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1855V73797London: James Blackwood 1856 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece & pictorial titlepage many text illustrations 2nd work with frontispiece & pictorial extra titlepage. 2 BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME octavo morocco spined boards with original title laid on. Frontis Pictorial Extra titlepage viii 127pp and 2nd work Frontis Engraved extra title x 107pp. Two Victorian humorous works from the same publisher nicely bound together. James Blackwood hardcover
18839299077Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1883. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering and thin gilt bands on backstrip. Significant shelf wear to edges of binding backstrip particularly torn. Bumped corners. Front and back hinge splits many pages coming loose or completely detached from binding. Tape both internally and externally on hinge of back board and backstrip. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
18838970252Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1883. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Size: Octavo. Binding: Rebound. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1100grams ISBN: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co hardcover
18931651New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1893 89 pages from the "Sunshine Library" a very happpy first edition with a nice and bright unscathed pictoral cvr one little bump along the back bottom edge. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. hardcover
189705057RIP VAN WINKLE Harper & Brothers 1897 base of spine ever so slightly bruised else a fine copy in a nicely illustrated binding with same frontispiece two colored title page and first page all design by Will Bradley. Putnams unknown
1895MJ117London: Cassell and Company Limited 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Folio. xvi 400 4pp.Original green buckram with a fine gilt decoration to the front board <br/> <br/> Cassell and Company Limited hardcover
1858AQ34234London: Hamilton Adams and Co. and T. Hatchard 1858. viii 100pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's blind-ruled brown cloth lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked cocked. Upper hinge exposed early inked ownership inscription and manuscript inscription 'For the use of Ayston Sunday School' to recto of FFEP initial gathering protruding from text-block. 'These Questions are not intended as exercises for the intellect. The objects aimed at in them are the forming early of a habit of attention in reading the holy scriptures and fixing in the memory some of the great truths and facts those scriptures record'. The sole edition of Church of England clergyman Charles Bradley's 1789-1871 devotional questions intended for the use of Sunday Schools. The fifty-two sets of questions each relate to a specific subject from John the Baptist and the creation of the world to Judas Iscariot and the rivers of Canaan. OCLC records copies at just four locations BL Cambridge NLS and Oxford; COPAC adds no further. . 12mo. Hamilton, Adams, and Co. and T. Hatchard hardcover
184819415Washington DC 1848. Paperback. Good overall. Starts with "To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:" Pamphlet pertaining to seeking a legal remedy to the resolution of the estate of Thadeus Kosciusko the famous Polish born American Revolutionary War hero. 8vo 64pp. Pamphlet with green printed wrappers spine ruffled and working its way loose. Small library deaccession stamp on front wrapper. Scarce: OCLC records only 4 copies. paperback
189442707Boston: Allyn & Bacon 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name to front pastedown.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Allyn & Bacon hardcover
181956741Albany: G. J. Loomis. Fair. 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather gilt. Both boards detached included. Spine gilt mostly rubbed away. Ffeps laid in loose. 2nd ffep has inked notation "Library of the Baptist College Bristol 1825." Red ink numbers to pastedown ffep 2nd ffep and title page. Bookplate of the "Bristol Education Society. " Mild foxing mostly to first/last pages. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 300 pages . G. J. Loomis hardcover
1887203071Philadelphia: Bradley William M. 1887. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 11.5".<br/><br/> Beautiful clear map of the Dakotas divided into counties and townships showing towns major routes waterways and Indian reservations. In excellent condition.<br/><br/> Bradley, William M. unknown books
