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183321655London: Richard Bentley 1833. First edition. 331; 341pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Binding wornboards detached but present browning of text some excisions in margins of a few pages including the title bookplates removed with an inscription on both volumes reading "1835/ To be returned in a Fortnight/ Mr. Adam President" else a very good copy. First edition. 331; 341pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Founder of the "New Colonization System". Following imprisonment Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered his theories for correcting the problems and first published them in "A Letter from Sydney" London 1829 under the name Robert Gouger. It was so well done that the author was supposed to be an immigrant. He revised and refined these views for his "New Colonization System" in "England and America" as the chapter the "Art of Colonisation." The theories for his "System" were to abolish free grants of agricultural land requiring a fixed price which would be kept low enough so that a laborer would be able to purchase land after a few years this to reduce the number of ex-convicts laborers from receiving land for which they had no use to regulate immigration and to use tax monies from the rental of grants to bring laborers to the colonies. One of the main results of his publications and efforts was the founding of the National Colonization Society and then the South Australian Association the latter intended to be based upon Wakefield's theories. He was also a close advisor to the Molesworth Committee. On the appointment of Lord Durham to Canada in 1838 Wakefield became interested in that territory and is credited with having greatly assisted Durham with his famous "Report on the Affairs of British North America." He also acted as an adviser to Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe in Canada in the 1840's. In 1837 Wakefield had formed the New Zealand Association and spent most of years following directing the affairs of the association from England while his brother William Hayward Wakefield directed and managed it from New Zealand. Kress C3643; McCulloch's"Literature of Political Economy" 1845. p 94; Sabin 100976 Richard Bentley unknown books
97481hardcover. More than 145 color photos with captions. 68pp. Large 8vo cloth d.w. New York: 1979.<br/><br/> unknown books
19891297891Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; red and tan spine tan and black lettering; dust jacket has general shelfwear general edgewear rubbing on fore corners and spine edges interior age toned; boards strong slightly bowed rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp pencil and marker on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned light soiling on exterior head edge rubbing on exterior tail fore corner; xv 432pp. 1297891. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
54820NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 8. Volume III only. A later printing. Very good in a very good light edge wear dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
59988NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 7. Volume II only. A later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
19802309104Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Piranesi Gian Battista. A couple minor blemishes on boards. 1980 Full-Leather. The first of six volumes and part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 471 pp. 8vo. Original full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the complete Vedute di Roma of Giovanni Battista Piranesi with the Piranesi etchings of memorials and public works. The Franklin Library unknown books
2003WELLER9780375758119Modern Library 2003. New. New book. Modern Library unknown books
17883391London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand 1788. First edition. Near Fine. Mixed state combining aspects of Norton's variants a and b in Volume I. 6 volumes quarto 270 x 220 mm. Contemporary calf rebacked to style red morocco spine labels raised bands compartments elaborately stamped in gilt. Volume I with marginal stains affecting the running title to pages 87-88 and stains to the lower corners of 189-193 affecting no text; foxing to pages 42-61 and 392-402 of Volume II; Volume III with dampstains to headers of Contents not affecting text foxing to pages 16-25 and 1.5 inch tear to inner margin of folding map. Collating complete with engraved portrait frontispiece by Hall after Joshua Reynolds dated 1 February 1780 issued with the first edition of Volume II but bound in Volume I as usual; two engraved folding maps to Volume II and folding map to Volume III. All half titles and errata leaves present. Volume I in mixed state uncorrected up to page 183 with X4 signed and cancelled but a4 and b2 not cancels but signed; no cancels to Volume II; Volume III with page 177 correctly numbered and the misspelling to "Honorious" on page 179; Volume IV with no cancels.<br/><br/>"This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which.maintain their hold on the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar.Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day" PMM. Scholars continue to discuss how Gibbon participates in eighteenth century trends of genre blurring and bending using paradigms of the romance novel alongside emerging modern scholarship to create a fascinating and readable history. Others note how "Gibbon's work occupies a peculiar position in the political and economic climate of the late eighteenth century because of its subject matter. The majority of the political structures considered in the Decline and Fall are absolutist monarchies dominated by the figure of the sacred king" -- a major contrast to the rise of democracies and the calls for economic mobility being made across Europe and the U.S. Cosgrove. An epic history in an incredibly addictive form the present is a beautiful clean and complete example.<br/><br/>PMM 222. Near Fine. W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand unknown books
