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1848006316London: John Murray 1848. Full Decorated Morocco. Near Fine. 12mo. 16.5 by 11.5 cm. Lovely contemporary red morocco binding with gilt ruled vertical rectangular centerpiece and fleuron border raised bands gilt decoration in each of the spine compartments. Finden steel engraving frontis and half title vignette in each volume with occasional fold-out reproductions of letters/documents. Condition: light wear occasional rubbing to binding. Overall a beautiful shelf presence and a highly attractive set of pocket-sized volumes. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
189732456Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Very good in original printed wrappers. Octavo. 5.875 x 9.125 in. 120 pp. Illustrated with ten plates including reproductions of black & white photographs charts and figures. Eminent archaeologist and ethnologist Matthew Stirling's copy with his ownership signature on first page. <br/><br/> MacCalla & Company paperback books
1805WRCAM49517New York: G. & R. Waite 1805. 4100pp. Contemporary calf gilt leather label. Minor edge wear. Contemporary ink notations on front flyleaf light foxing. Very good. Second American edition condensed from the first American edition published in Baltimore in 1803. This edition presents eight biographies of various important American and British figures of the American Revolutionary period including Lord Nelson Cornwallis Bushrod Washington and Edward Jenner the discoverer of the vaccine for smallpox. Scarce with only five copies located on OCLC. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9222. SABIN 66511. OCLC 24492244. G. & R. Waite hardcover books
1883L0531<p>624 pages with frontispiece and over 300 black and white illustrations. Royal Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and black and gilt lettering with pictorial to cover. Lacks the illustration of Twain's head in flames on page 441 and the corrected "St Charles Hotel" on page 443. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript BAL 34II Second state of the first American edition.<br /><br />Twain once remarked that he considered this book his masterpiece the book that would outlive his other works and endure as a classic. Of course Twain once defined a classic as a book everybody talks about but nobody ever reads. At first glance it seems to be a travel book but it is really a highly readable discursive autobiographical account of Twain's boyhood and his region and of a culture that radically changed since he left home 30 years earlier. It makes good reading as background for <i>Huck Finn</i>. The only thing that is known of the printing history is what Twain wrote in 1891: that 50000 copies were printed and bound but only 32000 sold. Implication is that the unsold copies were reissued by Charles L Webster between 1884 and 1891 when he took over Osgood's stock. Copies are found with Osgood's sheets and Webster cancel title-page in Webster bindings dated 1888 and 1891. As a subscription book this book was similar in size to the hefty tomes of the American Publishing Company but the handsome pictorial brown cloth binding ranks with the binding of <i>Huck Finn</i> as one of the best on a Twain first edition. It could be ordered with gilt edges in full sheep three-quarter morocco and three-quarter calf. MacDonald: <i>Firsts</i>.<br /><br />This is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot as the 'cub' apprentice of an experienced pilot Horace E. Bixby. He describes with great affection the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876 entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river and playing up his own callowness and naïveté. In the second half Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads and the new large cities and adds his observations on greed gullibility tragedy and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens and Robert Lansing as Horace Bixby the steamboat pilot who mentored him. The film used many tall tales from the book woven into a fictional narrative. In 2010 <i>Life on the Mississippi</i> was adapted as a stage musical with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City Missouri and Door County Wisconsin. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased in original spine some occasional foxing and finger soiling one signature slightly sprung else a very good and bright copy.</p> James R Osgood and Company hardcover books
1885779951885. DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. London: Smith Elder & Co. v.d. 1885-1900. First edition. In 72 volumes together with 1. 3 supplementary volumes New York: MacMillan & Co. 1901 2. A concluding volume containing an Index and Epitome of the whole 1903 3. An errata volume 1904. These and all of the above volumes very good in brown cloth some library book plate none with external markings. 4. Second Supplement 3 volumes 1912. This group in worn blue cloth with chipped spines. 5. DNB--20th Century 1912-1921 with index. 1927 1 volume. This volume blue cloth very good condition. Total number of volumes is 72. Volumes 1-21 edited by Leslie Stephen. Volumes 22-26 edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. Volumes 27-63 with the 3 supplementary volumes and the Index and Eptiome edited by Sidney Lee. 8vo. Brown cloth very good. This is classic reference work containing accurate and concise biographies of noteworthy inhabitants of the British Islands and Colonies from the earliest historical period to the date of Queen Victoria's death on 22 January 1901. An unusually complete edition of this wonderful reference set. unknown books
189853408Waco TX: Herz Brothers 1898-99. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's blue-green cloth boards decorated in blind titled in gilt on spines and front covers; 464463pp.; photographic portrait frontis. bound in first volume. Light external wear but a clean tight and unmarked set Very Good or better. Volume 1 dated 1898 on title page; Volume 2 dated 1899 on title page. The writings of journalist William Cowper Brann 1855-1898 editor and owner of the Waco Texas newspaper "The Iconoclast." The notorious Brann was one of America's first succesful "attack journalists" launching vicious broadsides against everything from harlotry to Baptism to New York society often conflating the three. He once famously stated: "I have nothing against Baptists -- I just don't think they were held under long enough." The present anthology of his writings was issued shortly after Brann's assassination in 1898 at the hands of a perhaps unsurprisingly irate Baptist. Herz Brothers unknown books