1888203695Philadelphia: Bradley William M. 1888. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13.5" x 20.75".<br/><br/> Great double page map of Tennessee and Kentucky divided into counties. Shows towns railroads waterways and topographical details. Full original margins very slight chip to lower corners.<br/><br/> Bradley, William M. unknown books
1887203071Philadelphia: Bradley William M. 1887. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 11.5".<br/> <br/> Beautiful clear map of the Dakotas divided into counties and townships showing towns major routes waterways and Indian reservations. In excellent condition.<br/> <br/> Bradley, William M. unknown
189740997New York Published for Will Bradley by R. H. Russell 1897 hardcover. Colophon: Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press Springfield Mass. U.S.A. in December MDCCCXCVII. -- Hardcover deckled edges 99 pages 6x8.5 inches. Good-only used condition half-inch of spine paper loose spine and gutter discolored; corner bumped; personal bookplate of Lotz printers Cincinnati with their printer's device. Published for Will Bradley by R. H. Russell hardcover
186036481London: J. Barnard & Son 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes: Heraldry and Heraldic Painting: with a Complete Elucidation of the Laws Usages and Practice of Heraldry; and a Dictionary of Its Charges Figures and Language by Clifford W.H.; J.C. Whimper editor and illustrator. London: J. Barnard & Son no date. 4 pages of ads color frontis 56 pages plus 8 pages of ads.<br /> A Manual of Illumination on Paper and Vellum by Bradley J.W. and T.G. Goodwin. Revised and illustrated by J.J. Laing. London: Windsor & Newton no date. Nineteenth Edition. 100 pages plus "index of illustrations" plates.<br /> A Guide to Animal Drawing for the Use of Landscape Painters by Charles H. Weingall. London: George Rowney & Co. 1868. Seventh edition. 50 pages plus plates of animals horses cows deer geese rabbits dogs a cat and more.<br /> All works have been trimmed and bound together in an "Emerson Binder" with internal clips and threaded needles intact. The boards are three-quarter black leather over pebbled black cloth. Gilt title author and volume on spine read: "Illumination Etc. IV Kurtz." Presumably this was one of many works bound in a similar style by the previous owner Charles M. Kurtz of New York. His bookplate penned name and stamp of gold skull and crossbones with - perhaps fraternity symbols of Phi Delta Kappa surrounding it - on the front pastedown. His name also appears on preliminary leaves of several of the bound in books along with different addresses and dates. A few sheets of lined notebook paper proceed the books. A hand written table of contents is present on the first page. Even toning to interior. Offsetting from leather turn-ins to to first and last few pages. Clean and bright overall. All pages including plates have been trimmed in some cases affecting the edges of images or plate numbers. Chipping to cormers of several pages. <br /> Chalres McMeen Kurtz 1855 - 1909 was an American art critic author and museum curator. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City when he was using these books based on the date of 1876 being written on the verso of the frontis of the heraldry book. Kurtz was involved with several major art exhibitions including the World's Columbian Exposition and Paris Exposition of 1900. ART/032323. J. Barnard & Son hardcover
189161944Baltimore: R. H. Woodward & Company 1891. Reprint. Octavo 19.5cm. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt; light brown and cream patterned endpapers; viii362pp; black and white halftone plates. Bookplate of Alfred J. O'Ferrall to front pastedown; stamp of Thos. D. Harrison to front flyleaf. Sound and straight but rubbed at head and tail with mild superficial abrasion to boards gilt largely flaked off internally slightly toned: around Very Good. <br /> <br /> Johnston 1807-1891 was a prominent Confederate general. This memoir is a "highly sympathetic and strongly partisan account by a soldier who served with Johnston throughout the war." NEVINS I p.67. 61944. R. H. Woodward & Company unknown
185442984New York: Charles Scribner. Good. 1854. Hardcover. Alabama poetry. Good hardcover for age. Cover showing age - bumped corners nice on cover. Writing on inside front free end paper. Spotting throughout. Last 20 or so pages are lose but still in binding. Looks like a few back end sheets are torn out. ; 5" x 7 1/2"; 268 pages . Charles Scribner hardcover
1891189895London: Bernard Quaritch 1891. Hardcover. As-Is Good canditate for rebinding missing spine and rear cover; pages age toned but otherwise clear. Front cover is red paper and red leather over boards; XXVIII 400 pp many uncut 18 bw plates. Printed in edition of 300 copies. Errata slip bound-in. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
