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269p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. XLib. OCC 4
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 310pp. A trus and humorous account of the life of a bookseller based in Wigtown, Scotland. The diary consists of entries for every day and some of the unusual people he encountered.
32 pages. Features: Firestone ad inside front cover features photo of Harvey S. Firestone addressing 25th annual stockholders' meeting in Akron, OH; A Sailorman Poet - John Masefield; What has become of our Parties? - Coolidge puts last Democrat doctrine into Republican creed; Is the Pulpit a Bulletin Board? - is the preacher a prophet or propagandist?; An English View of American Installment Buying; A Scientist Urges Farmers to Utilize Waste Products - paper can easily be made from wheat straw; Mental Tests Make Us Seem Foolish - because quacks rush in where true psychologists fear to tread; Henry Ford's Page - the dangers of debt; Editorials - U.S. surplus of housing, Abraham Rothfeld is ordered to not reapply for U.S. citizenship for 10 years; Senator Borah speaks like a statesman, P.R. battle over French debt to the U.S., Dictators are increasing in number in Europe, Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Company has given the negro 'the only racial monopoly in the world', namely the Pullman porter, sea travel in steerage becomes fashionable; Life Among the Wild American Humorists, as described by Thomas L. Masson; Islam Aims at World Domination - Consolidation of Moslemism inspires Conference at Mecca; A Negro Views His Own Race - the thoughts of Charles Plummer; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 8) - Wreck of the Santiago; Chats with Office Callers - William Lyon Phelps writes article claiming New York stage plays attack Protestants but not Catholics because they are afraid to attack them; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 4) - tales of the time when people traveled for days to see teh circus, and slave-traders followed the show; China's Use of Proverbs; The Stories the Windmills Tell - Joy, grief, trouble or celebration all are indicated by the huge sails which serve as 'Town Criers' for the countryside; A Fighting Quaker of '76 - Joseph Hewes - who led the North Carolina Men in Declaring for Independence; A Dance a Week - Seventeenth Century Minuet, with piano sheet music; I Read in the Papers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
112p., illus. by Helen Siegl. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Tokyo, The Hokuseido Press, s.a., 16 x 12 cm., portada - 33 págs. con ilustraciones intercaladas - 3 láminas en colores, una de ellas plegada.
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title in red and black; original printed brown paper wrappers as issued, one short closed tear in upper wrapper, backstrip lightly chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Collects eleven short stories: Crawford's Consistency (1876), The Ghostly Rental (1876), Four Meeting (1877), Rose-Agathe (1878), Daisy Miller: A Study (1878), Longstaff's Marriage (1878), An International Episode (1878), The Pension Beaurepas (1879), The Diary of a Man of Fifty (1879), A Bundle of Letters (1879), The Point of View (1882.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 54 pages. Colorful illustrations. From the novel, "Journey to the West."
167 pages. Contains the following stories: The Kissing-Bunch; The Cobbler's Shop; Orion Hardy; Young Lambs For Sale; The Little Iron Bedstead; The Fir Trees and The Christmas Tree; The Churchyard; The Lead-Miner; Lady Echo; The Little Cob-Nut Tree; The Girl Whom the Wind Loved; The Field That Didn't Wish For Company. Bookplate and small sticker removal mark upon front free endpaper. Narrow opening along back hinge. Considerable crayon markings on various pages and back free endpaper. Moderate foxing. Above-average wear. Bit of sticker residue inside back board. Spine leaning partially. Although this copy has seen better days, it remains a worthy copy of this uncommon Uttley title. Book
141 pages. "Explores the relationship of festival foods to nutrition, culture and economic concerns... A wonderfully engaging glimpse of the harvest season and its most important festival... Unique in that it not only discusses various festival foods and their nutritional value, but also gives the popular stories surrounding the origins of the foods. The simple recipes are a special feature that will, no doubt, add to readers' (and eaters') enjoyment." - from back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
London and Glasgow, Collins Clear Type Press, s.a., 25'5 x 17'5 cm., tela original, láminas en color, 512 págs., con dibujos intercalados en el texto.
London, Blackei and Son Limited, sin fecha (hacia 1906), 25,5 x 20 cm., tela original decorada, cortes dorados, 227 págs. incluso frontis y portada en colores, numerosas ilustraciones en blanco y negro intercaladas, algunas a toda página y 37 láminas en colores. (Algunos puntos de óxido).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.
pp. vii, 602, (6) [Publisher's catalogue]. 180mm. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
8vo. First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; faux-vellum blocked in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First appearance in FS as a single volume. Wright's translation was first published by OUP in 1985, and subsequently by FS in three volumes (with parallel Middle English texts) in the following year. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Front free endpaper almost loose. Titles all underlined in red on title page. Joints of spine both cracked.. Wear to extremities and surfaces of covers.
