619 résultats
1890008168London: John C. Nimmo 1890. Limited to 780 copies: 520 for England and 260 for America this is copy #121. Bound in the publisher's original quarter calf over green buckram boards with the armorial crest of Count Gozzi tooled in gilt front boards. Top edges gilt lovely blue floral decorative end papers ribbon markers. "With portrait and six original etchings by Adolph LaLauze and eleven subjects illustrating Italian comedy by Maurice Sand engraved on copper by A. Manceau and colored by hand." Very Good Plus calf a bit rubbed an attractive set in the original binding. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. John C. Nimmo Hardcover books
1944130722Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1944. Shooting Script for the 1944 film. <br/><br/>A thriller completely dominated by the formidable Stephanie Bachelor. The statuesque sophisticated Republic leading lady is cast as Muriel the scheming widow of the fabulously wealthy Hartford Chaney 3rd. Muriel's husband has disappearance under mysterious circumstances freeing her to marry her playboy paramour Frederick St. Clair George Meeker. Hal Erickson AllMovie<br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers with the original title written in holograph ink and changed in holograph pencil noted as Shooting Script on the front wrapper as production No. 1258 dated April 4 1944. 77 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Republic Pictures unknown books
176030339In the Savoy: Printed by Catherine Lintot Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen 1760. First edition. xii 354 6 357-468. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped calf more recent red leather title label. Nice copy. Bookplate of Dn. Pedro Forstall. First edition. xii 354 6 357-468. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilbert who died in 1726 was highly lauded by Blackstone. The final two sections on Debt and the Constitution are of great interest o. Printed by Catherine Lintot, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen unknown books
1886221283<p>First edition. Octavo. Introduction by Symonds. Illustrated with vignettes and headpieces. 262 pages. Superbly bound in 3/4 brown morocco over tan cloth spines with raised bands and gilt stamped floral devices within gilt ruled compartments gilt ruled covers matching tan cloth endpapers white silf bookmarks t.e.g. Fine fresh. No signatures or bookplates. Babington82. Half title reads: The Camelot Classics. Edited by Ernest Rhys.</p> Walter Scott hardcover books
19127069<p>First edition. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece. Original gilt stamped green cloth upper cover with small gilt stamped tropical scene t.e.g. 20 pages of advertisements at end. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a green cloth folding box. Author's first book.</p> Duckworth & Co. hardcover books
1772349<p>First edition thus. 11" x 9". Full brown polished calf by Riviere & Son spine with raised bands and gilt stamped brown morocco labels marbled endpapers a.e.g. slight west to extremities. Very good. No foxing. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Small leather bookplate of Robert Hartshorne Highlands New Jersey on the front pastedown.</p> Baskerville hardcover books
184011870Philadelphia: E. Cummiskey J. Howe 1840. 8vo. Frontis. to each testament engr. general t.-p. 691 1 blank pp. 3 ff. 191 1 pp.; 2 plts. <br><br>Reprint of the 1836 edition whose text was based on the fifth Dublin edition. As per collation a frontispiece to each testament an engraved general title-page and two other plates. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 1078. Publisher's diced calf spine elegantly gilt and covers with delicate gilt border hinges inside open but sewing strongly holding; otherwise general moderate wear and abrasion to covers rubbing with loss to edges and corners discolorations to spine in lowest compartment. Library bookplate on front pastedown; charge pocket and slip on rear endpapers; Inked private ownership inscriptions on front pastedown and title-page. Light foxing and browning second half of volume with crescent of stain to lower margin across gutter. E. Cummiskey, J. Howe unknown books
18334703Brattleboro VT: Peck & Wood 1833. 4to 29 cm 11.25". Frontis. 4 1 blank 5-527 1 78 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-168 56 9 5 2 blank pp.; 8 plts. <br><br>Large thick quarto. "Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page; two frontispieces and six additional full-page wood engravings by A. Anderson. Bound in between the New Testament and Index is the John Brown Concordance "stereotyped by B. & J. Collins" whose title-page bears no place or date; it is likely that this is the Collins printing of the Concordance often found bound into Bibles of this period.<br>Â Â Â Â This Bible includes the Old Testament 527 pp. Apocrypha 78 pp. New Testament 168 pp. John Brown's Concordance 56 pp. an index 9 pp. tables 3 pp. and "An Account of the Lives Sufferings and Martyrdom of the Apostles and Evangelists" 2 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 20th-century book label of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Hills; not in O'Callaghan. Contemporary full sheep with four raised bands on the spine and "Holy Bible" gilt-stamped on a tan morocco spine label. Binding rubbed joints starting. First two leaves following the title-page and pp. 433-436 loosening. Pages 47-48 of the New Testament chipped in outer margin and p. 9 of the index torn all without loss of text. Pages foxed as expectable. Complete. Peck & Wood hardcover books
1899197166<p>Octavo. Woodcut borders and initials by Charles Ricketts. Original gilt stamped cream linen. Very good. 121 pages. One of 210 copies printed at the Ballantyne Press. Publisher's prospectus tipped-in. Large bookplate of Pickford Waller on the front pastedown. Waller 1873-1927 Illustrator and decorator friend of J. McNeil Whistler designed for Guthrie's Pear Tree Press.</p> Hacon & Ricketts hardcover books
