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1942140937387New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. vii ii 1013 pp. Original cloth with black and gilt lettering green topstain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear no fading. A very nice copy of the mammoth posthumously-published utopian novel. Farrar & Rinehart Inc 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
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
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
1911118688Boston: The Society for Americana Inc 1911. Hardbound. Very good clean and tight; museum ex-lib. but a great copy. Blue chambray with brown leather title block on spine and gold lettering; 564 pp. with 15 illustrations. A collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to american affairs printed in the newspapers of the Provincial Period beginning with the apperance of the present state of the New-English affairs 1689 publick occurrences 1690 and the first issue of The Boston News-Letter 1704 and ending with the close of the Revolution 1783. The Society for Americana, Inc hardcover books
1911244353Boston: Society for Americana 1911. hardcover. good. to American Affairs Printed in the Newspapers of the Provincial Period. Massachusetts Series. Volume One. All published. Illus. facsimiles. 564pp. 8vo rebound in later blue cloth with red leather label cloth and margins throughout dampstained lacks front flyleaf. Boston: Society for Americana 1911.<br/><br/> Excerpts from Boston newspapers from 1689 through 1707.<br/><br/> Society for Americana unknown books
19051273Boston: The Society Americana 1905. 8vo. Frontis. 63 1 blank pp.; 7 plts. 2 double-spread. <br><br>Massachusetts series volume one." This is a digest of Massachusetts press items to 1783 containing matters of historical interest. The plates include facsimiles of Massachusetts newspapers and portraits of important figures e.g. Increase Mather. Good. In printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled with front wrapper and frontispiece detached; partially unopened and untrimmed. The Society Americana unknown books
19893089Dayton Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute 1989. VG. Blue wraps. 76 pp. 34 color 35 bw plates. Catalogue lists 48 works. Essays by Peter Bacon Hales Sublime Commodity: The Nineteenth-Century American Landscape and Naomi Vine A Certain Slant of Light. Vine has also written the essays on the artists. Nice plates 1500 copies printed. The Dayton Art Institute paperback books
1639022562London: By John Haviland for William Lee 1639. Quarto. 5th edition. Frontispiece portrait of Bacon engraved title page and regular title page 14p. dedication to the reader and table of experiments 218pp. 21pp together with New Atlantis. A Work Unfinished. Undated title page 43pp. 1pp. to the reader p. 13 and 14 misnumbered 21 and 22. p. 19 and 20 misnumbered 27 and 28. This 5th edition was published after the author's death by his personal secretary William Rawley Doctor Divinity one of his Majesties Chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke. This work is an anthology of one thousand paragraphs consisting of extracts from many books mostly from antiquity and Bacon's own experiments and observations. It is fascinating as it contains numerous passages dealing with medical treatments for the prolongation of life and the preservation of flesh. At the end of the volume Rawley also included the New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished. Bacon was a scientist politician philosopher attorney general member of Parlement author etc. . He was also appointed Lord Chancery of the High Court but he had become best known for his promotion of the scientific method. He was knighted upon James I's ascension to the British throne. A handsome copy bound in 19th century 3/4 polished calf over cloth raised bands with title gilt portrait frontispiece and engraved title page had been mounted top edges of leaves were closely trimmed a bit frontispiece and title page have finger soiling text clean without foxing and beautifully printed. By John Haviland for William Lee 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
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
1953012375NY: Simon & Schuster 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition inscribed Merry Christmas in 1953 year of publication by Thurber for himself and wife Helen in blue ink in Thurber's exuberant hand on the ffe to married couple friends of him and his wife Helen in Cornwall CT where the Thurbers had a country house for decades. The dustjacket design by Paul Bacon which cleverly integrates Thurber sketches mostly dogs and people some local landmarks into a map of the Housatonic River whicj t forms the western border of Cornwall CT and runs through Litchfield Couny . Unclipped dustjacket has shallow chipping at spine ends a short closed tear at front fold and about an inch chip bottom edge rear panel. Still quite presentable. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1905340601Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1905. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. 84pp. Maroon cloth. Narrow tideline on bottom page edges front fly loose and laid in hinges cracked cloth soiled and chipped a fair to good only copy. Typed pages. Library of Congress hardcover books
187125020Philadelphia Pa.: W.W. Bates & Co. Printers 1871. 8vo. Fold. facsim. 56 xxii pp. <br><br>Removed from nonce volume. W.W. Bates & Co., Printers unknown books
185958527NY and Savannah: D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams 1859. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiii 2 503; 524 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Oglethorpe in volume one 3 plans folding view of St. Augustine. Typed letter in pocket at rear of volume one related to the provenance of this set. "Writing with precision and accuracy and using the documentary sources Stevens produced a history which has not yet been supplanted." Howes S-974. Sabin 91574. De Renne catalogue II pp. 516-516. Harwell & Willingham Georgiana 36. Ex-institutional library copy with stamp on title page overstamped "duplicate" and bookplates on front pastedown stamped "released" otherwise very good. Original embossed black pebbled cloth gilt spine title. #5772. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams hardcover 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
