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1897115121897. MITCHELL Donald G. AMERICAN LANDS AND LETTERS. Two Volumes. Illustrated. NY: Scribner's 1897 & 1899. 8vos. decorative tan cloth teg. First Editions. BAL 13980 & 13984. Signed presentation from Mitchell in each volume each dated in the year of publication: the first presentation discusses the number of articles about the book tipped in by the former owner of which there are several on the front pages of Vol. 1; the second discusses Mitchell's "worries" over gathering facts for the books and "putting them straight." With the former owner's name on rear pastedowns and a note stating that any pencil notations in the text are by Mitchell. Also on the front pastedown of Vol. 1 is an initialed note from Mitchell beneath a photograph of an unidentified house. A most unusual set! Good some wear covers. $250.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18845345New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. Third Edition. With a new preface. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Covers and spine soiled endpapers spotted head and foot of spine rubbed; else a very good copy. Third Edition. With a new preface. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to His Daughter with A Fine A.L.S. Inscribed by Mitchell to his daughter on the flyleaf; and laid in is a fine 2 pp. A.L.S. dated Nov. 1892 approx. 100 words. Mitchell congratulates his daughter on her plans for a "Child's Fair.which took in the well-being & the content of the little ones.But how about the feeble folk at the other end of the lines of life - those who hobble with age & whose sight is dim Can you appoint a shelter for them.Too late now I fear: Age is always confronted with - 'too late !!'" Mitchell was 70 years old at the time this letter was written. BAL 13962 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1906002461San Francisco: Edw. H. Mitchell 1906. First Edition. Good. Large broadside from a black & white panoramic photograph with white margins; 9 1/4 x 32; several closed cuts and creases to margins; old fold lines; occasional spotting and discoloration to outer edges mostly not affecting the image; several buildings and landmarks subtitled above in the top margin with a vertical text; in about good to very good condition. An apparently unrecorded panoramic view of the city in ruins following the earthquake and subsequent fire it was released by a man generally known as one of the most prolific postcard publishers on the West Coast. Primarily a businessman and not a photographer Edward Mitchell 1867 - 1932 would buy out competitors and would dominate the industry from the late-19th century to the 1920s. Most probably trying to capitalize on the devastation Mitchell strayed way off his field and published the following broadside. Edw. H. Mitchell unknown books
1933118769London: Jarrolds Publishers London Limited 1933. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-11 12 13 14-16 17-286 287-288: blank note: last leaf is a blank original black cloth spine panel stamped in gold fore-edge rough trimmed. First edition. A dozen Middle Eastern romances. "The Last Ogre" concerns a yeti-like prehistoric survival. Mitchell was one of the more promising authors of British scientific romance between the two World Wars but died when he was just thirty-four. Stableford Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950 pp. 245-46. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. A bright nearly fine copy in about good pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear at edges chip from upper spine end two abrasions with loss to front panel affecting several letters of the title and several external tape mends. Very scarce. #118769 Jarrolds Publishers London Limited unknown books
188976380New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother 1889. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-78 79-80: blank note: last leaf is a blank the illustrations uncredited in this edition are by Mitchell original pictorial dark blue cloth front panel stamped in black white and gold. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Mitchell on front free endpaper: "Robert Bridges / with compliments of / J. A. Mitchell." Mitchell's third book preceded by a work of nonfiction and THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON 1886 a children's fantasy. THE LAST AMERICAN is a short clever inversion of the lost race tale just then gaining popularity the lost race in this case being the Mehrikan people. We see America through the eyes of an admiral in the Persian navy about 1100 years in the future as an exploring party wanders through the ruins of New York City and Washington D. C. where the detachment encounters and kills the three last Americans. Mitchell's point aside from amusement seems to be the danger of unrestricted immigration which he indicates was the basic cause of America's downfall in the late twentieth century. Ultimately American civilization is destroyed by a catastrophic change of climate and this satire is significant as being one of the earliest SF stories to utilize the catastrophe motif. "A curious work certainly pessimistic and bitter in substructure yet superficially humorous in the Victorian mode." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1523. ". minor classic of the future ." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 158. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-112; 1981 1-125 ; 1987 1-66; 1995 1-66; and 2004 II-773. Bailey Pilgrims Through Space and Time p. 77. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 572. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 21. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 125. Negley Utopian Literature 796. Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 187. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 39. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10184. BAL 14030. Wright III 3770. Cloth worn at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips spine a bit sunned 18 mm closed tear at top edge of front free endpaper a very good copy. Signed copies of books by Mitchell a popular novelist editor and artist are uncommon. This book was reprinted many times; the first printing is decidedly uncommon. #76380 Frederick A. Stokes & Brother unknown books
