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1941406108Boston: Charles T. Branford Company 1941. A fine copy in a very good jacket with light toning and a chip at the head of the spine panel. 8vo. 340 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this classic of New York City life scarcely found with its dust jacket. "The New York that only Gothamites know is here revealed in a different kind of guidebook. An intimate uncovering of the Melting Pot nothing like it has appeared before. The reader is in for an unforgettable experience a conducted sight-seeing tour of New York's most celebrated spectacle-morning rush hour. <br/><br/> Charles T. Branford Company hardcover books
189845626London: The University Press Ltd 1898. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth boards; 107pp. Cloth a shade sunned at spine else a tight straight Very Good copy. The two titles bound together as issued; second title has its own half-title but pagination is continuous. Includes Appendix "The English Press and the Prosecution." Two works the first a satirical play the second a scholarly essay attacking British censorship laws and the suppression of public speech. The University Press sometimes calling itself the "Watford University Press" was a project of Rowland de Villiers a freethought and free-speech activist and publisher of controversial literature who has been described by one historian as "a somewhat shady character at best" see Odin Dekkers J.M. Robertson. Lon:1998. Villiers was most famously the British publisher of Havelock Ellis's treatise on sexual inversion; he was arrested on obscenity charges in 1901 and died in police custody. "G. Astor Singer" appears to have been a Villiers pseudonym and we would not be entirely surprised if "Frederick Raymond Coulson" was an alias as well. The University Press, Ltd unknown books
1857D4633London: William Tegg 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and marbled paper over boards lavishly gilt-stamped compartmented spine gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label endpapers and all edges marbled. With a reproduction of the frontispiece to the original edition. Moderate scuffing on boards spine tips and along edges of boards; corners lightly bumped. A worn but pretty copy with bright gilt. Internally clean. <br/><br/> William Tegg hardcover books
184948134London:: William Tegg & Co. Good. 1849. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Thick octavo half-bound in brown leather and marbled boards raised band gilt lettering on a black label and design along the spine all edges red. Leather binding and boards show considerable shelf wear with a piece torn at the crown of the spine previous owner's name on front free endpaper large portion of rear free endpaper has been torn away else good. ; 748 pages . William Tegg & Co., hardcover books
1827Embry 196852Longman Rees Orme and Co. 1827. Thirteen edition corrected. Owner's gift inscription boards with some rubbing and scuffing spines fine overall near fine handsome set with hinges firm and internally clean in custom mylar covers. Period brown calf handsomely respined with compartments elabrotately gilt and red and deep green title and volume lables. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., 1827. Thirteen edition, corrected. hardcover books
185408172London: William Tegg and co 1854. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 747 pages. Bound in original blind stamped brown cloth engraved title page and frontispiece yellow coated end papers. "A New Edition" by Democritus Minor. Inner hinges starting light fading to cloth. <br/><br/> William Tegg and co hardcover books
1836006552Philadelphia: T. Wardle 1836. SCARCE in the First American from the Thirteenth English Edition Corrected. In two volumes apparently rebound in late 1800s green cloth binding about Very Good leather spine labels rubbed and illegible small prior owner name stamp front end pages both volumes end pages foxed period prior owner name in ink volume one only moderate internal foxing and toning hinges starting but holding well. The first edition was published in 1621. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Wardle Hardcover books
