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19502546Madras 1950. Third Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Very good. 332 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. First published in 1933 by the Friends In Need Society assisting the aged infirm and destitute European and Anglo-Indian Christians this Anglo-Indian cookbook was written for British women in India who wanted to recreate their home environs while living in the colony. Written in two languages - English and Urdu side by side. Last 12 pages filled with local ads. Some pencil annotations covers rubbed. <br /> hardcover books
19801010179Hereford: Five Stories Press 1980. First edition. limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Thomas and designer Reg Boulton. Copy #30. Quarter-leather and cloth covered boards. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase Engravings and screenpinted endpages by Boulton. Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Five Stories Press Hardcover books
19522221650<p>Typed Letter Signed in the form of contract proposal from Victor Weybright at The New American Library of World Literature Inc. 501 Madison Avenue New York 22 New York Murray Hill 8-3470 May 9 1952. Addressed to Dylan Thomas c/o Mr. Oscar Williams 25 Water Street New York 4 New York. Very good.</p><p>Signed by Thomas at end and initialed twice by him noting hand corrections.</p><p>Contract for the purchase of the first part of Dylan Thomas' "Adventures In The Skin Trade."</p><p>Thomas was in New York on his American lecture tour having arrived on January 20th lecturing at Harvard U.C. Berkeley et.al.; leaving the U.S. on May 16th.</p><p>Oscar Williams born Kaplan 1900-1964 was a poet anthologist friend and promoter of Dylan Thomas. He occupied a penthouse at 35 Water Street and Thomas most likely stayed there when in New York.</p><p>Dylan Thomas contracts are uncommon on the market today.</p><p>See Dylan Thomas "The Collected Letters" 2000 ed pages 958-959 for a footnote detailing this contract and a related letter to Oscar Williams.</p> unknown books
19491336075New York: S.F. Vanni Publishers & Booksellers 1949. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; pp 291; tan spine with red text; dust jacket shows slightly age toned spine; slight toning toward edges; minor chips to edges; slight age toning inside dj; cloth has slightly sunned spine; mild foxing to exterior; strong boards; text block exterior edges have slight age toning; previous owner's name to ffep; interior clean; frontispiece; intact binding; text in Italian and English. 1336075. FP New Rockville Stock. S.F. Vanni, Publishers & Booksellers hardcover 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
1955128288Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. <br/><br/>A crew of Air Force soldiers are called in for a difficult bombing mission on the border of Manchuria and North Korea and while the mission is successful in the end it takes a hefty toll on the group. <br/><br/>White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gries. 155 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown 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
1979226824San Francisco: Pay Am Iran 1979. Magazine. 45p. slick paper throughout with English texts printed triple-column and Persian in double columns; slight signs of handling front cover has a tiny dog-ear a clean sound copy. From masthead: "Iran Sun-- an independent magazine published monthly for all Iranians in North America. Serves the Iranian community with up-to-date news. looks at current events yet stays neutral in religion and politics. also serves as a medium for American businesses to contact potential Iranian investors and consumers Pay Am Iran unknown books
20051339620Slough UK: Pauline Books & Media 2005. Softcover. Quarto; G/paperback; spiral binding; illustrated rust red front with ivory and orange text; front has few chips to edges as is; white rear shows slight wear; text block edges have some foxing; broken hinges as is; first and last few pages have foxing; interior text pages good; illustrated with colored plates; unpaginated; arts-Ancient. 1339620. FP New Rockville Stock. Pauline Books & Media unknown books
15905TUILERIES BROCHURES ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. London: Ludowici-Celadon 1930. 4to. Cloth. vi 200 pages. Being a reprint of the first 12 brochures first issued in 1929-1930 all deal with English architecture. With photographs and measured drawings. Very goo spine worn. unknown books
199631676Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 1996. Hardcover. 0313294151 . Part of the Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers series. First printing. As new in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
