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1898027191London: Harper & Brothers 1898. Book. Illus. by George Du Maurier. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 471 pages numerous black and white illustrations by the author. Half leather binding blue morocco five raised bands and bold gilt titling to the spine matching marbled boards a little fading to the spine otherwise very good. Contents fairly clean and tight light spotting to endpapers and first and last few pages spotting to fore-edges previous owner's neat inscription to the front free end-paper dated Christmas Day 1943 otherwise unmarked. A very good tight copy. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
19352165London: Heinemann. Fine. 1935. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. 4to; cloth-backed marbled boards spine stamped in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Square inch owndership label of Albert Sperisen on leading lower corner of front pastedown. . Heinemann hardcover
198741802Oxford University Press. 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Creasing to top corners of about 5 pages. Minor pencil notes. Creasing to spine. Scholar's name to ffep Jonathan Burgess.; 552 pages; Milman Parry who died in 1935 while a young assistant professor at Harvard is now considered one of the leading classical scholars of this century. Yet Parry's articles and French dissertations--highly original contributions to the study of Homer--have until now been difficult to obtain. The Making of Homeric Verse for the first time collects these landmark works in one volume together with Parry's unpublished M. A. Thesis and extracts from his Yugoslavian journal which contains notes on Serbo-Croatian poetry and its relation to Homer. Adam Parry the late son of the scholar has translated the French dissertations written an introduction on the life and intellectual development of his father and provided a survey of later work on Homer conducted in Parry's glorious tradition. . 019520560X . Oxford University Press paperback
200731945Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #31. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover
2007110769Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #32. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover
1975009974Boston: Little Brown. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Little Brown 1975 first printing. 4to. 9" x 11 3/8" 304pp. 450 b/w illustrations 16 pages of color. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles brown endpapers. Minor foxing on edge of page block else fine in near fine dust jacket. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1975. Little, Brown unknown
189715586J.M. Dent 1897. Sm. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present title in red and black and several decorations in the text free endpapers mildly browned; original blue cloth upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to an art nouveau design gilt top uncut ivory silk marker detached at head a very good bright clean copy. Published in Dent's 'Lyric Poets' series this is a typical Rhys brainchild combining fine paper elegant typography and high production values. A stylish forerunner of the mighty Everyman's Library then waiting in the wings. Very scarce. J.M. Dent, hardcover
192339714New York: Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1923. Hardcover. Translation by William Burton. 4to. Tan cloth spine with paper label and brown paper over boards with paper label. xxxi 152pp. Very good. Faintest edgewear only. A wonderfully tight and attractive copy of this first modern edition limited to 494 copies numbered this #457 and initialed by publisher in red. Burton was the first to translate this 3rd century Romanized Greek romance into English in 1597 -- then to cite title page "Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597." Several other English translations followed in 1638 1855 1917 1989 and 2001 -- but Burton's was the first. Printed on lovely heavy paper and with a spare front board paper label tipped to rear pastedown. Scarce. Bernard Guilbert Guerney hardcover
19702221975<p>First edition first printing. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped designed by Jay Gendell. Very good. 280 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Advance copy for review with publisher's slip with March 24 1970 publication date.</p> Bernard Geis Associates hardcover
183019564J.F. Dove St. John's Square n.d. 1830. 12mo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present engraved and printed titles and separate titles to the parts small neat signature on blank preliminary; attractively bound in dark red full calf boards with frame border in gilt enclosing double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in blind back with three flat bands second compartment with green leather label lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers label chipped without loss of lettering joints moderately rubbed upper hinge tender but binding entirely sound else a very good clean crisp copy. The plates are engraved for Dove's 'English Classics'. The frontispiece reproduces Robert Graves' portrait of Matthew Hale; the engraved title the same artist's portrait of Rochester. RARE. BLPC gives one copy and provisional dating. J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, hardcover
