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19052221934<p>First edition September 1905. Octavo. Illustrated with b/w plates by F. H. Townsend. Original green pictorial cloth with Napoleonic design in yellow light and dark green white lettering. No dust jacket. Very good. 389 pages 4 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates.</p> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
19232222277<p>Early printing. Small octavo. Edited by William M. Rossetti. Frontispiece portrait. Full gilt stamped green morocco maroon leather label by Riviere & Son. All edges gilt. Very good. 332 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><strong>Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh.</strong></p> Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1967117322Munich.: Publisher Nikolaus Karpf. 1967. Hardcover. very good with no dust jacket; lightly bumped corners tanning to spine. 4to. large book requiring extra postage. Publisher Nikolaus Karpf. hardcover books
193826834Yanaginobaba Sanjo Kyoto Nippon: Nippon Flower Arrangement Society 1938. Boards. Very Good. 50 leaves. Oblong quarto 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches "Silk" decorative cloth over boards with original paper label on front board. Ties at spine as published. Cloth separating at spine folds mostly front cover. Leaves printed on recto only. Title page preface plus 48 leaves each with a color image of the arrangement and text in Japanese and English describing the composition composer etc. Apparently lacking blank flyleaf before the title page. Tape repair to front pastedown. Stain to front cover upper left. Clean internally. Boards. Nippon Flower Arrangement Society unknown books
19002197274Dunlap Printing Company 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1900 Hard Cover. xxvi 227 pp. First Annual Message of Samuel H. Ashbridge Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with Annual Reports of Abraham L. English Director of the Department of Public Safety and of the Bureau of Health for the Year Ending December 31 1899. Issued by the City of Philadelphia 1900. Annual reports for the year 1899 include the following: The First Annual Message. Office of the Mayor Philadelphia April 2 1900.; Department of Public Safety.; Thirteenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Safety. Abraham L. English Director.; Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia.; Appendix to the Report of the Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia for the Year 1899.; Medical Inspector Division of Contagious Diseases.; Medical Inspector of the Sanitary Inspection of Public Schools.; Division of Disinfection.; Division of Bacteriology Pathology and Disinfection.; Physician-in-Charge for the Dunlap Printing Company hardcover books
1958006602Cairo Egypt: Self-published 1958. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Baheega Sidky Rasheed in Cairo and dated by him Jan. 1961 on title page. small corner creases light wear to paper at spine. Stamped " Folklore Institute Reading Collection" on dedication page. 97 pp. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Self-published Paperback books
18832572London: Longmans Green & Co. 1883. 4to. xvi 540 pp. lacking a total of 114 pp. <br><br>Artists at a major publishing house have sadly removed all the original full-page engravings and many of the other leaves from this handsomely illustrated and decorated Bible. Originally sixty full-page wood engravings all lacking in this copy and forty wood-engraved marginal ornaments initial letters medallions and culs-de-lampe illustrated this handsomely printed edition of the New Testament; in fact every page is decorated in some elaborate way. The illustrations are after Italian old masters such as Andrea del Sarto Fra Angelico Titian Raphael Leonardo Perugino and the like and the engravers were such notables as R.C. West J. Cooper W. Measom and the Messrs. Dalziel. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Herbert. Faux pebbled leather; spine modestly gilt. Binding abraded. Scattered foxing. All edges marbled. Lacking a total of 114 out of 556 pp. Longmans, Green, & Co. hardcover books
185765602Philadelphia PA: T. M. Scroggy Publisher No. 443 Vine St. above 13th 1857. Broadside. 24.5 x 15 cm. Five stanzas of eight lines enclosed in a decorative border. A few tears and chips with some loss at left margin outside the border not affecting text. English lived in New Jersey and supposedly wrote the song on a hunting trip to Tazewell Virginia. <br/><br/> T. M. Scroggy, Publisher, No. 443 Vine St. above 13th unknown books
1928007009Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1928. Fifth Edition Impression of 1928 stated. Very Good Plus prior owner name and city front end page slight spotting to cloth at top edges No jacket. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
19080011781908. Mason A. E. W. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Yours A. E. W. Mason" 17 Stratton Street London 1908. Single sheet of high quality water-marked paper folded once. In NEAR FINE crisp condition written in black ink. The letter is an apology for having to cancel a meeting. A good example of Mason's autograph. Mason wrote several dozen turn-of-the-century novels the best known being THE FOUR FEATHERS written in 1902 a classic adventure tale which has been filmed four times. Signed by Author. Near Fine. unknown books
1951011609London: Lloyd Humphries 1951 1951. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to pictorial covers in color of unidentified Picasso watercolor illustratedÂwith 3 full-page color prints and 77 b&w drawings many provided by Picasso from his own collection plus b&w photographs of Picasso by Douglas Glass and Lee Miller. In publisher's glassine that is chipped around edges and about half missing over the spine. Lloyd Humphries, 1951 unknown books
1732116744London: Printed for James John and Paul Knapton 1732. Second edition of Tindal's translation of Paul de Rapin's monumental history of England. Folio Volume I. bound in full contemporary calf illustrated with engraved folding maps and genealogical charts headpieces tailpieces and initials. In good condition. French historian Paul de Rapin's History of England as an influential exposition of the Whig view of history on both sides of the English Channel. Initially published in French all volumes of his work were translated to English in a total of 14 volumes from 1727 by the Reverend Nicolas Tindal who added large numbers of informative notes throughout the volumes which were illustrated with engravings maps and genealogical tables of great quality. Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton unknown books
