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18321721London: Richard Bentley 1832. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 327 pages in Vol. I 343 pages in Vol. II. Marbled boards half bound in calf; spines with raised bands decorations and gilt titles on green labels. Speckled edges to text block. Aquatint frontispiece to each volume; two additional aquatint plates in Vol. I and one in Vol. II; several engraved vignettes in each volume. Boards moderately heavily rubbed; two dark spots on front board of Vol. II. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper of both volumes. Light spotting to edges of text block. Pages generally fairly clean with occasional spots and other marks; a few pages heavily foxed including one plate in Vol. I and frontispiece in Vol. II; offsetting to adjacent pages from plates. Closed tear on final page of Vol. I. Binding firm. <br/> <br/> Richard Bentley hardcover
1897568Chicago: Way and Williams 1897. First edition. First edition. Original black cloth with renown red and light-yellow design motif on both covers and spine by Will Bradley. Front cover is neatly split all along outer edge but book is clean and tight and a superb example of American 1890’s book design. Kraus 44. Way and Williams unknown
1899266082Herbert S. Stone & Company 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Short stories some edging on the fantastic. First edition first printing. Illustrated red cloth with gilt top edge. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Former owners name and location in ink on the front free endpaper dated 1901. With a small colorful bookplate of Lincoln Engravings Co. on the front pastedown.<br> Herbert S. Stone & Company hardcover
1899004722Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company 1899. Stanley Waterloo 1846-1913 is perhaps most remembered for the plagiarism done by Jack London. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First Edition. Not a common book. Red cloth binding with an impressive cover design by the art neouveau artist Will Bradley 1868-1962. Ruled and titled in black with a round medalion containing a wolf's head in black and white. Clean text; 288 pages; top-edge is gilt; previous-owner inscription on FFEP. Mildly bumped with a lean; spine shows some rub at head and foot and is slightly faded. It remains a solid and attractive book. In an archival plastic protector. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Herbert S. Stone & Company Hardcover
181527901London: The Times 1815. This is an early reproduction of the famous Times 'Waterloo Edition' which ran to three printings as news of the battle victory came in on June 22 1815. There are four leaves folded and creased as illustrated with some browning and with small tears at the folds. The Times website notes the marks that authenticate an original printing and adds that there have been several commemorative printings. My copy is not an original but it is certainly an early copy. It came to me as part of a collection that included early 19th century Irish provincial newspapers so I would guess it is from the mid-19thC. Some clues: it does not have the 'Printed and published at'.etc Also the top of Page three reads 'Tuesday June 22 1815' instead of Thursday. The dimensions of the pages are 17.5 by 11 inches. Good/No Jacket. The Times, unknown
1897893Z27London: Adam and Charles Black 1897. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Simon Harmon Vedder. The very scarce first UK edition of this illustrated prehistoric fiction novel by Stanley Waterloo. The first UK edition. First published in the U.S the same year by Way and Williams. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece nine monochrome plates and a folding map. Collated complete. This work was written by American newspaper owner editor and author Stanley Waterloo. This novel tells the story of Ab a stone age boy as he grows into manhood and navigates the dangers of the prehistoric era. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with a lean marks to the boards slight cockling to the head of the rear board a two inch closed tear to the head of the front joint with spine lifting slightly rubbing and bumping to the extremities with small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting to the endpapers with scattered spotting. Internally frontispiece tender with the odd plate disbound but present with signs of strain in places. Pages lightly age toned with the odd minor spot heavier to the front and rear. Good Only Adam and Charles Black hardcover
1897330637Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Way & Williams 1897; stated Third Edition August 1897 no later printings indicated; ix 351pp. map frontispiece and 10 b&w illustrated plates. Black cloth binding with Art Noveau-inspired red and yellow lettering and sabretooth tiger design by the great Will Bradley gilt top edge. Binding is firm and fully intact; moderate amount of wear to edges of boards a few small pen-head indentations in spine; titling/design remains bright and bold. A very presentable copy. Way & Williams hardcover
