1 237 résultats
1870278094London. : Griffith and Farran. No date circa1870. Original green cloth black blindstamped cover decorations gilt cover title no spine title. . Dark spots to borders of front cover otherwise a very good copy. . 16mo. Engraved illustrations by S. Williams. Griffith and Farran. hardcover books
192010146Boston MA: Privately issued for C. Nile Dix and his Friends 1920. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf/edge wear tips through glue staining related to tipped in plates else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound tan cloth spine black paper boards frontispiece. 4to. 45pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>A rollicking tale of debauchery on the high seas with voyagers on a ship beset by pirates who turn out to be gentlemen and their leader British nobility. This is an unusual copy. Bound in boards and bearing the title page of the 1920 privately printed edition the textblock is printed in mimeo recto only in 45 pages vs. 52 for the printed edition. There is a frontis and additional plate tipped in. We believe this copy is likely the final draft bound by the publisher as it came in with a small cache of material that originated with a boutique print shop. The text matches the Dix textblock. Unique copy. Privately issued for C. Nile Dix and his Friends hardcover books
182626426Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy London 1826 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies including a second or variant issue. Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy. 8vo later green half calf green cloth boards red morocco label gilt decorations and lettering t.e.g. others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes including ones about Burns Byron Shelley Boswell and John Gay interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or Literary Relics. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826 unknown books
192058625Chicago: Max Stein 1920. First Edition. 12mo pp. 31. Illustrated. Self wraps leaves little toned very good. The traffic in girls. White Skavery as now practiced In America including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white women slaves and wives of Asia Turkey Egypt etc. 29 "It is doubtful if ever in the history of civilization was waged such a fight as is being fought to-day for the preservation of the country's good name and against the unspeakable traffic in girls known as White Slavery. Max Stein unknown books
19402328Chicago: Citizens Press n.d. 1940s. Octavo 8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A ferocious attack on communists and communism: "Communism is immoral and decadent: it reduces men and women to the level of beasts and they lose all sense of propriety and decency." Divided into 21 short sections such as: "Communists Are Perverts" "Communism Thrives on Trickery" etc. <br /><br />OCLC shows only two institutional holdings: Ball State and Michigan State while a separate search turns up a copy at Columbia. None in commerce March 2021. SCARCE. <br /><br />Condition: Splits at top and bottom of cover page but still holding firmly small nicks to corners vertical fold to lower right throughout pages lightly toned contact details of "Women's Voice" stamped on final page. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> Citizens Press books
19459015531Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Bookshop 1945. Hardcover. Very good condition. Prefatory Notes by F. Lauriston Bullard. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. One of 500 copies printed at the Norman Press. Spine sunned. Slipcase. <br/><br/> Abraham Lincoln Bookshop hardcover books
18942202015The Religious Tract Society 1894. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Undated ink gift note on front endpaper dated 1894. Three small light spots on back panel. vii 360 pp. 7 3/8 x 5 5/8. Original grey cloth beveled edges gilt black & red design fore-edges gilt floral endpapers. The Religious Tract Society hardcover books
184432228New Haven: Pr. by B.L. Hamlen 1844. 8vo. 20 pp. <br><br>From the New Englander for July 1844. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in American Imprints. Removed from a nonce volume. Without the wrappers. Light foxing. Early leaves separating. A good copy. Pr. by B.L. Hamlen unknown books
1846133113Boston: James French 1846. 12mo pp. 1-9 10-191 192: ads note: first leaf is a blank preceding the title leaf flyleaves at front and rear original brown cloth stamped in gold and blind yellow endpapers. First edition. Sentimental novel set in a small town in Massachusetts. Wright I 863. Inner hinges cracked lacks both free endpapers some foxing and staining to text block a reading copy of a scarce book. #133113 James French unknown books
1911290075New York. : The Butterick Publishing Company. 1911. Green cloth dark green cover title. . Very good in a good dust jacket with a piece missing at the upper corner. . 25.5x17.5 cm. . weight: 1.1 lb. Numerous illustrations in text. The Butterick Publishing Company. hardcover books
1850459071850. Large 8vo pp. 147-288. Wraps missing. Frontis engraved portrait of Sir Robert Peel. Some foxing throughout o/w good. Articles on Peel Courtship in the time of James the First The trial of Professor John W. Webster Beethoven and many other subjects. unknown books