18878688243Bernard Quaritch 1887. Volumes 1-3. Ex-library books and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. Hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Medium red cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Interior is secure clean and clear save for a little foxing and age toning. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2550grams ISBN: Bernard Quaritch hardcover
18234790Boston: Jonathan Howe 1823. Hardcover. Good. frontis pp 108 Almost certainly spurious account of the 'shipwreck and sufferings' of Mrs Eliza Bradley supposedly autobiographical but borrowed in large part from Captain James Riley's 1816 account of his capture and exploits on the 'coast of Barbary'. The second Boston edition of 1823 bound in quarter roan over marbled paper covered wooden boards marbling heavily worn close to foreedge on upper board. Browning to paper internally though the crudely effective woodcut frontispiece is present and intact. Foxing throughout. Central four leaves of the first gathering loose. In the UK Copac locates British Library only. Please contact Christian at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this book. Good 1823 Jonathan Howe hardcover
1900Q2120Springfield MA: Milton Bradley Co. ca. 1900. Very good. 11 of 12 perforated sewing cards 5.5 x 4 inches housed in a patterned paper-covered box 7.25 x 5.25 x 1" with color lithograph mounted to the lid. Bottom of the box advertises "The Popular and Unique Game of Kerion." Box is slightly misshapen with typical rubbing wear to edges and some scuffing to the lithograph label light fingersoil to cards. 10 of 11 are neatly completed with color thread generally Very Good. <br /> <br />"This box besides the cards contains a variety of colored threads for working the designs. These cards are made by a patented process and are ready for working the holes being already perforated at the proper points. The lines to be sewed are represented by the printed dots. After a design is completed tell the child what it repre-sents its history etc." <br /> <br />Advertised as part of a "New Line of Sewing Cards constructed on the general line of the Story Sewing Cards which have proved so popular. We have added the following line. Each box contains twelve cards made under the patented Process of puncturing for the holes and dotting for the outlines to guide the child. These designs are sometimes used by Children of a Larger Growth" for patterns in decorative needle work. Milton Bradley's Catalogue of Home Amusements 1900-1901 p. 53 Other lines in the series were Animal Fish Leaf Flower Birds and Soldiers and Sailors Sewing Cards which proved popular throughout the decade. <br/><br/> Milton Bradley Co. unknown
1882044937New Haven CT: William H. Bradley & Co. 1882. 1882 illustrated catalog bound into green cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering original softcovers bound in about sixty pages unpaginated illustrated with all sorts of carriages wagons phaetons carts hearses butties etc. Very good condition pages clean small name stamp at upper corner of the new front free endpaper no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William H. Bradley & Co. Hardcover
18839843467Clarendon Press 1883. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Medium brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Interior is secure clean and clear save for several pages with small marginal pencil markings. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: Clarendon Press hardcover
1889022778London: Richard Bently and Son 1889. Octavo. In two volumes. 274 and 300pp. The story of Arabella Stuart is quite intriguing. She should have become Queen. She as the cousin to James VI of Scotland niece of Mary Queen of Scots and a distant cousin to Queen Elizabeth I of England. She later married in secret only to have her husband sent to the Tower of London she would later become imprisoned herself by James VI after attempting to escape to France. She had no children and died at age of 39 after she refused help or medication while she deteriorated in the Tower. A very good set bound by Larkins in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers top edges gilt some darkening to corners with light wear and small chip to head of volume 1. Richard Bently and Son unknown
189724690New York: R.H. Russell 1897. Boards. Orig. thick illustrated brown boards with paper spine label. Near fine. 35 pages. 19.5 x 10.5 cm. Bradley arranged and printed the work originally at the Wayside Department of the University Press Cambridge. Title page in red and black and accompanied by a full page illustration of Van Winkle holding a rifle and a mug of beer. Interior very fresh and clean as published. R.H. Russell unknown
