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11111313No publisher place of publication or date. An 8 pp. heavy stock Valentine gift book with embossed die-cut covers. Four of the eight pages are full page chromolithograph illustrations. Appear to be the work of Frances Brundage. The remainder of the pages are rhyming verse. Front cover has Art Nouveau influenced poppy border. c1905. Measures 7 1/2" x 5 1/2". Condition: overall excellent. unknown books
011111313Frances Brundage. No publisher place of publication or date. An 8 pp. heavy stock Valentine gift book with embossed die-cut covers. Four of the eight pages are full page chromolithograph illustrations. Appear to be the work of Frances Brundage. The remainder of the pages are rhyming verse. Front cover has Art Nouveau influenced poppy border. c1905. Measures 7 1/2" x 5 1/2". Condition: overall excellent. unknown books
1880008483Cincinnati Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company 1880. Two thick quarto volumes arranged by congressional district and paged separately. SCARCE in commerce as the complete set. Very Good in original pebbled calf with decorative embossing white moire silk end papers all edges gilt numerous engraved portraits with tissue guards. Very Good rubbed at edges and corners corners bumped scattered foxing associated mainly with tissue guards. A quite handsome set that will require extra postage for priority and international mail. . First Edition. Pebbled Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Western Biographical Publishing Company Hardcover books
425668vo pp. not numbered. Brown cloth over boards stamped in black "recipes." Interior is blank pages filled with clippings of quilt patterns chrochet designs household tips etc. Hinges tender book stuffed except for a few pages. Good. Many of the projects esp. the crochet do not include directions but could probably be figured out by experienced crafters. unknown books
1712WRCLIT65909London: Printed by W. Bowyer for J. Morphew . 1712. 32pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Ink annotations in top margin of title "27 Septemb." in early manuscript after publication date in imprint else very good. First edition of this unsigned response to John Turner's DEFENCE . ESTC locates two copies in North America: UT and Cal. State. ESTC T79473. Printed by W. Bowyer, for J. Morphew ... unknown books
196531248Nicolsia Cyprus: Republic of Cyprus 1965. New revised edition. 8vo pp. 10 plus four pages of photographs. Also illustrated with plans. Paper wraps. VG. Republic of Cyprus unknown books
32156Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends. Small 8vo pp. 8. Paper pamphlet. Front little darkened o/w VG. Tract Association of Friends unknown books
1900002750S. l. San Jose CA: s. n. 1900. First Edition. Good. Broadside n. d. ca 1900; 17 1/4 x 6 1/4; salmon-colored silk printed in black; small punctures to edges from possibly being sewn to a backing or a frame; fraying to bottom edge affecting the last line of text; a few closed splits to fabric mostly to right margin; in about good condition. A unique ephemera piece it was most probably displayed in the lobby of the Hotel St. James in San Jose CA the latter now a historic landmark. The hotel occupied the Moir Building named after its developer - William Moir a young businessman and the director of the Board of Trade. The structure was a significant example of 19th-century luxurious commercial architecture presenting an eclectic combination of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. The silk featured advertisements for local businesses rules and regulations for guests of the Hotel St. James civil and penal codes for liability of hotel keepers etc. s. n. unknown books
197519080502Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1975. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Anderson Victor R. Limitation not stated quarto size 8 pp. The annual Christmas publication issued by Ruth and James D. Hart to friends in a limited edition; the limitation not stated but likely an edition of 140 copies. James D. Hart 1911-1990 was an American literary scholar and professor at UC Berkeley for fifty-four years; he is perhaps best known for his work "The Oxford Companion to American Literature".<br/><br/>This work is "From an Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Broadside Printed in Virginia" and extolls the joys of keeping a "Merrie Christmas": "Now Christmas comes 'tis fit that we / Should feast and sing and merry be / Keep open House let Fiddlers play / A Fig for Cold sing Care away / And may they who thereat repine / On brown Bread and on small Beer dine." <br/><br/>This pamphlet lavishly illustrated by Victor R. Anderson with illustrations on every page with text.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original pictorial green wrappers title and illustration on the front wrap string-bound fore-edge uncut pictorial title and illustrations in text all almost full-page with the few lines of text surrounded by the illustration each in black and white printers device at colophon; laid paper quarto size 10" by 6.5" 8 pp. limitation not stated likely 140 copies.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy the green colour of the wrap deep and unfaded other than perhaps some extremely light sunning towards the spine the string binding strong and tight internally bright and clean and free of prior owner markings; the corners ever-so-slightly bumped else fine. The small card from the publisher also fine clean and utterly without wear or blemish.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Hart Press unknown books
