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161869391Johnstown New York Feb. 16 1814. framed. A little age-toned; bur fine. 5-1/2 x 7 inches. The carriage operator was Amaziah Rust who was vindicated in an 1803 N.Y. Supreme Court decision of the charge of having extorted $11 in attorney's fees. unknown
182568479Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's first novel. Accomplished in a number of fields including politics music geology and art Lauder 1784-1848 is considered one of the most successful literary imitators of his friend Sir Walter Scott. 12mo three volumes. In period full ruled blue calf bindings with elaborate gilt and blind stamping red morocco spine labels marbled endpapers and ribbon markers. The armorial bookplate of John Waldie and a related label appear on each front pastedown. The spines are moderately sun faded with some occasional edgewear; otherwise very good. Wolff 3952. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co hardcover books
182568479Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's first novel. Accomplished in a number of fields including politics music geology and art Lauder 1784-1848 is considered one of the most successful literary imitators of his friend Sir Walter Scott. 12mo three volumes. In period full ruled blue calf bindings with elaborate gilt and blind stamping red morocco spine labels marbled endpapers and ribbon markers. The armorial bookplate of John Waldie and a related label appear on each front pastedown. The spines are moderately sun faded with some occasional edgewear; otherwise very good. Wolff 3952. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co hardcover
1909018753Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. George Gibbs. This is the 1938 47th impression of the 1909 first edition. Beautiful example of this classic. Light green cloth binding with color pastedown on front cover gilt titles on spine and front cover color frontispiece 367 pages plus eight pages of ads at back. Gift inscription neatly penned on the front pastedown otherwise fine. Dust jacket has light wear along edges dj in a protective mylar sleeve. <br/> <br/> L. C. Page & Company hardcover
1917B7319Toronto: McClelland Goodchild and Stewart. 1917. Spine lightly sunned lower hinge broken interior clean and crisp. . Binding: Full purple cloth boards. Upper with illustrated title paste-down. Front edges uncut. Notes: Very good example. <br><br>Ownership inked to front free endpaper. <br><br>Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE 1874 – 1942 published as L. M. Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels essays short stories and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories 500 poems and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character orphan Anne Shirley made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site—namely Green Gables farm the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park.<br><br> Size: 8vo. 200 x 130 mm Pages: 346 pp. Category: Book Literature; McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart. hardcover
1961166640N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1961 film showing actors Marlene Dietrich and Spencer Tracy with director Stanley Kramer and other crew members on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. <br /> <br /> A dramatization of the 1947 Judges' Trial one of twelve US Nuremberg Military Tribunals held from 1946 to 1949 to decide the fate of individuals accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in Nazi atrocities. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning three including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Maximilian Schell.<br /> <br /> Set in Nuremberg shot on location in Nuremberg and Berlin. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Neat pinhole at each corner else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Twilight Time 1631. N.p. unknown
183624868London: Whittaker & Co 1836. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Part of the British Colonial Library. Whittaker & Co unknown books
183624868London: Whittaker & Co 1836. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Part of the British Colonial Library. Whittaker & Co unknown
183597qxJames Cochrane and Co. London 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 624 pages and appendix complete. A placid copy. From the library of Kimbolton Castle at the time home of the Dukes of Manchester and also reputedly haunted by Catherine of Aragon who died in the medieval predecessor on the site. The boards have much wear knocks scuffing. The spine has wear and cracks all along the body and head and foot. However the boards and spine are effective sound steady. The end papers have storage marks and wear. The contents are pleasing and comfortably confident - especially taking the age of the book into account. The papertrims have shelving wear and tanning. The pages are healthy clean clear a little worn around the edges from handling and shelving bold companionable amenable often surprisingly fresh more than competent keen. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. James Cochrane and Co., London hardcover
