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1895247634N.p. 1895. 5 stanzas of verse with 7-line note. 2 pp. on two sheets of blank stantionery. 8vo. Fine. 5 stanzas of verse with 7-line note. 2 pp. on two sheets of blank stantionery. 8vo. Author of "Ben Bolt" New Jersey Congressman and Enemy of Poe. Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902 was a proilific author of poems ballads and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer rests on the ballad in wrote in 1843 "Ben Bolt." First published in Nathaniel Parker Willis' magazine NEW YORK MIRROR "Ben Bolt" was set to music many times and became very popular especiallly in the version set to a tune by Nelson Kneass. In his note appended to this transcription of the poem English writes:<br/><br/> "The foregoing stanzas are as they originally appeared in Willis & Morris's NEW YORK NEW MIRROR in the year 1843. Though they have been set to music eight tiimes the only popular melody was the one take from a German air by Kneass. The words there - three stanzas only being taken - are very much mutilated."<br/><br/>"It was hugely successful at the time but had a new lease of life as the song that Trilby O'Ferrall sings in the novel TRILBY 1894 by George du Maurier. It is described in the novel as an 'unsophisticated little song' but when Trilby performs it under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali it reawakens a 'cosmic vision of the beauty and sadness of things' in her former lover Little Billee." Derek B. Scott THE SINGING BOURGEOIS: SONGS OF THE VICTORIAN DRAWING ROOM AND PARLOUR. Aldershot Hampshire; Burlington VT: Ashgate 2001.<br/><br/>Ironically "Ben Bolt" being a tribute to a long-lasting friendship English is also remembered as the bitter foe of his former friend Edgar Allan Poe. The two had a falling out which resulted in a fist fight as well as a long running literary feud. unknown books
168514722<p><b>1685 OXFORD & Westminster Parliament Report LAW Politics Charles II Howard Trial</b></p><p>A rare 17th-century report on the transactions and proceedings in the English and Welsh Parliament begun at Oxford in 1681. This book '<i>Historical Collections'</i> provides important information regarding English politics under the reign of Charles II including various legal trials and beheadings! One such trial was that of William Howard Viscount of Stafford whose trial and beheading in 1680 is explained in detail!</p><p>Item number: #14722</p><p>Price: $750</p><p>English Parliament</p><p><b><i>Historical collections: or A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford. With exact lists of the members of each Parliament.</i></b></p><p>London: : Printed for S.N. and sold by W. Freeman near Temble-bar sic in Fleetstreet. 1685. </p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 6 302</p><p>· References: Wing H 2101; Moule <i>Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Brtianniae¸</i>no.318; Lowndes 1406</p><p>· Provenance: Handwritten – <i>Tho: Saunderson</i></p><p>o Thomas Saunderson was Vice-Admiral of Lincolnshire from 1702-1705.</p><p>· Language: English</p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight & secure</p><p>· Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in 19cm x 11cm</p><p>· Quite rare</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>14722</p> Printed for S.N. and sold by W. Freeman near Temble-bar [sic] in Fleetstreet hardcover
1665WB16395London: Edward Man 1665. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 4to. pp. 614. Modern 3/4 brown leather and green boards. Engraved frontispiece in facsimile. Title page defective with loss to lower 1/3; replace with very amateurish pen and ink. Bookplate of Horace Walpole fixed to front blank. Lacks last leaf a blank. This is the first complete edition second issue with cancel title-page denoting "Second Edition" - here appearing in modern ball point pen. Several leaves with crude repairs. 10 line manuscript index in pencil purportedly in Walpole's hand. The book itself has become scarce on the market. <br/><br/> Edward Man hardcover books
1895247634N.p. 1895. 5 stanzas of verse with 7-line note. 2 pp. on two sheets of blank stantionery. 8vo. Fine. 5 stanzas of verse with 7-line note. 2 pp. on two sheets of blank stantionery. 8vo. Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902 was a proilific author of poems ballads and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer rests on the ballad in wrote in 1843 "Ben Bolt." First published in Nathaniel Parker Willis' magazine NEW YORK MIRROR "Ben Bolt" was set to music many times and became very popular especiallly in the version set to a tune by Nelson Kneass. In his note appended to this transcription of the poem English writes:<br /> <br /> "The foregoing stanzas are as they originally appeared in Willis & Morris's NEW YORK NEW MIRROR in the year 1843. Though they have been set to music eight tiimes the only popular melody was the one take from a German air by Kneass. The words there - three stanzas only being taken - are very much mutilated."