1946002663S. l. : Grayko 1946. First Edition. Very good. Eighteen booklets; 4 x 2 3/4; pp. 15 including text to back wrap and front wrap verso; beige paper printed ruled and illustrated in black; all of them with a dark spot around staple on top edge else minor creasing and wear; in about very good- condition. An unusual collection of mild adult humor only identified by an elusive publisher Grayko in each small booklet - every page contained a single-panel cartoon with a small caption below it. Titles included: "Belly Laffs" "Hot Stuff" "Whoopee" "Funland" etc. Grayko unknown books
1790202796London: Nichols 1790. First. hardcover. very good-. Thick 4to xxii 476 pages. Original polished calf well-rubbed and worn at edges; hinges cracked but holding. London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols 1790. First Edition. Overall a very good- copy but internally quite clean.<br/><br/> Oxford 119; Bitting 532.<br/><br/> Nichols unknown books
1790202804London: Nichols 1790. First. hardcover. very good. Thick 4to xxii 476 pages. Title page soiled and chipped and first few pages are creased. Attractively rebound in simple 3/4 calf. London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols 1790. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Oxford 119; Bitting 532.<br/><br/> Nichols unknown books
1864002550Various: By the author 1864. First Edition. Very good. Twenty three specimens mounted on nine loose sheets of cream stock; paper 10 1/2 x 8; specimens with various sizes some quite large ie. approx. 7 1/2 x 9; most subtitled in manuscript in French with place date etc.; a few minor spots; very good or better condition. A beautiful collection of seaweed it was assembled along the coast of Mostaganem province in the northwest of Algeria. Some of the places identified included La Salamandre Karouba ie. Kharouba the City of Mostaganem and others. Seeing the careful penmanship on the paper and the time period the samples were most probably collected by a French lady in Colonial Algeria. It was around this time the mid-19th century when the seaweed-collecting craze was sweeping Europe and becoming a favorite pastime for ladies whose access to scientific explorations was otherwise largely restricted. Furthermore as seaweed was fragile and somewhat difficult to handle it was also a matter of pride for one to be able to carefully and artfully arrange and preserve the specimens. By the author unknown books
17578493London: E. Withers E. Withers 1757. Hardcover. Fine. Rebound in black cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Fine condition. <br/><br/> E. Withers, E. Withers hardcover books
1890001281Boston Mass.: Joseph Burnett Co. 1890. Early first edition n. d. ca 1890 according to Massachusetts Southborough Historical Society's collection records; a similar edition classified by OCLC as ca 1900; 3 1/2 x 6; pp. 20; brown wraps illustrated and ruled in red and black; a bit of wear along spine; slight ripple to wraps and pages; illustrated; very good. An uncommon early cookbook and advertisement for Joseph Burnett Company of Boston and their famous products. In 1847 a prominent lady had walked into the office of of Joseph Burnett then chemist. She was anxious to be able to use vanilla flavoring for her desserts and she asked him if he could help her as the only way known at the time was the messy and unsatisfactory business of cutting vanilla beans wrapping them in linen and dunking them like tea bags into whatever dessert mix required flavoring. Burnett took the challenge spent months experimenting and eventually came up with what would become the first Vanilla Extract ever sold in this US. In 1858 he would partner with William G. Edmonds and the company would become known as Joseph Burnett & Co. Their innovative spirit and ability to continuously introduce new products Almond Rose Nutmeg Peach Celery Cinnamon and many more extracts would distinguish and set them apart from the competition. The book contains various recipes for delicious desserts including American Kisses Chocolate Pie homemade candies etc. Also featured are helpful cooking and mixing hints. Boston, Mass.: Joseph Burnett Co. paperback books
