketches were later collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. Some scattered foxing in the book but heavy on the endpapers. Front joint split about two inches at top but book is otherwise tight. Lacks spine label. 092717C. Whaling Seafaring <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam & Co. hardcover
188821233Albany New York and Chicago respectively: The Ross Publishing House; Western Publishing House 1888. First Edition. Full Morocco. Elaborately gilt decorated full morocco binding -- the decoration on the boards is inspired by Renaissance bindings more than anything else. This is a publisher's binding and we think quite unusual for a book of this sort especially. 8vo. 23 by 15.5 cm. 776 pp. Two plates one being the frontis each with cameo portraits of the authors and other humorists. Some light scattered foxing mostly in early and final pages. Mostly clean and tight. The publisher's unusual binding has held up well. The Ross Publishing House; Western Publishing House unknown
1898NC0558R. R. Donnelly and Sons Company 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Chicago 1898. One of 194 copies printed. From the library of ABAA Bookseller Tom Nicely. Gray paper covered boards with vellum spine; mild wear to edges and covers; 8vo 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; deckled edges; no jacket. Many unopened pages; French text on one side with English Translation on other; no internal markings; 121 pages. R. R. Donnelly and Sons Company hardcover
1898107417Chicago: The Caxton Club 1898 Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited First Edition. 69 pages of narrative of this 17th century expedition and discovery. Limited edition being one of 266 copies printed. Book has exterior edge wear fading and soils; bookplate inside front cover. The bookplate is that of Frederick Seymour Winston who was the General Solicitor of the Chicago & Alton and the Michigan Central Railroads. The Caxton Club hardcover
1881010472London: W. H. Allen & Co Limited 1881. Both volumes inscibed '' recipients name '' with the authors kind regards ''. Books measure 23x16.cm. xxvii 320pp 356pp 444pp catalogue illustrated. Bound in original publishers cloth with gilt lettering Cloth lightly rubbed spines faded. Bindings in good firm condition. Internally some spotting foxing mainly to first and last few pages of each volume. Pages in good clean condition. A nice inscriibed set. . Second Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. W. H. Allen & Co, Limited Hardcover
1868144277London: Sampson Low Son & Marston 1868. Presentation copy later printing of Tennyson's popular Victorian poem. Octavo original publisher's cloth elaborately decorated in gilt all edges gilt illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Fanny Melville from her brother Herman April 1876 New York." Presentation inscription likely in the hand of Melville’s wife. Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1 1819 to Allan Melvill 1782–18323 and Maria Gansevoort Melvill 1791–1872. Herman was the third of eight children in a family of Scottish and Dutch descent. His siblings who played important roles in his career as well as in his emotional life were Gansevoort 1815–1846; Helen Maria 1817–1888; Augusta 1821–1876; Allan 1823–1872; Catherine 1825–1905; Frances Priscilla 1827–1885; and Thomas 1830–1884 who eventually became a governor of Sailors’ Snug Harbor. Part of a well-established and colorful Boston family Allan Melvill spent much time out of New York and in Europe as a commission merchant and an importer of French dry goods. Allan declared bankruptcy in 1830 and died two years later leaving Maria with eight children under the age of 17 and a pile of debt from loans and Allan’s unsuccessful businesses. Soon afterward Maria added an “e†to their surname—perhaps to hide from collection agencies although scholars are not sure exactly why. Later inscription to the pastedown "To Miss Murray In memory of P. F. M. July 1876." Ownership inscription opposite the title page "Fanny Melville Tuesday after Easter 1876 N.Y." In fine condition. From the library of American bookseller and renowned Melville collector William S. Reese although not marked. Sampson Low, Son, & Marston hardcover
187449600San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1874. First edition 4to pp. 319 1 v index; lithographic frontispiece of a whaling scene in the California lagoon 26 lithograph plates 6 double-p. by Britton & Rey numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text 1 full-page and counted as a plate in the list of illustrations; original green cloth gilt vignette on upper cover gilt-lettered spine; light wear at spine ends a few plates lightly spotted but generally a very good sound copy without cracked hinges. At the back is a 4-page whaling glossary and a 7-page list of stores and other outfits for a first-class whale-ship for a Cape Horn voyage. Cowan p. 570; Hill 1530; Howes S-136; Jenkins p. 143. John H. Carmany and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown
