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184423359J. James Burns LONDON 1844. . Includes The Field of Terror Supernatural Wild Love and The Oak of the Idols. A RARE edition.Illustrated in B/W by Franklin title page and other illustrations HardBack NODUSTJACKET 1844 1ST EDition THUS Green Embossed Gold Gilt Cloth with with Cross Design in Center in Gilt Light Rub Wear Scuff Cover & Tiny Chips Extremities VG/VG NOJACKET Some Light Black Marks Top Cover Front Gold Gilt to Pages Edges 51 215 22 20 pages with publishers 4-page catalogue to rearPebble grain green cloth bevelled boards decoratively blocked in gilt to upper cover lettered in gilt to spine and blocked in blind to lower cover. All edges gilt. Light marking with wear to head and tail of spine edges and boards. Gilt bright. Generally a very good copy. First Thus. Hard Cover. J. ( James ) Burns LONDON hardcover
188440905Paris: Librairie Artistique 1884. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 x 12 inches. xii 212 pages. Fine binding is stamped " Julius Franke Wien" full crushed maroon morocco with gilt lettering and decorations gilt inner dentelles beautiful silk endpapers all edges brightly gilt. Condition is Very Good; very light spots on front cover light wear to spine edges about half the pages have light to moderate foxing binding is tight. FB RGR Librairie Artistique hardcover
18562091502135419476Izumiya Kinemon and others 1856. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 9 Izumiya Kinemon and others paperback
18782090502128300341Kanda Sangokaku 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kanda Sangokaku paperback
1889208890London & New York: MacMillan. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1889. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers are foxed. Covers have slight wear to the outer corners and spine ends a couple streaks of lighter color on the front and a couple slight bubbles to the cloth on the rear. ; Limited to 250 large paper copies. . MacMillan hardcover
1867006503London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1867 ccvii 349pp 3 16pp bound in cloth with text in medieval Irish with a facing English translation. Ex-library with usual markings. Contents include: Chronology and Genealogy of the Kings of Munster and Ireland During the Period of the Scandinavian Invasions. Maelseachlainn's Description of the Battle of Clontarf From the Brussels MS. Genealogy of the Scandinavian Chieftains Named as Leaders of the Invasions of Ireland and much more. Rebound some interior edge chips to pages not affecting the text lacking the color plates. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer hardcover
1848020928London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1848. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved Frontispiece Headpieces Initials Tailpieces. 251 Pp. First Edition. Polished Calf Spine 5 Bands 6 Compartments And Morocco Spine Label Curious Combination Of Cross Over Crescents At Top Of Spineand Calf Tips Over Watered Boards With Matching Watered Endpapers. Binding Lightly Worn Very Solid But Frayed Lightly At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips. Contents Fine Except For Light Offsetting Of Frontispiece On To Title Page No Names Or Marks.A Supposed Autobiography Of Bayard Taken Down By His Secretary. <br/> <br/> Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans hardcover
18181818SSoLincoln's-Inn-Fields London: printed for the Author 1818. First edition of this translation. Leatherbound Hardcover. Very Good/no dj as issued. Full title: "The Travels of Marco Polo A Venetian in the Thirteenth Century Being a Description by That early traveller of remarkable places and things in the Eastern parts of the world." Translated from the Italian with notes by William Marsden F.RS. &c"<br /> <br /> <br /> Lincoln's-Inn-Fields London printed for the Author by Cox and Baylis 1818. 10.75" x 8.75 x 2.25" 27.6x22x5.5cm. LXXX781 1 1 errata 1 ad pages. With the fold-out map. Later very solid three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards marbled edges. Spine with 5 decorated bands and gilded title. Terracotta colored endpapers with a small bookstore label ISSEIDO Tokyo and ex-libris 'E. Bibl. Radcl.' Bodleian Library Radcliffe Science Library after 1773. Previous owners name on free endpaper with date Nov. 1943. Folding map in excellent undamaged condition opposite title page. Some offsetting of the map on title page. Pages clean and undamaged no spots or foxing.<br /> <br /> <br /> From the library of a gentleman who was a rare book dealer in Bangkok in the 1970's and 80's after his military service in Vietnam. <br /> <br /> <br /> Indisputably the best translation of this classic work of travel and exploration of Marco Polo 1254-1324 a Venetian merchant traveler whose recorded travels did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. The influence of Marco Polo's journey to and residence in China in the thirteenth century was profound. Marco Polo's narrative was to reveal to the West the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty giving the first comprehensive look into China Persia India Japan and other Asian cities and countries. . printed for the Author hardcover
