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195237716New York: Exposition Press. Very Good. 1952. 2ND AMERICAN. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. ; P. Cm. . Exposition Press hardcover books
195237009New York: Exposition Press 1952. cloth. Autographs. 8vo. cloth. 99 pages and 20 plates. First edition. Covers rubbed. Exposition Press unknown books
02609London: Published for the Author 1823. Written While the Insane Author Was Living in a Gravel Pit<br/><br/>WILLIAMS Charles illustrator. MITFORD John. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A Poem In Four Cantos With Notes. The Third Edition. London: Published for the Author and sold by Sherwood Neely and Jones et al 1823. <br/><br/>Third edition in book form originally issued 1819 in eight monthly parts. Quarto 10 3/16 x 6 3/16 in; 259 x 158 mm. vii 1 To the Binder 284 pp. Twenty hand-colored aquatint engravings with tissue guards. <br/><br/>Handsomely bound ca. 1895 by Samuel Tout of London stamp-signed in full deep crimson morocco with gilt-tooled corner-pieces and rolls. Gilt-rolled board edges. Gilt-ruled raised bands gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. Broad turn-ins with gilt-tooled corner-pieces. Top edge gilt others uncut. Original paper backstrip with printed label preserved at rear. With the nautical bookplate of James Stewart Geikie M.D. A fine and very tall copy.<br/><br/>Not to be confused with an earlier book - also a poem in four cantos - with the same title by Alfred Burton with illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson published in 1818. It is a common mistake to presume that Alfred Burton was a pseudonym for John Mitford and that the two books are one and the same; many library records are littered with this misinformation as is Wikipedia. Hardie declares that this Mitford was an "open imitation" of the Burton.<br/><br/>This edition with the Williams plates appears far less frequently than the Rowlandson illustrated edition of 1818.<br/><br/>"Johnny Newcome" was British slang for a raw recruit Army or Navy.<br/><br/>John Mitford 1782-1831 "was a member of the elder branch of the family of Mitford of Mitford Castle in Northumberland.In April 1795.he entered the navy as midshipman of the Victory in which he went out to the Mediterranean and was present in the battle off Toulon on 13 July 1795. In the following year he was moved into the Zealous with Captain afterwards Sir Samuel Hood and in her was present in the disastrous attack on Santa Cruz in July 1797 and at the battle of the Nile 1-2 Aug. 1798.According to his own account after drinking freely on Christmas day 1800 he insulted his captain and left the service that is to say deserted; but as he was with Hood in 1801 in the Venerable the desertion may have been only imagined.<br/><br/>"In 1814 Mitford was discharged from the navy as insane and he took to journalism and strong drink.He is said to have edited the ‘Scourge or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly' which after running for five years died in December 1815; but though he contributed to the last four volumes it does not appear that he was the editor. After this he wrote ‘The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy a Poem in four Cantos'.The publisher who employed him found that the only way to make him work was to keep him without money. He therefore limited him to a shilling a day which Mitford expended on two pennyworth of bread and cheese and an onion and the balance on gin. With this and his day's supply of paper and ink he repaired to an old gravel-pit in Battersea Fields and there wrote and slept till it was time to take in his work and get his next shilling. For forty-three days he is said to have lived in this manner.The poem is in octosyllabic verse reeled off with the most careless ease but the lines scan the rhymes are good and the ‘yarns' such as might have been heard any day in the midshipman's berth.His other literary work was anonymous. He is said to have written ‘a libelous life of Sir John Sylvester' recorder of the city of London; to have edited ‘The Bon Ton Magazine' and to have been kept the while by his publisher in a cellar with a candle a bottle of gin and a rag of old carpet for a coverlet. In 1827 he contributed a memoir of William Mitford the historian to the ‘Literary Gazette'.But Mitford had lost the power of distinguishing truth from falsehood. Ragged and filthy in his person he was no doubt the John Mitford described by Captain Brenton as ‘lodging over a coal-shed in some obscure street near Leicester Square'.All attempts made by his friends to reclaim him failed. He was editing a paper called the ‘Quizzical Gazette' at the time of his death which took place in St. Giles's workhouse on 24 Dec. 1831" D.N.B.<br/><br/>Illustrator Charles Williams b. - 1830 was a British caricaturist etcher and illustrator. Between 1799 and 1815 he was chief caricaturist for S.W. Fores a prominent British publisher of prints. He worked in a style similar to James Gillray. In his earlier works Williams used the pseudonyms Ansell or Argus; with George Cruikshank and others he illustrated The Every-Day Book by William Hone edited 1825-26. In addition to the work under notice he illustrated Dr Syntax in Paris 1820; My Cousin In the Army 1822; and The Tour of Doctor Prosody 1822.<br/><br/>Victorian binder Samuel Tout worked out of Nassau Street in Soho London 1868-79. He then partnered with William Coward in a bindery in Whitechapel but from 1880-1898 continued on his own in the same location.<br/><br/>Abbey Life 340. Tooley 332. Prideaux p. 304. Hardie p. 173. London: Published for the Author, 1823 unknown books
1966RWILADV00LRCarlton Press 1966. Fine. Williams Stephen Daniel. Adventures of Shylar Homes. New York: Carlton Press 1966. 52pp. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt titled spine. Inscribed by author. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped and rubbed corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges. Inscribed by Williams to Ron de Waal famed Sherlockian bibliographer on front free endsheet and title page. Carlton Press hardcover books
2000108606Fairfax Virginia: The Fountain 2000. Softcover. VG Like new. Color illus. wraps; 380 pp.; 16 color photos. Examines modern Islam and the life of Fethullah Gulen. The Fountain unknown books
