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1869WN31324Baltimore: Kelly Piet & Co. 1869. A solidly rebound title in maroon buckram with gilt titling. Prior owner signature on preliminaries. Frontispiece tape repaired on top edge. Browning and foxing throughout and especially on top edge of appoximately first 60 pages not interfering with text. 6 full color chromo-tint nautical plates and 2 plates of officers. Text block slightly cut down in rebinding. First Edition. Buckram. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Allan C. Redwood. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Kelly, Piet & Co. Hardcover books
188763484Baltimore MD: Baltimore Publishing Co 1887. Later edition first published under another title in 1869. Large 8vo. 833 pp. Chromolithographic plates portrait plates etc. Howes S-286. Nevins I P. 233 for the 1869 edition: "A first-hand subjective account by the captain of the C. S. Sumter and Alabama; interestingly written." Owner's name crack at head of spine else a very good copy. Publisher's brown three-quarter leather rubbed edges and corners bumped and marbled boards gilt title ornaments and rules between raised bands on spine marbled endpapers and edges. 9965. <br/><br/> Baltimore Publishing Co hardcover books
1938047396Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1938. v 334p. original black cloth. Johns Hopkins Press unknown books
193862783Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1938. First edition. 8vo. 334pp. Green cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Very good in rose colored dust jacket with a few tears. Signature of previous owner on pastedown. <br/><br/> Johns Hopkins Press hardcover books
1962146956Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1962. Octavo 464 pp. illustrations cloth. First edition. Comprises selected chapters from Semmes' MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 1869. Some tanning to spine panel and along inner hinges a very good copy in very good dust jacket with some wear and shallow fraying at edges. #146956 Indiana University Press unknown books
194833318Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards lettered in maroon on spine; 218pp. Tight VG to Near FIne unmarked copy lacking the dustjacket. Small bookseller's ticket of Collector's Old Book Shop Richmond inside front cover. University of North Carolina Press unknown books
SKU1024143University of North Carolina Press. Hardcover. Good. B001EVXRNG 1948 gray cloth boards clean has a good binding name written on front paste down- no other marks or notations. University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
19962304905Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1996. Reissue. Reissue. Very Good. 1996 reissue of 1868 original. Two creases to wrappers. 894 pp. With new introduction and notes by John M. Taylor. "Published in 1869 Raphael Semmes's Memoirs of Service Afloat was the first major southern memoir issued after the Civil War written by the most important Confederate naval figure to emerge from the conflict. It appears here in its first indexed and professionally edited version with an introduction and notes by Semmes's biographer John M. Taylor. According to Taylor Semmes's impressive military performance would not be rivaled by any sea raider until the advent of the submarine. Commanding two cruisers first the Sumter and then the famous Alabama Semmes engineered a rout of the Federal merchant marine burning or bonding a total of sixty-four vessels with the Alabama alone before its dramatic defeat by the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg in 1864 an event that nonetheless served to enhance his reputation - as a pirate in the North and a hero in the South. His memoir is a rollicking account of the voyages of the Sumter and the Alabama with digressions on his natural surroundings and sociopolitical topics. Written soon after the war Semmes's work conveys a zeal for the Lost Cause and an unrelenting bitterness toward the Yankees that ironically tend to obscure his own deeds of skill daring and humanitarianism. Louisiana State University Press unknown books
19901338650Winchester Hampshire; Detroit: St. Paul's Bibliographies; Omnigraphics 1990. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; ivory spine with burgundy text; first UK edition; dust jacket has mild overall tone; light edge wear; cloth clean; strong boards; text block edges show minimal wear; tight binding; illustrated; pp 176; signed by author. 1338650. FP New Rockville Stock. St. Paul's Bibliographies; Omnigraphics hardcover books
15872142London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Second Edition. 18th-century calf rebacked. Very Good. THE SECOND EDITION 1587 OF HOLINSHED'S "CHRONICLES": THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. "In 1548 the prominent London printer and bookseller Reyner or Reginald Wolfe ambitiously decided to produce a universal history and cosmography. of the world. After Wolfe's death in 1573 his assistant Raphael Holinshed took over the project hired more writers and restrained its scope to the British Isles. The Chronicles was first published in 1577 in a two-volume folio edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts. After Holinshed's death in 1580 Abraham Fleming published the significantly expanded revised second edition of 1587 in a larger folio format this time without illustrations" British Library. By scholarly consensus it is the second 1587 edition offered here that Shakespeare used as the source of many of plays: "Shakespeare used Holinshed as a source for more than a third of his plays including Macbeth King Lear and the English history plays such as Richard III. He used it in a range of ways sometimes following the text of the Chronicles closely even echoing its words and phrases; sometimes using it as an inspiration for plot details; and at other times deviating from its account altogether either preferring other sources or his own imagination. Comparing Shakespeare's plays to Holinshed and other sources can provide rich insight into his creative intentions and processes as well as giving us an idea of some of the context in which Shakespeare's contemporary audiences would have understood his plays" British Library. The major use that Shakespeare made of Holinshed was certainly in the British history plays: "Queen Elizabeth herself said that Shakespeare's history plays existed 'aswell for the recreacion of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure.' Both sovereign and subject certainly found much comfort and recreation in Shakespeare's histories because they stage a thematic movement that shapes Holinshed's Chronicles 1377-1485; from the death of a frequently chaotic violently chivalric medieval world to the birth of the 'Peaceable and Prosperous' early modern commonwealth of their day. "An astute reader Shakespeare transformed into the medium of drama four major political themes and messages taught by Holinshed and his successors who enlarged the 1587 text: the ideal and decorum of English kingship the role of France in English public discourse the idea of Englishness and the idea of the commonwealth." Igor Dhjordjevic "Shakespeare and Medieval History" Oxford Handbook. On the bibliography of the 1587 edition: In February 1587 the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Privy Council to recall and censor "reform" the book on the grounds that the new material in the second edition included "sundry things which we wish had bene better