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201067851Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo. Original black cloth binding with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. The top corners are lightly bumped; else a crisp unread copy. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
183921386Londini: sumptibus Societatis i.e. English Historical Society 1839. First edition large paper copy printed for one of the Society's members John Mee Mathew Esq. with his name printed in red on the verso of the half-title; 6 volumes royal 8vo contemporary half green morocco gilt paneled spines t.e.g. with the gilt stamp on the upper covers of the Birmingham Law Society and their gilt supralibros on the back covers rubberstamps on the title pages and occasionally in the text; upper joint of volume I tender several others rubbed; all in all a good sound set. "After his marriage in 1836 Kemble appears to have resided in London for some time employing himself in literary work and specially in transcribing in the British Museum and in various collegiate and cathedral libraries the Anglo-Saxon charters afterwards printed in his Codex Diplomaticus.In his knowledge of Teutonic philology he was far ahead of any of his fellow-countrymen and was the recognised exponent of the investigations of Jacob Grimm and other German writers on the subject. With regard to the study of Anglo-Saxon Kemble had a more scientific as well as a more accurate knowledge of the language than any earlier scholar and a deeper insight into its relations to other branches of Teutonic speech. He used his knowledge chiefly in illustrating Anglo-Saxon literature and history writing in all his original work as a man of letters no less than as a scholar. In commenting on an early fable he notes its significance traces its development and examines the forms under which it appears at different times and in various countries. The publication of his collection of documents belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period may be said to have laid the foundation of our present knowledge of the institutions and customs of the English before the Norman conquest.His Codex Diplomaticus must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering manuscripts displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen. Every charter which offers ground for suspicion is marked with an asterisk. Kemble's work was always done with minute care and a charter that he has not marked as spurious may as a rule safely be accepted as genuine. Founded on the Codex Kemble's Saxons in England was until the appearance of Bishop Stubbs's Constitutional History in 1873 the best English treatise on the polity of our ancestors before the coming of the Normans" DNB. <br/><br/> sumptibus Societatis [i.e. English Historical Society] unknown books
186332832London: Lovell Reeve and Co. 1863. First edition 4to pp. xii 251; 34 lithograph plates 11 of them chromolithographs original brown cloth gilt crest stamped on upper cover gilt-lettered spine; small spot on front cover else fine and unusual thus. Includes a list of 196 subscribers and therefore likely printed in a small edition among whom are W. B. Donne Edward A. Freeman and Sir Thomas Phillipps. Posthumously published. <br/><br/> Lovell Reeve and Co. hardcover books
199050334Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books 1990. Edition ltd. to 100 copies this no. 32 8vo pp. 61 3; photographic facsimile tipped in original green cloth slipcase paper label on spine. Printed by hand in red and black on handmade Umbria Bianco paper by Emily Mason Strayer of the Kutenai Press South Willington CT; designed and produced under the direction of Gerald Lange of the Bieler Press at the University of Southern California Los Angeles; matrices for unique characters were provided by Monotype International Surrey England; additional characters were supplied by MacKenzie-Harris Corp. San Francisco. Kemble 1807-1857 the son of Charles Kemble the actor was the foremost English philologist of his day and a friend correspondent and protege of Jacob Grimm. The text is taken from the recently discovered eight page manuscript dated 1830 compiled three years before the appearance of his influential edition of Beowulf--the first in English and the first to show competent knowledge of Old English. No trace of the Dictionary itself is known. But coming at in important juncture of English etymological research and Anglo-Saxon scholarship this Specimen of select English words traced back through centuries of Middle and Old English literature is fitting tribute to Kemble's erudition and interest in the history of the English language. <br/><br/> Rulon-Miller Books hardcover books
184942332London: Longman Brown et al. 1849. First edition 8vo 2 vols.; slight staining to covers but generally a very good copy in original blue-green cloth gilt-lettered spine. George Stephens's copy with his ownership signature dated the year on publication on the flyleaf of each volume with an occasional annotation by him in the text and three 12mo leaves of notes in his hand laid in. Important history by the famed philologist and Anglo-Saxon scholar. <br/><br/> Longman, Brown [et al.] hardcover books
