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20142309745New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2014. 1st Printing. 1st Printing. Near Fine. First printing. Top corner of front wrapper creased bottom corner of rear wrapper creased. 2014 Trade Paperback. 367 pp. "When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else something more pervasive scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or put another way for every cockroach you see in your hotel room there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars temples opium dens and tourist traps trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to and no one wants him to Vintage Crime/Black Lizard unknown books
185636198Cambridge MA: John Bartlett 1856. Second edition. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects. Cambridge MA: John Bartlett 1856. Second edition. 358 pp. Hardcover. 16mo size. Dark green cloth. Gilt stamped lettering to spine. Head and heel quite chipped and frayed. Corners moderately to heavily curled and split. Spine and perimeter of boards quite sunned. Boards lightly rubbed; drink ring stain to front board. Top edge dust soiled. Edges and pages toned in varying shades with minimal scattered foxing and staining. Bookplate to front paste-down. Hinges slightly pulled. Still quite good. Text clean binding tight. Good/. John Bartlett hardcover books
18442987391844. fine. A MOST UNUSUAL ITEM FORMERLY OWNED BY THE BARTLETT EXTENDED FAMILY. Original 1860's C-D-V of a painting of Josiah Bartlett with a full flawless signature executed in 1767 mounted below his image. Accompanied by an A.L.S. by the signers Grandson Ezra Bartlett who writes his nephew gifting him the above described autograph 8vo. 1 page personal letterhead Exeter New Hampshire September 15th 1884 to his nephew also Ezra in full: "As no autograph letter can be obtained I send you a picture of the gentleman with his signature written in July 1767 nine years before he signed The Declaration of Independence and while he was a member of the Provisional government. I also send not included a memorandum made in the company Day Book as a sample of his writing. His partner was my maternal grandfather Amos Gale". Accompanied by the original holograph envelope addressed to his nephew Ezra A. Bartlett M.D. All items are in fine condition.<br/><br/> American statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was later Governor of New Hampshire and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court<br/><br/> unknown books
191674560New York: Robert H. Dodd. Very Good. 1916. Pamphlet. Soft-bound in tan printed wrappers. The covers show some light foxing and soiling. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. NUMBER 22 DECEMBER 1916.With Introductory Remarks on the Life and Works of George Cruikshank By Arthur Bartlett Maurice. . Robert H. Dodd unknown books
1978244004New York: Norton 1978. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Illus. 8vo brown cloth d.w. New York: Norton 1978.<br/><br/> Norton unknown books
198343262Binghamton NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 1983. First Edition. 8vo pp. xii 412. Notes sources. Illustrated. Medieval texts and studies Vol. 23. Donor's card laid in. Dark blue cloth spine stamped in gilt. A nice copy. Essays by a variety of authors including John Chipman Gray Henry Wadsworth Longfellow George Santayana Ezra Pound Robert Fitzgerald and others. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies unknown books
189355809Concord N. H.: Republican Press Association. Very Good. 1893. Hardcover. "A Complete History of all kinds of sports at the College". Hinges starting green boards with gilt stamping show light wear previous owner signed else very good. . Republican Press Association hardcover books
1840168289Leipzig: Thomas Crowell 1840. hardcover. Mit erlauterndem texte von N.P. Willis ins Deutsche ubertragen von Dr. Susemihl. Fine illustrations after Bartlett engraved on steel by Payne. 75 views on 48 plates 24 are full-page including the extra illustrated title protected with tissue. 169pp. Tall 8vo original green patterned cloth with gilt-stamped spine light edgewear; scattered foxing throughout. Leipzig: Theodor Thomas circa 1840. A very good copy of this uncommon book replete with images of New England cities and natural landmarks.<br/><br/> Thomas Crowell unknown books
2008182619Dover DE: Biggs Museum of American Art 2008. Hardcover. VG/VG- book is almost as new - dust jacket shows very minimal wear at corners. Blue cloth boards with silver gilt lettering on cover black and blue illustrated dust jacket with white lettering 355 pp. color illustrations throughout. Illustrated catalogue of silver collection belonging to Col. Kenneth P. and Reginia I. Brown as presented by the Biggs Museum in Dover Delaware. Biggs Museum of American Art hardcover books
195846603Cambridge MA: Harvard 1958. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxii 418. Bibliography. Cover little scuffed o/w a nice copy. Harvard unknown books
186044533Boston: Little Brown and Company 1860. Third actually a reprint of the second edition "greatly improved and enlarged" 8vo pp. xxxii 524; 20th-century brown cloth gilt-lettered spine; about fine. Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell bookplate on front pastedown. First published in New York in 1848 it remains a classic study of American English. The last edition was published in 1877 and it is still useful and entertaining today. Kennedy 11397; Vancil p. 21. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
184844581New York: Bartlett and Welford 1848. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 412; original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt spine; a few cracks to spine; hinges reinforced preliminaries foxed else very good and sound. Late 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown contemporary ownership signature on title page. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett and Welford hardcover books
184844488New York: Bartlett & Welford 1848. First edition 8vo expanded to small folio xxvii 1 412; the whole interleaved in folio throughout; 20th-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards; generally fine; judging from the soiling on the page edges this copy was interleaved at an early date much earlier than the relatively modern binding but there are no annotations on the interleaves. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett & Welford hardcover books