1834c676jJames Cochrane and Co 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Volume III only. The boards have been rebound in full leather. Internally there is light tanning and age-related marking throughout but there are no inscriptions and the pages within are neat and complete with all maps present. The binding is secure. In very good condition indeed considering the age of the book! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. James Cochrane and Co hardcover
191199953<p>New York: The Pleiades Club 1911. 1911. Very good. - Octavo 7 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover bound in decoratively veined brown leather titled with a device in gilt on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The covers are slightly rubbed and scuffed and the head of the spine is slightly chipped. 140 pages printed in 2 colors with a decorative title page head pieces and initial letters printed in orange and profuse textual and full-page illustrations including a frontispiece by Robert Selfe Ament and works by James Montgomery Flagg Dan Smith Anthony H. Euwer Herb Roth and James Swinnerton among others. The top corner of the first few leaves is lightly creased or bumped. Very good.</p><p>Number 449 of a limited De Luxe edition of 500 numbered copies.</p><p>Includes a poem by the fantasy writer Abraham Merritt titled "Old Trinity Churchyard 5 a.m. Spring Cats! That's All!" with an illustration by George Kerr Edwin Markham's poem "The Face" Frank L. Norris' poem "A Paradox" Anthony H. Euwer's "The Gargoyles & the Drulehide" illustrated by the author and spanning pages 14 through 19 Hallett Gilberte's song "Lilacs" with music and Curtis Dunham's poem "Ballade of a Cat and a Bird of a Hat" illustrated by George Kerr and spanning from pages 53 through 56.</p> New York: The Pleiades Club, (1911). hardcover
18402324139Glasgow: John Niven 1840. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition Sabin 50149. Rebound in black pebbled cloth with original spine label laid down new gilt rules. Includes frontispiece and all fold-outs. Boards lightly soiled. 1840 Hard Cover. xi 219 pp. 8 fold-out plates and 2-page publisher advertisement follow text engraved frontispiece of York Factories in Saco Maine. "The author was superintendent of the York factories Saco." An account of the machinery used in cotton mills and the relative merits of manufacturing in the United States vs. Great Britain. Because the work focuses on the spinning of cotton at mills rather than the harvesting of cotton at plantations the controversy surrounding American slave labor is neatly avoided. It's unclear whether this was intentional or even whether the question was of any concern to the author. John Niven hardcover
19082347347Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1908. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Withington Elizabeth R. 1934 70th printing. Boards a bit soiled half-title page loose but included owner bookplate and ink name and date on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. vii 3 396 10 pp. 8vo. Light brown cloth gilt titles portrait of Anne mounted on front board. Frontispiece and 7 plates by Elizabeth R. Withington. The first book in what has become one of the most popular series for young readers. It inspired a 1919 silent movie adaptation though this is now considered a lost film and numerous adaptations since. L.C. Page & Company hardcover
1936892London: George G. Harrap 1936. First British edition of this novel in Montgomery's acclaimed Anne series. Octavo original blue cloth. Light wear else fine in the original dust jacket with some chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Anne of Windy Willows is an epistolary novel first published in 1936 it details Anne Shirley's experiences over three years teaching at a high school in Summerside Prince Edward Island. The novel features a series of letters Anne sends to her intended Gilbert Blythe who is completing medical school. Chronologically this book is fourth in the series but it was the seventh book written. George G. Harrap hardcover
190457805Akron Ohio:: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1904. First edition . publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards in dust jacket. Edges of boards rubbed; a few stains to boards and cloth; tight and sound in a tanned jacket with a long closed tear several short tears and a few tiny chips. 8vo. Illustrated by W. H. Fry some color. Billy Whiskers Series No. 3. The Saalfield Publishing Company, hardcover
18111Portland Oregon: Montgomery Ward. Good. N.D. First Edition. Softcover. The front cover is nice but wraps are splitting at the top and bottom of the rear hinge. The rear cover is worn and chipped on the edge & lower corners with a closed tear by the spine. Contents are complete and very good. No date but the order forms have a date format of "191_". ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1024 pages . Montgomery Ward paperback