183341066J. G. & F. Rivington for SPCK 1833. 8vo. neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; full contemporary roan upper board blocked in blind back with five flat gilt bands second compartment lettered in gilt red sprinkled edges joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved bright crisp clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. THIS COPY CARRIES THE BINDER'S PLATE AND DATE STAMP May 1833 OF JOHN BIRD ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF AN ORIGINAL SPCK BINDING. Based in London's Hatton Garden John Bird was a designated SPCK binder; several examples of his work are held in the British Library. J. G. & F. Rivington [for] SPCK, unknown
183822234Henry Washbourne 1838. 16mo. with engraved frontispiece title in red and black 5 fine copper-engraved portraits and plates and 51 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; attractively bound in contemporary full calf sides with Oxford frame border in gilt back with five raised bands ruled in gilt second compartment with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers backstrip gilt save label faded a remarkably bright crisp clean copy. A scarce edition based on the first Major of 1825. A useful feature is the printing of the latter's extensive notes at the foot of the relevant pages rather than collectively at end. There are also several alterations and additions. Henry Washbourne, hardcover
182522339Printed by Nicol at the Shakspeare Press for John Major Fleet-Street 1825. 8vo. First Major Edition Large Paper with a copper-engraved frontispiece mounted on India Paper 10 fine copper-engraved plates mounted on India Paper and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text; handsomely bound in later nineteenth century red full crushed morocco BY MYERS back with five raised bands tooled in gilt second compartment framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design all edges gilt elaborate gilt doublures marbled endpapers a splendid crisp clean copy in superb signed period binding. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate and binder's ticket on front paste-down. LARGE PAPER STATE OF THE FIRST MAJOR EDITION of Walton's great biographical collection issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 Wotton 1665 Hooker 1670 Herbert and 1678 Sanderson. The plates are all early proofs on India Paper; the plate 'The Advocate' is engraved as 'The Pleader'. A LOVELY BRIGHT COPY IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING. JOHNSON RATES THE WORK 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'. [Printed by Nicol at the Shakspeare Press for] John Major, Fleet-Street, hardcover
191716048Methuen 1917. Sm. 4to. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER on laid paper with coloured frontispiece original tissue guard present and title in red and black; original boards faux-vellum back printed paper label on backstrip uncut expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a remarkably bright crisp clean copy. Methuen, hardcover
190531896New York: Harper & Brothers 1905. Hardcover. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 8vo. Olive green with white and gilt decorative stamping and oval die-cut color plate tipped to front board. xi 291pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece 9 full-page color plates decorative endpapers border margins. Very good. Almost a "Near fine" for it's tight and bright with just the slightest bit of faint edgewear. First edition first state with lovely color Pyle plates. Harper & Brothers hardcover
196713028E. J. Brill. 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Endpapers are lightly yellowed. Former owner's name on ffep. Small bookseller's label to inner cover. Small discolored area to rear board. Foxing just starting to ffep.; Contents: Introductory; the Disease that Needs the Knife: Ajax; Music hath Charms: the Tracking Satyrs; A Sea of Trouble: Antigone; Fortune's Wheel: Trachiniae; Blindness and Vision: Oedipus Tyrannus; From Slavery to Freedom: Electra; The Divine Wound: Philoctetes; Rest for the Wanderer: Oedipus Coloneus; The Chronology of the Extant Plays; Conclusion: the Philosophy of Sophocles.; 165 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover
2221947<p>ca. 1850. 4 3/4" x 3 1/2". Frontispiece engraved portrait. Original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind a.e.g. No dust jacket. Good minor nicks; soiling; slight-lean. 222 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed by J. Billing Woking.</p> Thomas Allman hardcover
188723563Walter Scott 1887. Sm. 8vo. First Edition small neat signature on front free endpaper free endpapers very lightly browned; green cloth upper board framed and lettered in black gilt back uncut a very good bright clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. Published in Scott's series 'Great Writers' edited by Eric Robertson. Includes a bibliography. A lovely copy. Wise VI 12. Walter Scott, hardcover