2019697312019. ISBN-13: 9781616196240; ISBN-10: 1616196246. Kemble John Mitchell 1807-1857 editor. Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Originally published: London: Sumptibus Societatis 1839-1848. 6 volumes. 12 cxxix 321; xxiv 436; lii 468; xx 317; xv 403; xvi 359 pp. Reprinted 2009 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616196240; ISBN-10: 1616196246. Paperback. New. $195. An extensive study of more than 1400 Anglo-Saxon and Norman legal and administrative documents from Kemble's own collection the British Museum and various college and cathedral libraries. Includes introductory material and index in English. Text in Latin and Anglo-Saxon introductory material notes and index in English. Six volumes. 12 cxxix 321; xxiv 436; lii 468; xx 317; xv 403; xvi 359 pp. Reprint of the sole edition. "This work must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering documents displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen." -- Dictionary of National Biography X:1259. unknown books
2009535732009. ISBN-13: 9781584779384; ISBN-10: 1584779381. Kemble John Mitchell 1807-1857 editor. Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Originally published: London: Sumptibus Societatis 1839-1848. 6 volumes. 12 cxxix 321; xxiv 436; lii 468; xx 317; xv 403; xvi 359 pp. Reprinted 2009 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779384; ISBN-10: 1584779381. Hardcover. New. $250. An extensive study of more than 1400 Anglo-Saxon and Norman legal and administrative documents from Kemble's own collection the British Museum and various college and cathedral libraries. Includes introductory material and index in English. Text in Latin and Anglo-Saxon introductory material notes and index in English. Six volumes. 12 cxxix 321; xxiv 436; lii 468; xx 317; xv 403; xvi 359 pp. Reprint of the sole edition. "This work must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering documents displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen." -- Dictionary of National Biography X:1259. unknown books
1997142098Oxford New York: Oxford University Press 1997. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii ix-xxi xxii xxiii-xxvii xxviii xxix-xxxi xxxii 1-431 432: blank cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #142098 Oxford University Press unknown books
192951922New York: October 1928 and January 1929. Three brief letters on the Jerome Kern sale on Anderson Galleries stationery. In the first Kennerley states: "I have sent you separate mail a careless advance list of the manuscripts and books of Thomas Hardy in the Kern Library.I shall send you advance proofs of the catalogue as they come from the printer." In the second he writes: "I am enclosing the Kern prices. I did not attempt to send them to you by cable but I suppose you got them from the New York Times. The prices may startle you - as they did me - but what suprised me most was the wide distribution of buyers. In this sale Rosenbach bought only twenty percent as against sixty-eight percent in the Clawson sale. The Hardy manuscript was an enormous price but it was bought on order. It was the healthiest sale I have ever conducted." In the third Kennerley notes "I am having some bound sets of the Kern catalogues priced with the names of the buyers and shall send you a set very shortly. Nearly every book in the sale has been sold by the booksellers." <br/><br/> October 1928 and January unknown books
1912177465New York / London: The Forum Publishing 1912. Softcover. VG. scuffs to covers; front cover dampstained pgs unscathed. chip to lower spine; back cover edge chipped. upper pgs have have a slight crimp/crease to corner. glued tan wrappers w/ black printing. approx 150 pgs. The Forum magazine was once one of America's most respected journals of news and politics. This editon includes a lengthy editorial on The Titanic and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Volume XLVII Number 6. The Forum Publishing unknown books
191693701916. KENNERLEY Mitchell. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters. 78 pp. and 4 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with 16 plates. Small 4to. 250 x 165 mm bound in original boards title printed in black on front cover and spine. New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1916. Exhibition catalogue for the pioneering show at Anderson Galleries on March 13-25 1916 of works by sixteen American Modernists: Ben Benn Thomas H. Benton Oscar Bluemner Andrew Dasburg Arthur G. Dove Marsden Hartley S. MacDonald-Wright John Marin Alfred Maurer Henry L. McFee George F. Of Man Ray Morgan Russell Charles Sheeler A. Walkowitz and William and Marguerite Zorach. Each artist contributed a statement here printed opposite the plate showing his or her work. Members of the committee that chose the artists and works on view were Christian Brinton Robert Henri W.H. de B. Nelson Alfred Stieglitz and John Weichsel who all wrote forewards and Willard Huntington Wright who also contributed the introduction "What Is Modern Painting" Neat bookplate and slight wear to head and foot of spine but still a good copy of a seminal exhibition catalogue. hardcover books
