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1920184421Benson Printing 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Cloth boards and endpapers have dust soiling. Hinges are tender but not started. No marks or notations. Full of pictures and maps. 338 pages. Benson Printing hardcover books
19691286696New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1970 1969. First USA Edition. 8vo. 253 pp. VG-/VG-; DJ pink spine and front cover with green lettering; rubbing/closed tears to edges of DJ particularly head of spine mild wear to covers; price uncut "$5.95" to top right-hand corner of front flap Harcourt logo to bottom of front flap DJ protected by mylar; quarter-bound spine white cloth with black and green lettering green paper boards; very mild foxing towards head of spine bumping/chipping to head and tail of spine; mild rubbing to edges dent to middle of top-edge of front board; boards somewhat shaken no shelf lean binding sturdy slight cocking to boards; staining/foxing to text-block; "First American edition 1970" stated to copyright page; INSCRIBED by Amis to title page; LP consignment; shelved Case 8 Dupont. 1286696. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harcourt, Brace & World unknown books
266LONDON MACMILLAN 1891. FULL RED MOROCCO BY BRIAN FROST VERY GOOD. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1891 unknown books
192640416NY:: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. B0006AJSQQ . First printing. Very good in a very good minor chipping at the spine ends and corners age darkened dust jacket. ; 121 pages . D. Appleton and Company, hardcover books
02477New York: Limited Editions Club 1944. Signed by Bruce Rogers<br/><br/>BACON Francis. The Essays. Or Counsels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Viscount Saint Alban. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley. New York: Limited Editions Club 1944. <br/><br/>Limited to 1100 numbered copies signed by the book's designer Bruce Rogers this being copy no. 276. Quarto. ix 3 190 2 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's quarter cloth over patterned boards. Glassine dust jacket. A very fine copy. Housed in the publisher's drop-back box.<br/><br/>Bruce Rogers 1870 - 1957 was an American typographer and type designer acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. Rogers was known for his "classical" style of design rejecting modernism never using asymmetrical arrangements rarely using sans serif type faces favoring stolid roman faces such as Caslon and his own Centaur. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944 unknown books
1862WRCAM26652Washington 1862. 20pp. Original printed wrappers detached. Old library stamp on front wrapper. Good. The case of Peirce & Bacon Boston merchants revolves around drafts drawn on the Department of War for money due the freighters Russell Majors and Wadell the major firm freighting government supplies to New Mexico and Utah in the 1850's. Peirce & Bacon purchased a total of $260000 worth of these drafts what they believed to be "first class paper" backed by the "pledged faith and well known laws of the Government." The bankruptcy of the shipping firm threw the value of the paper into doubt. After submitting the drafts for payment and receiving no payments after eighteen months Peirce & Bacon appealed to Congress. This pamphlet sets forth their side of the case. unknown books
182856557New Haven: Hezekiah Howe 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 36; removed from binding wrappers wanting; last couple leaves lightly foxed otherwise clean and sound. Jehudi Ashmun a caucasian was a member of the American Colonialization Society which founded the colony of Liberia. Ashmun moved there and served as the de facto governor and supported a constitution that gave black citizens the ability to serve in government. He grew ill shortly after his second term and died soon after returning to the States. Leonard Bacon was an influential anti-slavery advocate. His work Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 was an influence on Lincoln. American Imprints 32060; not in Afro-Americana. <br/><br/> Hezekiah Howe unknown books
192862595San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger 1928. paper covered boards paper cover label. Farquhar Samuel T. large 12mo. paper covered boards paper cover label. 9 pages. Printed in an edition of 50 copies to distribute to friends. Book designed and type hand set by Samuel T. Farquhar his first work of type composition. Presswork done by well-known printer Lawton Kennedy and the work completed in the shop of Johnck & Seeger in San Francisco. Bacon's famous brief essay on study and learning with his famous quotation: "Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. . . ." Minor abrasion to front board. (Johnck & Seeger) unknown books
191237818NP England 1912. Small 8vo 22 leaves title in red and black. Bound in full green morocco by C. Fox of London a bit rubbed spine little darkened. A nice clean copy. unknown books
19163744Elmira Printing Company 1916. BACON Alexander S. THE MILITARY PREPAREDNESS OF A GIANT. Elmira NY: Elmira Printing Company 1916. 12mo. printed tan wraps; 64 pages. Third Edition. The author a West Point graduate and attorney pens a treatise on America's preparedness for war and the involvement of the Masons "even house dogs sometimes go mad" in it. "At the conclusion of this war the United States will be the only first-class military power left." "The ideal American is a Masonic American the friend of all mankind a Big Brother ready to defend and help." And while this book apparently went through at least three editions none appear in the marketplace that I can locate. Inscribed by Bacon on the front cover "Compliments of Alexander S. Bacon." Also signed on the front cover by Volney A. Smith Esq." I have been unable to find any connection with either Bacon or Smith with the Masons. None-the-less an unusual and scarce essay on America's involvement in World War I. Very Good some loss top of spine contents clean & tight. Rare! $250.00. <br/><br/> Elmira Printing Company paperback books
