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189724692New York: R.H. Russell 1897. Boards. Orig. thick illustrated brown boards with paper spine label. Near fine. 61 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 a couple in period style dress. Interior very fresh and clean as published. R.H. Russell unknown
1891W1044Baltimore Maryland: R. H. Woodward & Company 1891. x 362 pages. First printing of this scarce biography of Confederate General J. E. Johnston. The book is clean and tight with minimal edgewear; dusty top edge of the textblock; lettering on spine rubbed but still legible. On the first blank page there is a pencilled Christmas 1891 gift inscription by a previous owner. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. R. H. Woodward & Company Hardcover
1854012857New York: Charles Scribner 1854. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Good copy. 12mo. viii 13- 272 pp. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with title on the spine in gilt. Torn along the front joint causing the spine covering to "flap". Light rubbing to the cloth. Text is generally very clean. Old booksellers sticker on the front paste down. A Good copy in need of rebacking. Charles Scribner unknown
1883518384Oxford: Clarendon Press 1883. Hardcover without dust jacket; rough cut pageblock; printed endpapers. Boards are lightly worn at edges multiple marks to both front and rear board sides. Signature of previous owner to FEP date and place penned to facing half-title page. Page block and page edges are tanned. Very minor pencil marks in margins. Text is clear. AD. Hardcover. Good. Used. Clarendon Press Hardcover
188313272N.Y., D. van Nostrand, 1883. Cont. full cloth. Top a. bottom of spine a little frayed. One corner bumped. Stamp on title. 270 pp., 5 fold. wood-engraved plates and 177 illustr. in the text (of electrical machines, Edison-lamps, telegraphy etc.). Publishers announcements bound at end. 16 pp.
188313272N.Y. D. van Nostrand 1883. Cont. full cloth. Top a. bottom of spine a little frayed. One corner bumped. Stamp on title. 270 pp. 5 fold. wood-engraved plates and 177 illustr. in the text of electrical machines Edison-lamps telegraphy etc. Publishers announcements bound at end. 16 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
1853001305Boston: Little Brown. GOOD-VGworn but nice boards books. REPRINT 8"x5" 500pp. 1893 1853cp. LATER REPRINT. Hardcover. GOOD-VG books. Tan half calf. Bright TEG. Vol 2 upper hinge repaired. Tight FINE inside. Tipped in 3 page book related ALS. . Gilt lettered red & black leather spine labels. Books worn but spotless. With 2nd engraved title page. FINE inside no aging foxing marginalia etc. Both stay tightly closd when stood on their spines. The letter is about books used book sellers children's books and book illustrations. Interesting content. "My dear sir The four books reached us yesterday. They are wonderfully cheap and good.By this post I have sent some lines concerning to - whch I hope Mr Mortimer will insert. I should advise you to try W. Pearson second hand bookseller. York St.Covent Garden for an early copy of "Goody Two Shoes". I note your communication in last week's N. & Q. As a curiosity I send for your acceptance a copy of the style of books prepared for children a half a century ago. It was presented to my wife when a child - and she remembers being charmed with it. You will serve the whole of it letterpress engraved. I made a note of it - "cucklen bch" - some time since in N.&Q. Believe me Very truly yours Edward Bradley". A PS concerning his son Cuthbert indirectly dates the letter to 1880. Cuthbert became a prolific painter of the British fox hunting scene. In the PS the father writes of his son's sketch appearing in "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News". Since the letter has Cuthbert as 19 at the time the sketch was an early work. . Little Brown hardcover
1900TB31551New York: E. P. Dutton n.d. 1900. First Edition. Very good in its original purple cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board with a mild spine lean. The end sheets appear to be much newer indicating a replacement to repair weakened or cracked hinges. An octavo of 8 5/8 by 5 3/4 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and just beginning to fray and the cloth over the tips of the boards is rubbed the title page preliminaries and first few pages of the book show foxing which is also true of the last few pages the index and faint foxing throughout the book. There is a one inch stain to the fore edge of the text block and a narrow stain to the upper margins of pages 185 to 194. 400 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a fold-out map of Canada and the English Colonies in 1750 as the frontispiece and with five other maps one of which folds out. A difficult title to locate in first edition. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1900TB31551New York: E. P. Dutton n.d. 1900. First Edition. Very good in its original purple cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board with a mild spine lean. The end sheets appear to be much newer indicating a replacement to repair weakened or cracked hinges. An octavo of 8 5/8 by 5 3/4 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and just beginning to fray and the cloth over the tips of the boards is rubbed the title page preliminaries and first few pages of the book show foxing which is also true of the last few pages the index and faint foxing throughout the book. There is a one inch stain to the fore edge of the text block and a narrow stain to the upper margins of pages 185 to 194. 400 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a fold-out map of Canada and the English Colonies in 1750 as the frontispiece and with five other maps one of which folds out. A difficult title to locate in first edition. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
