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18211282198London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1821. Second edition. Small Octavo; G/no-DJ; Brown spines without text; 2 Volume set; Boards have moderately scratched and rubbed exteriors with fraying at head spine edges and general minor wear along edges front panel of v. 1 is cracking slightly from spine at hinge; Text blocks are have slight age toning along exterior edges and first and last few pages have foxing with slight foxing on some pages throughout otherwise firm with tight binding; Previous owner's book plate on front pastedowns; pp 1125. 1282198. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown unknown books
193178225New York: Harcourt Brace 1931. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index xii 388p. Original dark blue cloth. 21cm. Extremities rubbed minor fraying. Institutional stamp Federal Council of Churches. No jacket. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace hardcover books
184828846New York: Wm C Bryant. Boston: Mussey 1848. 176pp. Disbound light title page dust else Very Good. <br/><br/> A campaign booklet supporting the Martin Van Buren-Charles Francis Adams presidential candidacy on the Free Soil ticket. Much detail is provided on the split of the Democratic Party in New York State the effects of the Mexican Cession on the political parties the divisive influence of the all-consuming slavery issue the proceedings of the Herkimer and Utica Conventions giving birth to the Free Soil Party and the history of Free Soil movements during the nation's existence. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 26626. Not in Miles Wise & Cronin Eberstadt Decker Work Blockson Dumond. Wm C Bryant. Boston: Mussey unknown books
1845752381845. CARLYLE Thomas. CARLYLE Robert ed. CROMWELL Oliver. OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES: WITH ELUCIDATIONS. In Two Volumes. New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First American edition second printing first issue. Two volumes bound in four part of Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading vols. 39-42. xvi1-258 ii adv.; iv259-560; x1-252; iv253-437 ii adv. 12mo. brown printed wrappers. Pencil ownership. Wrappers are lightly sunned at spines with a couple of small nicks and show very light dust-soiling overall. Text leaves are clean and fresh. A near fine copy in a fragile format. Tarr A14.2.I-IV.b1. unknown books
1933145456Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1933. Collection of five vintage double weight internal studio photographs from the set of the 1933 pre-code film. Holograph annotations on the verso of each. <br/><br/>One photo shown. Please inquire to see others.<br/><br/>High school students unite against a ruthless gang leader. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
37634New Haven: Yale University Press 1928. First edition. 8vo 9" x 5.75". 8 234 pp. Original ribbed blue cloth gilt-stamped titles to spine and front board. Some wear and fraying at extremities sunning to spine top edge dusted. Signed by author on ffep. The scarce first book by Cromwell who in 1926 became the first African American woman to earn a PhD from Yale. She would soon become professor of English Language and Literature at Miner Teacher's College later absorbed into the University of the District of Columbia and in 1931 would co-edit the influential collection Readings from Negro Authors for Schools and Colleges. . VeryGood. Hardcover . Yale University Press 1928 hardcover books
2005148372N.p.: N.p. 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. <br/><br/>An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997 following the death of Princess Diana on August 31 1977 and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's Helen Mirren desire to treat it as a private affair and Prime Minister Tony Blair Michael Sheen and Prince Charles' Alex Jennings desire to quell the public's demand for a more overt and public expression of grief.<br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mirren nominated for five others including Best Film Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in England Scotland and France. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper light creasing to top right else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
108269London Paris New York and Edinburgh: Goupil & Co. Jean Boussod Manzi Joyant & Co. 1899. Folio 10 v 216 6 pp. with a color frontisportrait and facsimiles of two letters on three pages and 42 photogravure plates many with brown or peach printed borders all with original captioned tissue guards chapter initials are all printed in peach title page printed in black and red. Contemporary half red morocco with gilt rules and red cloth boards. Backstrip with five raised bands stamped and lettered in gilt top-edge gilt. Minor foxing throughout some light stains and bumping to boards; very good. With the bookplate of C. O. Kleinsmith to upper pastedown. § Limited edition of 1475 copies this is number 100. Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s illustrated biography of Cromwell who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil War helped depose and execute Charles I and served as lord protector of England Scotland and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658. Gardiner 1892-1902 was an English historian teacher at Oxford and popular lecturer. His major work was Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution and he was also prolific in the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Briannica. His biography of Cromwell was perhaps his liveliest and most heartfelt work. OCLC: 228773582. Goupil & Co hardcover books