Features: The Poor will always be with us, eh? - but what if they turn against us?; Is there any truth in old wive's tales?; Down from the High Country - Roundup in British Columbia; Four Good Habits - fashion feature; Ed Skakie races a Mini Cooper; Nobody would let Maurice Strong save the world... Until he made a million in Canadian business, then even the UN have to give him a shot - Strong is to organize the UN's 1972 world pollution conference; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Pages 229-274. Features: Literary Gents - G.B. Shaw; Kenneth Grahame; Travellers and their tales; George Bernard Shaw as Music Critic; Books we have never read; Contemporary Foreign Writers - Grazia Deledda; E.M. Delafield as a Novelist; Aphra Behn; Commentary on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; New light on Coleridge; Mary Woolstonecraft; The Transports of Thomas Traherne; The Benighted States; A Tractarian of Economics; Romantic Paris; Drama on Dartmoor; Early Translations from the Russian (part II); and more. Bit of writing and faint ink stamp upon front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
pp. xxiv, 215. Illustrated with thirty-six little woodcuts washed in yellow and brown by Freitz Kredel. Top edge blue. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number V:32. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine over patterned paper boards. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Original matching slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82
144 pages. Features: I believe in editors; Der Simpl; 3 Designers interpret a theme; Interview - Kodwo Eshun; Chrome Pharoah; Anno O. and other Tales from Gerggasse 19; Near-Death experiences; Post; Paving Paradise - urban sprawl in Miami; Soccer Moms; I wouldn't be so sure about that - a question of uncertainty; The Lost Boys - portraits of Russian soldiers in a decade of war in Chechnya; Interview - Todd Phillips; Captured Alone; The diplomats; Man at Play - German gambling addicts and the culture of social withdrawal; Fear Eats the Soul; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Economics, computers, and the war machine; 4 Graphic artists interpret a theme. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality example of this lavish and wonderful but short-lived publication. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. Tattered dust jacket.
Folio unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition! corners worn
pp. viii, 568. Engraved half title and frontis damp stained. Text age stained. Lacks first fly leaf. All edges gold. Early inked ownership of E. B. Forney, 6th & Mass Ave., Washington, DC. Some signatures loose. 32mo. Original full cloth binding decorated and embossed with a figure in gold on front cover. Spine repaired. Binding very worn. Hardbound. An unusual little imprint. ISLAM BOX 2
Second edition, 12mo, [4], 198pp., engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, 3 full-page wood-engraved, 1 illustration within the text, some offsetting from plates, a couple of gatherings standing proud, cont. calf, joints cracked, untitled spine with raised bands outlined in gilt, corners bumped, head and foot of spine chipped. "Philander, a rich gentleman, sick of dissipation and amusement, retires to the country to devote himself to benevolence, taking as his motto "Virtue alone is happiness below." Hen entertains each Monday six young gentlemen?Master Steady, Master Featherbrain, Master Speakwell, etc.?and each Thursday six young ladies?Miss Allgood, Miss Prattle, Miss Haughty, etc. After one of them has told a story or recited a poem, the remainder of the visit is devoted to the study of the sciences in which each pupil speaks his piece in nauseating sententiousness interlarded with piety."?NBL. Provenance: Early ownership signature of Ann & Elizabeth Harrison on front paste-down. Roscoe, J12; NBL 446; First published in 1769, both edition are rare, ESTC locating four copies of the first (L, O; CLU-S/C, CtY-BR) and five of this second edition (L, O, LEu; CaOHM, CLU-S/C).
44 pages. First issue in the new and enlarged form. Features: The United States Versus The American Indian; The Cliff-Dweller Housekeeper - Home life of a people who may have been extinct before Columbus arrived; Tales From the House in the Valley - A revival of romance, superstitions and tragedies of the Southwest's lonely wastes; Beat Against Me No Longer - A Chippewa Love Song; The Indian and the Horse - Interesting facts about the origin of the horse in North America, and the manner in which the wild herds bred from the horses of Coronado and De Soto were utilized by the American Indian; The Southwest Through the Lens of an Ethnographic Photographer - First of a series of studies by Frederick Monsen; The Indian Knoll - Evidence unearthed from the site of an ancient Indian village; Thomas L. Sloan - American Indian; Honorable Charles Curtis - American Indian Senator from Kansas; Stetson ad on back cover. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white illustrations and photos. Above-average wear to covers which are loose but present. Name on front cover, otherwise unmarked. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