<br /> <br /> "It was hugely successful at the time but had a new lease of life as the song that Trilby O'Ferrall sings in the novel TRILBY 1894 by George du Maurier. It is described in the novel as an 'unsophisticated little song' but when Trilby performs it under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali it reawakens a 'cosmic vision of the beauty and sadness of things' in her former lover Little Billee." Derek B. Scott THE SINGING BOURGEOIS: SONGS OF THE VICTORIAN DRAWING ROOM AND PARLOUR. Aldershot Hampshire; Burlington VT: Ashgate 2001.<br /> <br /> Ironically "Ben Bolt" being a tribute to a long-lasting friendship English is also remembered as the bitter foe of his former friend Edgar Allan Poe. The two had a falling out which resulted in a fist fight as well as a long running literary feud. unknown
191590590New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Very Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31cm. Vover illustration scuffed with some crease marks. Backstrip chipped at bottom and appears to have been reglued for four or five centimeters above above the chipping. Tape mark next to bottom of backstrip on both sides. Contents sound and clean. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found chamged tastes when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He did successfully translate the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback
191591341New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped as are lower corners of front cover. Minor creasing and corner wear. Hard to decipher circular rubber stamp on lower corner of front cover. "Distribuidores exclusivos para Colombia Casa Musical Humberto Conti Bogota .". stamped in black at bottom of title-page. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found that tastes had changed when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He translated the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback
605948<p>1. Man in bed being served tea by his man servant. 2. Man in a wheelchair at the seaside being pushed by his servant while passing a male pedestrian. On tan mount with red ruled border. Signed in pencil "John Leech" 6 7/8" x 5 1/4" on mount 7 3/4" x 6 1/4". Very good.</p> unknown books
605948<p>1. Man in bed being served tea by his man servant. 2. Man in a wheelchair at the seaside being pushed by his servant while passing a male pedestrian. On tan mount with red ruled border. Signed in pencil "John Leech" 6 7/8" x 5 1/4" on mount 7 3/4" x 6 1/4". Very good.</p> unknown
4496Each of the five mounted photographs is preceded by a protective sheet of tissue paper in tact though wrinkled. The five photographs show a group of luminaries in the following fields: "Politicians Conservative" "Politicians Liberal" "Authors and Novelists" including Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Thomas Carlyle "Science" including Charles Wheatstone Michael Faraday "Artists" including J. M. W. Turner John Everett Millais and Edwin Landseer. The page preceding the last group photograph of English Artists indicated that a second volume was anticipated "early in 1877." The artists' page has separated from the spine as has the first copyright page which is chipped along margins creased and missing upper left corner. The pages are securely held together at the spine even though they have lost their cover. The albumen plates are somewhat light as might be expected. Various degrees of foxing throughout chipped corners of the photographic boards. Overall condition is fair to good. A fascinating assemblage of 19th century English culture. unknown books
199417163JLos Angeles: Creative Artists Agency 1994. Original 140 page first draft screenplay for the acclaimed motion picture nominated for 12 Academy Awards and which won 9 Oscars including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress Best Art Direction Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Editing Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound. Bradbound in printed agency wrappers. Very good. Directed by Anthony Minghella the film stars Ralph Fiennes Juliette Binoche Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. Creative Artists Agency unknown
604394<p>third person on engraved Piers Court Stinchcombe Gloucestershire letterhead December 14 n.y. ca. 1949 or earlier. 4 1/2" x 7" 1 page with integral leaf. "Mr. Evelyn Waugh deeply regrets that his absence from London makes him unable to accept the kind invitation of the Editor of the Strand Magazine for 23rd Dec." The Strand Magazine ceased publication in March of 1950. It is interesting to note that Waugh at one time had gifted a bound set of the Strand Magazine to his daughter Harriet. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket.</p> unknown books
