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1955257741Kew Richmond Surrey 1955. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Very good. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Cockerell to Paul Standard. Charming letters from the aging museum director collector and calligrapher to his American counterpart Paul Standard founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy.<br/><br/>In the first Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving the news that he "will have the great pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Standard here in June - by the same post came one from RUTH DRAPER saying exactly the same thing . I shall be delighted to show you my Bembo ms and other fine specimens of Italian calligraphy."<br/><br/>In the second Cockerell touchingly apologizes for his tardiness in answering: "I am going through rather a tiresome phase of my malady Old Age which makes me lethargic and rather disinclined to answer letters . Stella dear I think of you lovingly and wish speedy completion to your new book with much applause to follow. Dear Paul I feel that we understand each other and have a mutual affecton which wll not wear thin ."<br/><br/>In the last letter Cockerell is glad to know that "'Italian Food' by Elizabeth David has been an acceptable addition to Stella's culinary library . Also I was glad to have news of STANLEY MORISON for whom I have great admiration . BR is another old and dear friend to whom I am glad to have had my recalled - He is maturing but I believe he's not eager to grow old - what a lot he has done for printing both in America and here .". unknown books
194327237New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Spiral bound illustrated boards. A "moveable" children's illustrated book with numerous moving parts that reveal images and words. Unpaginated. Gadgets and illustrations by Carlyle Leech. A lightly worn copy in somewhat worn but unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
195328034Berkeley: California Book Company. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Yellow wraps with black cloth backstrip a fine copy of this difficult to find title. Eluard Gracq. Desnos Breton Artaud Creve; Leiris Peret Picabia Cesaore etc.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pp . California Book Company paperback books
187516366New York: Harper and Brothers 1875. n.ed. Brown cloth. A very good- set with fraying to spine ends and small tear to gutter otherwise tight and clean. Frontis xv 560 pp.; x 616 pp. Sm. 8vo. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1932283092Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co 1932. First Whitman Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding/Good dust jacket. A clean copy; First Whitman Edition which collected seven of the Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. stories into one hardcover volume. Includes full page color illustrations throughout. Dustjacket has a long closed tear to the front cover and small chips and tears to the edges. Soiling to the front and rear covers and small spots of surface loss to the spine. Now protected in a mylar cover. Good binding / Good dust jacket. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
192926015637Boston: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company 1929. 36 unnumbered pages. Litho on board. Charming end paper design depicting the various named characters at work. Profusely illustrated throughout by Arthur Henderson. Chapters include SpringTime in Twinkie Town The Twinkies Build an Airship The Twinkies Sail to Sacapacapoo and The Twinkies Meet Mother Nature. Measures 8 1/2" x 6 1/4". Edge chips on spine; cove wear <br/><br/> Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company unknown books
1989284870Sydney Wellington London Boston: Allen & Unwin 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A First Edition copy of Carlyle Thayer's War by Other Means. With no marks of any kind. Minor shelfwear. Near Fine dustjacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Allen & Unwin unknown books
197510190The New York Botanical Garden 1975. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A clean very sharp copy of the 1975 1st edition of Volume II. Near Fine with light foxing at the fore-edge in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto 361 pgs. crisp color photographs thruout. <br/><br/> The New York Botanical Garden hardcover books
18812179955Harper & Brothers Franklin Square 1881. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stain along top edge of pages ink name on front endpaper pencil marks on front endpaper. 1881 Hard Cover. viii 337 10 pp. "Harriet Martineau Thomas Carlyle was one of the most influential commentators of the nineteenth century: writer critic historian biographer and brilliant correspondent he dominated his age. Described as 'the greatest writer of his time' his Reminiscences lovingly trace three triumphs sorrows and achievements of his often turbulent marriage with Jane Welsh. Devastated by his wife's death Carlyle set down his recollections of their life together with moving directness. Hurriedly published in 1881 the year of Carlyle's death the Reminiscences provoked outrage for their outspokenness. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square hardcover books
19662308926New York: Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company Inc 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Spine creased edges rubbed ink number on front wrapper. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 389 pp. Two titles in one volume: On Heroes and Hero-Worship by Thomas Carlyle and Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "In 1833 when Emerson and Carlyle first met--at Carlyle's home on a remote Scottish moor--the meeting gave both men a sense of sympathetic recognition. Early in their conversation it was revealed that they shared a belief in the importance of Great Men. Eight years later in 1841 On Heroes appeared and its influence on Emerson is undoubted. Within four years he had prepared a set of lectures on what he called Representative Men which complements the Carlyle book. Where the Scot was vehement and dyspeptic haranguing against democracy and asserting that the history of the world is "at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here" Emerson was gently optimistic with a regard for great men and indeed all men as "lenses through which we read our own minds. Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc paperback books