18882540891888. hardcover. These documents are dated from 1884 to 1892. Several are signed in type by Robert Todd Lincoln American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Department of State. 13.25 x 8.25-inch slim folio-sized volume bound with marble boards and leather 20 pages with the addition of an important typed letter signed by Benjamin F. Butler investigating a mass inheritance fraud perpetrated on the citizens of America by con artists in the United Kingdom. During this period American citizens would be notified that they were heirs to a large unclaimed English Estate or perhaps a large sum of money held in the Bank of England. To receive their inheritance they were told that certain legal fees and real estate transfer taxes would have to be paid to agents of the British Government. Another variation of the scheme involved American con artists placing advertisements in newspapers calling themselves "European claim agencies" and charging Americans exorbitant fees for investigating the ownership of non-existing estates. Lincoln is flustered because the American Legation in London is receiving hundreds of letters from American citizens who were swindled and yet little was being done in the United States to educate its citizens to the magnitude of the fraud. Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Blaine extract March 3 1891 ".since March 4 1889 one hundred and ninety 190 letters have been received at this Legation alleging the writers claims to large estates in England or to fantastic sums of money 'in chancery' or 'in the Bank of England' none of them containing an element of probability." In conclusion is a typed letter signed by former Union General Benjamin F. Butler 1 page on law office letterhead Boston November 14 1888 whereby he brings to light the vast magnitude of the con in part: ".I have now been more than 45 years in the practice of a legal profession more or less extensively. I have heard of more than 4500--I hope I do not exaggerate--cases of large estates in England awaiting American heirs and I have been consulted in a very great many and early in life looked into such matters; but I have not for the last 25 years at all because I never have heard of one dollar coming from England to any American heir on account of such estates. In the first place it is a legal impossibility unless the heirs are British subjects.all those I have ever known about are swindles." Leather binding worn at the spine with light fading to the marble boards. All interior documents are in good to very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
20101323936Florence: Mandragora 2010. First U.S. Printing. Softcover. Octavo; pp 219; VG/paperback; black/orange pictorial spine with white and black text; covers show mild rubbing to exterior; intact panels; text block has slight soiling to exterior edges; interior clean; frontispiece;profusely illustrated; arts - History;. 1323936. FP New Rockville Stock. Mandragora unknown 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
192631203New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1926. Hardcover. 184p. stated first edition spine gilt faded else very good condition. Short introduction by the editor John R. Commons. Harper & Brothers Publishers 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
19089206New York: Doubleday. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover. ex-library; hinges cracked and loose; worn covers; illustrations; Good . Doubleday hardcover books
191228241New York: Macmillan 1912. First Edition. Octavo. Red textured cloth; 452ppads. Solid straight copy; endpapers lightly soiled and creased; Very Good. Macmillan unknown books
190850018NY: Doubleday Page 1908. First American edn. 8vo pp. xviii 476. Appendix bibliographic note index. Illustrated. with photographs. From the library of consumer advocate Florence Kelley with her ownership signature. Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine TEG. Owner's name on flyleaf. Cover bumped at corners and scuffed at corners and ends of spine o/w VG. FK. "I appeal rather to those seriously interested in the Russian revolutionary movement for the light it sheds on that all-inclusive problem: the future of human society. Doubleday, Page unknown books
19682222018<p>First edition. Tall octavo. 7 plates in color and 1 b/w illustrations by Rigby Graham. Original gilt stamped stiff blue/green patterned wrappers matching endpapers. No dust jacket. Fine. 20 pages.</p><p>One of 325 unnumbered copies twenty five copies were numbered and signed.</p><p>Printed by Peter Bonser.</p><p>Binding and gold stamping by Trevor Hickman.</p> Brewhouse Press paperback books
30466English Mid-19th century. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. Fine. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. 19th Century English Sporting Scene. A small painting of great charm showing a sleeping dog gun game bag and several dispatched pheasants in a woodland setting. unknown books
30467English Mid-19th century. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. Fine. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. 19th Century English Sporting scene. A charming small study of two spaniels chasing a snipe or woodcock in a woodland setting. 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
2222172<p>"Evelyn Waugh" in black fountain pen ink Islington n.d. on his personal 17A Canonbury Square Islington N.1 North 5788 letterhead paper watermarked "Warriston Vellum" November 4 n.y. but ca. 1928 4 1/2" x 7" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good minor signs of handling.</p><p>To Henry Williamson</p><p>Letter thanking Williamson for his compliments on his recent novel.</p><p>In part: ".how surprising to get back the book.I enjoyed writing it which I gather is an unusual experience.we leave at the end of this week for a month or two in Constantinople."</p><p>See "diaries" page 301. Sunday November 11 1928 where Waugh discusses a visit with Henry Williamson and loan of a copy of "Decline and Fall."</p><p>In part: ".He is quite elderly - though I find him coupled with me in reviews as promising young writers - and wholly without culture."</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 books
