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1940012530London: Fortuen Press 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo black cloth gilt spine titles in fine original dustjacket sides untrimmed leaves uncut 100 pages frontispiece by Picasso. Trace foxing largely too prelims/ title and rears. An obviously unread copy. Fortuen Press hardcover books
1923899581923. MELVILLE Herman. ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1923. Issued as The Works of Herman Melville Standard Edition Vol. XI. Limited to 750 copies . 8vo. 225pp. Blue cloth. Blindstamped to front back and spine. Lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Front and bottom edge untrimmed maroon coated endpapers. A fine copy. unknown books
1922WRCLIT85000Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1922. Cloth and marbled boards. for and bottom edges untrimmed. Foretips bumped and worn shelfwear to lower and top edges of boards minuscule nick in rear inner hinge. First edition thus deluxe issue. Copy #67 of 175 numbered copies printed on French handmade paper and specially bound. No longer common in this deluxe format. BAL 13725. Princeton Univ. Press hardcover books
1971WRCLIT32866New York: Farrar 1971. Large octavo. Cloth. Edited and illustrated with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Fine in slightly edge-darkened dust jacket. First edition thus limited to one thousand numbered copies signed by Frasconi. Farrar hardcover books
1923899601923. MELVILLE Herman. PIERRE OR THE AMBIGUITIES. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1923. Issued as The Works of Herman Melville Standard Edition Vol. IX. Limited to 750 copies. 8vo. 505pp. Blue cloth blindstamped to front back and spine. Lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed maroon coated endpapers. A fine copy. unknown books
1935WN67933New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Original binding with some split mended to upper joint near bottom of spine. #1220 of 1500 copies signed by Covarrubias on the limitation page. The slip case is not present. The illustrations are rich in color and plentiful in number happily since Tahitian maidens never to stale. A delightful book which preceded the great Moby Dick. By Artist. First Thus. Paper Covered Boards. Good/No Dj as Issued. Illus. by Miguel Covarrubias. 8vo. Limited. Limited Editions Club Hardcover books
1892WRCLIT85106New York: United States Book Company 1892. xxxvi389pp. plus portrait and plate. Blue gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and brown. Armorial bookplate of Robert Henry Herbert "Ung Je Serviray" with clipped manuscript gift inscription affixed below illegible small nicks and frays at spine ends two blank lower fore-corners neatly clipped but a good sound copy. The first posthumous printing of the text one of four of Melville's proseworks prepared for reprinting by the United States Book Company by Arthur Stedman and of those four the only one to include an Introduction by Stedman. Melville authority Merton Sealts has called the Introduction "the best short Life of Melville written in the nineteenth century." Stedman commissioned La Farge's imaginative depiction of Fayaway which appears before the first page of text. The four titles appeared in several different colors of cloth. OMOO and TYPEE shared the same cover illustration. These editions are not uncommon but they are difficult to find in agreeable edition. United States Book Company hardcover books
182775846Edinburgh 1827. hardcover. very good. Large paper edition thick 4to 3/4 red calf rubbed. Edinburgh 1827. Very good.<br/><br/> Maitland Club Edition.<br/><br/> unknown books
18944511London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1894. Octavo 52 pages. Advertisements with thirteen plates mostly chromolithographs of various whole animal and prime cuts. Second and last printing. This small military guidebook is mostly aimed at providing an outline for detecting substandard meat through inspection. The detailed chromolithograph illustrations include various sides and cuts of ox bull heifer old cow whether and ewe. A few neat ink notes to one of the black and white plates. Fine in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. OCLC locates ten copies of this printing just two in the US. Harrison and Sons, Ltd hardcover books
19816788Westmoreland NH: H.H. Hurley 1981. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. miniature. Tight bright and unmarred. Red leather boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements frontispiece. 2 1/16x2 13/16. 14pp. One of 350 copies 24 copies on paper handmade by Henry Morris plus three copies on Morris paper with Cock & Bull Press name at title page this one of an unknown number of deluxe in gilt leather. <br/><br/>Printed letterpress. H.H. Hurley paperback books
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
186234279London: Parker Son and Bourn 1862. First edition 2 vols; 8vo pp. 4 304; 2 254; marbled endpapers some very light foxing on prelims edges a bit rubbed else a very good set in contemporary black morocco over marbled boards marbled edges; neatly rebacked in olive morocco with red morocco label and gilt-decorated spine with raised bands. <br/><br/> Parker, Son, and Bourn hardcover books
195744182Torino: S.A.I.E. Editrice 1957. Large 8vo pp. 150 2; original green pictorial boards; edges and corners bumped and rubbed else mostly very good. Pressue stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson. Abridged Italian translation by Mario Giussani. Not in OCLC as of December 2013. <br/><br/> S.A.I.E. Editrice hardcover books
192251860Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. 205. One of 1850 copies. Bound in cloth backed boards uncut and unopened a fine copy. BAL 13725. Princeton University Press unknown books
195152006NY: Harcourt Brace 1951. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo pp. xxxiv 494; 496-899. Sources index. Illustrations are in Vol. II. Blue cloth. Covers slightly bumped on upper corners spines little darkened and slightly scuffed at ends edges little soiled o/w a VG tight set in some worn slip case. See BAL Vol. VI p. 180. Harcourt, Brace unknown books
1929261030Slide Mountain Press 1929. Limited. hardcover. very good. Cane Mary. Title page decoration by Mary Cane. Thin 8vo gold-flecked purple boards with blue cloth spine; light edgewear. Slide Mountain Press 1929. A very good copy.<br/><br/> One of Sixty number copies signed by Melville Crane. Correction on the first page done in the author's own hand.<br/><br/> Slide Mountain Press unknown books