1920272087New York. : Elliott Book Typewriter Co. No date circa 1920. . Stapled wraps. . Covers soiled cover and first two sheets tape-repaired still a good copy of a scarce item. . sq8vo. Color pictorial cover black & white illustrations. Elliott Book Typewriter Co. paperback books
001587New York: Leavitt & Allen No Date circa 1850's. Stamped and gilt decorated red leather. all edges gilt. Black and white illus. throughout. 263 pages with 5 color plates lacking the 6th plate the presentation page plate. Boards are rubbed at tips and at spine; spine lightly faded. Contents are clean unmarked and tight. Overall a nice copy of this scarce piece of Masonic history. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Leavitt & Allen Hardcover books
173048552London: Printed by A Moore for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll's Head 1730. 1st printing ESTC T106069. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Bit of soiling to outer leaves. Prior owner marginal notes identifying individuals discussed in the text. Overall Very Good. 28 pp. Lacks half-title leaf. T.p. printer's device. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>A political satire of the times; the imprint is false. Printed by A Moore, for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck, at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll's Head unknown books
2005298047London: Parkstone Press 2005. hardcover. near fine. 287 pages mainly illustrations some color tall 4to glossy pictorial black boards. London: Parkstone Press 2005. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Parkstone Press unknown books
1825002350Philadelphia: Published by Morgan & Yeager No. 114 Chesnut Street Front wrap: Published by Morgan & Sons at Their Juvenile Bookstore 1825. Early 19th-century Edition. Good. Early 19th-century edition n. d. ca 1825; 5 1/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 22; brown paper over card stock wraps printed and ruled in black; chipping to paper on spine and closed splits to tips; small nicks to corners; discolored spot to lower margin of front wrap; first three leaves detached but present; illustrated with eleven hand-colored copper engravings; overall in good condition. A delightful edition of a beloved folk tale it was presumably illustrated by William Charles 1776 - 1820 - a Scotish-American cartoonist engraver and publisher best known for his political cartoons. Based on his illustrations - plain or hand-colored - the book could be had for 18 cents and 31 cents respectively. Scarce with no copies in OCLC of this edition and none in the trade as of July 2020. Rosenbach 662 Published by Morgan & Yeager, No. 114 Chesnut Street (Front wrap: Published by Morgan & Sons, at Their Juvenile Bookstor paperback books
197227500Onitsha: J.C. Brothers 1972. First Edition. Slim octavo 24.25cm; pink printed wrappers stapled blue wrappered variants noted with no established priority; 24pp. Original printed price defaced by publisher with their new rubber-stamped price of 5/-; pinpoint wear to corners with a touch of oxidation to staples; Near Fine. "A great majority of people cannot give details of their childhood due to the fact that no records were kept of the early periods of thier lives. It is more so because there was no properly prepared register for this purpose. The family birth recorder has come to supply this greatly required medium through which posterity can not only trace their lives history but also of their forebears" from the foreword. HOGG 514. J.C. Brothers unknown books
18802200409T. Nelson and Sons 1880. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Deaccessioned Reynolds Library copy usual marks ink stamps on some of the engravings. Boards rubbed endpapers and margins of a few pages lightly stained. 1880 Large Hardcover. 230 pp. Tall 8vo. Leather spine gilt titles and rules marbled paper over boards marbled endpapers. A "popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens public and private ancient and modern interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening." Engraved illustrations throughout. T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
1833115116London: J. Hatchard and Son 1833. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2-121 122: blank 123-124: ads original plum cloth front panel stamped in gold yellow coated endpapers all edges untrimmed. First edition. The narrator if not the author was evidently a doctor and writes here about some of his cases. A short grim narrative its original purpose being a little unclear but its present effect is clear enough illuminating the vanity of medical science. Block The English Novel 1740-1850 p. 72. COPAC records five copies OCLC adds one more. Spine panel slightly sunned binding leaned a very good copy. #115116 J. Hatchard and Son unknown books
