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1954138012Cleveland: The World Publishing Co 1954. 266p. very good first edition stated in original gilt-decorated cloth and unclipped dj with a faint color-fade to spine and a tiny chip to rear panel. Lengthy personal inscription signed by Gold and date-lined year of publication in Port-au-Prince Haiti where he was at work on his next novel. Main character Harry Bowers allows a black woman to rent a room in his Cleveland motel and is hounded by whites. The World Publishing Co unknown books
195439470Cleveland: World 1954. First Edition. 8vo pp. 266. A VG tight copy; no dj. A novel. World unknown books
198815103Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press paperback books
1905019291Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company 1905. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 379 pages of text. Hardcover binding is moderately shelfworn and discolored with minor sunning to the spine and is overall somewhat dulled. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Contains six illustrations and facsimiles. Separate Publication from "Early Western Travels: 1746 - 1846" in which this work appeared as Volume XVIII as one of 713 copies published as sets. This copy is one of 459 separates. . Arthur H. Clark Company Hardcover books
181719934New York: W.B. Gilley 1817. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 13 cm 180 pp. Contemporary marbled boards; spine recovered in black cloth tape. Some peeling to marbled paper one crack at center of binding where signature is partly sprung otherwise sound and clean. On oft-reprinted moral tale for children the "ornaments" are good manners and a well-regulated mind first published in London in 1815 by William Darnton Jr. This edition is scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker; 41095. W.B. Gilley hardcover books
1955145951New York: Crown Publishers 1955. Octavo cloth. First edition. Twelve stories with Gold's working notes and analysis of each. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-450. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 701. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with faded spine panel and light spill over on spine and top edges of front panel. A nice copy overall. #145951 Crown Publishers unknown books
1957303021957. GOLD Herbert. "The Not Nice Guy." In Playboy magazine May 1957. Near fine minor wear. $45.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
185128441New York: Nagel & Weingaertner 1851. Hand-coloured lithograph after Hanson titled below the image. Expert restoration closing tears into the image. The first America's Cup: a scarce hand coloured lithographed view of the winning yacht which gave its name to the cup.<br/> <br/>In 1851 the Royal Yacht Squadron proposed a race around the Isle of Wight. A group of New York Yacht Club members led by Commodore John Cox Stevens built a yacht designed to compete in such races. Designed by Steers and Co. and captained by Richard Brown the yacht America would win the race by eighteen minutes giving its name to one of the oldest and best-known trophies of the sport: the America's Cup. This lithograph and lithographer are unrecorded by Harry T. Peters; we find no other extant examples of this rare print.<br/> <br/>On Nagel and Weingaertner see Peters America on Stone pp. 291-294. Nagel & Weingaertner unknown books
6549Fine woodcut vignette on title see below. 32 pp. Small 4to early 20th-cent. calf double gilt fillet round sides a.e.g. London: P. Short 1600. First edition and of the greatest rarity this is the first of three issues as described by ESTC which locates only two copies of all the issues in North America. "Sir Hugh Platt 1552-1608 held by Richard Weston to be 'the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in'.was admitted at Lincoln's Inn. Much of his life was devoted to literary work and to the study of husbandry and gardening. He was also interested in all kinds of inventions and experiments.In 1600 appeared Platt's New and admirable arte of setting of corne a treatise in which this author advocates growing corn by setting the seed at regular distances apart the usual method of sowing corn at that time being by broadcast. On the title-page of this small quarto volume is a woodcut of a growing plant of corn over which is a spade lying in a scroll bearing the words 'Adam's toole revived'."-Henrey I p. 155 & no. 301. The book is divided into eight chapters and is signed by Plat at end. Fine copy. Natural marginal paper flaw to D2 carefully repaired. ❧ ESTC S122434. Fussell I p. 15-"Deals with the then new idea of setting corn seed at equal distances apart both in the row and between the rows so that seed might be conserved and the crop enhanced." McDonald Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young 1200-1800 p. 58. unknown books
1954233331New York: International Publishers 1954. Hardcover. 188p. inscribed and signed by Gold "To Katie Johnson. 'In our time!' Mike Gold" previous owners stamp on front and rear blank end papers else very good condition in good dj with an abrasion and small holes in the rear dj panel. International Publishers hardcover books
