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1931013769Columbia MO: University of Missouri 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Owner name of student on the front free endpaper. Very Good. Small folio 9" x 12-1/4" bound in embossed black leather. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Yearbook for the second of three years that Tennessee Williams attended the university with his small photograph on his fraternity's page along with his brothers who dubbed him Tennessee for his Southern drawl. Some brothers later figured as characters in his plays including Harold Mitchell in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. An important period in Williams's life one of the most normal for that matter very shortly after he had written his first play BEAUTY IS THE WORD and when he was discovering his sexual orientation. <br/><br/> University of Missouri hardcover
1847033332London: James Burns. viii 136pp hardback faded blue cloth gilt well illustrated with eng. plates opposite verses with illustrated margins some pages loose author neatly written in ink to title page backstrip torn along edge note on Copac reads that most copies of this edition were surpressed on account of imperfections with the engravings fair . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1847. James Burns hardcover
1846041557<p>Oxford: John Henry Parker 1846. 405 pages. Later beautiful full dark blue Moroccan leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering/decoration. Brown leather spine labels. Marbled end leaves with gilt tooled decoration to the leather wrap overs. Light scattered rubbing on leather mostly along joints and spine ends. Small crack on top joint near crown. Old inked price on blank front fly leaf. A little scattered foxing mostly in blank spaces of plates. Volume remains tight. . Third Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket.</p> John Henry Parker
1804000417London: S.W. Fores 1804. Hand-coloured caricature approximately 360mm x 245mm. Slightly creased with a couple of small tears to top edge top left hand corner missing with slight loss now repaired. 'The Coffin Expedition' shows French sailors wearing bonnet rouges sailing in cannon laden coffins with skulls for mastheads 'Boney's crest a skull without brains' with one 'boat' sinking and the others being closed in on by the British navy in the background with one French sailor exclaiming 'Oh de Corsican Bougre was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral'. Williams was Fores' chief caricaturist see Houfe page 348. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Illus. by Williams Charles. 4to Oblong. S.W. Fores Paperback
180667407London:: S. W. Fores Aug. 5th 1806. Hand-colored etching. Tiny remnants of adhesive at edges visible on the verso only; otherwise fine. . Approx. 10 x 14 inches. The Right Hon. George Rose is depicted as a rose arising from a straw-covered manure heap labeled "Opposition Hot-Bed." Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice is shown emerging as a mushroom; and Charles James Fox is the gardener. S. W. Fores, unknown
1815AQ21109London: Printed for John Murray.and William Blackwood 1815. In four volumes. 2 xvi 239 1; 2 217 7; 2 215 1; 2 197pp 1. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards recently rebacked. Heavily rubbed. Early book-labels of Abigail Freeth to all FEPs contemporary inked ownership inscription of Maria Freeth Alleston to FFEP of Vol. I with recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst pasted beneath occasional paper repairs to margins of Vol. I foxed. The first edition of an autobiographical novel by William Williams vividly narrating his experiences living with the native people in a remote part of the coast Costa Rica having found his way there after being shipwrecked in the Caribbean. The manuscript of the work edited for publication by John Eagles had been given by Williams to his father Thomas Eagles who had rescued the unfortunate mariner from destitution. Byron wrote of the novel: 'I have never read so much of a book at first sitting in my life. He kept me up half the night and made me dream of him the other half'. Robert Lee Wolff Nineteenth Century Fiction notes that the book was written between 1747 and 1775 thus making it the first novel to be written in America. . First edition. 12mo. Printed for John Murray...and William Blackwood hardcover
1017471576.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1342117395.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19299180Wellington: Wellington Diocesan Sunday School Association. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. Some creasing to wrappers. Staples rusted. Some staining and water marks to frontis. ; iv 16 1 pages frontis. Paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 212mm x 138mm. Title continues "Arranged in Eight Lessons for the use of Sunday School Superintendents and Teachers." Uncommon. Reference: Bagnall W1312. ; 8vo . Wellington Diocesan Sunday School Association paperback