604394<p>third person on engraved Piers Court Stinchcombe Gloucestershire letterhead December 14 n.y. ca. 1949 or earlier. 4 1/2" x 7" 1 page with integral leaf. "Mr. Evelyn Waugh deeply regrets that his absence from London makes him unable to accept the kind invitation of the Editor of the Strand Magazine for 23rd Dec." The Strand Magazine ceased publication in March of 1950. It is interesting to note that Waugh at one time had gifted a bound set of the Strand Magazine to his daughter Harriet. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket.</p> unknown
193015121Washington D.C.: Judd & Detweiler 1930. Edition ltd. to 475 copies tall 8vo pp. 2 158; many illus. throughout; orig. cream linen stamped in gilt a little soiled else very good in publisher's slipcase. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. This copy marked "designer's copy" on the colophon and with Douglas's bookplate designed by Bruce Rogers and with a 23-line autograph note to Douglas signed by Bruce Rogers "B.R." concerning the design of this book modern art architecture design etc. with orig. envelope tipped to a blank flyleaf; also at the back in a separate pocket are the printed comments of among others Carl Purington Rollins and William Kittridge apparently from Douglas's own newsletter. From Rogers' note: "I like . your modernistic book . better as a remembrance than as a book - but I admire all you youngsters' efforts to put "modernism" on the map - and you have almost done so - but not for long. It's getting passe already." <br/><br/> Judd & Detweiler unknown books
16954528London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1695. First Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 2 19-176. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-brown suede over terracotta cloth boards gilt lettering to the spine red speckeld foredges new endpapers. Light rubbing to the suede leather hint of sunning to the front board else extremities remain in near fine condition. Contents remarkably well-preserved indicating only a touch of slight foxing chiefly confined to the preliminary pages otherwise without blemish markings or notations. Overall very good. The British Library in their catalogued entry notes the presence of two variants of the imprint 'The first line of the imprint has "And Sold". Another edition has "And to be Sold" '; our copy reads the latter. See ESTC Citation Nos. R224964 006131506 & R14958 006080775. See also Wing Citation No. D506. Scarce in commerce. <br/><br/>A remarkable and crucial historical account of the raging debates within the English parliament surrounding the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 also known as the Bloodless Revolution An Réabhlóid Ghlórmhar Irish: Rèabhlaid Ghlòrmhor Scottish Gaelic; Chwyldro Gogoneddus Welsh; Glorieuze Overtocht Dutch which witnessed the deposition of James II also James VII of Scotland from the English Throne in favour of his daughter Mary II and her husband "stadtholder and de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic" William III of Orange. The Revolution would see the passage of the landmark Bill of Rights of 1689 ensured the exclusion of Catholics from the English throne severely curtailed the monarch's power and witnessed the effective establishment of a constitutional monarchy thereby ensuring the supremacy of Parliament. It further led to the Act of Toleration of 1689 granting toleration to "Nonconformist Protestants" but excluding Catholics whose emancipation would be delayed for a further 140 years. The present volume deals chiefly with Parliament's resolution relating to whether James had forfeited or abdicated the throne by virtue of his having discarded the "Great Seal of the Realm" into the River Thames prior to fleeing for France his subsequent capture at Kent and later exile under the protection of Louis XIV of France. Ultimately Parliament declared that: "King James II having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom has abdicated the government and that the throne is thereby vacant." Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster hardcover
31829LONDON THE GOLDEN HOURS PRESS 1933. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES FOR SALE 250 WERE PRINTED. THIS IS NUMBER 9a. QUARTO ORIGINAL GREEN BUCKRAM BEVELLED EDGES T.E.G. UNTRIMMED PAGE EDGES. WITH FOUR FULL PAGE WOODCUTS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS INCLUDING THE FRONTIS. THE TYPE IS BEMBO REVIVED FROM AN EARLY ALDINE FOUNT. THE PAPER IS PURE RAG HAND-MADE. OF THE EDITION OF 200 A BALANCE REMAINED AND THESE WERE TAKEN OVER BY HOLLIS AND CARTER LIMITED AND OFFERED IN A LESS ELABORATE BINDING AND NUMBERED 1a ONWARDS. tHIS IS ONE OF THOSE COPIES. SLIGHT FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. AND SOME SLIGHT FADING TO THE GREEN BOARDS NO SLIPCASE. A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK. LONDON, THE GOLDEN HOURS PRESS, 1933 hardcover
191214840New York, Willey Book Company, 1912. 12 parties en 6 forts volumes in-8, demi-maroquin bordeaux à coins, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de roulettes, filets, encadrements et titre dorés, filets dorés sur les plats, tranches dorées, gardes marbrées. Reliures signées Asprey & Co.
