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189518800New York: Home Book Company 1895. Later Edition. Cloth. Very good. Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle from the library of Martha Truman the mother of President Harry S. Truman. Twelvemo 403pp 8. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Notable wear to hinges leaves in delicate condition. Ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: "Mattie Truman / 1895." Martha Ellen "Mattie" Young Truman 1852-1947 was the mother of President Harry S. Truman. She was the mother of three children Harry John Vivian and Mary Jane Truman and remained a central figure in the Truman family into her son's presidency. She died in 1947 during Harry Truman's first elected term as president and is buried in Jackson County Missouri. Home Book Company unknown
186777391London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1867. Softcover. This work is soft-bound in green wrappers with black printing on the upper cover. The covers show soiling/toning foxing wear/chipping to the edges and chipping with loss to the spine. The upper cover is loose but present laid-on. The text-block is solid. The contents are bright and legible but with scattered foxing soiling and with damp-staining to the bottom outer corner of many of the pages. Bookplate of A. J. A. Symons. . Chapman and Hall paperback
18692091202133207267Chapman and Hall 1869. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 books in total Chapman and Hall paperback
1900biblio40183New York: ca1900. Vol.1-XI382and Vol.2-III336 pages. Fine Hardcoverm no DJs. No Wear Clean Free of marks inscriptions etc. All Uncut pages. Exsellen bindings and hinges. 8.25"x5.75". be36317. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1882931T93London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1882. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A first edition of this marvelous account of the author's travels across Ireland in the year 1849. First edition. Carlyle visited Ireland in 1846 with Sir Charles Gavan Duffy an Irish poet and journalist Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist as a companion and guide and wrote a series of brief articles on the Irish question in 1848. He visited Ireland again with Duffy later that year while recording his impressions in his letters and a series of memoranda which would become this piece. Written by Thomas Carlyle a Scottish essayist historian and philosopher. Considered a leading writer of the Victorian era he exerted a profound influence on nineteenth-century art literature and philosophy. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light spotting to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover
187178080London: Chapman and Hall 1871. 2nd edition. Nice Copies. small octavo. orig. dec. cloth xii 290 viii 296 viii 272 viii 272 vi 266pp. index First two volumes cover the Civil War volume three; War with Scotland. Light use o/w a very nice set in decorated brown boards with black & gilt decoration Chapman and Hall hardcover
1857879T40London: Chapman & Hall 1857. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart copy of these biographies of Friedrich Schiller and John Sterling written by Thomas Carlyle. Dated from the British Library. The autobiographies of German poet playwright historian philosopher and physician Friedrich Schiller who is considered to be Germany's most important classical playwright and John Sterling a Scottish author and poet. Written by Thomas Carlyle a British essayist historian and philosopher. Bound in full green calf. Externally very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Minor loss to the spine label and a small crack to the front joint at the tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the endpapers. Library bookplate and bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed Chapman & Hall hardcover
188036866London c.1880. IN THREE BOOKS. 8vo. iv235pp. Engraved frontispiece. FROM THE LIBRARY OF AGNES NICHOLS GRACE wife of W.G. Grace WITH HER SIGNATURE OF OWNERSHIP on the front endpaper. W.G. Grace and Agnes Nichols Day were married on 9th October 1873. unknown
18501045AG1850. O.J. um 1850. Kupferstich von Helmick nach R. Tait. Bildformat: 243 x 195 cm. Blattformat: 44 x 305 cm. Tait Robert um 1845 tätig: Englischer Bildnis- und Genremaler. - An den Rändern teilweise angestaubt leicht stockfleckig. unknown
18501045AGO.J. (um 1850). Kupferstich von Helmick nach R. Tait. Bildformat: 24,3 x 19,5 cm. Blattformat: 44 x 30,5 cm.