187033771New York: Robert M. De Witt 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. "Each individual will find that the perusal and study of this book though it may fail to render him a Demosthenes or a Cicero - will yet so quicken and improve his natural gifts that his one talent may be increased to ten; he will find his attitude more graceful; his gestures more expressive his voice more powerful and his whole physical powers improved" preface. Very good in purple cloth boards with gilt title to front cover and spine. Gilt illustration of a Grecian man to front cover. Fraying and wear to spine ends edges of boards and corners. Occasional spots of foxing and soiling to interior but clean overall. Previous ownership markings in pen to first two endpapers. Small chips and creasing to some pages. Includes 15 illustrations including grief dislike modesty cursing patriotism invocation and more. 192 Pages. DRA/010220. Robert M. De Witt hardcover
196456928New York:: Terrain Gallery 1964. First edition. original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Near fine. Folio. Introduction and Comments by Martha Baird. Terrain Gallery, hardcover
194813372New York:: Samuel M. Kootz Editions 1948. First edition. loose sheets in printed portfolio as issued. . Three quarter-sized glue marks to each flap as a result of manufacture; a few short tears to edges of wrappers; otherwise a very attractive copy of a scarce book. . Folio. Photographic reproductions of illustrations are tipped in as issued. Wallace B 51. Other contributors include Tennessee Williams Weldon Kees Sartre Paul Goodman Hans Hofmann Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell. Samuel M. Kootz Editions, unknown
21288WILLIAMS Robert Folkestone. The Youth of Shakespeare. Three vols. Bound in later morocco-backed marbled boards. London: Colburn 1839. First edition. Block p. 254. A near fine set. unknown
47855Canberra: Australian National Gallery 1989. Quarto original wrappers 255 pp profusely illustrated. Along with McCaughey the standard monograph on Williams and quite scarce. A fine copy. unknown
43295Sydney : Murdoch Books 2008 revised edition. Quarto cloth-covered boards pictorial dust jacket pp. 374 vibrantly illustrated throughout spine sunned and edges lightly foxed extensive text on the work of Fred Williams written by art curator cum academic Patrick McCaughey. hardcover
191232157AB1912. First Edition. London / Dublin / Belfast The Gresham Publishing Company Limited no year c.1912. Octavo 18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high. Frontispiece 64 64 64 64 pages Total of 256 pages. Original beautiful clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher's original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces. This publication is showing an abundance of beautiful illustrations representing each of the four Provinces of Ireland. Plates in colour include: Leinster: Bay of Dublin from Howth Cliffs / Killiney Bay and Bray Head / Near Abeyleix Queens Co. / The Port of Dublin / A Hawthorn Glade Phoenix Park / The River Liffey at Palmerston / Portmarnock Golf Links / The Meeting of the Waters Woodenbridge / St.Kevin's Bed and the Church of the Rock Upper Lake Glendalough / On the River Boyne at Trim / The Bridge of Slane River Boyne / On the River Slaney at Ballintemple / Ulster: Muckross Bay Killibegs Donegal / Narrow Water Castle Carlingford Lough / Cave Hill Belfast / Carrickfergus CAstle Belfast Lough / The Giants' Causeway / Fair Head Co.Antrim / Londonderry from the Waterside / Tory Island from Falcarragh Hill Donegal / Muckish and Ards from Rosapenna Sheephaven Donegal / Mount Errigal from the Gweedore River Donegal / Glenveagh Donegal / The Entrance to Mulroy Bay Donegal / Munster: The Old Clocktower Youghal / The Blackwater at Dromana / Blarney Castle / Ferrybank Waterford / Shandon Steeple from the River Lee / Entrance to Cork Harbour / Kenmare Bay from Templenoe / Macgillicuddy's Reeks / The Gap of Dunloe Killarney / Muckross Lake Killarney / Brickeen Bridge Lower Lake Killarney / Holy Island Lough Derg / Connaught: Lough Breenbannia / Lowlands Ballinlough Roscommon / Mweelrea and the Killary from Tully Strand Renvyle / A Fisherman's Home under Diamond Mountain Ballynakill Bay / On the Owenbrin River Lough Mask / Castle Kirke and Upper Lough Corrib / In the Pass of Delphi Killary Bay / Wrack-gathering on the West Coast / Croagh Patrick from Old Head Clew Bay / The Minaun Cliffs Achill Island / Nephin from Lough Conn / Lough Gill // hardcover
131-421985 h/b Larger Format 637 pages EX-LIBRARY Very clean & tight content with 'Reference Only' ex-library stamps to prelims and covers spine. Protected in a sealed-down clear plastic overcover that has taken the brunt of wear and itself could use some timely repair replacement or removal but with original covers underneath in very good order indeed. Issued as 'Volume 5' of the series includes addenda & corrigenda to Vol-1 pre-1890 NZ Books along with same and a useful 'title' crosstab-index into the 1890-1960 NZ Books subseries completing the mammoth series in its entirety.Hard to find. NZ Bibliography unknown
193288810Berlin: Paul Parey 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. xii. 352pp. Bound into yellow cloth. German language text. Illustrated with 60 illustrations and a map. Some fading to the spine. Paul Parey hardcover
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