1947145729Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of songwriter-pianist Hoagy Carmichael from the 1947 film. With a mimeo snipe holograph annotations and photographer and agency rubber stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Cathy Mallory Merle Oberon a beautiful socialite falls in love with a blind pianist Dan Evans Dana Andrews who plays in Chick Morgan's Hoagy Carmichael swing band. She fakes her own blindness in order to get closer to him. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City San Francisco and San Bernardino California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
16901295031Lipsiae & Francofurti: Sumptibus Jo. Caspari Mayeri 1690. First German Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 16 292 pages; VG-; 3/4 bound in tan leather beige paper boards; paneled spine with blind-stamped title; ex-library with a library binding with call number on tail of spine stamp to both sides of title page; slight age-toning to interior; front hinge slightly loosened; text in Latin; First Edition published in Germany;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> JG consignment; shelved case 0. A surreptitious publication of dispatches written by Milton in his capacity of Latin secretary to the Council of State between the years 1649 and 1659. First published in 1676 under title : Literae pseudo-senatus anglicani Cromwellii. 1295031. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Sumptibus Jo. Caspari Mayeri hardcover books
181911163London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown et al. 1819. First edition large paper issue 8vo two volumes in one iv-vi & 199pp. and 4 & 176pp. folding engraved frontis. map engraved titles 95 engraved plates & 1 folding engraved map of Colchester not listed in "Directions to Binder;" later nineteenth-century diced calf gilt black morocco label on spine covers slightly bowed joints cracking but sturdy light wear to extremities covers with scattered light rubbing else very good. This copy with a few newspaper clippings and autograph notes discreetly tipped-in. <br/><br/> Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [et al.] unknown books
1654305485London: printed by T. Ratcliffe. and E. Mottershed. for G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill 1654. 2 34pp. BM dupe with Duplicate Sale 1787 stamp. 8vo. Disbound. 2 34pp. BM dupe with Duplicate Sale 1787 stamp. 8vo. ESTC R207635 printed by T. R[atcliffe]. and E. M[ottershed]. for G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill unknown books
166023678London: Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin 1660. 1st edition Abbott W. Bib. of O. Cromwell #1060; Halkett and Lang IV 107 attributing the work's publication to Fiennes; Wing W-1988. Period full calf. A Gd copy minor worming to spine/A2 partially detached lower portion/lower corner lacking from leaf E3 does not affect text. Occasional period marginal annotation. 6 112 pp 8vo: A4 -A1 presumed a blank B - 4U4 4X - 4Z2. <br/><br/>Whitelocke's account of the Committee deliberations in which Cromwell ultimately declined to assume the mantle of 'king'. Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin unknown books
1937837271937. CROMWELL Oliver ABBOTT Wilbur Cortez. WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF OLIVER CROMWELL 4 VOLUMES. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1937 - 1947. xx 759 pp/806 pp/978 pp/1085 pp. 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Good externally some shelfwear to boards Vol. 4 cloth split at front joint backstrip partially detached. Spine lettering faded. Hinges starting in all volumes. Some foxing to edges of bookblock and front and end matter. Pencil ownership to front flyleaves. Volumes 1-3 have rough dust jackets chipped with moderate soil and edgewear. Occasional margin notes in neat ink or pencil. Good overall. Extra postage required. unknown books
181019713.1Westminster: Printed for Machell Stace 1810. 1st edition. Dark brown quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards executed in a period style. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG some soiling to leaves/half-title & title leaf with edge restoration/some tanning & foxing. 4 196 2 pp including index. Title printed in red & black. "List of Books" advert last 2 pages. Untrimmed. 5 copperplate illustrations. Folio. <br/><br/>A collection of extracts from various authorities letters etc. Per Abbott: "Invaluable collection of Cromwell material." Printed for Machell Stace hardcover books