18837325London: Longmans Green 1883. First Edition. 8vo Pp. 397 399 341 24pp of adv. Sl. nick to top of spine on vol. 1 o/w a fine copy. CBEL III p. 152. Carlyle 1801-1866 married Thomas Carlyle in 1826 and had been a writer from a very early age. "Insulating Carlyle from the daily activities of the world occupied much of Jane Carlyle's time and these efforts form the subject of many of her letters." She bore the stress of living with Carlyle and never published the novel that was urged on her. Longmans, Green unknown books
19009155J28-2: George Bell and Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1900. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition one of 500 copies . George Bell and Sons hardcover
1892012634London and Bombay: Curwen Kane. "Now first published from the Anstey MS in the Library of the Bombay Branch/ Royal Asiatic Society." "Printed by Curwen Kane & Co. at the Times of India Steam Printing Works Bombay." Original red cloth. xiii 199 pp. iii index. Minor bump bookplate browning on front free endpaper and inside back cover margin chip on p. 105 not affecting text else Very Good. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1892. Curwen, Kane hardcover
184957716Philadelphia: Horatio N. Joy & Co 1849. 12mo pp. 84; original printed tan wrappers; tear in front wrapper neatly closed on verso spine partially perished; all else very good. We have been unable to identify the American editor. Not in NUC. LSU Rutgers and Penn State in OCLC. <br/><br/> Horatio N. Joy & Co unknown books
184957716Philadelphia: Horatio N. Joy & Co 1849. 12mo pp. 84; original printed tan wrappers; tear in front wrapper neatly closed on verso spine partially perished; all else very good. We have been unable to identify the American editor. Not in NUC. LSU Rutgers and Penn State in OCLC. Horatio N. Joy & Co unknown
1895biblio2641<p>TWO VOLUMES SET. Dana Estes & Company ca 1895. CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL LIMITED EDITION Limited to One Thousand Numbered Copies of which this is #248. Hardcover Green cloth Bookplates with title on the spines. The Set is in Excellent AS NEW condition with uncut pages. 9.25"x6.5". be4x215.</p> Dana Estes & Company hardcover
190014886London: The Colonial Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Revised Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth with gilt lettering on spines and covers teg deckle fore-edges and bottom edges. A few B&W plates with tissue guards. . Light shelf-wear and darkening to spines light roaching to front cover Volume 1 printed bookplates and former owner's name and date on fep partially blacked out else tight square and clean. . B&W plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. ix 414 401 pp . The Colonial Press hardcover
1825cyl21London: Taylor & Hessey. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with edge-wear. Slight foxing and marks within. Loss to title label. 1825. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 140mm 9" x 6". vi 352pp ads. Frontispiece engraved portrait. . Taylor & Hessey hardcover
1880519552No Place: No Photographer 1880. Unbound. Near Fine. Albumen print photographic portrait measuring 4" x 5.5" depicts Thomas Carlyle wearing a dark overcoat from the chest up facing the camera over his left shoulder. The photograph is mounted on octavo sheet of contemporary heavy stock paper. Identified beneath the image in contemporary ink holograph in an unknown hand: "Thomas Carlyle No Photographer unknown
187740799Boston: James R. Osgood and Company Late Ticknor & Fields 1877. 1st edition thus Tarr A24.3.a. Green cloth binding black and gilt stamping to front board black lettering to spine. Printed endpapers. Moderate wear to binding some rubbing to edges light soiling puffing to cloth binding. A VG example. 94 pp. A couple small woodcut engravings in text. 4-7/8" x 3-3/8" <br/><br/>Only 6 institutional holdings recorded on OCLC Buffalo & Erie Public Notre Dame UMich UWash U of Waterloo & the British Library. This edition rare in the trade. James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields hardcover books
18691341036London: Chapman and Hall c. 1869. Reprinted. Hardcover. 12mo; VG-; dark green/red spine with gilt text; gilt embossed designs to spine; raised bands to spine; reprinted; no jacket; leather binding shows slight scratches to exterior; some rubbing wear to edges and joints; gilt borders to panels; strong straight boards; text block edges marbled; ex-library plates to front pastedown; cracked front hinge; partial crack to rear hinge; marbled endpapers; previous owner's name to ffep; light pencil to facing page; interior clean; pp 234;. 1341036. FP New Rockville Stock. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1893015834London: Chapman & Hall 1893. Small Octavo. Three volumes in one 252 260 and 300pp. with 7 books: Book 1: Death of Louis XV. Book II: The Paper Age. Book III: The Parlement of Paris. Book IV: States General. Book V: The Third Estate. Book VI: Consolidation and Book VII: The Insurrection of Women. bound in olive polished calf boards triple ruled in gilt raised bands red morocco spine label gilt other compartments fully gilt decorated al edges marbled with matching endpapers inner gilt dentelles. A lovely copy from a Wedgwood family library with bookplate and a gift inscription with a sentiment in Greek. Chapman & Hall unknown books
1883Embry 174972James R. Osgood 1883. Second edition. Bookplates to each front pastedown spines sunned a shade boards and corners with some scuffing very good to near fine and handsome in custom mylar covers. One-half dark brown calf over marbled boards spines decoratively gilt. James R. Osgood, 1883. Second edition. hardcover books
185048226Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1850. 1st US book edition 1st printing Tarr A21.2.b. Original publisher's vertically ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards blocked in blind. Spine gilt bright. Square & tight. Light extremity wear. Prior owner pencil signature to ffep. Smattering of foxing. A VG copy. Divers paginations. Stab holes present. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Contents: 1. The Present Time 46 pp. 2. Model Prisons 47 pp. 3. Downing Street 51 pp. 4. The New Downing Street 57 pp. 5. Stump Orator 54 pp. 6. Parliaments 50 pp. 7. Hudson's Statue 48 pp. 8. Jesuitism 57 pp. Phillips, Sampson, and Company hardcover books
188229983London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1882. Small 8vo. vii 263 pp. <br><br>First edition; a posthumous publication. The preface is signed by James Anthony Froude Carlyle's biographer. The manuscript left at Carlyle's death was not a formal piece of writing but notes and jottings made during the trip he did not wish to make but felt compelled that he must make to view the ravages of the famine. His observations are often chilling and lacking empathy.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Previous owners' signatures; bookplate of Francis Massey O'Brien Portland Maine bibliophile and bookseller. Publisher's green cloth blind-ruled covers; spine lettered in gilt. Volume a little cocked. Interior clean. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover books