185226313United States of America: Various 1852. 15 individually-published items all in their original paper wraps and bound in a single volume; condition notes are provided at each title as listed below. Including: Woods Leonard Jr. D.D. President of Bowdoin College. A Eulogy on Daniel Webster delivered by request of the City Government and Citizens of Portland Wednesday Nov. 17 1852 Brunswick Maine 1852. 55 pages. Printed and Published by J. Griffin. A few pencil lines in margins. Allen William H. LL. D. President of the Girard College for Orphans. Eulogy on the Character and Services of the Late Daniel Webster pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia January 18 1853. Philadelphia 1853. 51 pages. Crissy & Markley Printers Goldsmiths Hall Library Street. Previous owner name insc. at top of title page; laid-in couple of manuscript notes regarding Webster; Young Men's Christian Union label on front cover; few pencil lines in margins; covers darkened foxing edge-soiling within. Webster Rev. George W. A Sermon Preached to the First Independent Congregational Society of Wheeling Va. on the Occasion of the Death of Daniel Webster. Second Edition. Wheeling: Printed by Swearingen & Taylor No. 21 Water Street 1853. 24 pages. Light foxing on last leaves. Weiss John. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster Delivered in the Unitarian Church New Bedford November 14 1853. 27 pages; with tissue-guarded engraved portrait by A.H. Futchie after a Daguerreotype by John A. Whipple. Portrait darkened offsetting of image on title page. Mason Rev. Charles Rector of Grace Church Boston. A Discourse on the Death of Daniel Webster Delivered Oct. 31 1852. Printed by Request for Private Circulation 1852. Boston. Printed by John Wilson & Son 22 School Street. 25 pages. King Thomas Starr Pastor of the Church. The Death of Mr. Webster: A Sermon Preached in Hollis-Street Meeting-House on Sunday Oct. 311852. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene 124 Washington Street. 40 pages. Lothrop Rev. S.K. A Sermon Preached in the Brattle Square Church On the Sunday Succeeding to the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster. Published by Request Boston: 1852. Eastburn's Press. 20 pages. McCoy Amasa. Funeral Oration on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster Delivered at a Commemoration in the Presbyterian Church Ballston Spa N.Y. Monday Evening November 8 1852. Third Edition. Boston: C.C.P. Moody Printer 52 Washington Street. 1856. 4 39 pages. The preliminary pages are printed with "Letters from Distinguished Sources in Connection with the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster." Choate Rufus. A Discourse Delivered Before the Faculty Students and Alumni of Dartmouth College on the Day Preceding Commencement July 27 1853 Commemorative of Daniel Webster. Eight Thousand. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company 1853. 88 pages. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins at the top edge of the title page. Parker Joel LL.D. Royall Professor. Daniel Webster as a Jurist. An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at Cambridge. Second Edition. Cambridge: John Bartlett 1853. 71 pages. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins Jr. at the top edge of the title page; cover with the inscription "Mr. Calvin Stebbins South Wilbraham for W.S. Burt." Stearns Rev. William A. The Great Lamentation: A Sermon in Commemoration of Daniel Webster Delivered in Cambridge On Sunday Morning November 21 1852. Second Edition. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company. 44 pages. A little foxing & spotting on first and last leaves. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins at the top edge of the title page. Adams Nehemiah D.D. Pastor of Essex Street Church Boston. A Sermon Preached to the Congregation at the Essex Street Church October 31 1852 the Sabbath after the Interment of Hon. Daniel Webster. Printed by the Young Men of the Congregation for their Private Use. Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand Cornhill. 1852. 23 pages. Cover with the inscription "Mr. C. Stebbins with N.C. Leeds's regards." Back edge of cover wrap with old paper repair of closed edge-tear. Bartol C.A. Junior Minister. The Hand of God in the Great Man: A Sermon Delivered in the West Church Boston Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster. Published by Request. Second Edition. Boston: Crosby Nichols and Company 111 Washington Street. 1852. 22pages. Walker T. Oration on the Life and Public Services of Daniel Webster. Delivered Before the Bar of Cincinnati November 22d 1852. Published at the Request of the Cincinnati Bar. Cincinnati: Morgan & Overend Printers. 1852. 45 pages. Previous owner name of John E. Thayer Esq. Boston on front cover at top edge. Spear Charles Editor of "Prisoners' Friend." Incidents of the Hon. Daniel Webster in Relating to the Late Mission to England. Boston Prisoners' Friend Office 130 Washington Street. 1853. 8 pages. With tissue-guarded engraved portrait by O. Pelton; W.T. Goddard printer. Portrait with edge-foxing spotting; A little offsetting of image on title page. Various Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts Secretary of State for the United States: Delivered in the Senate and in the House of Representatives of the United States Fourteenth and Fifteenth December 1852. Washington: Printed by Robert Armstrong. 1853. 86 pages. Contemporary inscription on title page partially legible. Spotting and foxing to much of the first few dozen pages & title cover. Previous owner bookplate of E.F. Keene on front endpaper. Tipped-on at top of that endpaper is a typed list of the titles found within. also A typed letter from Erwin F. dated July 11th 1928 noted in handwriting below as "Replying to Chambers of July 14." which is in regards to various writing projects of Keene including a biography of Webster and others and physical difficulties which he has faced preventing completion. Approx. 6" x 9" size; bound in beige linen cloth dark brown leather spine title label gilt simply lettered 'Webster.' Covers worn soiled spotty & faded inner hinge-papers split; still solidly bound. Contents as described above generally clean and in good condition. Daniel Webster 1782 - 1852 American lawyer & statesman. ".Websters remarkable political diplomatic and legal careers were aided by his intellectual brilliance and personal magnetism. He contributed significantly to the concept of American nationality to the idea of a perpetual Union to perspectives on economic growth to a modern legal system and to the rising importance of the United States in foreign relations." Maurice G. Baxter in the ANB . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Various paperback books
