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18931010198vo. London: Swan Sonnenschein 1893. 8vo 8 160pp. With a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates. Original brown buckram lettered in gilt gilt top. Edges slightly rubbed boards somewhat faded newspaper clippings from “The Manchester Daily Gaurdian Monday July 10 1911†pasted in; very good copy. § First edition large-paper issue limited to 280 copies. Story wrote the life of Linnell and had access to much original Blake material through Linnell’s sons; four of the five illustrations here are reproduced from original drawings. Bentley 2772. Swan Sonnenschein hardcover books
189351088vo. London: Swan Sonnenschein 1893. 8vo 8 160pp. With a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates. Original brown buckram lettered in gilt gilt top. Edges slightly rubbed and fraying; very good copy. § First edition large-paper issue limited to 280 copies. Story wrote the life of Linnell and had access to much original Blake material through Linnell’s sons; four of the five illustrations here are reproduced from original drawings. Bentley 2772. Swan Sonnenschein hardcover books
18931089628vo. London: Swan Sonnehschein 1893. 8vo 8 160 pp.With a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates. Very good in original brown buckram with top edge gilt. § First edition large-paper issue limited to 280 copies. Story wrote the life of Linnell and had access to much original Blake material through Linnell’s sons; four of the five illustrations here are reproduced from original drawings. Bentley Blake Books 2772. Swan Sonnehschein hardcover books
189288902 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1892. 2 vols. 8vo Vol. I: xxi 308pp; Vol. II: 284pp. 2 frontispieces with tissue guards and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to spine. Moderate foxing to title pages and throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. § First edition. John Linnell was an English Romantic painter 1792-1882. Linnell was one of the best friends and patrons of William Blake. Bentley Blake Books 2769. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover books
189861972New York and London: G. P. Putnams Sons. Very Good. 1898. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes ex-library copies good for reading or reference. . G. P. Putnams Sons hardcover books
1931298652Canada: Thomas Nelson 1931. hardcover. very good. 180 pages. Thin 8vo blue cloth a bit worn at head. Canada: Thomas Nelson 1931. A very good copy<br/><br/> Thomas Nelson unknown books
197152079Barre Massachusetts: Barre Publishers 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Introduction by Philip C.F. Smith. Illustrated with photographs by John M. Clayton. Review copy with the publisher's slip and press release laid in. A unique and definitive record of the craft of wooden shipbuilding from the clear white pine model of the envisioned ship to the crack of the champagne bottle against the prow. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Barre Publishers hardcover books
199540203Gloucester MA: Ten Pound Island Book Co. 1995. 368 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />Dana Story brings his lifetime of knowledge and acclaimed narrative style to the remarkable saga of Essex shipbuilding through three centuries. An oversize publication at 9x10 inches with computer enhanced photos to bring out details. Very good condition in dustjacket. Ten Pound Island Book Co. books
1995TB26111Gloucester Mass.: Ten Pound Island Book Company 1995. First Edition. First printing Fine in blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10" by 9" with a prior owner's name and date on the title page. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 369 pages including an index appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of earlier works of art black and white photographs and line drawings. The history of 300 years of ship building in Essex Massachusetts. Ten Pound Island Book Company hardcover books
9048n.p. n.d. Essex Shipbuilding Museum. 4to. Unpaginated. <br /><br />Approximately 1100 vessels organized by name year built and builder. Comb binding printed wrappers. Very good condition. n.p., n.d. (Essex Shipbuilding Museum) books
1964BL4502Barre MA:: Barre 1964. 1964. 8vo. ix 128 pp. Illus. index. Cloth dust-jacket; light wear to extremities of jacket otherwise very good. Barre, 1964. hardcover books
1968011577Austin: Texas State Building Commisison Archeological Program 1968. Spiral Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 73p. Texas State Building Commisison, Archeological Program unknown books
19861291335St. Louis: National Feather Craft Co 1986. First expanded edition volume 1. Softcover. Quarto. VG/no DJ - softcover. covers are mostly clean except with some pen markings at the top lateral edge and has minimal edgewear; ephemera is perfect bound with staples; textblock is clean. Pp. 67. 1291335. Full-priced Rockville. National Feather Craft Co unknown books
1972164517London: Sphere Books Limited 1972. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Test-tube bred bureaucrats run the country with high efficiency." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 162. "Art Henry was quite inconsiderate: he should never have survived his heart attack according to the tidy computations of his Orwellian society. And to walk the streets playing his trombone as he searched for his lost poodle simply didn't fit the orthodoxy of an England dosed dazed and dumbfounded by a welfare state the sprayed its proles like crops and bred its executives in test-tubes." - publisher's blurb. "Rabelaisian good humour" - Oxford Mail. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 336. A fine copy. #164517 Sphere Books Limited unknown books
19602150799New York: The Macmillan Company 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Minor tear to top edge of a couple pages pages lightly toned front jacket flap corners trimmed list price still present two inch tear to jacket front. New York: The Macmillan Company hardcover books
187256015Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good. 1872. Hardcover. Previous owner stamped and signed maroon boards with gilt stamping have a sunned spine with rubbed ends front hinge starting else very good. . James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
2012591882012. ISBN-13: 9781616192723; ISBN-10: 1616192720. Story Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause Explaining the True Nature Reasons and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents Illustrative of the Constitution. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 2012 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616192723. ISBN-10: 1616192720. Paperback. New. $19.95 Reprint of the 1865 edition. A manual on the Constitution for the Everyman by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of Story's well-known Commentaries on the Constitution this work is written in language geared to the student or layman nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications. unknown books