196562269NY: Viking 1965. First edition. 181 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. A fresh bright copy of Mitchell’s years long consideration of this Greenwich Village bohemian and his “Oral History of Our Time.†NY: Viking unknown books
1936D4903New York: Macmillan 1936. Paperback. Fine. Staple-bound wraps; pp. 2 22. A promotional pamphlet about Mitchell and GONE WITH THE WIND apparently published due to overwhelming public interest. Extremely scarce. <br/><br/> Macmillan paperback books
1870101085<p>Philadelphia 1870. Unbound colored engraved map decorative boarder 22 1/2"x 14 1/2". Slight toning and aging just a little staining in margins; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846 and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860 S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive double page map of the United States from the 1870 installment. The Indian Territory is highlighted and the Island of Newfoundland is illustrated in a small inset. May Require extra postage. Ristow 311-313</p> books
1869103160<p> Unbound colored engraved map decorative boarder 15" x 12". Slight toning in margins normal aging ample margins; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846 and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860 S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive map of Texas from the 1869 installment. The city of Galveston is highlighted in an inset. Ristow 311-313. Phillips 907. </p> books
1861202865Philadelphia: Mitchell Samuel Augustus Jr. 1861. unbound. very good. Map. Steel engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 11.5" x 14".<br/><br/> Classic map of the west with Kansas Nebraska Colorado and part of Idaho divided into counties showing major towns and cities routes railroads and geographic features. S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. continued his father's successful mapmaking and publishing business and was one of the most prolific and renowned 19th century American publishers. In excellent condition.<br/><br/> Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr. unknown books
1869103260<p> Unbound colored engraved map decorative boarder 22 1/2" x 14 1/2". Slight toning and aging just a little darkening in margins; overall bright and clear and in very good condition. Maps are wrapped with acid free board or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846 and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860 S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive double page map of the United States from the 1869 installment. The Indian Territory is highlighted and the Island of Newfoundland is illustrated in a small inset. Extra postage may be required. Ristow 311-313. </p> books
1847298542Philadelphia: Mitchell Samuel Augustus 1847. unbound. Map. Engraving and lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 5/8" x 17 1/8"<br/><br/> Fantastic town plan of Washington D.C. Shows streets and avenues wards waterways and railroads with notable buildings and institutions listed in a numbered key. Includes a plan of the main floor of the Capitol. Overall in very good condition with small chips to bottom corners. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. 1792-1868 is one of the pioneers in American cartography of the 19th century.<br/><br/> Mitchell, Samuel Augustus unknown books
1846297531Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs 1846. unbound. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.75" x 12.5".<br/><br/> This map of the West Indies extends from the southern tip of Florida to the northern coast of South America and from the western tip of Cuba to Barbados in the east. The index includes capitals cities and towns labeled in a stylized manner that complements the region's scattered arrangement of islands. Above the title is a paragraph describing the region and its constituent islands. Below the title islands are attributed to the appropriate European colonial powers. The map appeared in Mitchell's first edition of his seminal New Universal Atlas. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. 1792-1868 is one of the pioneers in American cartography of the 19th century and led the conversion of engraved map plates to more affordable lithographic plates. This map provides a clear overview of the West Indies.<br/><br/> H. N. Burroughs unknown books
200543206Cologne: Feierabend Unique Book 2005. First Edition. Quarto 30cm x 25.5cm. Gold cloth boards hardcover with die-cut window on front cover and titling embossed in gold on spine; 324pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and tight. A quasi-anthropological study of Miami Beach by artist Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson whose two families serve as the personal prism through which the city is experienced in its contradictions between the fantasized ideal and reality and between the realms of the public and private. This book brings a mass of archival material maps blueprints schematics recipes sheet music and photographs to light in its exploration of the planning reality and future of Miami Beach. This volume is one of ten Artist Proofs and is signed by Michele Oka Doner. Feierabend Unique Book unknown books
1899821Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co 1899. First edition. First edition. Folio. Scarce Stone imprint this curiosity has the complete text of a rather obscure play by Langdon Mitchell illustrated with photographs of the actors both posed and in action by Byron and Sarony along with drawings accompanying the text. Not listed in Publisher's Weekly until April 1900. Corners only very slightly worn very unobtrusive water marks to preliminary leaves else a near fine copy of an exceedingly scarce and interesting Stone imprint. Our Kramer bibliography owned by Bob Monroe one of the foremost collectors of Stone and Kimball has it as one of the rarest Stone titles. Lacks cover wrappers. Small clipping from 1927 NY Times on cover. Kramer 210. <br/><br/> Herbert S. Stone & Co unknown books