185373896New York:: G. P. Putnam's & Co 1853-1856. First edition. 195y c. half morocco and marbled sides. Slight rubbing to the bindings; all volumes clean tight and sound. 8vo. Melville's contributions include: "Our Young Authors--Melville" "Israel Potter; or Fifty Years of Exile" Parts 1-2 "Piazza Tales" "I am My Chimney" "The Apple Tree Table" and "Bartleby the Scrivener." G. P. Putnam's & Co, unknown
1897251252New York: Putnam 1897. Hardcover. Good. Good. Hardcover blue cloth cover rubbed at spine ends and corners and spine edges corners bumped pages lightly browned bottom half of title page cut out spine browned with red crayon writing. Putnam hardcover
1897biblio2148<p>First edition first printing of the second Randolph Mason novel. Light edge wear. In very good condition.</p> Putnam hardcover
189710244New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Fair housed in a custom clamshell box. Wraps soiled torn and with some chips missing the bottom half-inch of the spine. Square hinges weak bound with reading wear former owner's name on the front endpaper. The first printing issued in wraps of this early Randolph Mason novel later reissued as Randolph Mason: The Clients. G.P. Putnam's Sons paperback
189648819New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 280. Light brown cloth with green lettering to the front board and spine. Cloth darkened with a few light spots spine more darkened with a few scuffs and the spine ends rubbed. Paper over the front hinge cracked with a bookplate to front paste-down endpaper and ink name rubbed out from the front endpaper. Corners bumped and a few page corners folded down otherwise clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Queen's Quorum #20. Very scarce. First edition. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1896112019001Putnam 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x5x1. 1896 edition later printing. Red cloth boards. Unmarked clean pages. Light shelf wear to boards. Putnam hardcover
189643271New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1896. 1896. First edition. Author's first book. A few small stamped numbers to top edge of front pastedown sheet cloth lightly rubbed at the corner and spine extremities and spine is darkened else a very good copy of Queen's Quorum #20. Randolph Mason was a skilled unscrupulous lawyer who used his knowledge of the law to defeat the ends of justice. Mason assisted criminals by cynically employing his familiarity with legal loopholes. Queen's Quorum #20 says ". introduced the first "criminal" lawyer in detective fiction. Note the quotation marks: they mean an unscrupulous lawyer who uses the inadequacies and weaknesses of the law itself to defeat justice." Interestingly the author himself was a successful lawyer. An extremely scarce Queen's Quorum title. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. hardcover
189944748Winchester: Warren & Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; White vellum half-binding; lightly marked but little worn; binding tight. Pale green boards; gilt titling still quite bright. B/w frontis with tissue guard; b/w plates illustrations. ; 4to 9" x 11 1/2"; 225 pages . Warren & Son hardcover
185176908Bath N.Y.:: R. L. Underhill & Co. 1851. First edition. publisher's blind-embossed cloth. Front and rear free endpapers lacking; foxing throughout; light use to cloth. . 12mo. R. L. Underhill & Co., hardcover
18832892895W.H. Allen & co 1883. Binding is faded on the backstrip and at the top of the front cover. .This book has hardback covers. Ex-library With usual stamps and markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1200grams ISBN: W.H. Allen & co hardcover
18512020008The first appearance of any part of Melville's Moby-Dick! "The Town-Ho's Story" would become chapter 54 of the classic novel.<br /><br />Harper & Brothers New York 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. Black leather with matching corners dark brown boards with gilt spine label. 864 pp. total the Town-Ho's Story is 8 pages starting on p. 658 With a the footnote: "From 'THE WHALE." The title of a new work by Mr. Melville in the press of Harper and Brothers and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."<br /><br />Additionally a wealth of other mid-19th century light reading including "The Treason of Benedict Arnold" by Benson Lossing immediately following as well as such page-turners as "Somnambulism" and "Visit to Laplanders." Harper and Brothers hardcover
1852009008NY: Harper & Brothers. First edition. Six issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume III: June - November 1851 leather bound. Published NY: Harper & Brothers 1852. 8vo. viii864pp. illustrated throughout with engravings. The first appearance in print of any part of Moby Dick. Gilt tooled full leather all edge gilting yellow endpapers. Leather backstrip missing covers intact binding tight stain darkening to area on front cover stamp of Adriance Memorial Library on verso no other markings. Good. Internally very good pages clean bright with minimal foxing. . Good. Hard. 1st. 1852. Harper & Brothers unknown