183312870New Haven 1833. 24pp. Disbound scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> The only edition recorded by American Imprints NUC the Library Company Dumond and Sabin despite its stated description. "Bacon was a strong colonizationist and bitter opponent of immediate emancipation. He was equally opposed to slavery and to organized antislavery effort." Dumond 23. In this piece Bacon's loathing of the Garrisonian "fanatics" and their abolitionist ideas comes through loud and clear. "Reader notice the admirable simplicity of the proposal. The remedy for slavery is that slavery should cease. How simple and yet how effectual. Certainly this looks like philosophy." <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. AI 17489 5. LCP 759. Dumond 23. Sabin 2671. Not in Blockson Work. unknown books
2568Lugd. Batav.: Apud Fraciscum Moyardum & Adrianum Wijngaerde 1645. . 24mo full stiff contemporary vellum wallet edges lacking ties; title page has name cut out resulting in a lacuna 2 x 1/8 inches; lacks front free endpaper First published in London in 1623 as "Advancement and Proficiency of Learning". First continental edition published in Paris in 1624 with this title. The text is expanded as noted on the title page Lugd. Batav.: Apud Fraciscum Moyardum & Adrianum Wijngaerde, 1645. hardcover books
1648284946Lugd. Batavorum: Apud Franciscum Hackium 1648. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The 1648 edition of Francis Bacon's Historia Naturalis & Experimentalis de Ventis. Engraved title page; attractive initials headpieces and tailpieces; index at the rear. Collates complete; 16 232 16 pp. Textblock is bright with no marks of any kind. Full vellum with 'Bacon' in ink on the spine. 32mo in twelve. Gibson 110a. Very Good binding. Apud Franciscum Hackium unknown books
1903284655Guildford: A. C. Curtis The Astolat Press 1903. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Title leaf printed in red and black and printed with red initials throughout. 23 pages. Attractively bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco with floral devices and lettering in gilt; boards ruled at the perimeters turn-ins with inner and outer rules and a rule to the edges of the boards. Very Good binding. A. C. Curtis, The Astolat Press unknown books
1989130299Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. <br/><br/>17 year old Henri Young Bacon steals five dollars from a grocery store to feed his little sister. He is caught his sister is sent to an orphanage and he never sees her again and unfortunately for him the grocery store also housed a post office making the crime a federal offense. He is sent to Alcatraz where he attempts escape and is foiled by a fellow inmate leaving him sentenced to solitary confinement in the basement of the island prison. Upon his release he has a psychotic episode in which he stabs his betrayer to death with a spoon. James Stamphill Slater is to defend him alleging that Alcatraz drove him insane. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 23 1989 noted as Revised Rewrite with credits for screenwriters Gordon and Ponicsan. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
183319436New-Haven: Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker 1833. Evident first edition. Wrappers quite foxed; some scattered internal foxing and a little light soiling and wear; a good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched 9.5 x 5.75 inches 24 pages untrimmed. From the Congregationalist clergyman and polemicist gradual emancipationist and advocate of colonization see the ANB an attack on Garrison; per the LCP catalog description "Articles reviewed are William Lloyd GarrisonÃs Thoughts on African colonization; James CropperÃs Letter to Thomas Clarkson; and Abolition of Negro slavery published in American quarterly review September 1832." The edition statement would seem to have been more accurately rendered with a comma "second separate edition" as there appears to be no other edition besides this supposed second separate edition published besides the periodical appearance in the Christian Spectator. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 759; Dumond page 23; Sabin 2671 & 70214; American Imprints 17489. Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker, unknown books
194253478New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1942. First Edition. First Printing publisher's colophon on copyright page. Octavo 19.5cm; tan buckram boards decoratively titled in black and gilt on the front cover and spine; map endpapers; green topstain; dustjacket; 1013 pp. Spine ends gently nudged; mild toning to the upper board edges and joints; small spot of finger soil to the half title and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 with nicks and short tears to the extremities; chip to the crown; mild soil to the rear panel and flap edges; Very Good.<br/><br/>Author's first and only book published posthumously. "Islandia a place easily described as a Utopia.is an enormous book ostensibly describing the travels of a visitor to the island and in fact providing an extremely elaborate picture of an invented alternative society and it's richly drawn inhabitants." CLUTE and NICHOLLS p.1349; SARGENT p.111; NEGLEY 1215; CURREY P.557. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
