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1871287244Philadelphia Cincinnati Boston Auburn NY: Hubbard Bros. C. F. Vent Geo. M. Smith & Co. F. M. Smith 1871. Full Leather. Very Good binding. William Bacon Stevens' The Bow in the Cloud. Complete with frontispiece and six additional plates. Some minor foxing to the plates. Small patch of Japanese tissue to the bottom of the spine by a conservator. Deep embossed morocco with elaborate gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. Very Good. Very Good binding. Hubbard Bros. | C. F. Vent | Geo. M. Smith & Co. | F. M. Smith unknown books
183857990London: William Pickering 1838. First Pickering edition small 8vo pp. xvi 350; Pickering anchor & dolphin device on title page; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards red leather label on spine marbled edges and endpapers; lightly rubbed at extremities; generally good and sound. Bookplate of Amos Tuck French Tuxedo Park. Keynes p. 51; Kelly 1838.1. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
1892014582Newart NJ: Glenwood Publishing Co 1892. Cloth Over Boards. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 176p. index. Surviving original copies are scarce. Profusely illustated with photographs engravings advertisements in the 1890's and many aspects of the history that cover a neglected area of Maine. Blindstamp of former institution Long Island Historical Society which closed its doors. Original front wrap laid in. Glenwood Publishing Co unknown books
190315626LONDON MACMILLAN 1903 1903. 3/4 VELLUM OVER GREEN CLOTH BY BUMPUS VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1903 hardcover books
1983008475New York: Rizzoli 1983. Publisher's promotional poster 30" w x 22" h Near Fine faint small creases. A SCARCE ephemeral item distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1983. Well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy tube. Size: 30" x 22". . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 30" x 22". Rizzoli books
1740WRCLIT35670London: Printed for A. Millar 1740. viii1973pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignette. Offsetting from binding to endsheets a few occasional spots and smudges joints cracked and binding 'varnished' at an early date but internally a very good copy with the adverts but not the half title. First separate edition of Mallet's biography which also appeared in the four volume edition of the works he edited the same year. Pp. 167-197 contain 'A catalogue of all My Lord Bacon's writings as they are printed in the edition of 1740'. GIBSON 480a. ESTC T73603. Printed for A. Millar unknown books
1928WRCLIT54927New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1928. Linen and boards paper spine label. Spine label and edges a bit dust marked otherwise a very good copy in modestly sunned slipcase with minor wear. First edition limited issue. One of an unknown number of copies for presentation in addition to fifty numbered copies specially printed on English handmade paper differently bound and signed by the author. This copy is signed by the author with a '-' in place of the number and bears his inscription to printer/typographer Carl P. Rollins. With Rollins's bookplate. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
19345453NY: Robert M. McBride & Co 1934. Hardcover. Good slight wear dustjacket present but has ripswith about 1 square inch missing from top of spine area. Brown cloth. appx. 90 pp. 38 large bw reproductions. This uncommon title consists of caricatures and drawings of 38 well-known public personages artists men of letters etc. Includes Guy Pene du Bois Diego Rivera Kuniyoshi Cortissoz Sinclair Lewis Roosevelt etc. Lacks dustjacket but a very nice copy. Robert M. McBride & Co hardcover books
1928WRCLIT74355New York: The Intimate Gallery 1928. 4pp. Large octavo. Folded leaflet. Fine. First edition of the catalogue of this exhibition held at Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery 27 March to 17 April 1928. The text prints a Foreword "Peggy Bacon" by Charles Demuth. Seven pastels and two pencil drawings comprised the exhibit. LOWE p. 434. The Intimate Gallery unknown books
1950106013New York: Bookman Associates 1950. First edition. Hardcover. A clean very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed dated and inscribed by Bacon in 1976 to drama critic Claudia Cassidy. Unaccountably scarce especially as a nice association copy. Bookman Associates unknown books
191231025Washington: Columbia Historical Society 1912. 1st ed. 8vo.; viii 277pp. 1. Frontis. portrait & illus. Author's presentation copy "Complements of the writer" at head of title page. Blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt lettering on spine. Lower corner of front cover & bottom of spine slightly mottled else a very good copy. <br/><br/> Columbia Historical Society hardcover books
19078414London. Macmillan and Company Ltd. 1907. Bound by Riviere in 3/4 gilt ruled grain morocco and cloth covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt tooled decorative fleural motif to spine. t.e.g. 12mo. Illustrated with monochrome drawing to title page. Rear cover slightly bowed. Pencil inscription to front free endsheet else a Fine tight crisp copy. Macmillan and Company, Ltd. hardcover books
188526551New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 8vo. Frontis. 312 pp. lacks the map. <br><br>First edition second issue. Mrs. Custer wrote a trilogy in defense of her husband this being the first volume of that threesome. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Rader 1010; Howes C980; Graff 959. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and black on front cover showing a sunrise sunset on Plains with low hills. Slightly skewed in binding. Bookplate on front pastedown ownership signature on title-page. Lacking the map. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1996139183Paris: Les Belles Lettres / Archimbaud 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pages. Text in French. Includes numerous color images with several fold out plates. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Les Belles Lettres / Archimbaud unknown books
2002151855San Francisco: Backbeat Books 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Photo-illustrated throughout. <br/><br/>Near Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Backbeat Books unknown books