18533377London: G. Baxter 1853. Two framed prints of famous images. One is entitled: "Australia. News from Home". This first depicting a group of men inside a wooden building in Australia. Two of whom appear indigenous. The other entitled: "News from Abroad". This showing a family gathered around for the reading of a letter whilst on the wall there is a poster promoting emigration to Australia. Both from paintings by Harden Sidney Melville and engraved printed and published by G. Baxter. They are cropped so no longer have the Baxter stamp at the bottom. Tipped on to card and mounted in wooden frames under glass. Each measures: 110 mm x 150 mm. Total size including frame: 260 mm x 290 mm. They have a label to the rear which says they were framed by The Petersfield Book Shop. In very good condition. Price is for the pair. G. Baxter unknown
1849019049London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover
185490374George Baxter. c.1854. Etching wood engraving 125 x 160mm on larger mount some creases to edges of mount ink stamp verso- "Webster Collection 5038" A famous image showing the preconceptions of colonial life in the Australian bush. The timber hut not only has have a variety of animal life but also an aborigine dressed in a Maori cloak. This misconception of aboriginal dress had also been used by George French Angas in his image "Interior of Mount Gambier". Settlers reading letters and a dog and game on the floor with a parrot on a perch. George Baxter unknown
1888369787104 E. 26th St. New York 1888. Written in brown ink dated in another hand likely Johnson's 1 p. 8vo. Integral blank leaf apparently removed "Davis and Gilman reported that it was written on the same paper as that of Melville's 29 January 1888 letter to Edmund C. Stedman" Horth; old folds; very good. Custom cloth folding case. Written in brown ink dated in another hand likely Johnson's 1 p. 8vo. In December Rossiter Johnson editor of various encyclopedias dictionaries anthologies and volumes of abridged classics including Melville's piece "The Bell-Tower" in the third volume "Tragedy" 1875 of his Little Classics 1874-81 wrote to Melville requesting that he contribute to a work that Rossiter was editing either the Annual Cyclopaedia or Appletons' Annual Cyclopadia. Melville had written on December 11 declining his invitation: "I am unpractised in a kind of writing that exacts so much of heedfulness-heedfulness I mean of a sort not demanded in some other departments." <br /> This letter is the follow-up returning the proof not present: "Herewith you have the proof. I have supplied the dates and names wanted and see nothing else to do. Many thanks for your courtesy Very truly yours / H. Melville." <br /> <br /> Melville had retired as a customs inspector in New York in 1885 and did not published a book between Clarel in 1876 his death in 1891. Horth Lynn ed. Herman Melville: Correspondence Northwestern U. Press 1993 pp. 503-504 unknown
1866HM050New York: Harper and Brothers 1866 First edition first printing with "hundred" misspelled as "hnndred" on copyright page. Publisher's brown C cloth publisher's device in blind to boards spine stamped in gilt beveled edges to boards and brown-coated endpapers. Very good with modest toning to spine very shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends light rubbing to corners of boards and to endpapers small chip and closed tear to fourth front flyleaf slight abrasion to title page chip to top corner of p. 119 and slight separation between pp. 120-121. Overall a handsome and sleek copy. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. From the library of Pulitzer Prize winning author Kenneth Silverman. BAL 13673. Melville's reflections on the moral questions of the American Civil War Battle-Pieces explores themes such as the loss of innocence and martyrdom during a time when the nation was in a period of intense conflict. The book was Herman Melville's first volume of poetry with 72 poems about the Civil War and its aftermath the poems are divided into two sections - an untitled first section containing 52 poems that trace the history of the war followed by a section titled "Verses Inscriptive and Memorial". Additionally a prose Supplement at the end of the volume features Melville's thoughts on how the country can heal and move forward. The book was not popular or critically acclaimed in its time selling only 486 copies in two years but received renewed attention and praise at the start of the 20th century. Chiefly a biographer Professor Kenneth Silverman co-directed the American Civilization program at NYU and won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes for his work The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. Other notable works of his include biographies of Edgar Allan Poe and Samuel F. B. Morse. A magician himself he also profiled the life of Harry Houdini. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Harper and Brothers hardcover