2012240252012. ISBN-13: 9781886363717; ISBN-10: 1886363714. Story Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause Explaining the True Nature Reasons and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents Illustrative of the Constitution. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 1999 2012 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363717; ISBN-10: 1886363714. Hardcover. New. $28.95 Reprint of the 1865 edition. A manual on the Constitution for the Everyman by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of Story's well-known Commentaries on the Constitution this work is written in language geared to the student or layman nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications. unknown books
1834715771834. Boston 1834. First edition. Boston 1834. First edition. Handsomely Bound First Edition of One of Story's Most Important Treatises Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Superbly bound in period-style full calf blind rules to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine original endpapers retained. Moderate toning to text somewhat darker or browned in places light foxing faint gradually diminishing dampstaining to margins of several leaves at beginning and end of text. A handsome copy. $1500. First edition. Story's Conflict of Laws the first systematic treatise on the subject is one of his greatest and most influential works. Warren says: "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts." Expanding on this latter point Marvin quotes "a late English writer" who says that "no work on international jurisprudence merited nor received greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for Story's extensive learning." Marvin Legal Bibliography 471. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2723. unknown books
1834707421834. Boston 1834. First edition. Contemporary binding. Boston 1834. First edition. Contemporary binding. First Edition of "An Epoch in the Law" Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front pastedown below early annotation in pencil. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing. A choice copy of a landmark work. $2000. First edition. Story's Conflict of Laws the first systematic treatise on the subject is one of his greatest and most influential works. Warren says: "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts." Expanding on this latter point Marvin quotes "a late English writer" who says that "No work on international jurisprudence merited nor received greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for Story's extensive learning." Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 471. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2723. unknown books
2010668652010. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. "An Epoch in the Law" Story Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Originally published: Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Reprinted 2007 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. Hardcover. Cover lightly bumped and soiled with bar code label on rear cover. Page edges lightly soiled. Else very good. $39.95 Reprint of the first edition. In his History of the American Bar Warren says "it is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it also received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts" 545. The first systematic work on the subject it synthesized the standard sources of the day and arranged them in a manner useful to practitioners. It was held in high respect in North America Great Britain and Europe. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. unknown books
2007606422007. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. Story Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Reprinted 2007 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. Hardcover. Cover lightly soiled and bumped. Else fine. $40. Reprint of the first edition. In his History of the American Bar Warren says "it is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it also received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts" 545. The first systematic work on the subject it synthesized the standard sources of the day and arranged them in a manner useful to practitioners. It was held in high respect in North America Great Britain and Europe. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. unknown books
2010573302010. ISBN-13: 9781616190989; ISBN-10: 1616190981. "An Epoch in the Law" Story Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Originally published: Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190989; ISBN-10: 1616190981. Paperback. New. $29.95 Reprint of the first edition. In his History of the American Bar Warren says "it is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it also received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts" 545. The first systematic work on the subject it synthesized the standard sources of the day and arranged them in a manner useful to practitioners. It was held in high respect in North America Great Britain and Europe. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. unknown books
2010485082010. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. "An Epoch in the Law" Story Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Originally published: Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Reprinted 2007 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777731; ISBN-10: 1584777737. Hardcover. New. $49.95 Reprint of the first edition. In his History of the American Bar Warren says "it is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it also received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts" 545. The first systematic work on the subject it synthesized the standard sources of the day and arranged them in a manner useful to practitioners. It was held in high respect in North America Great Britain and Europe. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. unknown books
2001307842001. ISBN-13: 9781584771456; ISBN-10: 1584771453. Story Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Second Edition. Revised Corrected and Greatly Enlarged. Originally published: London: A. Maxwell 1841. xxxiv 927 pp. misnumbered in original pp. 753-756 omitted. Reprinted 2001 2018 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771456; ISBN-10: 1584771453. Hardcover. New. $49.95 Reprint of the second edition and last edition written by Joseph Story. Along with James Kent Joseph Story 1779-1845 shares the distinction of having had the greatest influence on American law during the nineteenth century. Marvin considers Story's Conflict of Laws to be the first systematic work on the subject. Story collected material from all available sources and systematized it in a manner useful to all practitioners. "No work on international jurisprudence merited nor received greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of Mr. Justice Story.": Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 670-671. "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts.": Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University 1953 358. This facsimile reprint of the second edition published in London is the final authorial edition produced "under the direction and sanction of the learned author.": Sweet and Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations XV:337. unknown books