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19312222129<p>First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece. 24 illustrations include 9 illustrations of his paintings. White parchment boards stamped in red. Dust jacket a few chips and old repair on verso. Very good. 275 pages.</p><p>Printed by Tipografia Giuntina Florence.</p><p>From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown.</p> G. Orioli hardcover books
184855475Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co 1848. First edition 8vo pp. 7 8-221 3; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait signed in the plate "Hinckley" 3 wood-engraved plates and 6 vignette wood-engraved portraits in the text; errata slip tipped in between pp. 208-09; verso of the penultimate leaf with a full-page wood engraving of a soldier also signed "Hinckley"; the last last leaf consists of printed music "Mouris pour La Patrie" with the caption "Words by Alexandre Dumas. Music by F. Alphonse Varney. Translated by T. Dunn English."; contemporary plain paper wrappers - BAL calls for printed wrappers. Hinckley is likely Cornelius T. Hinckley active as a wood engraver in Philadelphia between 1845 and 1857 see Dictionary of American Artists Yale 1975. English an editor and prolific author of poetry and prose composed the poem "Ben Bolt" and wrote a play entitled The Mormons. But he is perhaps best remembered for the fistfight that ended his friendship with Poe. This resulted from the public scandle revolving around letters sent to Poe by Elizabeth Ellett and Frances Sargent Osgood. "This association with Poe remains the chief source of scholarly interest in English. Their war of words figures as a major event in biographies of Poe and English's account of the poet have provided valuable information about Poe's sensitivity to alcohol and the possibility of his drug use" American National Biography. BAL 5517. <br/><br/> G. B. Zieber & Co unknown books
18852222094<p>First edition Octavo. B/W illustrations by Charles Keene. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black red white with design of a waiter in white apron; maroon coated endpapers. No dust jacket. Very good few small stains. 144 pages. Small bookseller rubber stamp.</p><p>Inscribed on title page: "Thos. F. Rigler Esq. with the author's kindest regards. Aug 8/88."</p><p>Includes chapters on Greenwich Wanstead Park Hyde Park Crystal Palace.</p> Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. hardcover books
18272378London: G. Virtue nd c.1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Half Bound leather with marbled boards. Good. 838 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece title-page and ten plates illustrating trussing carving and bills of fare. Heavily foxed front hinges cracked but holding. Boards rubbed. Owner's signature on front free end paper. CAGLE 632. <br /> G. Virtue hardcover books
181923072Paris: Chez C. C. Le Tellier 1819. Period blue paper wrappers. VG some expected edgewear/remnants of po spine labels. 155 pp. Text double column: English - French. Untrimmed edges. 12mo bound in 6s. 7" x 4" <br/><br/>Quite uncommon- no copies on OCLC. Chez C. C. Le Tellier unknown books
19112221964<p>Second edition revised. Thick octavo. Original gilt stamped green cloth. No dust jacket. Enclosed in a green cloth drop box. Very good light foxing to edges none to text. 425 pages plus 1 page of ads.</p><p>Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Miss Florence Smith from Frank Harris London 1913."</p><p>Printed by Neill and Co. Ltd. Edinburgh.</p> Frank Palmer hardcover books
19392222164<p>First American edition from English sheets. Octavo. Two page preface. Dust jacket unclipped; some small chips; short tears. Very good. 96 pages.</p><p>With rubber stamped bookplate of Selma & Dan Brenner.</p> Random House hardcover books
18412221746<p>"C. J. Mathews" 1 page T.R.L.G. January 25 1841 to "Sir". 7 1/4" x 4 1/4" inlaid to size. Very good.</p><p>In part: "Before I send you the answer you demand and which you tell me is to be made the subject of a public discussion allow me to inquire whether I am at liberty to publish your letters."</p><p>Mathews  born Dec. 26 1803 Liverpool England — died June 24 1878 Manchester England English actor dramatist theatre manager writer of comic sketches and one of the best high comedians ever to appear on the English stage.</p> unknown books
19012221987<p>First edition thus. Octavo. White boards label on spine rubbed. Spine toned. Good. 53 pages.</p><p>No. 32 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum.</p><p>Printed by Smith & Sale Portland Maine.</p> Thomas B. Mosher hardcover books
19222221901<p>First edition. Thin square octavo. Illustrations and decorations by the author. Uncut and partly unopened. Original half linen over blue boards paper label. Dust jacket small chips; creases and tears; with 7s 6d price on spine. Very good. 53 pages.</p><p>One of 550 numbered copies this copy with holograph notation "Not for sale" and not numbered printed at The Golden Cockerel Press 9th book published by the press.</p><p>Chanticleer 9</p> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
