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1961111207Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1961. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Reynolds Stone. With a New Introduction By Van Wyck Brooks. Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone. 273 pages. Tall 8vo marbled cloth white linen slipcase a bit discolored as usual. Oxford: The Limited Editions Club 1961. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
18922298291D.D. Nickerson Co 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Austin Henry; Shute A. Burham. No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base boards very lightly soiled. 1892 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii 365 pp. Frontispiece by Henry Austin; 4 plates by A. Burham Shute. "Following the commercial and critical success of Typee Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover or someone who roams from island to island Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville D.D. Nickerson Co hardcover books
1944WRCLIT24080Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year 1944. Printed boards. Edited by F.O. Matthiessen. First edition thus including four poems for the first time in American book form. The less common issue in boards. Tiny bump at crown of spine else fine in very good lightly soiled dust jacket. BAL 13693. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p. 12. New Directions / Poets of the Year hardcover books
1893WRCLIT84990London: John Murray 1893. xxviii23011pp. Small octavo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt gilt pictorial vignette on upper cover adapted from the frontis. Frontis illustrations and maps. Extremities a trifle shelf-rubbed otherwise very good and bright. Denoted a "New Edition" though clearly reprinted using plates from an earlier edition to which have been added the illustrations and Henry S. Salt's important extended memoir of Melville. John Murray hardcover books
192487995NY:: Dodd Mead and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. B0006AJFSM . Eight color plates. First edition thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few small chips price clipped dust jacket.; 299 pages . Dodd, Mead and Company, hardcover books
1929WRCLIT84984New York: New York Public Library 1929. Large octavo. Heavily decorated pastepaper over boards original wrapper bound in. Portraits. Bookplate scar on front pastedown otherwise about fine. First separate edition reprinted from the NYPL BULLETIN in an edition of five hundred copies. The decorated board binding is much in the style that Carl Van Vechten had many of his wrappered books and periodicals bound - - the removal of the bookplate renders certainty impossible. BAL 13685. New York Public Library hardcover books
192223185Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. First Trade Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed boards gilt-lettered spine; 205pp. Boards a hint rubbed some foxing to preliminaries else Very Good or better. Collection of Melville's poetry published in an edition of 1675 copies. BAL 13725. Princeton University Press unknown books
1968267510New York: Abrams 1968. hardcover. near fine. 846 illustrations including 32 mounted color plates 368pp. 4to brown cloth d.w. New York: Abrams 1968. First Edition. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Abrams unknown books
192395590New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1923. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-286 287 288: blank 289-290: ads original orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition first printing with "1" at base of text on page 287 first state with pages 62-63 transposed. "The collection of twelve stories . is in several ways next in quality to UNCLE ABNER. These stories most of which are principally concerned with the activities of a shrewd French detective are of a moderately uniform quality throughout the book. The plots with few exceptions are well contrived with paradoxical features that contribute to the suspense element and most skillfully conclude with a catchy twist or surprise ending." - Norton Melville Davisson Post p. 161. Queen The Detective Short Story p. 90. Hubin 1994 p. 652. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 P-544. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Some light dust soiling to cloth else a clean tight very good copy. #95590 D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1882W09317Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co. 1882. Original brown cloth corners bumped two mends on spine. Text strong. Gilt spine titling and blind rules on boards. Two lines of notes on ffep by previous owner. 303 pps. of text and 8 pps. of advertising at the back of the book. The subtitle is "chiefly refering to the character and chronology of the reaction which followed the Council of Nicaea." A very scholarly presentation by a fellow of Cambridge University. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No D.j. 8vo. Trade. Deighton, Bell, and Co. Hardcover books
1944WRCLIT84992Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year 1944. Printed boards. Fine in very good dust jacket with modest tanning at edges and a couple of tiny edge tears. Edited by F.O. Matthiessen. First edition boardbound issue including four poems printed in the US in book form for the first time. BAL 13693. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p.12. New Directions / Poets of the Year hardcover books
1922WRCLIT30084Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First collective edition thus. One of fifteen hundred ordinary copies from a total edition of 1675. Spine gilding dull top edge foxed otherwise a very good copy with the bookplate of poet/publisher James Laughlin. BAL 136881. Princeton University Press hardcover books