1797WRCLIT72915London: Printed for John Stockdale 1797. 702pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume untrimmed. Manuscript '7' on title leaf some dustsoiling at edges and to title otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Observations on naval impressment domestic financial policy peace negotiations with France universal suffrage and other current matters including reference to Adam Smith in a footnote. ESTC includes two entries for this title one for a single copy lacking the advert leaf and locates a total of ten copies. OCLC/Worldcat locates eight copies spread across three entries ESTC N1307 & T148317. GOLDSMITHS 16901. OCLC: 228758936; 17313149; and 612540379. Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1930WRCLIT68063Hollywood: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc 1930. 192 leaves with variations due to revised leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. Rather dog-eared creased and frayed pencil name on upper wrapper "James Hall" script-loan coupon clipped pencil checks and markouts throughout; fair but intact. An unspecified but evidently revised draft of this unattributed screenplay. The film is a bit of mystery and may not have been produced. There are press announcements of its having begun production and then the MPPDA Digital Archive indexes correspondence from Will Hays ca. June 1930 to Albert Harry and Jack Warner taking issue with the marketing in VARIETY of what is promoted as their "Sex-Appeal Sextette" of which this title was #3 coupled with the likes of DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS EX MISTRESS THE MATRIMONIAL BED A SOLDIER'S PLAYTHING and THE OFFICE WIFE. The tagline for this film was "A Modern Casanova who Believed One Wife was a Good Reason for Ten Sweethearts." Several of the other films in the series were completed even if now "lost' but this property seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authorship of the copy of the script in the Warner Bros. Script Archive at Princeton is not attributed. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc unknown books
1796295278Liverpool: Privately Printed 1796. hardcover. 191 pages slim 8vo brown cloth-backed marbled boards. Liverpool: Privately Printed 1796. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1901215905No place. : No publisher. 1901. . Gilt blindstamped red cloth. . Light spotting to front cover gilt decorations dull otherwise a very good attractive copy. . 4to. Numerous b& w illustrations brilliant chromo frontis. No publisher. hardcover books
179820048Newburyport: Printed by Angier March 1802 & 1798. <br /><br />Two pamphlets stitched together into contemporary unbleached heavy cartridge paper 8 x 5 inches 14 2; 18 pages. The second title is completely untrimmed. Stated eleventh edition of the first title; first edition of the second. <br /><br />"Therefore my child as a good soldier of Jesus Christ gird up the loins of your mind." The first title was originally published in Boston in 1746 and seems to have been something of an evergreen bit of piety; it was relatively soon after this that it was picked up as an American Tract Society title. This edition concludes with two poems "The Advantages of Early Religion" and "Thoughts on God and Death." <br /><br />The somewhat more uncommon second title seems only to have been published in this edition; the tentative publication date is assigned by Evans. This copy of the <i>Letter from a Father</i> is bound without the final three blank leaves. March was a fairly active printer bookseller newspaper publisher and circulating library proprietor in Newburyport. <i>American Imprints</i> 2504 <i>Letter from a Solicitous Mother</i>; Evans 33994 <i>Letter from a Father</i>. <br /><br />With the ink ownership inscription to the title page of the first title of Abigail Moulton a name seemingly common enough in Newburyport of that period. Wrappers a bit stained and worn; cheap paper of the first title browned throughout; in very good condition. Printed by Angier March books
1933309321933. Waugh Alec introduction by. Waugh Alec introduction by. Anonymous. A Lawyer's Notebook. Introduction by Alec Waugh. London: Martin Secker 1933. 246 pp. Paperboards over cloth lightly rubbed. Paper label on spine. Minor foxing to endpapers. Very good. $10. unknown books
186928378Philadelphia: Friends’ Publication Association 1869. 24mo printed wrappers 20 pp. Very Good; cover lightly soiled. Friends’ Publication Association, 1869. unknown books
179548741Philadelphia: From the Press 1795. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; untrimmed stitched self-wrappers; 18pp. Coin-sized loss at top margin of last few leaves touching page numbering two small wormholes affecting imprint old dark stain to a few internal leaves else a Good or better unopened copy. Anonymous letter published without the author's consent or knowledge by his correspondent: "The Writer of the following Letter may be surprised to meet with it in Print without having been previously consulted and his Permission obtained for the Publication of it; but his Correspondent hopes that the Motive of his committing it to the Press.may obtain him the Excuse of the Author" p. 2. An early defense of the religious right not to bear arms criticizing the proposed militia bill which would fine those unwilling to bear arms stating "That the infliction of fines or other punishments would be as ineffectual in recconciling sic quakers in America to carry arms as they proved in prevailing upon them in England to make oath" p. 10. ESTC W13134; EVANS 28967; SABIN 40335. From the Press unknown books
