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1833246869London: Charles Knight Pall-Mall East 1833. 168 engraved portraits. 7 vols. 8vo. Half lavender pebbled morocco. Some rubbing else very good. 7. 168 engraved portraits. 7 vols. 8vo. Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East unknown books
193012714Tokyo: T. Hasagawa 1930. Wraps. Near Fine. A lovely example of this uncommon offering in the "Japanese Fairy Tales" series published by T. Hasegawa of Tokyo circa 1930. Clean bright and Near Fine to Fine in its string-tied terrycloth with nicely-reproduced color woodblocks thruout. 64mo text rendered into English by the great Lafcadio Hearn. <br/><br/> T. Hasagawa paperback books
1769WRCAM44884London 1769. 235pp. Lacks half title. Modern paper boards printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing and soiling. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. Commentary on William Pitt the Elder's conduct during his term as Prime Minister. It was under Pitt's administration that the Townshend Acts were passed leading to further strained relations with the American colonies and eventually Revolution. ESTC T148155. SABIN 63756. hardcover books
18251354New York: Evert Duyckinck George Long E. Bliss & E. White. 1825. First American Edition. Hardcover. Faux quarter bound gray boards with white spine. Good. 2 v-xii 371 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Title conclusion Also The Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths Gravies Soups Sauces Store Sauces and Flavoring Essences: Pastry Preserves Puddings &c. and An Easy Certain and Economical Process for preparing PICKLES By which they will be ready in a Fortnight and remain good for Years. The Quantity of each Article is ACCURATELY STATED BY WEIGHT AND MEASURE; The whole being the result of ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS Instituted in the Kitchen of a Physician. The whole work has again been carefully revised by the author of "THE ART OF INVIGORATING LIFE BY FOOD" &c. "Miscuit utile dulci." The author William Kitchiner M.D. 1775-1827 was a wealthy physician of London who did not practice his profession but was a food science and music enthusiast. An early devotee of mastication Masticate denticate chump grind and swallow Kitchiner purportedly did most of his own cooking and cleaning. First published in 1817 this extensive guide for the domestic cook took the UK and US by storm making Kitchiner a household name and an inspiration for many later cookbook authors including Mrs. Beeton who lifted a number of her recipes directly from his book. Owner's inscription on title page. Rebound with one page of index missing. Usual foxing throughout. LOWENSTEIN 99 <br/><br/> Evert Duyckinck, George Long, E. Bliss & E. White. hardcover books
197715106Cambridge: Rampant Lion's Press 1977. Edition ltd. to 315 copies this 1/280 in quarter vellum over green patterned paste-paper boards small folio pp. 151 1; very fine. Designed by Sebastian Carter printed on Barcham Green paper and published by Wm. Dawson & Sons as a "Deighton Bell Edition." The text is that of Miles Coverdale as revised for his Great Bible of 1539. <br/><br/> Rampant Lion's Press hardcover books
196524345Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press 1965. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Tall side-stapled wrappers 80 pp. The April 1965 issue of this desirable small press poetry journal. Edited by Robin Eichele. Cover artwork by C. Peret. A stunning fine copy in thick stapled wrappers. Includes a ten page journal / memoir piece by Magdalene Arndt plus poems by Sinclair Bill Cox Bill Harris Bill Hutton and more. Erratum slip laid in. Artists' Workshop Press paperback books
189412611894. ENGLISH William F. EVOLUTION AND THE IMMANENT GOD. An Essay On The Natural Theology Of Evolution. Boston: Arena Publishing Company 1894. Small 8vo. purple cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. An essay focusing on using Darwin's theory of evolution as a clearing ground for upbuilding acceptance of Christian theology. A rare book- I have been unable to locate any other copy! English was pastor of the First Congregational Church in East Windsor Connecticut. Signed inscription by English on a front blank page: "Regards of Wm. F. English." Near fine covers bright with very minor rubbing spine; contents clean & tight. $450.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1972133021San Diego CA: Legend Films 1972. Draft British script for the 1973 film. <br/><br/>Alec Guinness plays here against type imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Guinness' Hitler is an enclosed depressive who sinks slowly into madness depression and ultimately suicide as his 1000-Year Reich collapses around him. <br/><br/>A co-production between Italy and the UK made by Ennio De Concini better known for his many exploitation films of the 1970s. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 10th July 1972 with credits for screenwriter-director De Concini screenwriters Fusco and Reinhardt and English adaptation writer Moffat. 128 leaves roneograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Legend Films unknown books
1950306823<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; tiny tear. Very good-fine. 99 pages. Signed on the half title page by 10 cast members including Laurence Olivier March 2 1950 Denholm Elliott Heather Stannard Micheline Patton Fred Johnson George Relph Brenda de Banzie; signed by Christopher Fry on the facing leaf. Together with an original 8 page 1950 program for the play at London's St. James Theatre. Provenance: from the collection of author Roy Moseley.</p> Oxford University Press hardcover books