1866202852Philadelphia: Mitchell Samuel Augustus Jr. 1866. unbound. very good. Map. Steel engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13.25" x 10.5".<br/><br/> Classic map of California divided into counties showing all major towns and cities geographical features and waterways. Includes insets of San Francisco Bay and the Great Salt Lake Country. S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. continued his father's successful mapmaking and publishing business and was one of the most prolific and renowned 19th century American publishers. In very good condition.<br/><br/> Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr. unknown books
183056636New York: printed by R. & G.S. Wood for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund 1830. First edition 16mo pp. 72; contemporary and likely original full sheep gilt-paneled spine; some rubbing previous owner's bookplate; good and sound. Born in Newport R.I. married in Providence Mary Mitchell moved to Nantucket in 1787. The publication of this edition was paid for by the Obadiah Brown Fund which was founded in Providence in 1823 by bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund independent of New England Yearly Meeting to enhance the Religious Society of Friends through grants to individuals and Friends organizations and specifically for 'the printing and disseminating of useful books for the promulgation of the gospel and by that means as well as otherwise spreading our Religious Principals where they are little known'." Obadiah Brown was the son of Moses Brown the founder of the Quaker School in Rhode Island i.e. Moses Brown and the nephew of John Brown founder of Brown University. The original bequest from Brown was $100000 said to be the largest single bequest to an institution of learning up to that time. The Obadiah Brown Fund exists to this day. American Imprints 2605; Sabin 49706 for the first edition of 1812. <br/><br/> printed by R. & G.S. Wood, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund unknown books
19396037561939. not signed on a 3/4 length pose of Thomas Mitchell with dramatic lighting after the death of his wife in a scene from the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind." Photograph is on single stock; 10" x 8 1/4" with linen strip added to left margin; very good fresh; 1939. Information slip on back reads: "SCARLETT'S FATHER -- Gerald O'Hara Tom Mitchell lost his mind from the shock of his wife's death and was living in the past when Scarlett returned to Tara. A scene from Selznick International's technicolor production of 'Gone With The Wind' which stars Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
19731929NY 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. <br/><br/> hardcover books
2000048864Oxford: Clarendon Press 2000. 2 vols. lxiv 820; xlv 1080p. original blue cloth thick quarto format. Contents: v. 1 Concord; the parts of speech and the sentence. v. 2 Subordination independent elements and element order. Clarendon Press unknown books
1948WN58820New York: Duell Sloan & PearceInc. 1948. Original red cloth with slight fade at top and foot of spine. Dust jacket missing pieces at top and foot of spine corners and small bits on top edge. Signed by author on ffep. These stories appeared first in the New Yorker in 1944 and 1945 but have been "revised and amplified.for this book." As the author says he "wanted these stories to be truthful rather than factual but they are solidly based on facts." In other words typical Joseph Mitchell style. An increasingly scarce first edition particularly signed. Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Trade. Duell, Sloan & Pearce,Inc. Hardcover books
200080130Athens: Hill Street Press 2000. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies of a total limitation of 126 copies. Copy L. Edited by Jane Eskridge. Photographs. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Japanese lined-covered boards gilt stamping. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Previously unpublished fiction journal entries and a one act play written by Mitchell at the age of seventeen. . First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Hill Street Press hardcover books
20004197Athens: Hill Street Press 2000. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies of a total limitation of 126 copies. Copy K. Edited by Jane Eskridge. Photographs. Issued without dustjacket. Cloth covered Slipcase. Japanese linen-covered boards gilt stamping. Publisher's illustrated announcement laid-in. Previously unpublished fiction journal entries and a one act play written by Mitchell at the age of seventeen. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Hill Street Press Hardcover books
1874183293Philadelphia: J.H. Butler & Co 1874. Hardcover. G/Fair covers are heavily worn rubbed and chipped. Front cover is detached. Spine is gone. Pages are good maps are clean and bright. Ex-library stamps on flyleafs but not on any maps. Illustrated board covers. 2 unnumbered pages 40 pages of plates 24 pages : color maps part double. A series of forty-four copperplate maps compiled from the great atlases of Keith Johnston Kiepert the Geographical Institute of Weimar from the United States Coast Survey the surveys of the War Department and of the several states and from other reliable authorities drawn and engraved expressly to illustrate Mitchell's New School Geography. With important geographical tables and an extensive pronouncing vocabulary of nearly ten thousand names. Two maps numbered XVIII./ Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Could easily be re-bound or used for maps only. J.H. Butler & Co hardcover books
18971342New York: The Century Co. 1897 2 volume set. First issue of the first edition. 12mo. Illustrated with black & white frontis plate. Gray cloth with red printing and decoration. Spines of both volumes slightly cocked and soiled light wear to spine ends else a near fine set. . The Century Co. hardcover books