1858250281New York: Appleton 1858. hardcover. good. Edited and with an introduction by "Cousin Alice". Several plates. 202pp. 2pp. of publisher's ads. 12mo original brown cloth lacks front flyleaf spine ends worn cloth lightly soiled light foxing to some margins including plates. New York: D. Appleton 1858.<br/><br/> Mary E. Bradley was the author of several works of juvenile and adult fiction that were published from 1855 to 1870. The noted author Alice Bradley Neal Haven who often wrote under the name "Cousin Alice" edited this work and was the sister-in-law of Mary E. Bradley.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
185729959London: H. Ingram James Blackwood 1857. Various editions. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green straight-grained morocco gilt t.e.g. by Birdsall hinges rubbed spine toned to brown internally fine with the original pictorial wrappers of each title bound in. Various editions. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. The Complete "Mr. Verdant Green". An enormously popular work that went into numerous editions written and illustrated by a Midland vicar Rev. Edw. Bradley 1827-1889 who also drew for Punch and was one of the first illustrators to satirize photography. Sadleir 3432; Wolff 755 H. Ingram, James Blackwood unknown books
1894WRCLIT70793Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board lower fore-tip bruised otherwise near fine. First edition this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably a later state was bound in tan cloth with the binding design stamped in blue. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
1894WRCLIT60952Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board lower fore-tip bruised otherwise near fine. First edition this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably a later state was bound in tan cloth with the binding design stamped in blue. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
18199897Albany NY: Printed by G.J. Loomis & Co 1819. First Edition. 300pp. Sextodecimo 14.5 cm Full sheep with gilt bands and title on the backstrip. Near fine. Sporadic foxing throughout. Joshua Bradley was the pastor of churches in Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont and New York he first affirmed and later renounced freemasonry creating no small stir among his former masonic brethren. As a mason he published a defense of freemasonry in 1816 while pastoring in Vermont. At that time Bradley was a member of Newport Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Chaplain of the Washington Encampment of Newport. However about a decade later while preparing to defend freemasonry against the rising tide of antimasonry he altered his views and abruptly did an about face renouncing freemasonry in the light of the antimasonic movement then causing chaos in the country citing the murder of William Morgan as one reason. He became a vocal antagonist of freemasonry. Printed by G.J. Loomis & Co unknown
185203795Indianapolis: E. Chamberlain 1852 Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. fifth edition name written in in pencil much wear spine chipped down 1/2" and up 3/4" and coming loose. E. Chamberlain hardcover
1858250281New York: Appleton 1858. hardcover. good. Edited and with an introduction by "Cousin Alice". Several plates. 202pp. 2pp. of publisher's ads. 12mo original brown cloth lacks front flyleaf spine ends worn cloth lightly soiled light foxing to some margins including plates. New York: D. Appleton 1858.<br/> <br/> Mary E. Bradley was the author of several works of juvenile and adult fiction that were published from 1855 to 1870. The noted author Alice Bradley Neal Haven who often wrote under the name "Cousin Alice" edited this work and was the sister-in-law of Mary E. Bradley.<br/> <br/> Appleton unknown
188463455Richmond VA: Wm. Ellis Jones Book and Job Printer for the association 1884. First edition. 8vo. 39 pp. An overview of the Antietam campaign with details of the various troop movements and battles by the commander of the Confederate 1st Maryland who argues that Lee made the invasion to relieve the pressure of war from Virginia not to re-arouse the secessionist fervor of his fellow Marylanders. Dornbusch II 535. Nicholson p. 426 for an 1886 edition. Very good. Original gray-green wrappers traces of removal from a pamphlet binder along the spine some soiling to the front wrapper. 10137. <br/><br/> Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer for the association unknown books