1916018595New York: McGraw-Hill 1916. First Edition. Large Octavo. 2 vol. 963p. plus index. While a technical work it has the best record of oil exploration before 1916 including the oil deposits in Allegany County New York in 1627. The chapter "Some Problems of the Petroleum Industry" is still relevant today. . 7 folding plates 2 folding maps numerous text illustrations. A very nice matching set in original maroon cloth spine lettering gilt. McGraw-Hill unknown books
194439604New York: The Limited Editions Club 1944. 1st edition thus Newman & Wiche 157. SIGNED by Rogers. LIMITED to 1100 copies of which this is no. 256. Quarter-bound light blue cloth spine gilt stamped lettering over gold and blue patterned paper boards. TEG. Blue cloth folding slipcase. Very light wear to binding. Light wear to slipcase rubbing. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase. ix 3 190 4 colophon & blanks pp. 13" x 9". Scant. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1878185257Utica NY: E. H. Roberts & Co 1878. Hardcover. VG Cover has fading at spine. Cover and spine have general wear. Bookblock has age toning. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 199 1 pages. Contents: Introductory -- The Celebration -- The grand procession -- The literary exercises -- Prayer / by Rev. Dr. E.M. Van Deusen -- Address of welcome / by Gov. Horatio Seymour -- Afternoon exercises. At the west stand. Letters from invited guests : from President Hayes Vice President Wheeler Secretary Evarts General Sherman Ex-Secretary Fish Ex-Governor Dix General McClellan William C. Bryant General Sigel George W. Clinton Hon. S.S. Cox Governor Robinson Benson J. Lossing Colonel F.A. Conkling Ex-Governor Morgan President Anderson of Rochester University Bayard Taylor David Gray of the Buffalo Courier Adjutant General of the State Hon. Sidney Breese Charles Tracy Alfred B. Street President Brown of Hamilton College Charles B. Smith esq. President Potter of Union College Rev. Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lotrhrop Thomas Dunn English -- Address of Lieut. Gov. Dorsheimer. The nationality of Oriskany -- Address of Hon. W.J. Bacon. Oriskany and Thermopylae -- Historical address. Battle of Oriskany: its place in history / by Hon. Ellis H. Roberts -- Appendix to Historical address -- Address of Major Douglass Campbell. Rank of New York in the Revolution -- Remarks of Hon. Philo White. The mother of towns retains Oriskany -- Poem. Paean to Oriskany / by Rev. Charles Downes Helmer D.D. -- At the last stand -- Address of Hon. Clarkson N. Potter. Power and magnanimity of New York -- Address of Chancellor E.O. Haven. The War of 1776 vindicated -- Address of Samuel Earl esq. General Herkimer and his family -- Poem / by General J. Watts DePeyster -- Appendix. E. H. Roberts & Co hardcover books
19139027071London: Macmillan 1913. Hardcover. Fine. With notes and glossorial index by W. Aldis Wright. Bound by Zaensdorf in burgundy morocco with spine elaborately stamped in gilt with five raised bands boards stamped and ruled in gilt inner dentelles gilt edges gilt and grey endpapers. Golden Treasury Series. 6 x 3 3/4 inches. 388 pages. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
185729112New York: C. S. Francis & Co. 1857. 8vo. xx 536 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Bacon's essays with Whately's annotations. "From the second London edition revised." Whately 1787-1863 the archbishop of Dublin was a philosopher and political activist for Irish political reform. Bacon's essays are wide-ranging covering such topics as truth death revenge envy love boldness sedition cunning friendship suspicion discourse innovations empire travel suitors prophecies beauty deformity praise ceremonies faction anger and judicature to mention just a few. Publisher's textured dull green cloth; covers stamped in blind; lettered in gilt now dull on spine. Top of spine pulled with small loss of cloth and with a small paper label. Exsocial club library: 19th-century bookplate call number on endpaper no other markings A rather nice copy. C. S. Francis & Co. hardcover books
192412305512mo. London: printed at the Westminster Press for Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald 1924. 12mo 8 intro text in facsimile of the original edition. Original cream printed paper covered boards browned along edges and backstrip. § Number 527 of a limited edition of 975 copies. Printed on Kentish all rag paper. Frontispiece from an engraving of Bacon prefixed to Sylva Sylvarum of 1627. A very good facsimile of the 1597 edition. printed at the Westminster Press for Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald hardcover books
192314239New York: Knopf 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth tan title label to spine top page edge dyed red. SIGNED and with an original poem in the author's hand. Moderate handling wear more prominent to rear. Last endpaper with crease marks slight foxing to interior more so at extremities. <br/><br/>Orignal poem in praise of Carmel CA penned to front endpaper: "Wise men say and I know well / There is only one Carmel. / Romes and Londons are to burn. / From them in contempt I turn / Who perpetually seek / The undeniably unique. / Many roses many trilliums / Many Helens many . / Only one of Mrs. Williams. / Leonard Bacon / January 8th 1924" Knopf hardcover books
183981549New Haven: Durrie & Peck; NY: Gould. Newman & Saxton 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis viii 400p. Hardcover in recent quarterbinding. 23 cm. Moderate foxing. An autograph Letter signed by Bacon mounted on back of frontis in which Bacon asks someone for aid with a Wethersfield-related genealogical problem. <br/><br/> Durrie & Peck; NY: Gould. Newman & Saxton hardcover books
190456723New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1904. First edition 8vo pp. xii 2 367 1; title page printed in red and black; folding map and numerous illustrations on plates; very good copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine t.e.g. pictorial pastedown on upper cover. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
1934136243New York: Robert M. McBride 1934. First Edition. First Edition. Slim quarto. Collects nearly fifty charcoal portraits of notable people. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Extremities lightly bumped spine slightly toned. Jacket extremities with moderate shelfwear moderate fading to the jacket spine and heavy soil. Robert M. McBride unknown books