1954176335New York: International Publishers 1954. Hardcover. 188p. glue remnants on front bland end paper else very good condition in a poor shelf worn and chipped dj with rear panel heavily abraded. International Publishers hardcover books
1954153716New York: International Publishers 1954. Hardcover. 188p. very good condition in a shelf worn and price-clipped dj. International Publishers hardcover books
1954151131New York 1954. hardcover. very good-/very good-. 188 pages 8vo cloth d.w. spine faded page edges slightly ruffled. New York: 1954. Very good-.<br/><br/> Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Salut! Michael Gold."<br/><br/> unknown books
186740706London: T. Cautley Newy 1867. 324 pp. Sepia toned lithos. <br /><br />Narrative of a Journal of a Yachting Expedition from Auckland to the South Sea Islands and a pedestrian tour in a new district of New Zealand bush. Scarce yachting narrative. Not in Toy. "A slight account of Norfolk Island and the Pitcairners is found at pp. 73-95." - Hocken p. 250. Fergusson 12963. Bagnall 3578. Worldcat shows only six libraries holding copies - none in the US. Bound in publisher's blindstamped cloth. T. Cautley Newy hardcover books
197118176New York: Random House 1971. First edition 8vo. fine in like jacket. <br/><br/> Random House unknown books
245610London: G. Bqalne. Hard Cover. Good binding. Previous owner name; no pencil or ink markings in text; one-half leather and marbled boards; binding is cocked; light to moderate edgewear to extremities; digital images can be made available upon request. Good binding. G. Bqalne unknown books
245611London: G. Balne. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Previous owner name; no pencil or ink markings in text; light scattered foxing in text and on endpapers; one-half leather and marbled boards; light edgewear to extremities; digital images can be made available upon request. near Very Good binding. G. Balne unknown books
191673489London: Martin Secker 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first edition in English translated from the Russian by John Cournos and Richard Aldington. The author's most famous novel which recounts the story of a morally corrupt schoolteacher going insane and paranoid in an unnamed Russian provincial town. The omniscient third-person narrator allowed Sologub to combine his Symbolist tendencies and the tradition of Russian Realism in which he engaged throughout his earlier novels a style similar to Maupassant's fantastic realism. Octavo: 349 p. Original green cloth binding with black titles. The spine is lightly sun faded; else very good. Martin Secker hardcover books
1953002951Paris: Les Hautes Etudes 1953. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus/Fair. 8vo. viii 3 517 1 pp. Short closed tear of upper spine wraps. Otherwise tight clean a few leaves still uncut. Glassine torn along the spine toned by well-preserved elsewhere. <br/><br/> Les Hautes Etudes paperback books
185525719.2Baltimore: Published for the Author 1855. 1st edition Bradford 2222; Cowan II p. 274; Graff 1848; Howes H-401; Kurutz 327; Rocq 15852; Sabin 31272. Brown cloth binding with eleborate blindstamped decorations. Gilt stamped lettering to spine with gilt illustration of a miner and pickax. Spine sunned as are board edges. Remnants of number label at base of spine. Prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a VG copy. xii 300 6 blank pp. 12mo signed in 6s. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Per Kurutz "one of the most famous oft-quoted and entertaining books of the Gold Rush." Published for the Author hardcover books
1985043546Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 1985. xxiv 182p. b/w illus. dj slightly faded along the spine Women in culture and society. University of Chicago Press unknown books
192383398London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co 1923. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. xiv 57p. Original cloth-backed boards. 19cm. Sound copy with some cover rubbing and other wear. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Chalmers-Hunt the translator and an Egyptian-born mystic poet. <br/><br/> Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co hardcover books
1960480981960. Marshall O.R. Editor. The Jubilee Lectures of the Faculty of Law University of Sheffield. London: Stevens & Sons Limited 1960. xv 144 pp. Ex-library with stamps bookplate on front pastedown page card pocket on rear pastedown page and location label on cover. Cloth worn and soiled. Internally clean. $10. unknown books
1896010003NY: Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club of New York 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. An address delivered by John Rhoades Presidnet of the Greenwich Savings Bank of New York befoer the Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club of New York. Stiff paper printed covers 17 pages. A businessman's ringing endorsement of McKinley during oen of the most hostoric presidentail elections in US history: "Populism will not bring about progress. Communism will not produce it. Socialism will not creat eit. Anarchy will destory it.Vote for McKinley Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club of New York hardcover books
1941WRCLIT20417New York: International 1941. Printed wrappers. First edition. Wraps a bit dust soiled very good. International paperback books