189716410<p>Chicago: Way and Williams 1897 First edition of a novel that influenced Jack London's own pre-historic fantasy novel Before Adam serialized in 1906-1907 in Everybody's Magazine. Waterloo eventually accused London of plagiarism though the latter denied the charges and insisted he was merely inspired by it. Publisher's black cloth stamped in yellow and red designed by Will Bradley 1868-1962. Octavo. Map frontispiece. Title-page printed in black and red. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very minor wear to crown and tail of spine. The occasional minor stain. Contemporary ink signature on front flyleaf. A very good bright copy. Stanley Waterloo 1846-1913 was a Chicago-born newspaper man editor and author. The present work is about Ab a young Stone Age boy and his journey to manhood. During the course of the novel he catches a baby rhinoceros with his friend Oak and joins the men in his tribe on a hunt. After both he and his friend become enamored with Lightfoot a young woman they fight over her which ends in his friend's death. Though burdened with guilt Ab goes on to become the leader of his tribe. Waterloo's novel was based on the theory that there was not a sharp division between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and that mankind learned to make weapons naturally and gradually.</p> Way and Williams, hardcover
1897BOOKS315062Chicago IL: Way & Williams. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1897. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Will Bradley cover design . Sm 8vo. 351 pp. top of spine broken . Way & Williams hardcover
189709582THE STORY OF AB Way & Williams 1897 first edition a bright near fine copy of this one of the publisher's finest bindings this one executed by Will Bradley. A wonderful copy of this early man novel. Quite scarce in this condition. Way & Williams unknown
1897135233Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Hardcover. very good. 3rd Edition. ix 351pp. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with yellow and red letter and decoration on front back and spine. Very slight bowing to boards with a small amount of professional restoration done to spine. B/W illustrated map frontis with many B/W illustrated plates through out. Clean pages. A few small spots in endpapers have been professionally repaired. Long outer and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free fly. A nice copy. very good Inscription reads "To W. B. Parker with the warmest regards of Stanley Waterloo Chicago July 14th 1898". This is Waterloo's most famous work. It was followed by a story by Jack London "Before Adam" which was so similar to Waterloo's novel that Waterloo accused London of plagiarism. London denied this explaining that his story was in the nature of a commentary on Waterloo's work. 1897 Way & Williams hardcover
1897001000Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. This prehistoric-set novel has an interesting association with Jack London. Waterloo claimed that London had plaiarized "Ab" when writing his "Before Adam" published 10 years later. London eventually admitted to some influence. This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of the Third Edition printed August 1897. 351 pages. Black cloth binding with a striking Edwardian cover design by Will Bradley 1868-1962 - gold and red lettering and a sabre-tooth tiger. Top edge is gilt others deckle. There are black and white illustrations by Simon Vedder. Clean fresh text with ocasional minor foxing. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the FFEP and some flowers are pressed between pages 98 and 99. No dustjacket. A totally beautiful and charming book. In an archival plastic protector. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Simon Vedder. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Way & Williams Hardcover
190012564THE SEEKERS Stone 1900 first edition a near fine copy of this most handsome volume from the famed Chicago publisher. Stone unknown
1896240111-MB46Robert O. Law 1896. Red Cloth Hardcover with Pictorial cover 1896 first edition with illustrations worn pages fragile original source material 544 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. . Robert O. Law Hardcover
1816WATERLOO010935Printed by J. Russell Birmingham 1816. Second edition enlarged from the 1814 edition with the account of the Battle of Waterloo. Octavo. 476 pages. Five woodcut plates. Original boards with later leather spine retaining the endpapers.Covers rubbed. Discreet repairs to minor insect damage at bottom edges of first few leaves. Very good. Very scarce; no copies of this edition on Library Hub. Printed by J. Russell, Birmingham, hardcover
189766420Chicago:: Way & Williams. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. B001Q72KR2 . Third edition. Small octavo bound in black cloth with yellow and red lettering and design top edge gilt. Trace edge wear at the spine ends and corners else very good. No dust jacket.; 351 pages . Way & Williams, hardcover
1896mon0000015317Monarch Book Co. 1896-01-01. Leather Bound. Good. in x in x in. Cloth hardbound book. No DJ. Front and rear hinge starting to crack. Binding is holding fine. Spine sunned. Covers scuffed sunned with 2 coffee droplet marks on back cover. Foxing to page edges. B&W images. Monarch Book Co. hardcover
