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8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Dedicated to George Moore, this collection includes forty of Gosse's inimitable essays including 'The Letters of Tchekhov', 'The Unveiling of Tolstoi', 'Thackeray's Daughter', 'Carlyle' and 'Goethe'.
Biographies of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Arnold, Mary Ann Disraeli, Emily Tennyson, Emily Palmerston, Lady Muriel James, Sophia Swinburne and Julie de Goncourt. 204 pages. Green cloth covers. Gilt title and decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine. Spine torn at top down through title; base bumped, inscription on front free endpaper, slight foxing on title page and previous page, some marks on front and back covers.
LA NUOVA ITALIA 1968 XVI - 216 PP. TIMBRO DI BIBLIOTECA ESTINTA ALL'ANTIPORTA, CENNO DI PIEGA ALLA COPERTINA (COME FORSE SI VEDE IN FOTO) SEGNO E TALLONCINO DI CATALOGAZIONE ALL'INTERNO DEL VOLUME OTTIME ED ECCELLENTI CONDIZIONI GENERALI, CONSIDERATI GLI OLTRE 40 ANNI DEL VOLUME.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some light offsetting to front free endpaper; original burgundy cloth, upper board ruled in gilt, bevelled boards, gilt back, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front paste-down. SCARCE INJ THIS CONDITION.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 170 pages with a great many b&w photos, charts, tables.
LA NUOVA ITALIA 1964 2 VOLUMI IN COFANETTO VOL. 1) DAL COMUNISMO MEDIEVALE ALLA NASCITA DEL CARTISMO; VOLUME 2) DAL CARTISMO AL SOCIALISMO MODERNO, RISPETTIVAMENTE XV - 332 E 419 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: MACCHIE DI LUCE E POLVERE AL COFANETTO, LIEVE ARRICCIAMENTO DELL'ACETATO DEL SECONDO VOLUME (COME DA FOTO), VOLUMI INTONSI, MAI SFOGLIATI.
pp. viii, 576 + Portrait Frontis of Charles Butler. XLib from the Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. Penciled ownership of William K. Hall, Newburgh, (NY) Feb. 1900 on title page. Top edge gilt. Large 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Extremities rubbed. Remnants of library call letters on spine. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 7
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, with some chipping at lower edge, no tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Contents include: Concord, Transcendentalism, Emerson, Brook Farm, Walden Pond, Staten Island, New York Literary Scene, Carlyle, Blake, Hindu Idealism, Chesuncook, Walt Whitman, Plea for Captain Brown, etc. 455 pages.
in-8°, 324 pages, notes, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [CA28-3] Les singuliers ménages de Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, George Eliot.
163p. Illustrated with lithographs by Charles Hug; designed by Walter Diethelm; printed and bound by Fretz Freres; hand-set in Diethelm Antiqua type (first use); Zerkall rag paper; half brown linen, gold-stamped natural wood sides. 4to. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Original slip case. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller, the original subscriber, on front fly leaf.Includes the Monthly Letter. Number 420 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Charles Hug. Fine copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W42
Fair (no dj, dark blue ribbed cloth very dull on spine, boards a bit grubby, dust marks to endpapers and some internal hinges, outside page edges brown and dusty, browning prelims and light age browning all page edges, some grubby marks) octavo 250pp.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
16 pages. Features: Supportive comments inside from cover; Who Provoked the War? - incidents showing the historical progress of events toward the inevitable clash; Has France a Title to Alsace-Lorraine? - extracts of a letter by Thomas Carlyle to the London Times during the Franco-German War; The American Press and the War, by Dr. A.B. Faust; Ernst Haeckel and Rudolph Eucken Rally to the Flag; Supportive letter from William C. Fox, Ex-American Minister to Ecuador; We and the World - poem by Hanns Heinz Ewers; Brief piece about the 'Loquacious" German Ambassador Count Bernstorff; A call for Americans of German and Austro-Hungarian blood to organize; Full-page image depicting Germany as the defender of civilization against the Barbarian Host; News the New York Times would like to suppress; Poem entitled "For All We Have and Are" by Frederick H. Martens; We Poles in Austria, by an Austrian Pole; The German-American and the President's Neutrality Proclamation, by Prof. Julius Goebel; The War Situation - latest news of WWI; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Cover holding by one staple otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Second volume of Maisie Ward's biography of Robert Browning. Index.
