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00489scLondon: Adam & Charles Black MCMXII. Royal octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters and decoration to spine uncut decorative initials xxx 370 pp. Very Good with lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing to edges. “The Essays of Francis Bacon Baron Verulam Viscount St. Albans are here reprinted from an edition dated MDCLXXIII. The Introductory reproduces a depiction to Bishop Andrews accompanying the Advertisement Touching an Holy War Written in the Year MDCXXII. The Epistle Dedicatory is that of the last Author’s Edition published in MDCXXV. The portrait is a photogravure direct from a fine proof impression of an engraving after Simon de Passe fromeing the frontispiece to the Sylva Sylvarum printed in MDCXXVI the year of Bacon’s death. The Ornamental Letters Title Page and Binding have been specially designed by A.A. Turbayne for the Sydney Edition.†Adam & Charles Black, MCMXII. hardcover books
180641226London: Vernor Hood & Sharpe 1806. Margin: 200x103 mm. Very faint soiling. Vernor, Hood & Sharpe unknown books
1940UBLUBET00EFCider Press 1940. Very Good. Blunt Betty Bacon. Bet It's a Boy. Brattleboro Vermont: Cider Press 1940. Illustrated. 8vo. Spiral-bound illustrated wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges and a few faint stains. Cider Press paperback books
193831242NY: Century Association 1938. First Edition. 8vo pp. 34. Light green cloth with black paper labels. Very slight wear at corners o/w a nice copy. Published for an exhibition of memorabilia of members of the Century Association between the late 1870s and early 1890s. Century Association unknown books
2011107515Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Publishing 2011. paper covered boards. Philately. small 4to. paper covered boards. xi pages 924 columns 250 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition being volume seven of the series of books describing this library. This uncommon bibliography of the literature of stamp-collecting is divided into two parts: 1 authors and titles 2 periodicals. The collection was part of the famous Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Of the several thousand noble libraries founded in family houses throughout the British Isles in the last three or four hundred years only a few dozen or so may be said to have achieved a lasting public reputation. Among them the Bibliotheca Lindesiana is distinguished not only because of the remarkable collection formed but because its dispersal began ninety-five years ago and it no longer exists. In all over 8000 printed items are described. Martino Publishing unknown books
193857828New York: printed for the Association 1938. 8vo pp. 34; slightly sunned at the extremities but near fine in original green cloth black leather labels on spine and upper cover. Handsomely printed by Pynson Printers of New York. <br/><br/> printed for the Association hardcover books
1923116890New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1923. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-352 353 354-356: blank note: last leaf is a blank original green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. First printing with "1" at base of text on page 353. Presentation copy with full page inscription by Bacon signed "Josephine" dated Easter 1923. Seven short stories of love and romance. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 B-48. Several small stains to cloth else a bright very good copy. #116890 D. Appleton and Company unknown 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
193814237New York: Harper and Brothers 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good . 8vo. Plain black cloth gilt title lettering to spine. In original unclipped jacket $2.00. INSCRIBED by the author: "Owen Wister Esq. / from his friend / the author." Jacket substantially edgeworn with area of paper loss to rear center. Corners bumped spot of discolor at upper end of spine moderate handling wear about exterior. <br/><br/>Association copy inscribed to Wister author the Western classic "The Virginians." Harper and Brothers hardcover 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
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
1935RBACCAT00LAWRobert M. McBride & Co. 1935. Very Good. Bacon Peggy author and illustrator. Cat-Calls. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1935. 1st edition. 87pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed corners and gift inscription penned on front free endsheet. Endsheets yellowed around edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with front panel detached several horizontal inch tear in front panel and edges slightly chipped. Quite subtle soiling and upper edge of panels slightly wavy due to being trimmed by former owner. In plastic protector. Robert M. McBride & Co. unknown books
1919181051New York: Privately Printed for V.P. Bacon 1919. Hardcover. VG/VG covers are weak and are in need of repairraised bands on spine are missing except one pages are very clean and clear. Slipcase has overall light shelfwear and bumping. Three quarters burgundy leather and colorful marble boards; raised bands on spine with gilt tooling and lettering; top edge gilt marble illustrated end pages bw original etching frontispiece of Edward R. Bacon by Anders Zorn; xvii; 315 pp bw plates and 62 mounted color plates. Issued in original brown slipcase. Limited edition less than 200 copies. This is numbered 59. Quite scarce! Collected by Edward R. Bacon with illustrations in colour and photogravure. Notes and descriptions by John Getz. Privately Printed for V.P. Bacon hardcover books
1919250853New York: Privately Printed 1919. Limited. paperback. near fine. Illustrated in color and photogtravure. 315 pages thick 4to original drab brown wrappers with gilt-lettered spine very minor wear at ends and small stains at upper corners of some pages well outside of printed area otherwise a very near fine copy. Limited edition -- number 148 of an unspecified printing. New York: Privately printed for Virginia Bacon 1919.<br/><br/> A near fine copy of this rather scarce memorial catalogue depicting 617 items in the collection.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
196829657Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press 1968. Second printing. Cloth. A very near copy. No dust jacket as issued. xi 273 pp. Illus. with 12 b/w photos and 2 fold-out maps. 8vo. Yakushi B03. Cornell Univ. Press hardcover books
184510008New Haven: Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society 1845. 8vo. 43 1 blank pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned. Pencilled presentation inscription on title-page partially cut off by binder's trimming. Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society unknown books
1848WRCLIT40920New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1848. Printed salmon wrappers. First edition. Very light foxing early and late faint dust soiling to wrappers tiny nick to toe of spine else a fine copy as usual. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books
2009191882Heritage Books Inc 2009-11-20. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. TP HS Heritage Books, Inc paperback books
198319312Boston:: Harvard Common Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0916782433 . Illustrated by Nancy Simonds. First printing. Near fine in a near fine two closed edge tears at the top of the front panel dust jacket. . Harvard Common Press, hardcover books
23568N.P.: n.p. n.d.circa 19th century. pages loosely inserted in later paper wrappers. 8vo. pages loosely inserted in later paper wrappers. pp.21-30. A study of college periodicals with illustrations of ones issued by Yale Harvard Brown Dartmouth Columbia etc. Wrappers worn. n.p. unknown books
200637907Ithaca:: Cornell University Press. Fine. 2006. Paperback. 0801473071 . Black and white photographs throughout. First paperback printing. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in oblong pictorial wraps. . Cornell University Press, paperback books
2006205599Ithaca: ILR Press Cornell University 2006. Paperback. xxiii 235p. 11x8.5 inches landscsape format forewords biographies historical sketches commentary illustrated with Bacon's b&w portraits and landscapes very good first edition trade paperback in glossy black pictorial wraps. ILR Press, Cornell University paperback books
1993116551Syracuse NY: Light Work 1993. First edition. Softcover. Text by Amy Hufnagel and Jeffrey Hoone. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A very good copy in wrappers with a small tear to the bottom of the rear panel. Light Work unknown books
2017163654New York: Luxembourg & Dayan 2017. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran October 23 through December 16 2017. Essays by Josephine Graf and Alex Bacon. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations of works by Giovanni Anselmo Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Fabro Jannis Kounellis Pino Pascali Michelangelo Pistoletto Olga Balema Elaine Cameron-Weir Jason Loebs and Carlos Reyes. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Luxembourg & Dayan unknown books
1927507641927. BACON Josephine Daskam. COUNTERPOINT. NY: The John Day Company 1927. 8vo. blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Bacon on front endpaper: "Gina Colgate Kumbough from Josephine Daskam Bacon with many congratulations! August 1928." Very Good spine dull. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