1274London / New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co n. d. Ca. 1890s. Quarter bound olive green cloth spine and color pictorial paper wrapped boards. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed. Color plates still bright and present. An About VG copy. Unpaginated. Many intratextual and full page b/w illustrations and color printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/> Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1781291930London: MacGowan 1781. hardcover. very good. 2 Volumes. 33 engraved maps & plans 3 folding & 28 engraved plates. Thick 4to unpaginated text in double columns. Full contemporary calf. Heraldic bookplate in each volume. London: MacGowan 1781. Scarce. Well-worn and joints cracked but attractive and overall very good.<br/><br/> The work contains numerous entries for North American battles of the Seven Years' War American Revolutionary War &c. including Annapolis Royal Beauséjour Brandy-Wine Lake Champlain Charlestown Fort Frontenac Louisbourg Fort Necessity Fort Niagara Penobscot Fort Pitt Quebec Saratoga Ticonderoga New York &c. Appended are an essay on fortification.<br/><br/> MacGowan unknown books
197644476Moscow: Progres Publishers 1976. Second printing. Yershov Igor and Ksenia Yershova. Small 4to pp. not numbered. Illustrated by Igor Yershov and Ksenia Yershova. Illustrated paper over boards. Cover very slightly bumped o/w a nice copy. Progres Publishers unknown books
189641974New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1896. First Edition. 12mo 16.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in silver foil top edge silver foil; 25406pp.; frontispiece 3 leaves of plates. Light shelf wear corners gently bumped minor foxing to endpapers else Very Good or better. American novel set in a sculptor's Parisian studio. WRIGHT III 1895. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
173728073London: Printed by J. Applebee for J. Hazard J. Brindley J. Worrall J. Jolliffe C. Corbet Ward and Chandler E. Withers R. Dodsley and W. Warner 1737 1737. First edition second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year under the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains the running title Gallick Reports. ESTC N6568 which records six copies of this issue Cambridge Columbia Cornell Harvard Princeton and National Library of Medicine; cf. ESTC T116539 for the first issue. Two leaves misbound following the preface; title-page somewhat soiled and with a small hole not affecting the text; edges of the binding rubbed; very good copy. 12mo contemporary sheep skillfully rebacked red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. Five pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. ¶ An unusual collection of seven "extraordinary" and "surprizing" French criminal cases as recorded by an anonymous English author who has also supplied an interesting 43-page preface on French law. Among the cases is the 16th century story of Martin Guerre later used by Janet Lewis for her novella The Wife of Martin Guerre Colt Press 1941; that's followed by stories of a man who "debauched" a young woman but is saved from execution by that woman; Mary Margaret de Aubrey who poisoned her father and two brothers; the celebrated history of Urbain Grandier condemned as a Magician; a child claimed by two women to be its mother; Madam Tiquet who attempted to "assassinate" her husband. Interspersed with the cases are relevant extracts from French law the king's edicts against witches and poisoners etc. Modern nautical bookplate on the front free endpaper of Robert J. Hayhurst retail pharmacist and book collector. <br/><br/> London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R unknown books
184419364Philadelphia: Published at 23 N. Second st. 1844. First edition. Wrappers neatly reattached with archival clear tape repairs to the tears; wrappers soiled pamphlet somewhat roughly trimmed; in good sound condition. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers scant 7 x 4 inches 24 pages. Illus. Out of the windows of nearly every Native American and Protestant Irishman in the district hung the American and tri-colored flags. This was regarded as sufficient protection from the mob. Upon some of the doors were observed the words 'Native American' written with charcoal and on others were posted the 'Native American' newspaper--regarding these as better protection than arms of the military. . . . During the afternoon hundreds of families of Catholics moved out of the district; and we observed women and children piled high up on furniture carts upon their goods apparently delighted to escape the scenes of turmoil and bloodshed which presented themselves to their eyes for the last three days." A supposedly non-partisan account of the first round of 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia though the Nativists come out rather better in this minute recounting of the riots than the "priest-ridden" Irish; the report drills down to specific incidents of violence and victims graphic accounts of the firing of the churches as well as a healthy dose of rumor and supposition which priests are stockpiling weapons etc. and altogether a full accounting of the violence leveled against Irish immigrants and Catholic properties over four days in May. The riots of July are not mentioned here. The pictorial wrappers include a wood engraving of "the American Flag Torn at a Meeting in Kensington" as well as crude views of the mobs watching the churches burn. A cursory search of the N. 2nd street address situated in the Old City in digitized Philadelphia newspapers and directories of the period did not yield up any particularly likely candidates for the pamphlet's publisher or distributor. Published at 23 N. Second st., unknown books