19852091202133201867Kodansha International Ltd. 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 books in total Kodansha International Ltd. paperback
18993392Denver: Privately Printed 1899. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. 215 x 139 mm. 76 pp. photographic text illustrations some full-page. Original green printed wrappers slightly soiled worn and chipped at head and tail pencil inscription on back wrapper SEE IMAGES internally unmarked and unspoiled. NOT ex-library! A remarkable account of an itinerant teenage girl in the the far west very well written and informative. This slender privately published volume has received far too little attention by historians.<br/><br/>The author was a genuine early western "army brat" who except for two years in the East at boarding school grew up "on an Indian pony" in remote Western army posts where her father served as a major in the 7th Cavalry. Mary's high-spirited account commences in Rawlins Wyoming with her arrival by train from the East and boarding school with her mother and a female servant. A grizzled peg-legged stage driver meets the ladies with an army ambulance photo included to drive them overland 150 miles to join Mary's father at Fort Washakie. It does not take very long for Mary to flee the confined ambulance and her female companions and grab the reins from the driver. Their stops along the route are Sheep's Ranch inhabited by a lone coyote; Lost Soldier Ranch "a small pile of low adobe buildings unsightly and gray with dust; not a tree or green thing in sight"; Sweetwater Ranch "much of the land being fenced off with the deadly barbed wire allow no herds of antelope and deer as found in my girlhood"; and Wind River Ranch dangerous ascent down steep Beaver Hill imperiled further by a rattlesnake that spooked the mules. <br/><br/>In an amusing but instructive anecdote Mary tells of their overnight sojourn at the rough headquarters of Lost Soldier Ranch whose owner Tom proudly relates how he bought the ranch with savings from working as a cowpuncher. The ranch had two large rooms one for sleeping and the other a bar-kitchen that reeked of beer "Think of it! Beer for breakfast beer for luncheon beer for dinner". The sleeping quarters contained four enormous beds each large enough to hold six men. Tom had thoughtfully partitioned off one bed for the ladies making a privacy screen with five-foot paper-thin boards for security there was a big glittery bowie knife under the bed and light consisted of a candle in a broken beer bottle. Mary's mother and the servant were so horrified at the immodesty of the sleeping arrangement that Tom in a gesture of true ranching hospitality graciously agreed that he and his cowboys would sleep in the other room on the floor.<br/><br/>From the Dorothy Sloan Collection of Women in the West. <br/><br/>Graff 1251. Howes 1954 3323. Huntington 292: "An interesting narrative of life and adventures in the far west containing details on the Shoshones Arapahoes etc.". [Privately Printed] unknown books
2015x-0415832039Routledge 2015. Hardcover. New. 3rd edition. 726 pages. 10.50x7.25x1.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
First Edition, 4to (260 x 205 mm), [2], 72pp., large paper copy, with an additional portrait of the author engraved by John Collyers, title-page printed in red and black, added engraved title depicting Neptune with trident framed by scenes of the celebrations, large folding engraved plan of the table layout along the quay, one further engraved plate, contemporary crimson morocco-backed boards, original pink printed label on upper cover, spine rubbed and joints cracked. A festival to celebrate the fall of Napoleon I, April 1814. a vivid account of the 'grand festival' in Great Yarmouth was written by Robert Cory, a local businessman and the builder of a suspension bridge across the River Yare which collapsed in 1845 with considerable loss of life. Inclusively was again the order of the day, and on a larger scale than at Cambridge: over 9,000 people were fed at fifty-eight tables stretched along the waterfront. An afternoon of feasting, donkey-racing and a 'pig hunt' culminated in the burning of a vast, symbolic bonfire representing the 'Funeral Pile of the Buonapartean Dynasty'. Despite concerns prompted by the participation of 'the lowest order of society', everything passed off peacefully. Even the weather obliged: the drizzle stopped five minutes before dinner was served.