04102New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. The Greatest Poem of Ancient and Modern Times Alfred Lord Tennyson<br/>Eight Magnificent Colored Illustrations by Arthur Szyk<br/><br/>SZYK Arthur illustrator. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Job from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James 1 with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. <br/><br/>Limited to 1950 copies signed by Arthur Szyk this being number 478. <br/><br/>Folio 12 x 8 1/2 inches; 304 x 216 mm. 148 2 blank 1 limitation 5 blank pp. Eight mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk.<br/><br/>Publishers three-quarter creme leather over white paper boards front cover pictorially stamped in gilt spine title blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing to spine extremities otherwise an excellent copy housed in the original slightly worn red felt-lined metallic gold slipcase. Complete with the LEC Monthly Letter loosely inserted.<br/><br/>The Book of Job is a book in the Ketuvim "Writings" section of the Hebrew Bible Tanakh and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Addressing the problem of theodicy - why a good God permits evil or more simply "Why do the righteous suffer" - it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely and often extravagantly praised for its literary qualities with Alfred Lord Tennyson calling it "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times".<br/><br/>LEC Bibliography No. 173. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1946 unknown books
18042221995<p>1804-1805. First edition. Octavo. 2 volumes in 1. Second title page reads: "Fables Containing Cambuscan an Heroic Poem in Six Books." Bound on old green linen red leather label on spine corners rubbed joints cracked but holding all edges gilt with a foredge of Salisbury Cathedral in the distance and an angler fishing on the river in the foreground. Bookplate of antiquarian Thomas Bell 1785-1860 who is known to have had an extensive library see DNB Vol. 4 page 174. Very good.</p> T. Bensley for Payne and Mackinlay hardcover books
1944146004Hollywood: Republic Productions 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. Single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>A physician researching life-after-death is possessed by the spirit of an executed murderer who uses the doctor's body to exact vengeance on those involved in his death. A Jekyll-and-Hyde-style supernatural horror B-movie unusual for Republic Productions who were better known for their Western pictures.<br/><br/>Tan partial titled wrapper noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1463 dated October 3 1944 with credits for screenwriter John K. Butler. Title page integral to the first page of text dated October 3 1944. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 80. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/14/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Republic Productions unknown books
17721280432Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour 1772. 4to. 243pp.; VG-; spine paneled brown calf with maroon label and gilt lettering; marbled boards; boards have some rubbing to covers bumping and peeling to corners; bookplate on ffep; name written on ffep; mild scattered foxing and age-toning; interior clean; some slight wear to hinges front board slightly loose; shelved case 4. 1280432. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour unknown books
19813777<p>First edition. Small octavo. Edited with introduction by George Miller. Signed frontispiece etching by Arthur Neal. Original full dark green morocco exhibition binding by George Miller covers and spine decorated in gilt and blind with stylized designs of fish water birds and willows Japanese paper endpapers t.e.g. uncut. Fine. Morocco-edged slipcase lined with corduroy. No other signatures or bookplates. Copy Number 8 of only 20 copies in this designer binding printed by the Daedalus Press.</p> Stevens hardcover books
1814313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown books
181235967Philadelphia: Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia by T. Rutt Shacklewell London and pr. by William Fry 1812. 12mo 17.9 cm 7". 456 45978 481633 1 pp. 1 f. 191 1 pp. <br><br>The first Stereotyped Bible Printed in America. The Bible Society of Philadelphia founded in 1808 with Bp. William White as its first president was the first Bible society organized in the United States. It published this the first stereotype Bible printed in the U.S. from plates imported from London; the B.F.B.S. contributed £500 towards the purchase of the plates and they were admitted to the U.S. free of import duties. The initial run produced 1050 copies of the complete Bible and 750 copies of the New Testament in double columns in very small type.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of Edward H. Mills dated 27 May 1843 on front pastedown. From the collection of Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24835; Hills 213; Herbert 1560; O'Callaghan 110; Wright Early Bibles of America 19293; Rumball-Petre 189. Contemporary sheep rubbed with joints opening and leather lost at spine head; wormwork to spine and some margins of text. Volume "soft" with sewing pulling away from spine and a few gatherings separated; text foxed and browned as often; several leaves perhaps two dozen damaged with some loss of text perhaps a dozen more with small tears. Lacking two leaves of the Old Testament all others present. A distressed copy of this important edition and priced accordingly. Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia, by T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London, [and pr. by William Fry] hardcover books
183725250New York: T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church pr. by J. Collord 1837. 8vo 22.5 cm 8.9". 734 pp. 219/20 lacking. <br><br>Commentary by John Wesley the founding father of Methodism on the New Testament including the Book of Revelation. The text is "that of the Common English Translation with some of Bengel's readings incorporated" according to O'Callaghan. Having originally appeared in 1754 the Notes were here published by Mason and Lane who in collaboration with printer James Collord produced numerous Methodist treatises and Bible editions.<br>Â Â Â Â Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 1837 43174; O'Callaghan 253. This ed. not in Hills; not in Wright. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Title-page and first and last sections with lower portions of leaves waterstained though not darkly; foxing throughout. Significant portions of the two leaves bearing pp. 21518 torn diagonally away with loss of most notes and some text of John; leaf bearing pp. 219/20 lacking. T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church (pr. by J. Collord) hardcover books