considered; forasmuch as the same booke doth also conteyne reporte of matters of later yeeres i.e. the reign of Elizabeth I that concern the State and that "ther is inserted such mention of matter touching the King of Scottes as may give him cause of offence." As a result some 16 pages in volume II and almost 150 pages in volume III were excised "castrated" and replaced by a much smaller number of pages only seven leaves in volume III to paper over the gaps. The censors however neglected the index which continued to contain references to the excised pages. In the early eighteenth century three separate publishers issued sets of replacement leaves that collectors could use to complete their castrated sets of the 1587 edition. Cyndia Susan Clegg "Censorship" in Oxford Handbook; Keith L. Maslen "Three Eighteenth Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles" The Library 5th Series. There is wide variation among the surviving sets of the second edition partly because of the presence of three different eighteenth century sets of replacement leaves and partly because the original sixteenth century castrations and replacements were apparently not applied consistently to all of the then-existing sets. Some sets now have one or more of the castrated pages; some have the sixteenth century replacement pages; some have the eighteenth century replacement pages; and some are mixed-and-matched. Thus "no two copies of Holinshed's Chronicles. are likely to have identical text" Randall McLeod "Cronicling Holinshed's Chronicles: Textual Commentary" in "The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles" 2005. In the copy offered here the replacement leaves in volume III appear to conform to the set issued in 1722/1723 by William Mears Fletcher Gyles and James Woodman "The castrations of the last edition of Holinshed's Chronicle: both in the Scotch and English parts containing forty four sheets; printed with the old types and ligatures and compared literatim by the original". However volume II of the offered copy does not include a complete set of the 18th-centurty replacement leaves and the replacement pages that are present do not conform to the Mears/Gyles/Woodman set. Thus this volume most likely contains the publisher's original sixteenth-century replacement leaves. Castrated pages 421-24 are here replaced by a single leaf with the recto numbered 421 and the verso numbered 424; 432-38 are replaced by a single page 433 and 443-50 are replaced by two leaves numbered 443/444 and 445/450. Provenance: With stamps on titles and privilege leaves from "Bibliotheca Regia" an unidentified Royal library including the de-accession stamps "Double Vendu". London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Folio 234x363mm eighteenth-century calf rebacked. Some wear to boards. Text extraordinarily clean with wide margins. A beautiful and important set. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke unknown books
1989226575Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1989. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in unstapled green pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1993226650Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1993. Magazine. 80p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1993226652Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1993. Magazine. 80p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1991226580Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1991. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1991226581Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1991. Magazine. 60p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
2000157724Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 2000. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 193 pages. A review copy with laid in publisher publicity sheet. Essays by Kim Sichel Rachel Rosenfield Lafo A.D. Coleman and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. The MIT Press unknown books
2012157043Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern 2012. Hardcover. VG. Black & color illus. boards 161 pp. color and BW illus. Main text is in Catalan with essay translations into Spanish and English at the rear. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of artwork by Spanish landscape painter Menchu Gal 1919-2008. With a variety of thematic essays and full-color views of examples of her work. A good introduction to an artist you may not know. IVAM, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern hardcover books
1991257073San Francisco: Hombre Productions 1991. Magazine. 96p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrated with b&w physique photography frontal nudity personal ads classifieds very good digest-size magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps. Hombre Productions unknown books
198043388Caracas: Banco Central de Venezuela 1980. Illustrated French fold paper wrappers. Offsetting to rear wrapper minor edgewear still near fine. 50 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. OCLC locates three copies: Universities of Pittsburgh Mass. and Texas at Austin. [Banco Central de Venezuela] unknown books
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19962307240New York: Crown Publishers 1996. 4th Printing. 4th Printing. Very Good. Faint edge wear. 1996 Soft Cover. 243 pp. "Simons a feng shui master and astrologer teaches readers how to feng shui their homes in a clear step-by-step fashion and gives personalized advice based on readers' dates of birth. Simons presents not only the popular eight-point method but also divining techniques and other authentic Chinese methods that make analysis more complete. Crown Publishers unknown books
1970WRCLIT57895New York: Touchstone Publishers 1970. 244pp. plus lithographs. Large folio 65 x 48 cm; 25.5 x 19 inches. Loose sheets and signatures laid into folding cloth case. Case rather faded and smudged with lower edge of upper lid broken internally very good; except for two small marginal spots to one plate the plates are in fine state. First edition. One of the earliest of the several collaborations between the Nobel Prize-winning author and Soyer. From an edition of 175 copies and 20 a.ps. this is one of 150 numbered sets with the lithographs printed on Arches each signed and numbered by the artist in the margin and with the title-leaf signed by the author. Touchstone Publishers hardcover books
198118903New York: Doubleday 1981. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author with a numbered signed color print by the illustrator laid in. Octavo; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; original paper-covered slipcase; 259pp; illus. Some trivial rubbing to spine gilt else Fine in a Fine slipcase. An semi-autobiographical novel set in New York richly illustrated throughout. Doubleday unknown books
9457Limited Editions Club. Hardcover. Fine. With an introduction by Harry T. Moore. Illustrations taken from water-colors by Raphael Soyer. This edition designed by Bruce Campbell and printed at the Hampshire Typothetae. One of 2000 copies signed by both the author and the artist. Bound in quarter grey buckram with "Elephant Hide" paper over boards. Monthly LEC letter laid in. Fine in a fine slipcase. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
19789015015Garden City NY: Doubleday 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. The spine of the dust jacket is sunned and the extremities have minor wear. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books