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1896312959Dublin : Gill 1896. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii 312 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: Ireland -- History. Dublin : Gill hardcover
1804AQ21202Cambridge: Printed by and for B. Flower 1804. 324pp. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities occasional marking else a crisp unpressed and generously margined copy displaying several untrimmed fore-edges and some marginal paper flaws. With occasional neat early underlining of key passages suggesting a close reading a handful of single-word manuscript translations into French early ink-stamps of Wm. McKendrick to early blank preceding title and following leaf and later ink inscription to modern blank fly. The second edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended to be used as a textbook: as the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' the work was to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763-1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 or the by then well known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth century into a single convenient octavo volume. Mizuta 82. Second edition. 8vo. Printed by and for B. Flower hardcover
182155104London:: Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. The Third Edition. original boards; green cloth spine with printed paper label. . Spine sunned; spine label tanned; but a beautiful copy in original condition. 12mo. Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, hardcover
18219777<p>G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821. THIRD EDITION. 12mo. 7.8 x 4.7 inches. xii 395pp. A very good clean copy in the original publishers paper covered boards. Pages untrimmed. Chipping to the edges of the original printed paper label on spine. Previous owner has covered the spine and board edges with white paper which is chipped and showing loss which allows the original printed label to be seen. Board edges a bit rubbed and bumped. An uncommon survivor in any condition but in the original publishers boards even more so.</p> G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821 hardcover
1821152837London: for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. Third Joyce edition constituting upon its first publication in 1797 the first abridgement of Smith's Wealth of Nations a conscious move by the editor Jeremiah Joyce to turn the bulky two or three volumes of the original into a more manageable textbook of economics. Octavo 174 x 102 mm. Contemporary marbled sides and vellum tips sometime rebacked with brown sheep spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription to front pastedown of Edgar MacCulloch likely the expert on Guernsey folklore 1808-1896 above later stamp of Elizabeth College Library in Guernsey. Very minor rubbing very light spotting and creasing to pages. A very good copy. hardcover
1883015841Chicago: S.P. Rounds Jr. 1883. First Edition. Octavo. Review copy from the publisher with review slip tipped in portrait frontispiece with tissue guard 318pp. bound in an olive cloth decorated with a black checkerboard spine lettering gilt floral endpapers. rub through to one corner edges rubbed. The author served in the 24th Kentucky Infantry to the West Mormons later he served a prison term with members of the Reno Gang of train robbers.Six-guns-1203. S.P. Rounds, Jr. unknown books
18838040<p>INSCRIBED by the author in 1909 ffep. No dj. Very Good book for age comes in custom made slipcase.</p> S.P. Rounds hardcover
1883003502Chicago: S.P. Rounds Jr. 1883 Book. Illus. by Portrait Front. Good Plus. Hardcover. First No Additional printings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original yellow cloth decorated in black in checkerboard motif on boards. Author served in 24th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War and was a poet of some reknown. Book is lightly soiled and worn outside and has a thumb-sized hole through one preliminary leaf. Leaf-patterned endpapers. Interior clean and easily-readable. A Checkered Life has 300 pp. Poetic Waifs has 18 pp. S.P. Rounds, Jr. hardcover
18838961Chicago IL: S. P. Rounds Jr. 1883. fair. 318 frontis illus. weakness to bds bds & spine quite worn & scuffed: edges threadbare small tears at spine. Colonel Joyce participated in the Knoxville expedition and the siege of Knoxville. Some of his poetry is appended to these memoirs. S. P. Rounds, Jr. unknown