18906040141890. "Melville D. Landon" in black fountain pen ink n.d. ca. 1890. 5" x 3"; 1 page recto only. Very good. "And my heaven continue to protect you from Yours truly' "Eli Perkins" Melville D. Landon Fifth Ave. Hotel New York.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1962TB25189n.p.: Westvaco Corporation 1962. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 dark brown leather and printed paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine floral decorated paper end sheets and with the top edge of the text block stained light green. Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a near fine illustrated paper covered slip case with modest tanning at its opening and around the outside edges. The book is subtitled: "A Peep At Polynesian Life During A Four Months' Residence In A Valley Of The Marquesas". 324 pages of text illustrated throughout with nautical motif line drawings. The Christmas 1962 issue by Westvaco which is the 5th volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. Westvaco Corporation hardcover books
1970WRCLIT84970France: Printed by: Ste Expl. ets Lalande Courbet 91 Wissous for: United Artists 1970. Large folio 155 x116cm; 61 x 45.75". Folded as issued neat ink manuscript captions on two outer panels of blank verso otherwise very good to fine. A superb highly visual French language 'grande' poster for an early 1970s European rerelease of John Huston's 1956 film adaptation of Melville's novel based on a screenplay cowritten with Ray Bradbury and starring Gregory Peck Richard Basehart Orson Welles and Leo Genn. Printed by:] Ste Expl. ets Lalande Courbet 91 Wissous [for:] United Artists unknown books
1958WRCLIT70364Culver City: RKO/Warner Bros. 1958. Vintage original 22 x 28" 56 x 71 cm pictorial color half sheet poster. Tiny tears along extreme left margin not approaching text some dustiness crayon numerals on verso Quebec censor stamp on recto else very good. Issued to promote the 1958 film very very loosely adapted from Melville's TYPEE based on a script by James Leicester Harold Smith and Albert Stillman uncredited. Allan Dwan directed and Dana Andres Jane Powell and Don Dubbins starred in this Technicolor venture into South Pacific exoticism. Herman Melville's novel is credited as "The Mightiest of Adventures by the Author of Mighty 'Moby Dick!'" The sensationalized promotional text screams: "Captured by Cannibals!" "Slave to the blue-eyed princess of the dread 'Typee' headhunters . and to her savage code of love and taboo!" One is also invited to hear the hit song "Enchanted Island." RKO was on its last legs at the time and Warner Bros. took over distribution. RKO/Warner Bros. unknown books
1849WRCLIT85104New York: E. A. & G. Duyckinck 1849. 4576pp. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Terminal index leaf from final issue bound up front as intended. Extremities a bit rubbed extreme upper foretip of text block nibbled otherwise a very good volume. The publisher's bound volume for whole numbers 127- 152 7 July through 29 December 1849. Contemporary with its New York publication on triple-column pages 395-7 10 November issue appears a significant selection from Melville's REDBURN and on triple column pages 418-20 17 November issue appears a lengthy review made up largely of excerpts from the text. Duyckinck and his brother George were influential tastemakers in the mid-19th century world of writing and publishing in the U. S. and Evert and Melville were close friends. In these pages Melville is christened the "De Foe sic of the Ocean." In the years 1845-6 Evert served as an editor for Wiley & Putnam's LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BOOKS wherein Melville's TYPEE made its North American appearance. E. A. & G. Duyckinck hardcover books
1970573New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1970. 4to. 368pp. Index. With 846 illustrations including 32 mounted color plates. Brown cloth gilt. D.j. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
1901105660New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1901. Octavo pp. 1-4 i-iv v-vi vii-viii 1-278 279-282: ads 283-284: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original pictorial cloth front panel stamped in black orange yellow and gold spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. A West Virginia western scornful of those recent newcomers raising cattle out on the western plains whereas the West Virginians have been cattlemen and drovers for seventy-five years. Sort of a western adventure/romance written before gentrification set in but with most of the earmarks. Men horses cattle women. And there's a legend that dwarfs lived in these hills before men. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 P-542. Owner's signature on front free endpaper newspaper clipping Post obituary 23 June 1930 affixed to front paste-down. Top edge dusty else a clean tight very good copy with bright cover stamping. #105660 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1908115599New York: Edward J. Clode Publisher 1908. Octavo pp. iii-iv v-vi 1-302 303-304: blank notes: 1 text complete despite gap in pagination; front free endpaper is used as the half-title leaf with book title printed on recto and publisher's page count treats the free endpaper as pages i-ii; 2 first signature is a gathering of ten leaves; 3 last leaf is a blank title page printed in black and orange original pictorial red cloth front panel stamped in black white and gold spine panel stamped in black and white bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. Thirteen short stories. The third volume of Randolph Mason short stories. "In this book Randolph Mason reforms using his legal knowledge to aid justice." - Queen The Detective Short Story p. 90. Hubin 1994 p. 652. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 P-541. The fragile white enamel of the globe is mostly perished from the spine panel a bright near fine copy. #115599 Edward J. Clode Publisher unknown books
43466London New York and Melbourne: Ward Lock and Co n. d. "New" edition ca 1893. Cf. Topp II 1591. Original publisher's color-printed glazed white paper binding "yellowback" style. Advert eps. General shelfwear. Prior owner signature & book label to front board. A respectable VG copy. 6 363 13 pp. 12 page publisher catalogue at rear. Crown 8vo. 7" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Ward Lock and Co unknown books