187029614no publisher given c.1870. 2 works in 1 vol. 8vo. First Edition text in double-column; handsomely bound in contemporary half calf marbled boards marbled edges marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a very good bright crisp copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF EYRE CROWE BEARS HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE DATED 1870 ON TITLE OF FIRST WORK EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS IN HIS HAND ON REAR FREE ENDPAPER RECTO AND WAS BOUND PROBABLY TO HIS COMMISSION. Eyre Crowe 1824-1910 painter was a pupil of William Darley and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris. Between 1852-53 he travelled throughout the USA as amanuensis to Thackeray publishing 'With Thackeray in America' 1893 and 'Thackeray's Haunts and Homes' 1897. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1846 and was elected Associate in 1876. VERY SCARCE. [no publisher given], hardcover
184827854William Pickering 1848. Sm. 8vo. Second Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece mildly offset to title and full-page pedigrees in the text tide-mark on lower half of frontispiece; original brown cloth backstrip with printed paper label browned but wholly legible very neatly rebacked to style with old backstrip laid down uncut a very good clean copy. Printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. The first Pickering edition appeared in the previous year. See NCBEL II 1581. William Pickering, hardcover
18530007667Philadelphia: Privately Printed by C. Sherman 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 336 pages original cloth spine lightly sunned. Scarce. <br/><br/>Londoner Esther De Berdt married an American lawyer and re-located to Philadelphia in 1770. As part of the Philadelphia gentry she met many of the important Colonists including Gen. George Washington. Initially opposed she warmed to the cause of independence. Her husband Joseph became Washington's aide and secretary and eventually a general and still later Governor of Pennsylvania. Esther meanwhile headed the Ladies of Philadelphia and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Continental Army. She dies at age 34 in 1780 failing to see the success that crowned her efforts. Much of this text is in the form of letters. She was one of the outstanding women of the American Revolution. Privately Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
101842573X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1871BIO2249London: Strahan & Co. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1871. First Edition. Half-Leather. Volume 1 - 431 pp. Volume 2 - 503 pp. Both volumes: frontis. Prev owner's name on the rear endpaper. Half-leather binding. Spine ends corners bumped and worn. 4 raised bands on the spine highlighted in gilt. Gilt lettering. Volume 1 has no title pastedown Volume 2 has half the leather title pastedown on the spine. Miller was a prominent Victorian scientist geologist and palaeontologist credited with many new discoveries. A pioneer of the new scientitif age he wrote about everything he found making it acessible to the public. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Strahan & Co. hardcover
018500Beirut: Khayat's College Book Cooperative Signed on titlepage -"For Helen with love from Mary Eddy". Under the name "Al Hajj Lemuel Gulliver Jr" is written William A. Eddy that indicates that he is the author. 36 pages not numbered. Illustrations / cartoons / humorous sketches. 1956. English text. Foreword by GOHA. Small traces of use / Spine slightly discoloured - soiled / slight wear to spine. Al Hajj Lemuel Gulliver Jr. is the pseudonym for William Alfred Eddy Ph.D. Col. USMC March 9 1896 - May 3 1962 was a U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia 1944 -1946; university professor and college president 1936 - 1942; U.S. Marine Corps officer serving in World War I and World War II; and U.S. intelligence officer. In 1922 he received his doctorate from Princeton University. His dissertation was on Gulliver's Travels Lemuel Gulliver written by Jonathan Swift. Married with Mary Garvin. signed by author / gesigneerd auteur. 1ste / 1st. soft cover geniet/stapled. good / goed. Illus. by Sullivan Amir Ray Abdul Bulbul. A5 formaat. paperback. Khayat's College Book Cooperative paperback
186437696New York: G.P. Putnam 1864. Hardcover. Edited by Pierre M. Irving. Complete 4-volume set. Small 8vo. Quarter calf spines with raised bands and gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards. 463pp 492pp 403pp 450pp. Frontispieces marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Mild occasional edgewear and bit of scuffing. A tight most handsome early set of this quartette compiled by Irving's nephew -- this set in handsome custom binding done for Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War appointed quartermaster general in 1865. G.P. Putnam hardcover