1795WRCLIT65729London: Printed for the Author at No. 9 Thornhaugh Street 1795. 16pp. Printed self-wrappers untrimmed. Upper margin rather frayed and dusty sewing perished still a good copy. First and only edition. A political screed - the "antichrist" being the Pope - and the letter drips with irony in its perfumed invective against the likes of Burke Paine and the radicals of France. A prefatory poem is signed "W.H." A scarce tract: ESTC locates copies only at the BL and the Huntington. ESTC T37993. GOLDSMITHS 16480. Printed for the Author, at No. 9, Thornhaugh Street unknown books
177868338A Collection of Five Eighteenth-Century British Revolutionary Pamphlets Anonymous. T.M. A letter to His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh of national defence to which is now added a postscript relative to the regiments of fencible men raising in Scotland. Edinburgh Sold by J. Dickson bookseller 1778. A reissue of the London edition of the same year with a cancel title-page and the addition of a postscript dated: LincolnÃs Inn July 20th 1778. 4 72 10 Postscript. With the letter signed "T.M." Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page. This also includes remarks on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith's Remarks were not in the London Edition. We could find no other copies at auction. ESTC T179898. Bound with DOUGLAS JOHN Anonymous. A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men on the Prospect of Peace; And on the Terms necessary to be insisted upon in the Negotiation. London: A. Millar 1760. First edition first issue with no errata below Finis on final leaf. 4 55 1 blank pp. With half-title and final leaf verso blank. " This tract relating to the Treaty of Utrecht and the French Canadian question has been attributed to Junius also to William Pulteney Earl of Bath but with more probability to John Douglas. The ìTwo Great Menî were Wm. Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. The writer urges upon the government in making peace with France to require from her the relinquishment of all Canada Guadaloupe and Senegal." Sabin 40263. ESTC T37753. Bound with Macpherson James Anonymous. The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America: Being an answer to the declaration of the general Congress. The third edition with additions. London Printed for T. Cadell 1776. The Third edition. 6 96 pp. With folding chart "Appendix." Half-title and advertisement leaf after the title-page. "Also attributed to Sir John Dalrymple Lord George Germaine and Henry Mackenzie." ESTC T45081. Half-title is soiled and some minor toning to a few pages." A reply to the July 1775 declaration of the Continental Congress commissioned and widely distributed by the British government. ìThis celebrated performance is said to have been written printed and liberally distributed both in Great Britain and America at the instance and expense of government; but whether this be true or not the work itself we are afraid will answer no other purpose than to exasperate the people of Great Britain against their brethren of America; and by inflaming misrepresentations and invective aggravate the evils of our present civil discord.î---Monthly Review." Sabin 18347. Howes D37. Evans 14727. Bound with LIND JOHN. Anonymous. An answer to the Declaration of the American Congress. The Fourth Edition. London Printed for T. Cadell 1776. Fourth Edition. 1-132 pp. Leaves D2 and D3 trimmed close at fore-edge just slightly affecting the printed marginal notes. " This anonymous work was ascribed to English barrister John Lind by Richard Price and others. In the work Lind a close associate of Jeremy Bentham treats each of the Declaration's grievances individually refuting them on philosophical and factual grounds. Pages 119-132 include a discussion of the Preamble to the Declaration which he describes as an "absurd and visionary" theory of government." National Book Auctions. " In these later editions the outline of a counter declaration is omitted. With regard to the theory of government set forth in the preamble to the ìDeclarationî the writer adds ìa theory as absurd and visionary as the system of conduct in defence of which it is established is nefarious;î indeed each article of the Declaration of Independence is carefully examined and every assertion disputed." Sabin 41281. Howes L349 ESTC N5626. Bound with Burke William Anonymous. Remarks on the letter addressed to two great men. In a letter to the author of that piece. London Printed in the year 1760. A pirated reprint According to Todd 263 item 98. 32 pp. Bound without the half-title. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page." Occasionally attributed to Charles Townshend but more generally assigned to William Burke and Ãin partà to Edmund" Todd. A respond to the first pamphlet in this volume "The ÃLetter addressed to two great menà is by John Douglas Bishop of Salisbury." "Argues against giving Guadeloupe to the French. Attributed to Charles Townshend by Evans; however the Dictionary of national biography attributes the Remarks to William Burke secretary to Guadeloupe" Evans 8751. ESTC N26297. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 inches; 210 x 128 mm. All pamphlets bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some occasional foxing but otherwise very clean. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. A very good copy. HBS 68338. $5000 Sold by J. Dickson, bookseller hardcover books