19781336322New York: St. Martin's Press 1978. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G Hardcover w/ DJ; Green spine with Red and Black text; Dustjacket has some edgewear some shelfwear tape along tail edge of rear cover; Boards strong some edgewear slight shelfwear rubbing to corners; Textblock clean; 266 pp. 1336322. FP New Rockville Stock. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
197744615Washington DC: Howard University Press 1977. Hardcover. Very good. x 196pp index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Howard University Press hardcover books
1962197874New York: Cooper Square Publishers 1962. 127p. profusely illus. with photos and drawings first edition. Foxed wraps with some handling wear previous owner's name penciled on title page else good condition. Cooper Square Publishers unknown books
1965142655New York: Cooper Square Publishers 1965. 128p. profusely illus. with photos and drawings second edition revised foxed wraps with some handling wear. Cooper Square Publishers unknown books
200080658Westport:: Greenwood Press. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. 0313305854 . Second printing. Fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press, hardcover books
197285437Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1972. Hardcover. 454p. first printing. Very good. Slight wear to corner of boards dent to top front board near center. No dj. The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1951RWILAFT00tmZion's Printing 1951. Very Good. Williams Nancy C. After 100 Years: First Lamanite Missionaries. Independence Missouri: Zion's Printing 1951. 234pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Bright blue cloth. Book condition: Very good. Gently bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light chipping and subtle discoloration. In protective plastic cover. Zion's Printing hardcover books
195170689Independence Missouri: Press of Zion's Printing & Publishing Company 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Tells the life story of Dr. Frederick Granger Williams Second Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his wife Rebecca Swain Williams Pioneer of 1849. 234 p. with numerous textual illustrations. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titles. Previous owner's name and address to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is a bit edgeworn; otherwise very good. Press of Zion's Printing & Publishing Company hardcover books
1976242858New York: Danad Publishing 1976. Magazine. 100p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news entertainment theatre film fashion very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Danad Publishing unknown books
1980238665New York: Danad Publishing 1980. Magazine. 84p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches entertainment news reviews opinion interviews ads listings photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story with centerfold spread of Liza & Misha. Interview and study of Tennessee. Beaton photos of Broadway and literary figures. Originally Ballroom Dance Magazine and Dance Magazine. Some numbering inconsistencies in the first few volumes. Danad Publishing unknown books
1997001742Morrow 1997 1997. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-688-15215-5. Mint copy of this important first novel. Morrow, 1997 Hardcover books
195322768London: Golden Cockerel Press 1953. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth decorated in gilt. Fine in slightly nicked original glassine wrapper. Petts John. 23 pages. 23.5 x 12 cm. Ten full-color wood-engravings by John Petts. Limited edition copy 238 of 350 on hand-made paper. Designed by Christopher Sandford. A satire in a familiar mediaeval and anti-chivlaric tradition warning against the dangers of love -- this was followed in 1960 by Cynwal's "In Defence of Woman" published by Golden Cockerel. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1960WRCLIT61658London: Poets' and Painters' Press 1960. II:1. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Edited by William Cookson. Prints Williams's "The American Idiom" along with work by Whigham Woolsey Milne Laughlin and Higgins. WALLACE C579n. Poets' and Painters' Press unknown books
1960WRCLIT61657London: Poets' and Painters' Press 1960. Whole number ten. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Edited by William Cookson. Prints Williams's "The Painting" along with work by Ronald Duncan Peter Russell David Gordon and Osip Mandelshtam. WALLACE C585. Poets' and Painters' Press unknown books
1962WRCLIT71313London 1962. Double number II:7/8. Printed wrappers. Errata slip. Fine. Includes the first UK publication of Williams's "Construction" as well as work by MacDiarmid Levi Tomlinson Peter Russell et al. WALLACE C601. unknown books
1985249595Boulder CO: Westview Press 1985. Hardcover. xv 319p. very good condition. A study by Business International Coporation and the Center for Rural Development Inc. for the Bureau for Private Enterprise Agency for International Development. Westview Press hardcover books
198957770Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1989. Paperback. vii 113p. illustrated with b&w and color figures and photos very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Pocket Picture Guides. J. B. Lippincott Company paperback books
19743599bdLondon: William Kimber 1974. First Edition. Octavo blue boards hardcover 222 pp. Photos. Near-Fine with bookplate in dust jacket. William Kimber, (1974). First Edition. hardcover books
1967101441N.P. but Denver: University of Denver 1967. stiff paper wrappers. Swallow Alan. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 172 2 pages. Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 1967. The majority of this issue of "The Denver Quarterly" is dedicated to Alan Swallow with biographical essays tributes etc. Some soiling corners bent minor wear. (University of Denver) unknown books
196276556New York: Horizon Press 1962. Paperback. 93p. wraps old label on front wrap spine sloped previous owner's gift inscription minor pen marginalia on two or three pages and a small stain to foredge a decent reading copy only. Tributes and messages by Joshua Kunitz Joseph Freeman Josephine Herbst Ella Winter Mary Pickford Gale Sondergaard and others. Horizon Press paperback books