1659838581659. CROMWELL Richard TO HIS HIGHNESS RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMON-WEALTH OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND AND THE DOMINIONS AND TERRITORIES THEREUNTO BELONGING. THE HUMBLE REPRESENTATION AND PETITION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. London: Printed by Henry Hills 1659. 1 7 pp. 1 pp. Printer's note. 4to octavo size binding. Quarter blue cloth with printed paper spine label marbled paper covered boards. Binding fine. Contents very good complete with moderate foxing and age-toning. Edges nicked some shallow chipping not affecting text. The Armies' suffering for want of pay and the besmirching of the "good old cause. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000019No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41"" 68 x 105 cm. one sheet poster USA. Hed Lamarr Charles Boyer Sigrid Gurie Joseph Calleia Alan Hale Gene Lockhart dir: John Cromwell; United Artists. Hedy Lamarr made her American film debut in this famous classic romantic melodrama. She had made five films in Europe between 1930 and 1933 the last the notorious ECSTASE which caused such a scandal that she did not make another film for 5 years. She was contracted by MGM but Louis B. Mayer loaned her to Wanger for her first American film. It was one of her best and her pairing with Charles Boyer as the notorious jewel thief Pepe le Moko has become legendary and inspired many imitations and caricatures. The film was Academy nominated for Art Direction Alexander Toluboff and Cinematography James Wong Howe as well as Best Actor to Boyer and supporting to Gene Lockhart. Original poster art for this title is very rare. Present are the many elements of the story Pepe Le Moko Boyer the police force searching the streets outside the protected Casbah the Casbah gypsy Ines Sigrid Gurie obsessed with Pepe and the beautiful visitor Lamarr with whom he becomes obsessed. On linen VERY GOOD. unknown books
196253293London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1962. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 67-1893pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Hint of sunning to spine a few tiny indentations to upper and lower board edges with subtle tanning to text edges and a tiny spot to lower edge of textblock; contents are quite fresh without foxing; Very Good or better lacking the dustjacket. Le Carré's second novel and the second book to feature master spy George Smiley set in a small town and centered around an elite private school. BARZUN & TAYLOR 1361; HUBIN p.249. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
1948140941350Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1948. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition. Association copy signed by Dorothy West on front free endpaper inscribed to Adelaide M. Cromwell whose signature is above this under her married name Hill: "October 1976. With so much love. Thank you for all the years of your friendship signed Dorothy." Cromwell was a prominent sociologist and a granddaughter of John Wesley Cromwell also the first Black instructor at Hunter College and at Smith College. She was the author of several books on Black history and a study of Boston's Black upper class. She would write an afterword for this book decades later upon its republication. <p>iv 347 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with crimson lettering. Very Good with wear at foot cloth slightly soiled and worn at tips slight lean to spine pencil brackets throughout text presumably Cromwell's notes written on rear endpapers in pencil as well. In Good dust jacket worn and slightly chipped along edges price-clipped clear tape reinforcement to verso only.<br /> <br /> <p>The debut novel by a writer generally associated with the Harlem Renaissance for her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement as well as the literary magazine Challenge she published during the Great Depression. In their 2020 reprint of this novel The Feminist Press writes "Written in elegant and piercing prose The Living Is Easy is a classic of American literature by a groundbreaking African American woman writer whose work deserves widespread and enduring recognition. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
166044488London: Printed for James Davis and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. 1st Edition Abbott 1043; Wing G351. Later binding by Riviere & Son full red morocco triple gilt border rule to boards. AEG. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling five raised bands. Gilt stamped title to spine. Gilt dentelles. Very minor binding wear. Age-toning to eps & text paper. A handsome & pleasing VG - Nr Fine volume. 8 131 13 pp. A6 blank. 12 pages of bookseller offerings conclude volume. Engraved frontispiece restored lower corner. 12mo; A6 B - G12 A1 = Frontis. 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" 14 cm x 8.3 cm. <br/><br/> Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard hardcover books