188747668Montreal: Dawson Brothers Publishers 1887. 1st Canadian Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to Alfred Miles SIGNED by the author. Original publisher's blue cloth binding blocked in black with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Blue patterned paper eps. TEG. Spine slightly darkened though gilt bright. Modest wear. Age-toning to eps. A VG copy. 134 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Dawson Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
1854001541London: Rock & Co. 1854. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong 32mo. Two volumes. Yellow printed and embossed wrappers with slight shelfwear and soiling. No title pages as issued. Each volume contains 6 engraved views. The first contains views titled Clifton from Ashton Falls Clifton from the Ferry The Avon from St. Vincent's Rocks St. Vincent's Rocks Hot Wells & Baths and Victoria Square. The second volume contains New Church - Victoria Park Terraces - Clifton from Cumberland Basin Victoria Square duplicate The Pump Room - Royal Clifton Spa - Hotwells Clifton The Rivers Avon & Levern from Penpole Point and Nightingale Valley near Clifton. There is a bit of foxing affecting each plate of the first volume as well as small tears at the top edge of each plate not affecting images. A small water stain in the margin of the first 4 plates in volume one and the first 3 plates in the second volume not affecting images. The plates in the second volume are on thicker paper. Most of the plates are dated individually and range from June 2nd 1852 to October 10th 1854. They measure 4" tall by 6.75" wide approximate. Natural scenes showing the countryside rivers and paddlewheelers and architecture of local buildings. Interesting ephemeral viewbooks in very good condition despite the minor faults. England Great Britain Cities Viewbook Natural History. Rock & Co. Paperback books
18726965<p>Octavo. Engraved frontispiece portrait pictorial title page from the 1866 edition 64 illustrations. 1106 pages. Full contemporary blindstamped dark brown morocco spine with raised bands and gilt stamped title gilt stamped edges and inner dentelles marbled endpapers a.e.g. slight rubbing. Very good. Two volumes in one. Printed by Welch Bigelow Cambridge. Hearldic bookplate of Charles K. Giles designed by T.K. Raffington.</p> James R. Osgood hardcover books
180584653London: J. Carpenter 1805. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis 160p. Contemporary 1/4 leather with marbled boards. 16 cm. Leather portions of cover rubbed. Small scuffed area on marbled paper on front cover. Ownership signature of John Philip Sousa dated 1916 on front free endpaper. An earlier name partially inked over on title-page. Camoes was a great 16th century Portuguese poet. <br/><br/> J. Carpenter hardcover books
1896011791Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Bobbs Merrill binding 1896. Large Octavo. .with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's grants for service in the campaigns against the British Posts showing exact land allotted each. Volume I and II have continuous pagination Vol. 586pp and Vol. II. 593-1186pp. It was Clark whose victories in the old Northwest enabled the US to obtain full legal right to the territory under the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Both volumes bound in original blue pictorial gilt depicting Clark with sword in hand standing above Vincennes. Only minor rubbing to edges corners with wear previous owner's name dated 1896. A very good set. Bowen-Merrill (Bobbs Merrill binding) unknown books
19964131JNew York: Hyperion/Miramax 1996. First Edition. Signed by Anthony Minghella the film’s director and screenwriter and Michael Ondaatje author of the novel. Fine in wrappers. The shooting script with illustrations from the award-winning motion picture. Hyperion/Miramax unknown books
19981337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
20012222135<p>First edition so stated. 4to 9 1/4" x 8 1/4". Illustrated by De Loss McGraw. Dust jacket unclipped; designed by Carla Weise; Calligraphy by Leah Palmer Preiss. Fine fresh. 181 pages.</p><p>With an ink sketch on the half title page signed "De Loss" depicting what appears to be a person seated in a small house similar to drawings on pages 42 and 43.</p> Harper Collins Publishers hardcover books
19522221965<p>First edition thus. 11 1/2" x 8 1/2". Ink and wash drawings by Ronald Searle. Original stiff gray illustrated wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good few nicks; short tear; small chip base of spine. 46 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Searle on title page: "For Nicholas Gibson from Ronald Searle 1953."</p><p>One of 1600 copies printed at the Chiswick Press.</p> Allen and Richard Lane paperback books
1894007276Private Subscription 1894. Book. Fine. Cloth. TLS Enclosed Signed Also. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.Included is a TLS by English. A friend of Poe. He blame Poe for stealing some of his material.Excellent Copy. Private Subscription Hardcover books
33698From Wikipedia: "William Harrison Ainsworth 4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882 was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers at that time manager of the King's Theatre Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles and to his daughter who became Ainsworth's wife.Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834 which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882. Ainsworth regrets a delay in answering a letter and discusses a reception and banquet held for him by the Mayor of Manchester. unknown books