1898317629London: Macmillan 1898. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. xiv 474pp. 8vo. Three quarters modern mottled calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. xiv 474pp. 8vo. Macmillan unknown books
189427527paris Imprimerie Chaix 1894 Une Affichette Publicitaire [Fac-similé réduit de l'affiche originale], lithographiée en couleurs, format : 40 x 28,6 cm, Signé en bas à gauche : William H. BRADLEY , Timbre sec dans le coin inférieur droit : "Les Maîtres de l'affiche // Imprimerie Chaix", 1894 [Paris] : Les Maîtres de l'Affiche Editeur,
185339010<p>London : Addey & Co. 1853. First British edition. A book heralded as the first genuine children's novel set in California - and a cracking tale of the California Gold Rush as young Sam Gilman accompanies his father to San Francisco where they arrive by sea on the Fourth of July. First published in New York earlier that year with the additional sub-title "The Young Californian". Foolscap 8vo 166 x 100mm. ii9-214pp - pagination irregular but collates as the British Library copy. Engraved frontispiece by Dalziel and title-page on plate paper. Bound in a stylish perhaps French half polished tan calf delicately gilt on spine; marbled sides; red edges; just a touch rubbed; hairline split at head of upper joint but solid and sound; a few minor marks and spots but a very good and attractive copy. Blank ex-libris label covering an earlier ownership inscription.</p> London : Addey & Co., 1853. hardcover
1883613057London: Kegan Paul Trench TRUBNER & Co. 1883. Hardcover no jacket in good condition. 1st edition. Also includes 'A List of Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co.'s Ltd Publications' catalogue 1890 edition at the rear. Ex-college library. Faded and worn hardcover; bumped and frayed leading corners; a couple of scuffs on the spine. Shelfmark label on the spine foot. Lightly marked page block. Library labels on the front pastedown and FEP; two or three stamps on the early pages. Sporadic foxing on the pages. Marginalia mostly pencil but also a small amount in pen on the pages throughout - all text remains legible. The binding is a little exposed between a few pages otherwise generally remains sound. CM. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Used. Kegan Paul, Trench, TRUBNER & Co. Hardcover
189020844George Bell and Sons 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. George Bell and Sons 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Beige paper boards with elaborate black decoration. Cover has considerable shelfwear corners are very rubbed missing spine. Pages are clean and unmarked very occasional light foxing more on endpapers. Binding is tight. Hinges are lightly cracked. Good reading copy. Excellent candidate for repair. Very Scarce. Sorry we have to say this but - This is the ACTUAL BOOK. Not a reprint. George Bell and Sons hardcover
1896026491Boston: Copeland and Day 1896. First Edition Thus . Paper-covered Boards. Very Good. 5 9/16" x 4 1/4. 78 Pp. Beige Cloth Spine With Printed Paper Label; Blue-Grey Paper-Covered Boards With Printed Title. Colophon States "This Edition Of Aucassin And Nicolette A Song-Tale Of True Lovers Englished By M. S. Henry And Versified By Edward W. Thomson Is Printed By John Wilson And Son Of Cambridge During April 1896 For Copeland And Day Boston." Will Bradley Was Doing Work For Copeland And Day In 1897 And The Book Has "His" Vine-Leaf Slug Used As A Spacer Occasionally Throughout But There Is No Indication In The Book That Bradley Did The Design Or Typography. This Example Inscribed "To Alice From Will" On Second Front Free Endpaper In Will Bradley's Hand. Lightly Worn Tips Just Beginning To Fray. Scarce. There Is Apparently Another Edition By Copeland And Day Of This Work Dated 1897. <br/> <br/> Copeland and Day hardcover
1894212832London ; Simpkin Marshall ; Stourbridge : Mark & Moody 1894. First Edition. Hardback. Good copy in the original decorative boards. Some wear and loss to spine cover. Panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed. Colour fading around the board margins. An unread copy with unopened pages. Internally pages are particularly clean and sound. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 1 pages; Physical description: 1 v. unpaginated. illus. plates frontis ; 25 cm. Subjects: Children's poetry -- Children's books -- 19th century. London ; Simpkin Marshall ; Stourbridge : Mark & Moody hardcover
1894213105London ; Simpkin Marshall ; Stourbridge : Mark & Moody 1894. First Edition. Hardback. Publisher's dummpy copy - Good conditiion in the original decorative boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and worn as with ages. An unread copy with unopened pages. Sections of original dust jacket mounted to front lining papers. Contemporary press reviews mounted on blank leaves after main contents. Salesman letter loosely inserted. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 1 pages; Physical description: 1 v. unpaginated. illus. plates frontis ; 25 cm. Subjects: Children's poetry -- Children's books -- 19th century. Notes: As this is an original publisher's dummy copy only half of the original contents are included. London ; Simpkin Marshall ; Stourbridge : Mark & Moody hardcover