188037675Tarrytown: Geo. L. Wiley & Bro. civil engineers and surveyors 1880. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. About very good wrappers chipped at edges front wrapper partially detached map split at joint a few small tears along folds otherwise quite bright. 24 pp. Illus. with 1 hand colored folding map and 1 b/w engraving. 8vo. Issued on the centennial anniversary of the capture of Major André on September 23 1780 at Tarrytown N.Y. "The Andre papers": pp. 12-18. The title vignette which is also reproduced on the front wrapper is captioned "Monument erected near the spot where Major Andre was captured September 23d 1780" and signed E.M. Bacon. The map which measures 18 x 14 inches and hand-colored in yellow blue and green is captioned: Tarwe-town in the manor of Phillipsburgh Westchester Co. N.Y. One hundred years ago. Uncommon and quite fragile due to mounting of map on front wrapper. OCLC locates six copies under two accession numbers: NYPL NYS Hist. Asn NJ Histo. Soc. 19111384 and NY Hist. Soc. Westchester Lib. and Boston Athenaeum 82174650. Geo. L. Wiley & Bro., civil engineers and surveyors unknown books
1812769051812. BACON Francis. ESSAYS MORAL ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL With the Life of the Author. London Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham for J. Carpenter 1812 Octavo. xl295pp. Frontispiece portrait. Nicely bound in green diced calf expertly and almost imperceptibly rebacked in green leather gilt with red label. Small ownership stamp to fly and offset from frontispiece onto title else fine. unknown books
186224177Washington 1862. 20pp. Original printed wrappers a few very small chips spine split and wraps detaching stitched. Good or so. <br/><br/> The firm Russell Majors and Waddell contracted with the War Department in 1860 "for the transportation of military stores and supplies to the army then occupying Utah and New Mexico." War Secretary John Floyd soon to desert to the Confederacy accepted drafts drawn by the firm "thus solemnly acknowledging the indebtedness of the United States to the drawers for the amounts so accepted." Peirce and Bacon purchased these drafts and sought payment from the United States but the government has rebuffed them. This pamphlet demonstrates their entitlement citing and explaining appropriate legal precedents. <br/>OCLC 28140977 8. unknown books
1996151769London: Balafon Books / Outline Press 1996. First Edition. First Edition one of 6000 numbered copies this being No. 2686. <br/><br/>Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket with a touch rubbing to the gold foil of the jacket spine. In a Near Fine publisher's slipcase. Balafon Books / Outline Press unknown books
19919027346Sweden Maine: Ives Street Press 1991. Wraps. fine. One of 100 numbered copies printed by Barbara Cash at the Ives Street Press and signed by her. Frontispiece is made up of flowers pressed from te printer's garden. Sewn into turquoise wrappers and contained in a purple clamshell box with a paper label printed in two colors on the spine. Publisher's printed prospectus and signed note to the former owner laid in. <br/><br/> Ives Street Press paperback books
180758971Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe No. 78 State-Street 1807. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf board edges worn. New morocco spine with black morocco label. Sound clean copy. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World". Bacon's theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the Jeffersonian era. Jefferson was a strong advocate and believer in his inductive scientific methods and Baconian theory was evident in many of his actions he even catalogued his library using "Bacon's classification of the human mind into 'Reason' 'Memory' and 'Imagination.'" Brown "Thomas Jefferson" p.196. The Baconian theory "that one is educated partly by teachers studies and books but mostly by experience carefully observed and thoughtfully considered was especially appealing in America where Bacon was virtually canonized during the eighteenth century. as one of the true progenitors of the modern world." Cremin L. A. "American Education" 1970 p. 102. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous Books in English Literature" 13; Shaw and Shoemaker 12020. For the first complete edition of 1625: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30 Published by Oliver and Munroe, No. 78, State-Street unknown books
1639291897Paris: Jean Roger 1639. hardcover. very good. Ornamental copperplate initials and endpieces. 369 pages. Thick short 8vo full contemporary mottled calf red leather spine label gilt spine. Paris: Jean Roger 1639. Very good.<br/><br/> Jean Roger unknown books
006550Two heavy card attached by two metal rings. Very Good. Lovely sketchbook of English and Scottish scenery done by a gifted amateur. N.d. circa 1930. Oblong 18 by 26 cm. Unpaginated 13 leaves with 16 pages of illustrations -- most are on rectos. One of the watercolors is mounted. The balance of the artwork done directly into the album. Seven watercolors and nine pencil or charcoal drawings. Depicted are picturesque bridges streams coastal scenery hillscapes and cliffs castles Ludlow Castle farmhouses manor houses and cottages villages railroad tracks stiles and fences. Impressive is the fusion of the impressionistic with an attention to detail. Three of the drawings are less finished in our view with only one being more or less dashed off quick studies and this one being the only page of drawings not of landscapes. Condition: Light soiling of the cover. One leaf detached. <br /><br /> books