1881008415Londini: Longmans Green & Co. 1881. SCARCE in lovely fine binding stamp signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London for Marshall Field and Co. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish essayist satirist and historian. Published a month after Carlyle's death by his literary executor James Anthony Froude to much controversy over the editing. They were republished in 1887 with Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton as the editor. Two volumes in contemporary half calf over marbled boards the calf undyed at the spines and dyed green at the covers to harmonize with the green marbled boards backs gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt wear showing at joints yet still holding nicely small rubs at corners interiors clean and bright. A handsome set. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good -/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover books
1920PW1123New York:: The Alberta Publishing Company 1920. 1920. Small 8vo. 236 pp. Frontis. plates figs. Blue blind- and gilt-stamped cloth jacket present as a remnant. Very good. The Alberta Publishing Company, 1920. hardcover books
1827008736Edinburgh: William Tait 1827. SCARCE. Four volumes rebound in later 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards a Very Good set calf worn at corners boards a bit rubbed lacking half titles and added engraved title pages p.145 in Vol. IV misnumbered 149. From the personal library of noted medievalist Charle W. Jones his signature FEP each volume. Thomas Carlyle's 3rd book appearance to which he contributed a preface to the whole work and biographical and critical introductions for the authors here included. The last volume comprises the first English edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Tait Hardcover books
1977WRCLIT40744Durham: Duke 1977. Cloth. Frontis portrait. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light soiling. Duke hardcover books
1930WRCLIT68234Oak Park IL 1930. Original drawing in ink 43 x 32.5 cm plus large margins. A few faint smudges to margins verso a bit smudged and soiled. with mounting residue on top edge verso. Matted. Very good. A fine portrait of a contemplative Carlyle seated. deep in thought smoking his pipe by a fireplace by the Chicago commercial artist and book plate designer 1880 - 1972. The portrait is enclosed within a complex border of flowers thistle and vines with Carlyle's name entwined in the lower margin. This portrait is very much in the style of - but surpasses in composition - the portrait he did of William Morris which appeared as part of a series in THE INLAND PRINTER to which he was frequent contributor. Signed in the image and with Junge's name and address in pencil on the verso. unknown books
1982WRCLIT54030Santa Cruz CA: The University Library University of California 1982. 10731pp. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Frontis. Black & white illustrations. Small corner bump light shelf wear a very good copy. First edition. Includes essays by Rodger Tarr Carlisle Moore and Charles R. Vanden Bossche. The University Library, University of California unknown books
1884WRCLIT80018London: Longmans Green and Co. 1884. Four volumes. Original cloth. Portraits. First editions. Matching bookplates and ownership signatures in the first two volumes modest shelfwear at extremities a few small spots to cloth of second work a bit of light foxing early and late; withal a very good tight set. Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover books
1968WRCLIT75296New York: Octagon Books Inc. 1968. xii587pp. Gilt cloth. Photo-offset reprint of the 1928 edition. Slightly dusty at edges else about fine. Octagon Books, Inc. hardcover books
1975WRCLIT39682Santa Cruz: University of California 1975. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author. Edges tanned small spot to cover else very good. University of California unknown books
19103787London: Chapman and Hall 1910. First Thus. Large paper copy limited to 150 sets signed by the artist this being 83. Two quarto volumes 11 x 7 1/8 in; 282 x 181 mm. Original quarter vellum over natural linen boards. Front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt others uncut. Collating xii 2 418; xi 1 blank 484 with thirty-three black and white plates and 124 black and white text illustrations. A very Fine set in the original pale blue dust jackets printed in red.<br/><br/>"Of the three great political upheavals which have altered the face of the world - the American French and Russian Revolutions - only the French Revolution has stimulated literary masterpieces which in turn have made their impact direct and indirect upon millions of readers. They are Carlyle's book and . Michelet's. Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular 'tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism utilitarianism and democracy. The book at once captured the English-speaking world and has outside France moulded the popular conception of the French Revolution down to the present day" PMM.<br/><br/>Edmund Joseph Sullivan 1869-1933 was a British book illustrator who worked in a style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau. He was only 20 years old when he began contributing to various magazines including the Daily Chronicle The Daily Graphic The Pall Mall Gazette and Punch magazine. He soon graduated to the more prestigious role of book illustrator. Sullivan's style is comparable to that of Aubrey Beardsley but is more romantic without Beardley's acerbic attitude. <br/><br/>PMM 304 for the true first edition. Chapman and Hall unknown books
19081115London Eveleigh Nash 1908. 1908. First edition. Thick 8vo. Illustrated with portraits. Bibliographical references. Original gray cloth stamped in gilt and black t.e.g. uncut. Very good. 519 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1908. hardcover books
197515809Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz 1975. 1st edition. Green wrappers stapled. Fine. 24 pp. Frontis one plate. 8vo. <br/><br/> UC Santa Cruz unknown books
1860Embry 79438Brown and Taggard 1860. Occasional light wear still near fine to fine and bright One half blue morocco over marbled boards spines decoratively gilt. Brown and Taggard, 1860. hardcover books
188027149Chicago: Donohue Heneberry & Co. n.d. ca. 1880. 12mo. 345 pp. <br><br>Late U.S. edition in a handsome publisher's cloth binding. Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine stamped in silver. Covers lightly soiled; spine with small surface abrasion at head. Front free endpaper with long tear at inner edge. Ink numeral on front pastedown. Pages age-toned throughout. Ex-social club library with pressure-stamp on the title-page. Donohue, Heneberry & Co. hardcover books
2002Embry 189157U. of California Press 2002. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of California Press, 2002. First edition, first printing. unknown books