183346993Burlington: Edward Smith 1833. First American edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo 293 1 320pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red and green leather labels of spine. Speckled edges. <br /> <br /> With translator's and author's preface and the author's "Plan of the Work" at front: "The beautiful and justly celebrated work of Bp. Lowth de sacra poesi Hebraeorum is universally known and might seem to preclude the necessity of the present undertaking. A nearer comparison of its contents however will show that the present work is neither a translation nor an imitation of it. Whether the sphere it is at least sufficiently distinct and cannot be without its interest and use to the lovers of the most ancient simple and sublime poetry in general nor indeed to all who cherish a liberal curiosity respecting the progress of knowledge divine and human as connected with the earlier history of our race." Author.<br /> <br /> "The general purpose of the work required that this part should embrace the general and characteristick traits of Hebrew poetry which mark its essential outlines its cosmology the most ancient conceptions of God of Providence of Angels of the Elohim and of the Cherubim and individual objects and poetical representations of nature." Author. Rosenbach 358 Singerman 0548.<br /> <br /> Binding with light wear along edges small tears and chips leather spine with some scuffing from removed stickers and small chips at red and green labels. Binding rubbed. Usual library marking bookplates on inside front covers pockets and index cards at rear. Previous owner's name inked to inside front covers. Some underlining at beginning of volume one. Light to medium foxing of blocks throughout. Edward Smith hardcover
180120410<p>This volume is TEXT ONLY</p> J. Bone hardcover
1844030462London: The Sydenham Society 1844 1846 1847 1844. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Three Volumes. Xxviii 683; Xi 511; Viii 653. Original Blindstamped Green Cloth Gilt Top Edges Gilt.Firdt Editions Complete. Cloth Worn And Frayed At Corners Spines Of Vols. I And Iii Reinforced With Black Tape Hinges Broken And Repaired. Previous Owner's Bookplates And One Bookplate Of The Library Of The Cleveland Medical Society. No International Shipment. Scarce. <br/> <br/> The Sydenham Society 1844, 1846, 1847 hardcover
189855799London: H. S. Nichols Ltd 1898. Second edition carefully revised and considerably expanded. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 12 xlii 320pp. Original three-quarter red Morocco with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Textured red endpapers. Beautiful frontispiece engraving in three colors with tissue guard. Original title page printed in red and black beautifully decorated and framed in red and black. Second edition title page printed in red and black. Decorative head- and endpieces. <br /> <br /> A facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Contains English translation and 42 plates with reproductions of the original manuscript printed to glossy paper. Edited with notes bibliographical references and a comparative study of the original texts rendered lithographically and an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen. Printed by H. S. Nichols LTD in London. Binding with light wear along edges lightly rubbed with small scuff in upper foredge corner of back cover. Tissue guard for frontispiece with small hole. Block lightly age-toned. H. S. Nichols Ltd hardcover
189623233Boston: Joseph Knight Co. 1896. Hardcover. Very good quite clean and unworn and mostly unopened. 2 volumes yellow decorative cloth with title and cover design in gilt and dark green; octavos clxxix 203; 204 - 597 pp. frontispiece in each volume top edges gilt others untrimmed. <br/><br/>Variorium edition of the Rubaiyat. This edition with title page of Joseph Knight Co. but with L. C. Page and Company slug on spines. Ex-libris author Adventures in Americana. et al and book collector Frederick W. Skiff with his bookplate on front pastedown. Joseph Knight Co. hardcover
189858108Henry T. Coates & Co 1898. hardback. very good condition in cloth dust jackets with a bit of wear. Henry T. Coates & Co hardcover
1898440539London: Macmillan and Co 1898. Hardcover. Good. Second edition revised. xxi 111pp. Blue cloth gilt-stamped spine. Some offsetting and pencil marginalia on a couple of pages and owner's name penned on title front hinge starting gash in front board and bleached areas on rear board spine ends and corners worn and bumped good only without dustwrapper. Laid in is a typed and Signed letter dated June 2 1971 from journalist and author George Seldes to his niece the Tony Award winning actress Marian Seldes along with some newspaper clippings. He sends this book as a gift for his niece stating ". it is a second - but it is bound and printed like the first and may be a rare book - - at any rate it is the first and still the best statement on tragedy. Macmillan and Co hardcover
189438912New York: The Atheneum Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Five volumes vol. 1 missing have school library pockets to the front pastedown and faint white call numbers to spine and school stamp to second blank endpaper; no other markings. All five are tight and square in 3/4 leather combined with pink marbled boards; marbled endpapers and gilt top edge; still stiff to open with bright unmarked crisp pages; wear to the paper lower edges of volume 6 and of one edge to volume 2; An attractive set with bright gilt titles and 5 raised bands to spine. . The Atheneum Society hardcover