16511006702 volumes 4to however one volume is slightly larger than the other modern calf and boards printed in black leter and Roman types 2 1369-1417 & 2 1677-1689 pp. Last leaf in both volumes moderately worn and some repairs to one of those leafs pages in both volumes creased in the middle library plate on both front pastedowns early owners inscrpition on back of last leaf in one volume normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a scarce item that was probably removed from a larger work however the sjubect is the same. Basically these acts focus on the seizure of lands during the English Civil War following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and just before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. The text is primarily lists of nobility who remained loyal to the crown and whose lands were forfeited to the commonwealth for "treasons against the parliament and the people of England." John Field, hardcover books
4557LAWRENCE HYDE FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER 1641-1711. Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681 he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension. ROBERT HOWARD 1626-1698. An English Restoration dramatist Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer. DS. 1pg. 8 ½†x 8 ½â€. May 15 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed “Rochesterâ€. It was written to Robert Howard the auditor of the Exchequer: “At my hearty Commendation By Virtue of his Majesty’s Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys sic to the Judges These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye sic as are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serjeant at Law and one of the Barons of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds per annum according to the direction of the said Letters Patents and let sic the same be satisfied out of any his Majesty’s Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament For which this shall be your Warrant. Treasury Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochesterâ€. The document is addressed “To my very Loving friend Sr Rob’t Howard Auditor of his Majesty’s Records of Exchequer.†This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit which was England’s first attempts at paper currency. Obviously it was cumbersome to pay people since lengthy documents such as this example had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law who first introduced paper money in France and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes. unknown books
181128246London: Printed for C. Chapple 1811 1811. First edition. Lowe English Theatrical Literature 3620. Paper a little browned at the edges but supple; edges a little rubbed; very good copy. 3 vols in 1 12mo 19th century red half morocco marbled paper boards and endpapers gilt rules and lettering. Half-titles present. The memoirs of the celebrated actress Mary Leah Wells Sumbel circa 1769-1829 whose life off the stage was riddled with misfortunes abusive husbands and regrettable choices which she chronicles in her matter-of-fact autobiography. She also writes about many of the significant and colorful characters and actors of the theater world with whom she crossed paths. Ownership signature dated 1869 on the front blank of American journalist James Lawson 1799-1800 a friend and collaborator with many New York writers in the 19th century. See the DAB for Lawson and the DNB for Mary Wells Sumbel. <br/><br/> London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1811 unknown books
1909001416New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. Full Vellum. Very Good. N.d 1909 the first of Dulac's versions of the Rubaiyat. Limited edition No. 1 of 200 intended for the U.S. market. With 20 tipped-in plates. Folio 32 by 25 cm 12.5 by 10 inches. Interior tight and generally clean. Browning of page edges which were cut unevenly. Browning of card stock leaves upon which plated tipped onto. Vellum has film of soilage all about and gilt lettering mostly faded on spine less so on board decoration. Note that the American limited run was NOT signed by Dulac. <br/><br/> Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
18792221941<p>First edition. Octavo. With half-title page. 3/4 gilt stamped red calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands and gilt stamped devices within gilt rule compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Very good light rubbing. 387 pages.</p><p>Heraldic bookplate of Raymond.</p><p>No signatures.</p> Smith, Elder & Company hardcover books
1928155614<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Issued without wrapper but with protective tissue; white cord tie. Tan cloth protective folding case with bookplate of Lord Esher. 11 pages. Scarce.</p> Privately Printed paperback books
192654824Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1926. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 164 miniatures. x 162 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter polished tan mottled calf and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine raised bands t.e.g.; with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 164 miniatures. x 162 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown books
192854668Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1928. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine raised bands t.e.g.; with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown books