17572222049<p>First French edition. Octavo. Translated by Robert Towneley. With English text on opposite pages. Frontispiece portrait and 14 engraved b/w plates three of which are folding. Contemporary speckled leather edges stained red spine labels joints partially cracked. Good. 3 volumes each with errata. No signatures.</p><p>Each volume with heraldic bookplate.</p> hardcover books
178627710London: Printed for J. Bell 1786 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. Title page a little spotted and browned; very good copy. 8vo modern brown quarter calf period style marbled paper boards red morocco label gilt rules and lettering. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie with music by James Hook 1746-1827. A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook the wife of James Hook. She is the acknowledged anonymous author of two other plays James Hook was involved with The Double Disguise and the Irish Lad both 1784. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786 unknown books
19873184NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1987. First US edition first prnt. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Signed and dated "14. iv. '88" by Heaney on the front free endpage. Slightest shelfwear on front board lower corner not immediately apparent; otherwise a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Heaney's seventh collection of poems. . Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
19482221952<p>First edition thus. Thin octavo. Foreword and 12 wood engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Original gilt stamped brick red morocco over green and red marbled boards t.e.g. other edges stained light green. No dust jacket. Fine. 63 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>One of 100 numbered copies this copy is unnumbered and out of series designed by Christopher Sandford.</p> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
190827757New York: Doubleday Page 1908. First edition. Advance sheets sewn but not bound. Inscribed by the author's wife 1906-1917 herself an author and collaborator with Jack London the active socialist Anna Strunsky "To William English Strunsky / This first unbound copy of his Uncle's first book. With love Anna. Studio April 9 1941." William English Strunsky was brother to Leonore Gershwin and Emily Paley. The dedication leaf is detached and chipped slightly affecting the inscription. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page unknown books
604916<p>not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of H.G. Wells seated with his hands folded in front of him. Photograph is by Walter Stoneman of J. Russell & Sons with their rubberstamp on the verso of the mount; photo is on heavy weight stock; matte finish; 6 1/8" x 8"; on the original photographer's mount 7 1/2" x 10". Fine light silvering around the edge.</p> unknown books
16230F. W. Newman. "Intellectual and Moral Tendencies of Female Suffrage." Printed for the London National Society for Women's Suffrage by I. Arrowsmith Bristol. 1870. 4 pages 8 x 5.25 in. Essay regarding the common goals of advocates for women's suffrage and those who advocate from women's rights in education. Good condition with creasing partial separation and small losses at binding; light thumb-soiling. F. W. Newman was a noted academic and while he described himself as "anti-everything" he also advocated vegetarianism and anti-vaccinations he was decidedly pro on women's rights issues.A important and influential early document in women's suffrage history. Rare printing. Only 2 copies in institutions and libraries as per OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
15987Bill 186-SEX DISQUALIFICATION REMOVAL BILL A Bill initialed an Act to amend the Law with respect to Disqualifications to public function civil or judicial position profession or vocation &c On Account of Sex. 4 pages. With: Bill as Amended in Committee &c. 6 pages folio modern blue card wrappers with paper label a very good copy London. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed HMSO 1919. unknown books
17775875London: J. Dodsley 1777. 4to 24.8 cm 9.75". 11 1 blank pp. <br><br>bound with Mason William Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck upon his newly invented patent candle-snuffers. London: J. Almon 1776. 511 1 adv. pp. Satiric verse mocking fashionable English dress accompanied by a political satire addressed to Christopher Pinchbeck which includes the lines "Haste then and quash the hot Turmoil / That flames in Boston's angry Soil . . ." The first work is here in its first edition while the second is likely an early printing. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 first ed. Recent marbled papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page not the title stamped by a now-defunct institution with some offsetting to opposing page. J. Dodsley hardcover books
184424937London: Sherwood & Co 1844. 5 volumes bound in 1. Small octavo. Newly bound in full marbled paper boards with printed title label to spines. <br/><br/>Vol. 1: Nos. 1 August 1842 - 6 January 1843. 48 pp.<br/>Vol. 2: Nos. 7 February 1843 - 12 July 1843. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 3: Nos. 13 August 1843 - 18 Jan 1844. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 4: Nos. 19 February 1844 - 23 June 1844. 40 pp. Lacking No. 24 July 1844.<br/>Vol. 5: Nos. 25 August 1844 - 26 September 1844. 16 pp. Lacking title table of contents and several issues.<br/><br/>With 2 preliminary leaves title and table of contents to each volume except Vol. 5. <br/><br/>Occasional light soiling and browning minor annotations in pencil and black ink; slight loss to lower corners of first volume not affecting music. Quite rare. OCLC incomplete runs only. <br/><br/>These volumes comprise several hundred melodies without text from operas popular songs dances and orchestral and chamber music. References are made to fuller versions e.g. with accompaniments in contemporaneous periodical publications in particular the Flutonicon and the Pianista. <br/><br/>A significant resource for tunes popular at the time. Sherwood & Co unknown books