Fourth edition, with additions and corrections, 8vo (170 x 100 mm), [6], 279, 286-427, 430-431, [3]pp., parallel German title page: Der getreue englische Weg-weiser, oder kurtze, doch gr?ndliche Anleitung zur englischen Sprache f?r die Teutschen... Bey Joh. Friedrich Brauns sel. Erben, text in German and English, woodcut to titles, date at bottom of both title pages has been scored-out with blank ink, near cont. calf, slight rubbing but a nice copy. The German translator and language teacher Johann K?nig, or John King, having lived and worked in London for 30 years, first published his A Complete English Guide for High-Germans / Ein vollkommener englischer Wegweiser fur Hoch-Teutsche in 1706, a grammar, phrase-book and guide for Germans wishing to learn English, having recognised that Germans were increasingly visiting and settling in Britain. Alston II, 363; ESTC locates just 2 copies of this fourth edition (British Library and Torun University Library, Poland).
182234883London: Printed for G. and W.B. Wittaker 1822. An early example of the first separately printed edition. Tall 8vo beautifully bound in full contemporary Regency dark-tan polished calf the borders of both covers trimmed with triple fillet lines in blind enclosing an elaborate gilt inner frame decorated with fine tooling surrounding and inner roll tooled frame in blind enclosing another inner gilt frame of triple gilt fillet rules and floral corner pieces enclosing another roll tooled decoration in blind the spine with raised bands gilt decorated to match the outer frame of the covers the compartments fully gilt with large central tools surrounded by elaborate panels Regency style one compartment gilt lettered on a dark-green black label additional gilt tooling at the head and foot board edges gilt tooled turnovers gilt marbled endleaves and edges a very handsome and proper binding Regency binding. viii 490 14 Index pp. A near pristine copy of the text the paper fresh clean and bright throughout. The binding is very handsome sturdy and strong and beautifully preserved. AN EARLY SEPARATE EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. AN ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVELY BOUND AND FRESH COPY OF A VERY FINE BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT ENGLISH POET. The author Charles Symmons was himself a poet a Doctor of Divinity and a Cambridge scholar. This and his 'Life of Shakespeare' were two of his most significant works. THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON was first included in the 1806 seven volume edition of Milton's Prose. It was very well received thus creating demand for this stand-alone printing here presented in an excellent Regency binding. Printed for G. and W.B. Wittaker hardcover
mon0000656252RODOLFO GERSTL 1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7874 in x 12.0079 in x 12.0079 in. Crease on cover RODOLFO GERSTL hardcover
198016815Etats-Unis, New York, Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. In-8 cartonnage éditeur de 182 pages au format 21,5 x 14,5 cm. Plats et intérieur frais. Complet de la superbe jaquette illustrée. Recueil de nouvelles policières. Magnifique état de fraicheur, proche du neuf. Edition originale américaine. Précieux exemplaire avec rare, belle et cordiale dédicace autographe, datée et signée, de Isaac Asimov.
19867736Etats-Unis, Dennis McMillan Publications / Miami 1986. In-4 cartonnage éditeur de 190 pages au format 13,5 x 19,5 cm sous magnifique jaquette illustrée par Phil Foglio. Préface de Charles Willeford. Tome 10 de la collection " Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps ". Inédits de Fredric Brown. Tirage unique à 400 exemplaires numérotés et signés par Charles Willeford ( n° 259 ). Rarissime édition originale en état proche du neuf.
