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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
1893002399The Harvard Publishing Company 1893 The Harvard Publishing Company New York 1893. First edition. This edition is specially printed and limited to 320 issues This is no. 71 signed by the printer 'John Wilson & Son' on the limitation page. Hardcover. Illustrations By Cruikshank And LaLauze Illustrators. Eight volume set complete. Quarter brown leather gilt over marble paper covered boards deckled edges as issued. Condition: Very good; some wear with minor losses at spine crowns and board corner tips hinges tight gilt brilliant brown leather spines sunned boards clean hinges tight text pages light age-toned vol. 1 - Some pages at heel area - damp stained slight puckering - minor tears at base otherwise fine. Hardcover. Very Good. The Harvard Publishing Company hardcover
18869854326John C. Nimmo 1886. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. 8vo cloth binding. Gilt lettering on cover and backstrip. Some shelf-wear and scuffing. Hinge split. Light foxing. B/w illustrations. Frontispiece in good condition tissue guard with light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: John C. Nimmo hardcover
1880210622New York: American Book Exchange 1880. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name on FEP. American Book Exchange hardcover
185249780London: Henry G. Bohn 1852-1854. New Edition Revised. Three octavo volumes 19cm; publisher's original hunter green blind-embossed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spines; viii544 31 ads; vi538 31 ads; vi494 31pp ads; each volume with portrait frontispiece. Light wear to extremities hinges cracked but holding with gentle bumping to corners and scattered foxing to text edges; Very Good. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
1845051920London: Whittaker & Co 1845. xvi 348pp supplementary notes. Brown cloth decorated in blind. Cloth chipped at top of spine some fading at top of boards prev owner label inside front cover. Printed in double-column. History of Sweden to the departure of Queen Christina in 1654. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Whittaker & Co Hardcover
188530824Glasgow: David Bryce & Son 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XXX 333 1 3pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of the third volume of a series of statistical inquiries in various departments of the national economy of Germany conducted by Dr. Conrad Professor of Political Science at Halle. Minor age wear on binding with spine slightly age toned. Previous owner's signature in ink on half-title page and dated 1885. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good condition. David Bryce & Son hardcover
1893062673New York NY: The Cassell Publishing Co. 1893. Book. Good. Hardcover. 413 pages 8vo. No DJ. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine and front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers front inside spine hinge is cracked and delicate spine is cocked some foxing and tanning along page edges some pencil notation on rear inside cover and rear endpaper. Volume is in Good condition. The Cassell Publishing Co. Hardcover
1872BIBRR1115504901872. Hardcover. New. THIS RARE/ANTIQUE BOOK PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1872 BY Puja publisher regd. HAVING 501 PGS AND SIZE 6.09.25 WRITTEN IN English. THE BOOK IS IN READABLE CONDITION Originally in Hardcover with some issues like loose binding. THE IMAGE OF THIS BOOK IS GIVEN FOR YOUR REFERENCE. WE CAN REBIND THE SAME IN LEATHER BINDING FOR EXTRA $ 25. hardcover
1890131646Boni and Liveright Inc S.a. copyright 1890 but pub. thus between 1917 and 1925. Leatherette . Good. Possible first ed. thus; the list of books in the Modern Library of the World's Best Books comprises 53 titles which may help date this volume; ix p. plus 281 p. clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only mildly age-toned; pictorial end pages; binding tight; flexible black leatherette cover has still bright gilt lettering and "BL" Modern Library colophon but there is faint splattering of tiny whitish dots on front panel and moderate rubbing at corners and at crown and foot of spine. Boni and Liveright, Inc hardcover
185322792Oxford: John Henry Parker. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. 15mm missing to cloth at head of spine 20mm missing to cloth at tail of spine. Spine and boards rubbed and faded. Front hinge broken. Some pencil marginalia. Some foxing. Corner clipped from front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription dated 1906 on front endpaper. A good rough working or reading copy. ; xl 363 1 blank pages 8 pages advertisements. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. Preface by E. B. Pusey on pages iii-xxxv. Text and footnotes in English. The complete Confessions of Saint Augustine in an English translation 13 books complete in one volume. Augustine's "Confessions" were originally written in Latin circa 397-400 CE. . John Henry Parker hardcover
1833303008London: Saunders and Benning. Good. 1833. Ex-library. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with label on spine and ink stamp on title page. Newer cloth library binding not buckram. Covers have stains to the lower outer corners and discoloration. Upper spine label is scraped. ; With three page handwritten presentation note from Mac Kenna attached. The recipient is not named. . Saunders and Benning hardcover
