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19974816New York: Knopf 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers stamped in black on the front cover and spine. Minor bump to one corner otherwise near fine condition. <br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1997006809NY: Knopf. 1997. Uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the author of Mystery Ride Crooked Hearts and the story collection Living to Be A Hundred. Considerably scarcer than the advance reading copy of this title. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Knopf paperback books
1997700583NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
19081315091New York: Duffield & Company 1908. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine white with black and red print; Boards in grey cloth and white cloth with red and black print soiling to spine and white edges mild wear to corners and spine caps; Text block has gilt top edge else deckle-edged bookplate on front pastedown tanning to endpapers else clean and tight; "From the First Folio of 1623"- page xiii; x 94 pages. 1315091. FP New Rockville Stock. Duffield & Company hardcover books
1991145261Minneapolis MN: Walker Art Center 1991. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran July 21 through September 29 1991 at the Walker Art Center and then traveled four other locations for additional dates. Single sheet folded three times to create 8 pages. Essay by Peter Boswell. Includes 5 illustrations with 2 in color. A near fine copy. Uncommon. Walker Art Center unknown books
6454Six engraved plates on five folding sheets. xii 122 pp. 8 pp. of Debrett ads lacking the leaf with directions to the binder. 8vo cont. calf joints a trifle cracked at head & tail flat spine gilt green morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Debrett 1792. "Second edition with many additions"of this work specifically on the cultivation of water meadows first published in 1779. "Francis Forbes had recommended water meadows and had given some instruction how to make and manage them and several other previous writers had done the same while the actual practice had been fairly common in parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire Gloucester and Dorset for at least two centuries.The methods of construction and management were only to be found of course by seeking through a mass of general information and some one came to the conclusion that a specific treatise on the subject was necessary. A suggestion was made to George Boswell of Piddletown Dorset a local expert that he should write such a book."-Fussell II p. 121. In the present edition Boswell vigorously replies to criticisms levelled at him by the Rev. Thomas Wright in his pamphlet An Account of the Advantage and Method of Watering Meadows 1789. A very good copy lacking the leaf of directions to the binder. Stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust on the front paste-down. unknown books
2761Five folding engraved plates. xvi 134 pp. one leaf of directions to the binder. 8vo cont. calf red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Debrett 1792. Third edition enlarged of this work specifically on the cultivation of water meadows first published in 1779. "Francis Forbes had recommended water meadows and had given some instruction how to make and manage them and several other previous writers had done the same while the actual practice had been fairly common in parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire Gloucester and Dorset for at least two centuries.The methods of construction and management were only to be found of course by seeking through a mass of general information and some one came to the conclusion that a specific treatise on the subject was necessary. A suggestion was made to George Boswell of Piddletown Dorset a local expert that he should write such a book."-Fussell II p. 121. In the present edition Boswell vigorously replies to criticisms levelled at him by the Rev. Thomas Wright in his pamphlet An Account of the Advantage and Method of Watering Meadows 1789. A very fine copy. unknown books
177947382London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon in Piccadilly 1779. 1st Edition Goldsmith 11795. Later marbled card-stock covers. Overall Very Good. 4 108 2 pp. Illustrated with 4 inserted fold-out copperplate engravings. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly unknown books
1953124928London: Andre Deutsch 1953. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus or better price-clipped dust jacket. Binding slightly cocked front board slightly bowed and faint offsetting at the endpapers. Jacket spine slightly faded with a few tiny chips at the corners and toning at the verso else Near Fine. Basis for the 1955 film directed by Carol Reed and starring Celia Johnson. Andre Deutsch unknown books
1857WRCAM35838Hartford: F.C. Brownell 1857. 1629-6411pp. with rear wrapper printed on both sides. Original printed wrappers. Early dampstain in upper margin not affecting text. Number ink- stamped in upper outer corner of front wrapper. Overall very good. First edition thus a separate offprint; originally published in BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION for December 1856. Reid was a noted Scottish-born chemist educator and ventilation engineer. This very early proposal for a graduate institution in architecture in the United States seems little known; it is not mentioned by Mary Woods in her recent book FROM CRAFT TO PROFESSION THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA. A scarce work with OCLC locating only one copy; Hitchcock notes two. HITCHCOCK 987. DAB XV pp.475-76. F.C. Brownell unknown books