1856043831New York: Harper & Brothers 1856. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xi 344 Pp. Maroon Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind Buff Endpapers. First Printing Matching Title Page And Copyright Page Dates 1856. Some Wear Gilt Brilliant Cloth Fraying At Parts Of Ends Of Spine And At Tips Spine Cloth Somewhat Faded. Antique Private Library Bookplate Of F. C. Long Later Ownership Signature In Pencil Of Willard Wiener 1907-1976. The Willard Wiener Papers At The Writers Guild Foundation Archive Consists Of Correspondence Photographs Memorabilia News Clippings Scripts And Development Material Related To Wiener's Personal Life And Career As A Journalist And Screenwriter. From 1920-1934 Wiener Worked As A Newspaper Reporter In New York Including Stints With The Evening Post And The Philadelphia Bulletin. During This Time He Also Did Publicity Work For Universal Pictures. Between 1934 And 1939 He Worked For The New York Post And Began Writing For Radio. Wiener Worked For The New York Newspaper Pm From 1940 Until He Resigned To Become A Freelancer In 1944. In Addition To These Newspapers Wiener Had Work Published In Vanity Fair Current History Esquire Tricolor And The New Republic. While Working As A Reporter Wiener Also Published Novels: Rafferty 1931 Morning In America 1942 And Four Boys And A Gun 1944. The Latter Was Released As A Film In 1957. Wiener Wrote A Novelized Version Of The Movie A Song To Remember A Film Directed By Charles Vidor And Released In 1945. That Same Year He Published A Non-Fiction Book Commissioned By The U.S. Air Force Entitled Two Hundred Thousand Flyers Which Told The Story Of The Civilian Aaf Pilot Training Program And How General Hap Leonard Turned The Nation's Private Flying Schools Into Air Corps Training Facilities During World War Ii. During The 1940S Wiener Started Painting And Drawing And Exhibited Some Art In Local Galleries Over The Decades. In The Late 1940S And 1950S Wiener Worked Briefly In Hollywood As A Screen And Television Writer And In Publicity. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1817FRC4A12London: Printedd for Baldwin Cradock And Joy 1817. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Books are tight and clean but the Leather boards have been taped on with paper tape on both volumes. 312 and 294 pp. A digital image can be made available. Printedd for Baldwin, Cradock, And Joy Hardcover
188078324Freethought Publishing Co. London 1880. hardback. near very good condition in green cloth - no dust jacket - here is a smalliish bookplate from a personal library on the front end page Freethought Publishing Co., London hardcover
188622423London UK: W. H. Allen and Co. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. A very nice copy of this scarce title. The binding is in surprisingly good shape for its age with good color dark green and very little wear to the edges. The gold stamping on the spine with a decorative device is slightly faded but still quite handsome. A bookplate places this book as having been in the collection of one Sir Henry Maine. There is a closed tear in the first page blank but otherwise the pages look great with no foxing and only light age-toning. The huge fold-out map is in good shape with one closed tear. I didn't open it all the way out for fear of causing damage. . W. H. Allen and Co. hardcover
1852MAIN023798ILondon: Bentley. VG see notes. 1852. 1st thus . hardcover. 8vo . 418pp . Full leather with a bit of whitening to foreedges of covers some wear to spine esp. head. Marbled end papers. Solidly bound Preface by Pauli is 1850. Wright's preface is 1852. This is the 9th century Alfred btw. . Bentley hardcover
18462030419London: Chapman Brothers 1846. Publisher's original blindstamped green cloth. Owner's name in pen on endpaper; "by Miss Evans" in owner's very neat hand on title page under translation; very light cover soil; VERY light wear at spine ends; top corner of front cover somewhat discolored: Very Good- copy no dj as issued. 8vo. First edition. This is George Eliot's first appearance in print albeit unattributed. Chapman, Brothers hardcover
1893062808London Great Britain: David Nutt 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 209 pages 12mo. No DJ. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine gilt design on front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers light spine fade tanned inside covers and endpapers tanned page edges. Volume is in Very Good condition. David Nutt Hardcover
1892D9-7WG2-R1M51892. Hardcover. Very Good. Lenox Library 1892. Extremities rubbed with a hint of fraying at top spine edge. Pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish binding firm. hardcover
1806288695London: William Miller. Poor with no dust jacket. 1806. Hardcover. Spine back strips are largely missing parts of the spine labels remain. Covers are detached or barely attached. Covers have wear to the outer corners light edge wear and slight staining. Volume Two has staining to pages 196-207 heaviest on 204-205. Pages are otherwise clean. Endpapers are slightly foxed. Related newspaper clipping much later is stapled to a page in Volume 2.; In two volumes. All plates present although some are detached. . William Miller hardcover