191223458Boston:L. C. Page and Company 1912. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:L. C. Page and Company. 1912. 1st edition. 306pp6pp ads. With colored frontispiece. Hardcover. Tan boards very slightly soiled with a bit of light shelfware. Pastedown of portrait with a couple scratches. Internally previous owners address label to inside front board but otherwise pages clean and bright. Binding is tight and hinges intact. Overall a very good clean copy. Boston:L. C. Page and Company hardcover
197369065Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 576pp. Octavo 24cm. Bound in green cloth; gilt stamped lettering on each spine. Blind stamped publisher's device on each front board. Spine ends gently bumped. Light scattered pencil notations. In the original dust jackets each with a mildly toned spine. A work which "endeavors to destroy the persistant stereotype of a frozen and intellectually sterile XVIIth century Lutheran orthodoxy by a depth study of one of the most important theologian-littérateurs of the epoch: Johann Valentin Andreae. Martinus Nijhoff hardcover
2001BOOKS044733IFallbrook CA: Don Montgomery. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 2001. 1st. hardcover. 4to 192 pp. Don Montgomery's Hot Rod Books no. 7 of the series. . Don Montgomery hardcover
193818611New York: The Derrydale Press. Fine. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A most attractive unnumbered review copy of a first edition limited to nine hundred and fifty copies printed by Eugene V. Connett on laid paper. About Fine condition in original cloth bright gilded labels slightly rubbed along spine; "Those who hunt after the fashion of a philosopher seeking to live for a while as a child of nature will be blessed by the wind and the sun and will know a great peace nothing can upset or disturb." - Rutherford G. Montgomery ; 8vo; xx 248 2 pages . The Derrydale Press hardcover
1994052705Fallbrook CA: Don Montgomery / Self Published 1994. First edition Fourth printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Montgomery on the title page; "To Leo Vrzal Remembering some great 1940s Hot Rodding. Don Montgomery 12-2-02." Two signed letters on Don's stationery laid in. 144 pages with numerous photos and race results. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> Don Montgomery / Self Published hardcover
195447204Philadelphia: International Printing Company 1954. First edition. Near fine. First edition of this "trifling monograph" on the iconography of Sherlock Holmes with addenda reference tables index and illustrations - inscribed "With Best Sherlockian Wishes" by the author. 9'' x 6''. Original pictorial wrappers by Bruce Montgomery. 64 pages. Black and white illustrations. Edition of 300 copies. Inscription by James Montgomery on title page dated 1955. Though no additional provenance markings this copy subsequently from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Moderate edgewear mild toning. International Printing Company unknown
1904147973Akron Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co. 1904. First edition of this whimsical early science fiction novel. Octavo original pictorial cloth frontispiece illustrated by Winifred D. Elrod. In very good condition. A very nice example. Frances Trego Montgomery 1858–1925 was an American children's author best known for her works that combined adventure and fantasy with educational themes. On a Lark to the Planets 1910 is a lesser-known but imaginative work in which Montgomery explores early science fiction themes depicting a fantastical journey through space. The novel follows young protagonists as they travel to different planets encountering diverse civilizations and engaging with speculative ideas about astronomy and planetary life. Blending scientific curiosity with whimsical storytelling Montgomery’s work reflects the early 20th-century fascination with space exploration and the possibilities of extraterrestrial existence. The Saalfield Publishing Co. hardcover
dola2960Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited c1936. Later Edition. The dw. flap mentions that an O.B.E. was conferred on Montgomery in 1935. 12mo. pp. 5 p.l. 370. medium green cloth with black lettering previous owner’s name on front flyleaf. dw. edges of dw. slightly chipped. Very good copy. dola2960 Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, [c1936] hardcover
FIC1244Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. Later Printing. Hardcover. 370 pp. Spine corners bumped and rubbed. Jacket has edgewear tears. Green cloth boards black lettering. Publication date of 1920 but this is a known inaccuracy. This copy printed sometime after the original publication Jacket front flap mentions her award of an OBE in 1935; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . McClelland & Stewart hardcover