187023094Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1870. 2 volumes. RARE FIRST EDITION IN PRESENTATION BINDING. A UNIQUE COPY. A family presentation copy inscribed to George E. Mercer from I. Tod-Mercer and dated 1896. 8vo in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf signed binding dated 1896 thus no doubt custom made for the presentation to George E. Mercer. The binding is of full crushed scarlet morocco richly adorned in fine late-Victorian style. The boards feature a wide frame of gilt vines flowers and thistles which is further ruled in gilt then further surrounded by minutely detailed gilt rolling the upper boards also lettered “Mercer’s Waterloo†in fine gilt stamping the smooth rounded spines with gilt lettering with a gilt oval surrounded by more gilt vines and flowers which then grow both up and below to fully frame the spine panel board edges gilt ruled wide turn-ins gilt tooled in the same motif as the covers silk endpapers with powder blue moire pattern and further gilt tooling complete this beautiful presentation a.e.g. xii 369; viii 347 pp. An extraordinary set the condition remains outstanding. The text-block is essentially pristine the fine bindings show only the most minimal evidence of age. Truly and outstanding and unique copy. A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SCARCE IN ANY STATE AND THIS AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY. Mercer's ‘Journal’ is an important source for historians of the Waterloo campaign as well as a detailed description of the landscape and people of Belgium and France in the early 19th century. It is one of the few accounts of the period written by an artillery officer. Mercer’s journals were kept throughout the campaign of 1815 but were not published until 1870 after his death. The work was compiled and written in its finished form some 30 years earlier from the original notes Mercer wrote contemporaneously with additions and verifications from correspondence and other sources. It covers the period from April 1815 to January 1816. Although he eventually rose to the rank of general his fame is as commander of the British G Troop Royal Horse Artillery in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of Waterloo. It is also notable for its lengthy descriptions of the countryside and its people.<br> In spite of his position with the British Army the work is usually found in 20th Century editions in French. Its historical value in the English-speaking nations was largely overlooked till its rediscovery with a Praeger edition in 1970. William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
189578983Chicago: The Equitable Pub. Company. Good; Owner's Name Inside Spine Strip Slightly Torn. 1895. First Edition. Paperback. 204 pages . The Equitable Pub. Company paperback
1896619420Chicago: International Publishing Co 1896. Hardcover. Good. 2 519pp 2 index. Copiously illustrated from black and white photographs. Red cloth boards stamped in black white and gilt spine stamped in black page edges red and patterned endpapers. Boards and spine are worn spine sunned both hinges repaired good or better. Features "the lives and photographs of prominent people of the time" from title page including Mark Twain presented here as Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Alexander Graham Bell. International Publishing Co hardcover
18163220567<p><em>8vo pp. 12 2; key consisting of a wood-engraved circular anamorphic-style image on folding plate measuring 40 × 31 cm; apart from a few light marks a clean fresh copy throughout; in recent marbled wraps.</em></p><p>At the foot of the key Barker 'respectfully informs the Public that in order to give a correct Representation of the Battle of Waterloo he went to Paris and from the Officers at Headquarters procured every possible Information on the Subject. A set of Eight Etchings from his original Sketches of the Field of Battle is published executed by Mr. J. Burnet; and may be had at the Panorama; price One guinea'.</p><p>At the end of the main text are proposals by Messrs Boydell & Co. for a 'national print' of the Battle of Waterloo by John Burnet after Atkinson and Devis.</p> [London, J. Adlard],
1850TATLL(WA48Brussels: Gérard c1850. 1850. oblong 4to. folding partly hand-coloured lithographed plan & 12 lithographed plates. 19th century half vellum original printed front wr. bound in. some foxing throughout stain in lower margin of 5 plates. Brussels: Gérard, [c1850]. hardcover
184547205Bruxelles chez Gerard lithographe-éditeur n.d. ca. 1845. 4to-oblong. Orig. lithographed boards. Small nicks to spine. With 12 lithographed views Lith. de Gerard. Faint dampstain to lower left corners of plates. hardcover
186038659Leipzig: Imprimerie de Fr. Nies Carl B. Lorck 1860. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE AUCTION CATALOGUE offering an unparalleled collection of prints by Antoine Waterloo 340 items many unique. IV 32 pp. Small 4to. Bound in contemporary cloth-backed decorated boards. Backstrip detached but present. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT with large margins. <br/><br/> Imprimerie de Fr. Nies (Carl B. Lorck) hardcover
1898876F37Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company 1898 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. The first edition of Stanley Waterloo's novel set in the near future where Anglo-American supremacy is achieved through use of armoured airships. Illustrated with a frontispiece.The work of American newspaper owner Stanley Waterloo the novel depicts an Anglo-American victory over the rest of Europe in a destructive war caused by European imperialism.An important early Future History novel.With a former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail with light fading to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Rand, McNally & Company hardcover