18058610New York: Ronalds & Loudon pr. by Thomas Kirk 1805. 12mo. 335 1 pp. lacking pp.5-8. <br><br>Church of Scotland-approved rendition of the Psalms. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 8008. Contemporary sheep covers framed in single gilt roll; binding rubbed and worn with leather partially lost over spine joints cracked and covers all but separated. Front hinge reinforced. Front pastedown and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscriptions. Pages age-toned with some instances of foxing; lacking pp. 5-8. Ronalds & Loudon (pr. by Thomas Kirk) hardcover books
1889220992<p>First edition. Small square octavo. Editor's preface. Bibliographical references index of first lines. Gilt stamped dark blue calf over matching blue linen t.e.g. uncut slight rubbing. Very good. #87/500 numbered copies printed at the Chiswick Press. Spine title: Love-Poems From the Song-Books of the XVIIth Century. Healdic bookplates of William Adcock and Stephen George Holland on the front pastedown.</p> Privately Printed hardcover books
19082222160<p>First American edition from British sheets. Large thick octavo. Titles in red and black. Illustrated. Original red cloth t.e.g. uncut. No dust jacket. Good spines faded; wear at head and foot of spines; partial tear to joint of Vol. II; few stains. 465 pages; 482 pages. 2 volumes.</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><p>Printed by T. & A. Constable Edinburgh.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
193991525London: Faber & Faber 1939. First edition first prnt. Signed by Spender on the title page. Cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Previous owner name on front free endpage aprx dozen pages with margin or title lining beginning foxing on pastedowns and endpages light shelfwear; dustjacket with chipped spine ends wear at corners two short tape repairs on the interior not apparent on the oustide two small stains and toning on rear panel and spine. Good condition in a Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Spender's second book of poems. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Faber & Faber Hardcover books
18088633Baltimore: Henry S. Keatinge 1808. 12mo. 458 pp. <br><br>Compiled from the writings of the most eminent historians divines and commentators. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 15257. Contemporary sheep spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; binding worn and abraded with leather cracking over spine. Some offsetting to endpapers; pages age-toned. Henry S. Keatinge hardcover books
1118148.5x11 inch unruled 20 lbstock. Dates" Hahnemann Hospital 15 December 1979." Kinsella apologizes for the delay in responding. "I am as you can see in hospital at the moment so it is taking me a while to reach things. anyway - in my opinion poetry is the construction of intense linguistic equavalents of encounters. between a poet and his or her experience significant." Last two word transposed with his proofreading symbol. " I will leave it to yourself. to decide what I have written against the definition I have suggested." Signed "Good luck Thomas Kinsella." Aprx 125 words. One edge with beginning toning. Includes Kinsella's holograph address on Temple Univ envelope. Hahnemann Hospital is in Philadelphia. Signed. Unbound. Very Good/Not Issued. Holograph Letter. Paperback books
1948304942<p>First edition. 4to. Chosen and arranged with a preface by Richard Buxton. Title page and about 20 wood engravings by Iain Macnab. 3/4 brown morocco over tan cloth by Evans of Croydon gilt stamped spine and upper cover uncut and partly unopened some light foxing to edges of page. Dust jacket unclipped; chip at head of spine; toning; few nicks. Very good. 54 pages. Selection of 63 poems. Number 92 with number later crossed out of 300 copies printed by the Dropmore Press.</p> Dropmore Press hardcover books
198730938NY: Ecco Press 1987. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Muldoon on the title page. Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ecco Press Hardcover books
19282221759<p>First edition. 11 3/4" x 7 3/4". Original black gilt stamped cloth. Uncut and mostly unopened. No dust jacket. Very good. 93 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Number 204 of 350 copies.</p> Shakespeare Head Press hardcover books
1850WRCLIT80585Leicester England: Published by Winks and Son 1850. 8pp. 16mo. 10.5 x 7cm. Pictorial upper wrapper. Woodcut in text. Small chip near toe of spine from the blank margin of the front wrapper otherwise very good. The tale itself "the Fly-Catcher or Cherry- Sucker" occupies the first three pages headed by an image of a bird. Both the wrapper and interior image are by Elijah Whymper and are so noted in the OCLC entry based on the copyies at the V&A Museum. The tale is then followed by two poems "The Angel's Errand" and "The Departed Child in Heaven to Its Parents." OCLC: 913301395. Published by Winks and Son unknown books
1805M10849London:: n.p. 1805. 1805. Small 4to. 27 pp. Original blue wrappers. Housed in a modern quarter morocco clamshell box. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Containing "An outline of a plan to prevent the Spreading of the Plague or other contagious Diseases presented by the Board of Health agreeably to the Instructions of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council." The article gives a brief account of how an outbreak of the plague was dealt with in Queen Elizabeth's time and then presents the then-current practices to prevent the spread of an outbreak. "If the sick die the Body should be wrapped in oiled Cloth or tarred Cloth and soon buried. It must be remembered that everything that tends to secure those about the Sick from Infection is of the greatest Importance both by checking the Progress of the Disease and by giving Confidence to those whose Busines sic it is to help and assist the Afflicted." p. 8-9. n.p., 1805. hardcover books
1642EPL71London 1642. Paperback. Good. Published between 1628-1642. Based on the Common Debates of 1628. Including An act to prevent Extortions in Sheriffes Under-Sheriffes and Bayliffes of Franchises and Liberties in cases of Execution and An act for the better suppressing of unlicensed alehouse keepers. Upon question passed. Some contemporary inscriptions in English. Some pages remargined intermittent browning or chipping but a rare piece. Size: 260 x 180mm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1954294818Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha 1954. hardcover. near fine/good. Beautifully illustrated with 56 large photogravure plates by Dogon. Slim 4to natural cloth chipped d.w. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan- Sha 1954. A near fine copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha unknown books