1929030442London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons 1929. Harmonizations by Geoffrey O'Hara and Oscar O'Brien. xxii 105p. music original cloth. Reprint of the 1927 first edition. J. M. Dent & Sons unknown books
1931WRCLIT78606Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1931. Gilt lettered lavender cloth. Top edge and rear board a bit dust speckled but a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with faded spine some dust spotting on verso and a few short edge tears. First US edition of work published in the UK as THE CALENDS OF CAIRO. Two brief comments by Mitchell's friend H. G. Wells appear in the prelims along with an Introduction by Leonard Huxley. This book occurs in at least two bindings of which this is the form most likely to be primary; the other is cheap orange cloth lettered in black. BLEILER p.141. NCBEL IV:588. Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
89509hardcover. illus. Frontis. in color. 8vo cloth; writing on front cover. London: Batsford 1953.<br/><br/> unknown books
176420791London: printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt 1764. First edition in English of Gibbon's first published work 12mo pp. 8 168 including ads; contemporary full speckled calf ruled in gilt leather spine label lettered in gilt previous owner's name written neatly in ink on title else a very good copy. In 1753 Gibbon a young man of twenty-five was sent by his father to Lausanne to study with the Calvinist minister Pavillard and did not return until 1758. By this time he had already begun his Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature which he finished in England in 1759 where it was published on the urging of his father in 1761. Published in French the work found little audience in England but succeeded apparently abroad and it was reprinted in both Paris and Geneva in 1762. After its publication in English in 1764 it became highly sought after but Gibbon refused to republish it himself. Only one other contemporary edition appeared in 1788 in Dublin which was pirated. Contains a touching 5-page dedication to his father. Norton 6; Rothschild 939: The translation was not made by Gibbon though it was announced as being prepared "under the inspection of the author" Norton p. 4. <br/><br/> printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt hardcover books
1764WRCLIT35233London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt 1764. 6163pp. wanting the final blank and terminal ads. Octavo. Speckled calf rebacked in matching calf gilt extra gilt label. Restoration to blank portion of fore-margin of title otherwise a very good crisp copy. First edition in English of Edward Gibbon's first published work following its publication in French in London by three years. This edition omits the text of the "Avis au lectuer" as well as Dr. Maty's letter to the author which had appeared in the French edition. NORTON 6. ROTHSCHILD 939. ESTC T79690. Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt unknown books
19949022167Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1994. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
1994Embry 138722Indiana U. Press 1994. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Indiana U. Press, 1994. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1849WRCAM19970London 1849. xxiv512pp. plus 6pp. of advertisements and errata slip. Modern half calf and marbled boards leather label. Very good. A classic work in the theory of colonization the culmination of Wakefield's attempt at a theory of colonization based upon scientific principles. His ideas influenced colonial officials and practices in Canada Australia and New Zealand and in the latter place Wakefield was instrumental in establishing a permanent British colony. "The importance of Wakefield's achievements in colonial matters can hardly be overestimated. The tangible fruits of his labours are the least part of their result for all subsequent colonial development has followed the direction of his thought" - DNB. FERGUSON 5235. DNB XX pp.449-52. hardcover books
1932124744London: Jarrolds Publishers 1932-1934. First editions of each volume of Gibbon's classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Octavo original cloth 3 volumes. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page "For G. Malcolm Thomson L. Grassic Gibbon." Cloud Howe is the dedication copy inscribed on the title page "For the 'dedicatee' with kind regards. L. Grassic Gibbon." Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page "For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon." Each are in very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form deft and humorous in its use of language courageous in its characterization and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset Song Gibbon's finest achievement the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons the weddings the funerals the grind of work the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll machines replace the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction notably from H. G. Wells but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its first book Sunset Song with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland written by Bill Craig with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Additionally Sunset Song has been adapted into a film released in 2015. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
200239922002. GIBBON Peter H. A CALL TO HEROISM. Foreword by Peter J. Gomes. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002. 8vo. boards in dust jacket; 277 pages. First edition first printing. Signed presentation by Gibbon on title page. Near fine few minor bumps covers in fine d/j. $15.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