2005229888San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco 2005. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. 200 illustrations 191 in Color; No markings in text. ; NOT Ex-Library. Near Fine binding. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco unknown books
199015042New York: Peter Lang 1990. Hardcover. xi 132p. hardbound in laminated glossy green & white boards. A fine clean copy. African American authors both educators and mothers of sons. American university studies series XIV vol. 27. Peter Lang hardcover books
1961WRCLIT18905New York: Pineapple Press 1961. Oblong quarto. Printed wrappers. Centerfold plate. First edition. Very good. Pineapple Press unknown books
189921509Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1899. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled gray wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with a host of photographs captioned with text excerpts from the play. The Marquis of Steyne part acted by Tyrone Power father of the Hollywood star and Maurice Barrymore father to the Hollywood Barrymore's plays the Crawley brothers. Mrs. Fiske Minnie Maddern Fiske who stars as Becky was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. An early scarce Herbert S. Stone publication later Stone & Kimball with An Appreciation by Edward Fales Coward worthy of a publicity director. Clean internally chipping to fore-edge covers and to the spine. Herbert S. Stone and Company unknown books
19731929NY 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1973173152New York: Grossman Publishers 1973. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 127 pages. A posthumously released collection of black and white images of Lange's cabin in California. Foreword by Margaretta K. Mitchell. A clean very near fine copy in a a close to near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Despite the flaws a nice copy of a seemingly fairly uncommon book. Grossman Publishers unknown books
1998221553New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1998. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Frontis with other b/w photos. 513pp. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1998. Near fine in near fine d.w.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
196357169NY: Robert Speller & Sons 1963. First Edition. Signed by Leaska on the title page and with a signed presentation from him on the front endpaper: "For Frank Hrubant with special best wishes and affection-Mitchell Leaska. New York August 19 1964." Frank Hrubant was the husband of traditional Japanese dancer Sahomi Tachibana. This title is a theoretical study of tragedy in Western literature and in human existence. Tall 8vo. beige cloth in dust jacket; 313 pages. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight with minor browning front endpaper; some wear few chips to upper edge d/j. Robert Speller & Sons unknown books
196397614New York 1963. hardcover. 313pp. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1963.<br/><br/> unknown books
199055996NY: Viking 1990. First American edn. 8vo pp. xii 303. Index. With an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska. Illustrated wtih several photographs. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Remiander mark on bottom o/w a nice copy in somewhat soiled dj. Viking unknown books
199445035New York: Viking 1994. Hardcover. xxviii 655p. introduction very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Viking hardcover books
2000166031New York: The Hispanic Society of America 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG. Light wear to covers. Clean and tight interior. Black cloth over boards with gilt crest; gilt title on spine. Dust jacket with blue cover with color illustration; yellow back cover and spine with black lettering. 485 pp. Over 200 mostly color illustrations. Parallel text in English and Spanish. A beautiful catalogue of the treasures of the Hispanic Society of America. Includes extensive essays and a catalogue of the treasures including those in Archaeology; Medieval Art; Golden Age; and Modern Art. The Hispanic Society of America hardcover books
2004286525New York: Abrams 2004. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated color. 414 pages. Folio glossy pictorial boards dust wrapper. New York: Abrams 2004. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper.<br/><br/> Introduction by Umberto Eco. Authors include Shirley Hazzard Alison Lurie Muriel Spark Frank Bruni Barry Unsworth and William Weaver.<br/><br/> Abrams unknown books
200841741Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2008. Large 4to pp. xlvi 2 359; text printed in double columns; original boards in blue pictorial dust jacket; fine. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