196533371965. MELVILLE Jennie. THERE LIES YOUR LOVE. London: Michael Joseph 1965. Small 8vo. charcoal-colored cloth in dust jacket; 197 pages. First Edition. Very Good covers nice & bright contents clean & tight; some scattered foxing to fore-edge; minor wear & little browning no chips or tears price is present on the front flap d/j. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18605528London: John W. Parker & Son 1860. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis. 3 ff. 325 pp. II: 2 ff. 344 pp. 3 1 pp. ads. <br><br>By a "Sporting" Novelist. First book edition complete with color lithographic frontispiece. First chapter a loving portrayal of "Hounds and horses and sportsmen" by this writer who died on the hunting field. "The Pytchley hounds have had a run. Io triumphe!" First published in Fraser's Magazine. Publisher's cloth. Signatures split from bindings at several places one more reading and this will very likely achieve "binding now a portfolio" status though it will be readable and shelvable even then. John W. Parker & Son hardcover books
190956852Providence: Preston & Rounds Company 1909. 8vo pp. vii 2 207 4 ads 1; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good. The author was Pastor Emeritus of the First Baptist Church Providence. "Born and died in England Vane 1612-1662 came to New England in 1635 and the following year was elected governor. He returned to England in 1637 to become a leader of the Long Parliament. His interest in New England continued. He was instrumental in procuring the Rhode Island charter and his friendly efforts to aid the New England colonies were appreciated by Winthrop and Roger Williams. Soon after the restoration of the monarchy he was convicted of treason and executed" Goodspeed 198: 597. Not in Parks. <br/><br/> Preston & Rounds Company hardcover books
198457215Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. 12 526 2; original full blue gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
185850674London: Ward Lock. Very Good. 1858. Hardcover. London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited no date 1858. 352pp. some light foxing very light use wear to covers overall a Very Good copy. . Ward Lock hardcover books
198046306NY: Aperture 1980. Strand Paul. 4to pp. 256. With photographs by Paul Strand preface by Paul Metcalf. Gray cloth stamped in silver. Remainder mark on bottom edges slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and soiled dj. Photographs with selections from writings ranging from those of Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet to Herman Melville and Robert Frost. Aperture unknown books
196152002Various: Melville Society 1961. All except December '61 35 copies are one sheet of heavy paper 8-1/2" by 11" folded once into a cover with two pages of text inside. This includes two copies of the Winter 1960 issue. December '61 consists of three mimeographed sheets 8-1/2'"by 11" printed one side and stapled at upper left corner. Slight spotting on the latter; one of the Winter 1960 issues has a stain on front other issues slightly darkened but nice. The newsletter was published quarterly. The December 1961 letter explains that the former publication had been discontinued and that mineographed letters would now be how news would be published. Melville Society unknown books
18803283New York: F.H. Melville 1880. Tri-fold pamphlet 14 x 24.1 cm. Illustrated. Promotional brochure for a New York paper warehouse with products that serve grocers and general stores. Features descriptions and prices for available items including satchel-bottom and old-style paper bags flour sacks twines paper butter dishes spring brass tea coffee and spice scoops and more. Very fine condition. F.H. Melville unknown books
004602Scotland: Edinburgh: Printed By the Heir of Andrew Anderson 1690. Quarto. Original Wraps. Second Edition. Wing 2nd Ed; M1652. 4p. The title Earl of Melville in the peerage of Scotland was conferred in 1690 on George 4th Lord Melville upon his return from exile in Holland with William and Mary of Orange. The speech tells why His majesty could not be present because of the expedition into Ireland."he has rescued you from these greatest of evils Popery and Slavery.I belive there few true Protestants .who would not give half their estates for so great a blessing.". He goes on to appeal for support for the King who has been instrumental in their deliverance from Popery. The copy is generlaly in good condition though the title page has been trimmed on the edge thus reading The/Speech/of His grace/Georgee/Earl of/Melville; Their Magesties High Commissioner/At the Opening of the Second Session of the First Parliament of Their Majesties Antient Kingdom of Scotland/ The 15th of April 1690. Most surviving copies are in University Libraries and the National Archives of Scotland. Library duplicate in stiff blue pam binder. Edinburgh: Printed By the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1690 unknown books
1972406850New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. A fine copy with slightest of toning to the jacket. 8vo. Woodcuts by Frasconi. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First trade edition signed by Frasconi on the title-page. Frasconi was both the editor and illustrator of this volume of Melville's poems. A limited edition had been published the previous year. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
194625543New York: View 1946. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. The May 1946 issue of this magazine devoted to all things Surrealism. Edited by Ford and assisted by Parker Tyler John Myers Paul Bowles Aaron Copland Marcel Duchamp and others. A good to very good copy in tall side-stapled wrappers. Typical light soiling and wear to covers. Cover art by Jean Helion. View paperback books
1957WRCLIT84977New York: Grove Press 1957. Cloth and boards. Spine a trace sunned with some slight tanning to edges of boards; very good or better in acetate wrapper. First Grove Press printing the deluxe issue. Copy #61 of 100 numbered copies in addition to the wrapperbound Evergreen Books issue and the normal clothbound issue. Grove Press hardcover books
1799WRCLIT55489Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw 1799. 45-68pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Scattered foxing and faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library old manuscript ink volume indexing number in upper margin of title a few corner creases otherwise a good copy. First Irish edition. There was a London edition for J. Wright that was reprinted at least three times. BRADSHAW 7569 London ed. ESTC T2838. Printed by John Exshaw unknown books