183519369New York: Swords Stanford & Co 1835. 12mo 19 cm 7.5". 130 2 blank pp. lacking pp. 1/2. with Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Swords Stanford & Co. 1837. 12mo. 132 pp. <br><br>Psalms and hymns in two stereotype editions from a New York publisher who specialized in Protestant works. The texts are given here without music; each portion has a table of first lines with the Psalms providing an index of appropriate selections for particular subjects and occasions.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco covers framed in gilt roll spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership initials of William R. Whittingham G.R.W. the "William" being rendered as "Guillelmus" for his love of Latin fourth Episcopal Bishop of Baltimore; stamp of an Episcopal Diocesan lending library. Binding as above; front cover detached back joint starting from top head of spine chipped with binding showing minor darkening and scuffing overall. Free endpapers excised. Front pastedown with rubber-stamp as above no other institutional markings; first text page with inked ownership inscription as above dated 1864. Title-page of first work lacking. Pages slightly age-toned some creased; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Small emphasis marks to index of Hymns with an additional manuscript entry in the table of first lines. Swords, Stanford & Co unknown books
180327245Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 2 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Thomas William's translation and commentary: very representative of the linguistic hermeneutical and classical scholarship of its time. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Recent quarter calf and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and three others institutionally pressure-stamped; preface with rubber-stamped numeral and inked annotation. All edges some margins and first and last few leaves darkened by smoke exposure. William W. Woodward hardcover books
184735189New York: J.C. Riker 1847. 16mo 11.5 cm 4.5". Frontis. add. engr. t.-p. 2 350 2 blank pp.; 4 plts. <br><br>English New Testament based on that of the Polyglott Bible. Riker printed several variations on this edition from 1831 onwards; here the text is printed in double columns with central column of references and => illustrated with a frontispiece an additional engraved title-page wood-engraved headpieces and four steel-engraved plates the latter done by Illman and Pilbrow after various artists.<br>Â Â Â Â Prize copy: Front pastedown with presentation bookplate to Neal W. Ireland from New York Sunday School No. 41 for "good conduct and diligent study" in 1847. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 1356. Contemporary straight-grained sheep framed in single gilt fillet spine with gilt-stamped title moderately rubbed overall with front hinge inside cracked and back hinge starting; sewing holding but just starting to loosen. Front pastedown with bookplate as above; endpapers with a few pencilled annotations. Pages gently age-toned with scattered faint spots of foxing; one leaf dog-eared in Ephesians. => An appealing little Testament with a charming engraved presentation plate. J.C. Riker unknown books
184135204New York: John C. Riker 1841. 16mo 11 cm 4.4". Frontis. add. engr. t.-p. 2 350 pp.; 4 plts. <br><br>A small hand-size English New Testament based on that of the Polyglott Bible. Riker printed several variations on this edition from 1831 onwards; in this case the added engraved title-page still gives the publication date as 1831 but the main title shows 1841. The text is printed in double columns with a central column of references and => illustrated with a frontispiece an additional engraved title-page wood-engraved headpieces and four steel-engraved plates the latter done by Illman and Pilbrow after various artists.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Tipped-in leaf with inked inscription: "Hannah M. Williams / Presented by directive from her grandmother Williams when on her death bed with this injunction to be read with careful attention"; in pencil below is "A precious legacy." Williams or a contemporary apparently took the directive seriously; there are several instances of pencilled bracketing marks of emphasis and marginalia in the "precious legacy" hand.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary diced-grain red sheep covers framed in gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped acanthus and acorn design spine with gilt-stamped title "Polyglott Testament" and decorative motifs board edges with gilt roll. All edges gilt. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â See Hills English Bible in America 768 for 1831 ed.; 1841 not listed. Bound as above rubbed at joints and extremities with front hinge inside cracked yet sound. Front pastedown and free endpaper with pencilled inscriptions dated 1853; inscription leaf as above; one front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations and with hole in lower center. Additional annotations as above; one plate with "My Saviour" pencilled in lower margin. Intermittent mild foxing and a bit of other staining; a few corners bumped. Worn yes still luminous in its own way and an interesting example of two early 19th-century women's engagement with the Bible. John C. Riker unknown books