192726618London: Fortune Press 1927. Hardcover. Unpaginated #154/700 copies printed on handmade paper rubricated decorative borders by Geofroy Tory orange buckram cloth boards in a floral-pattern dj with a small piece of tape at the head of the spine. Publisher Caton so slavishly imitated the Nonesuch Press typography that the threat of a lawsuit forced him to surrender the run of this book to Nonesuch. Fortune Press hardcover books
18312221818<p>First edition. 6 1/4" x 4". Engraved frontispiece vignette on title page three full page plates and tail-piece are by Robert Cruishank. Full later brown morocco a.e.g. by Riviere front wrapper lacking; original yellow printed rear wrapper bound in. No dust jacket. Fine fresh clean copy. 36 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Edward Moxon hardcover books
1930253119San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book 1930. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition. Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original half leather and paper boards spine gilt. Bottom corners and head and foot of spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" printed for John Howell Books by the Grabhorn Press and containing an essay by Edwin Grabhorn on typography in America in 1776. This volume contains an original leaf from a copy of the Aitken Bible one of the most celebrated American bibles being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged to the Royal Printer and the colonies were supplied entirely with bibles printed in England. The only Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible in Algonquian issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. With the Revolution this monopoly naturally ended and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken a Philadelphia printer undertook the task producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production the Aitken Bible is often referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution" Grabhorn Bibliography 131 Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book unknown books
181823922London: Published by J. Hatchard and Williams and Co. 1818 1818. First edition first issue without the author's name on the title-page. OCLC records about 16 copies of the two issues combined; not found in Block or Garside Raven & Schöwerling. Binding rubbed; some light foxing and faint stains; very good copy. 12mo contemporary calf rebacked gilt rules and lettering. An uncommon and unusual novel written in the form of a memoir of seven days that two men the narrator and his guide Mr. Grey spend roaming the streets of London in search of answers about the morality and sanity of the world. They report on Londoners from all walks of life in their visits to banks the Stock Exchange coffee-houses Covent Garden St. James's "on a court-day" an auction house the Scientific Institute the British Museum and a "chapel for frail females" among many other places. The narrator and Mr. Grey discuss a multitude of subjects including fiction religion cruelty to animals and prostitution. And among the many conversations they record is one between a bookseller an author and two reviewers. Each evening they return to their inn to discuss that day's events and their conclusions about the moral madness of the world its follies and vices. The Insane World was apparently sufficiently popular that its author Thomas Williams 1755-1839 put his name on the title-page of a reissue in which there are also two pages inserted of excerpts from reviews. Modern bookplate of Mary Kenny on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> London: Published by J. Hatchard and Williams and Co., 1818 unknown books
16398The Case of William Ball. Official Brutality on the Increase. London: Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement 1912. 1 page. 11 x 8 ¾ in. Flyer publicizes the inhumane treatment suffered by a man jailed for supporting the women's suffrage movement. <br/><br/>Like many suffrage activists jailed at this time William Ball protested his imprisonment though hunger strike and the document details the forced feeding isolation and physical and mental torture sustained by a man jailed for just over a month before he was declared "insane." The documents calls for those "who care about freedom" to stand with the Men's Political Union oppose the atrocious government and fight to "secure the full and equal citizenship for the women of our country." Printed in green and purple ink referencing the official colors for many suffrage groups this handbill shows the solidarity and support that many men had for women's rights. Handling dents especially along right and bottom edges. Loss to bottom left corner. Some light scattered stains. Very good. unknown books
188640309London: John C. Nimmo 1886. Hardcover. Prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. Illustrations by V.A. Poirson. Small 4to. Fall polished green calf with gilt rules compartments gilt spine lettering and decorations inner dentelles. xvi 291pp 23pp ads. All edges gilt. Numerous small color illustrations marbled endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned to a golden color; hinges a tad delicate but holding. First of this illustrated edition. Superb copy of this scarce lovingly illustrated edition -- custom bound with the original brown decorated cloth spine and cloth front and rear panels bound in at rear. John C. Nimmo hardcover books