2008131976Evanston IL: Thomas Skomski 2008. First edition. Essay by Peter Bacon Hales. Produced to document Skomski's commission by the Chicago Transit Authority. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Scarce. Thomas Skomski unknown books
1760679661760. London 1760. 5th edition. London 1760. 5th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden John 1584-1654 Bacon Nathaniel 1593-1660 Editor Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon Of Grays Inn Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar 1760. iv viii xiii-xix 203 1; xii 178 8 pp. Complete. Quarto 11-1/4" x 9-1/4". Contemporary speckled calf raised bands to spine gilt fillets to boards gilt-stamped title on spine rubbed away. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities joints and front hinge cracked negligible light gatoring to spine some chipping to spine ends corners bumped and somewhat worn early armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text occasional light browning to outer edges of margins. $500. Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions civil and ecclesiastical and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." DNB. "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" Sweet & Maxwell. Dictionary of National Biography I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 9. English Short-Title Catalogue T108171. unknown books
1689674321689. London 1689. 4th edition. London 1689. 4th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden John 1584-1654 Bacon Nathaniel 1593-1660 Editor Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Ancient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden by Nathaniel Bacon of Grays Inn Esquire. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar 1689. xx 203 5; 168 167-188 6 pp. Pagination irregular text complete. Two parts each with title page dated 1682. First part preceded by general title page dated 1689. Folio 13" x 8". Contemporary mottled calf blind panels to boards raised bands to spine. A few minor nicks and scratches to boards moderate rubbing to extremities small chip to head of spine corners bumped and lightly worn front hinge cracked early armorial bookplate to front pastedown front free pastedown and following leaf partially detached. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places minor spark burns to a few leaves. An appealing copy. $500. Fourth edition. Often attributed to Bacon the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions civil and ecclesiastical and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." DNB. "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" Sweet & Maxwell. Dictionary of National Biography I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:999. English Short-Title Catalogue R16514. unknown books
1760693471760. Final Edition of Selden's Historical Discourse Selden John 1584-1654. Bacon Nathaniel 1593-1660 Editor Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon Of Grays Inn Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar 1760. iv viii xiii-xix 1 203 1; xii 178 8 pp. Complete. Includes one-page publisher advertsiemenst. Quarto 11-1/4" x 9". Recent library buckram red and black lettering pieces gilt-stamped library name and paper shelf label to spine endleaves added blind-stamped library name and small security tag to front board. Light rubbing corners bumped library stamps to edges endleaves and title page front endleaf partially detached light browning and light foxing to text. Light soiling to title page gift inscription dated 1841 From C.A. Paulson to C.A. Paulson Jr. and owner signature of C.B. Paulson dated 1850 to head faint embossed library stamp to foot. $500. Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions civil and ecclesiastical and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." DNB. "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" Sweet & Maxwell. Dictionary of National Biography 1:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 9. English Short-Title Catalogue T108171. unknown books
CA07A-01305Goupil & Co. Collectible - Acceptable. Paris & New York: Goupil & Co. 1897. Folio Hardcover. 102 pgs. 100 plates -photogravures and etchings. Fair. Covers torn worn. Inquire if you need further information. Goupil & Co. hardcover books
1994214358San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1994. Magazine. 16p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles on immigration reform Chiapas etc. very good magazine in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco Cover stories on Chiapas Prop 187 and attacks on immigrants in California. Semillero-Lea unknown books
199469270San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1994. Magazine. 20p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles on the Clinton immigration reform Chiapas etc. very good magazine in stapled glossy yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco. Semillero-Lea unknown books
1995214356San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1995. Magazine. First four issues various pagination 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles very good magazine in stapled glossy yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco. Semillero-Lea unknown books
1789WRCAM49194Cap Français 1789. 3pp. on a. single folded sheet. Cap Français was the capital of the northern province of Saint Domingue and Bacon de Chevalerie was the first president of its provincial assembly. In this declaration the Assemblée proclaimed itself a permanent body and distributed its activity between four offices. The local assemblies were still technically illegal under french law. Extremely rare with only one institutional holding in OCLC at the John Carter Brown Library. OCLC 859254837. unknown books
