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98051901London 1858 ILN. Single sheet two half-page illustrations very good text. The first illustration shows the Chinese Military Train who wear black gowns & bamboo hats with "Military" written on them some sport thick bamboo poles and are commanded by a British officer. The 2nd. shows the Head-Quarters & a train of coolies hauling supplies to the 2nd Brigade office. Fine views of Canton. unknown
98051701London 1858 ILN. Single sheet illustration of the massacre of British by a giant mob of Chinese most of the British were killed as this scene clearly shows very good. unknown
98051001London 1858 ILN. Single sheet two half-page illustrations with text. SUBTITLE: cont. of the "Nankin." The first shows a very loaded troop ship heading up to Can- ton to support the attach. The second shows the attack by rifles with reserves preparing for the second wave attack. unknown
73-0295London: The Illustrated London News 1861. Folio. 13x9". Black and white wood engraving. Very Good. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. London: The Illustrated London News, 1861. unknown
#[35188]London Macmillan and Co. 1878. Original red cloth sl. rubbed spine ends sl. damaged. XVI643 pp. With the bookplate and stamp of Girton College. - Of the letters 'may be said that they were welcomed by the public as affording the earliest fullest and most specific information at critical moments of the campaign and if it should further be found that these same letters hastily written in the bivouac on the field of victory or in some hovel on the line of retreat have at the same time the merit of being among the most vivid and truthful pictures of war that have at any time been offered to the public the popularity they have attained would be accounted for Preface. hardcover
#[35189]London Macmillan and Co. 1878. Original red cloth sl. rubbed spine ends sl. damaged. XVI599 pp. With the bookplate and stamp of Girton College. - 'The collection which now forms a complete history of the war comprises the correspondence of Archibald Forbes J.A. MacGahan F.D. Millet E. Pears E. O'Donovan J.H. Skinner V. Julius and other correspondents - in all seventeen in number - to each of those letters a conventional sign has been affixed' Preface. hardcover
91078301London 1894 I.L.N. Single sheet one large sketch illust- tration after R. Woodville showing several Corean coolies at rest with one European and a planquin with horses. unknown
Two brown octavos (brown leather spines) with raised bands, sewn binding, marbled boards, gilt to spine, marbled endpapers; b&w illus ; 20 cm. Fiction -- French.
68-2065London UK: Illustrated London News 1856. Engraving. Image 9" x 7.5". Good with minor loss along right edge else VG. In protective sleeve. London, UK: Illustrated London News, 1856. unknown
Octavo in yellow-green DJ; 373 p ; 22 cm. Signed by author. || Continues the story of Anju and Sudha, the two young women at the center of Divakaruni's bestselling novel Sister of My Heart. Far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, and after years of living separate lives, Anju and Sudha rekindle their friendship in America. || East Indian American women -- (Psychological) Fiction.
68-2502London UK: Illustrated London News 1871. 12" x 8.5" Very Good. Hand Colored Engraving.Mounted on mat board. London, UK: Illustrated London News, [1871]. unknown
1993biblio11806<p>First edition first printing of six extraordinary adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Originally written as radio plays that appeared on the BBC Radio. Light edge wear. There is a light reading crease on the front cover next to the spine. In very good condition.</p> BBC Books paperback
188928561889. Photogravure. 265mm by 220mm image 400mm by 280mm sheet. A pair of rowing photogravures from 'The Illustrated London News' depicting the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Crews. Unrelated text below the image and on the reverse. unknown
8vo., First UK Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. In 1998 acclaimed international translator Peter Constantine unearthed a cache of early short stores in the New York Public Library collection of rare Russian magazines. The first collection of forty-three of these was published in New York in 1998. This, the first UK edition, adds for the first time a further eight stories.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1912. This is the work's first appearance within the Collected Works. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2013SONG1629215686U.S. News & World Report 2013-10-16. Soft Cover. paperback. Used: Good. 6.00x0.33x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. U.S. News & World Report paperback
68-2597London UK: Illustrated London News 1853. 13" x 20.5" image size. Very Good. Wood cut engraving. London, UK: Illustrated London News, 1853. unknown
186431724New York: The American News Co 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 11; 72 pages; 5. Original wraps with covers rebound in Gray paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. Gilt title "Almanac" on the upper spine. "J E Boos" in gilt letters stamped on lower spine. Light scattered foxing and toning to the contents. <br /> <br /> Bound with the Almanac preceding the front wrap is an essay titled: "An Old House Near An Old Dead Canal" by J. E. Boos Albany New York 1931. Following the last page of the Almanac are 5 bound in additional leaves of which 3 are blank. A receipt dated July 27th 1879 is pasted down on one of the pages for Adam Van Vraken donation of $66 to the poor. Another page has a pasted down blank Justice of the Peace form printed by "Websters & Skinners at their bookstore in the White House corner of State & Pearl Streets Albany". <br /> <br /> The essay in front contains 6 typed one-sided pages 3 photograph plates and one pasted down photograph of an old house Vranken's house. Page 1 of the narrative has a small circle photograph in the body of the text. Photograph plates include a floral arrangement frontispiece; The First Bridge between Schenectady and Scotia; and Some Horace Greeley 1872 Campaign Pins. <br /> <br /> In his short narrative Boos recounts a visit to the abandoned house that once belonged to Adam Van Vranken. He writes about the condition of dilapidated house describing plaster on the floors the roof falling in scattered toys and pieces of clothing a torn Courier and Ives print wreck of a Boston Rocker a paper box holding locks of children's hair papers scattered about and much more. He takes the Almanac as a souvenir: "I picked from under a pile an old Almanac that had been printed by the White Coated Philosopher Horace Greeley. I decided to carry it away before wet and mold caught up with it because it was sold when Abraham Lincoln was President in the year of his second inaugural and at the time of the ending of the Civil War." <br /> <br /> "J. E. Boos October 1931" inscription is located bottom of the last narrative page before the front wrap of the Almanac. The American News Co hardcover
Red octavo in a light brown slipcase ; 340 p, illus, 24 cm German fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English -- Literature -- Novel // Uncommon in original shrinkwrap.
68-2590London UK: Illustrated London News 1859. 13" x 20.5" image size. Very Good. Wood cut engraving. London, UK: Illustrated London News, 1859. unknown
M09A-02701McClelland & Stewart. Used - Like New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. McClelland & Stewart unknown
Octavo in black DJ; 518 p ; 24 cm. Limited edition. || String bookmark included; Fiction; Fantasy.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full white and red cloth boards. 215 pages. Slight edge wear and smudges to dust jacket. The first collection of short stories to appear by Paul Bowles since A Delicate Prey was published in 1950. Many of the stories have been previously published in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Esquire.
Octavo in white illustrated DJ, 217 p, 21 cm. Fiction, Novel.
61 pages, signed by Oliver R.W.W. Lodge (the author's son) on the front endpaper. eng