184944402New York: Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith 1849. First London issue the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848; lg. 8vo xxviii & 412pp. bookplate on front pastedown front hinge separated at joints cracked at joints chipped at extremities paper label on spine rubbed and partially perished with loss of half of lettering the 12 shilling price remains; otherwise clean and reasonably bright in original blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith hardcover books
187728850Boston: Little Brown and Co 1877. Last and best edition 8vo pp. xlvi 2 813; spine faded else fine in original purple cloth. This copy inscribed to "George W. Danielson Esq. with the compliments of John R. Bartlett December 12 1877." Danielson was the editor of the Providence Journal. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions. This is greatly enlarged over the 3rd edition of 1860 with the lexicon approximately one-third again as large. Vancil p. 21. <br/><br/> Little, Brown, and Co hardcover books
186055898Boston: Little Brown 1860. Third edition greatly improved and enlarged a reprint of the second edition. 8vo pp. 524. Bound in drab cloth previous owner's name on end paper some marginal water staining a good copy. See Kennedy 11397; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 10. Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Little, Brown unknown books
18599019247Boston: Little Brown 1859. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition greatly improved and enlaeged bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Shelfwear to cloth at extremities particularly at the head & heel. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown and presentation in ink on ffep. <br/><br/> Little, Brown hardcover books
1859035032Boston: Little Brown and Company; London Trübner and Company 1859. 2d edition greatly improved and enlarged. xxxii 524p. red buckram ex libris. Little Brown and Company; London, Trübner and Company unknown books
18657665New York: printed by A. Penfield 1865. Unfolded booklet 13 x 22.5 cm. 6 pages if folded. John B. Barlett's business was located at 69 Murray Street New York where he distributed the Squire's Patent Fruit Jar. "The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire's Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration depicts a young woman in the process of canning with a steaming pot on the stove in the background and shelves of finished product in the background implying the efficiency of this method which she is employing. Discoloration of one edge of the leaf effecting the illustration; otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy in an unnamed collection of culinary ephemera; otherwise not located. [printed by] A. Penfield unknown books
18656273New York: printed by A. Penfield 1865. Unfolded booklet 13 x 22.5 cm. 6 pages when folded. John B. Barlett's business was located at 69 Murray Street New York where he distributed the Squire's Patent Fruit Jar. "The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire's Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration depicts a young woman in the process of canning with a steaming pot on the stove in the background and shelves of finished product in the background implying the efficiency of this method which she is employing. Discoloration of one edge of the leaf effecting the illustration; otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy in an unnamed collection of culinary ephemera; otherwise not located. [printed by] A. Penfield unknown books
1824012234Boston MA: Printed at the Office of the Howard Gazette 1824. Book. Very good condition. Disbound. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 48 pages of text. Disbound from a larger volume or removed from wrappers which are not present. Minimal soiling to first and last page with two small spots of staining to the final page. Caption title./ At head of title: "Eighteenth Congress Jan. 1824."/ A discussion of Daniel Webster's resolution "That provision ought to be made by law for defraying the expense incident to the appointment of an agent or Commissioner to Greece whenever the President shall deem it expedient to make such appointment." Includes Webster's speech on the Greek Revolution followed by comments of Representatives Joel R. Poinsett John Randolph George Cary Silas Wood Ichabod Bartlett Henry Clay and Timothy Fuller. Greek War of Independence 1821-1829. Printed at the Office of the Howard Gazette Paperback books
1948148702Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Second Revised / First Draft Continuity script for the 1949 film. Production No. 143 and copy No. 7 SECOND REVISED and RIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY all rubber stamped on front wrapper. Single annotation in script in holograph pencil on the verso of page 70 listing three names.<br/><br/>Whaling ship captain Bering Joy Lionel Barrymore takes his grandson Jed Dean Stockwell along on an expedition intent on teaching the boy life values which ensues a battle of wills between the captain and First Mate Lunceford Richard Widmark.<br/><br/>Set in 19th century Massachusetts shot on location at Seal Beach California. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 7 and production No. 143 dated FEBRUARY 10 1948. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 10 1948 noted as 2nd Revised / 1st Draft Continuity. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2010UBARDOW00FPThe History Press 2010. Fine. Bartlett W.B. Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom. Gloucestershire: The History Press 2010. xvi 272pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. The History Press paperback books
196551New York: Shorewood Publishers Inc 1965. Hardcover. VG. Tan cloth. 141 pp. 38 bw 60 color reproduction. 15 page essay by Hayes. Although common still a great selection of plates and a useful reference. Includes a very useful biographical index at rear. Shorewood Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1980240441Berkeley: Oyez 1980. Hardcover. 251p. foreword introduction notes biographical note index very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Sacramento-born Everson joined the Dominican Order as Brother Antoninus. In the late 1950s he left the order married and moved to the mountains of Santa Cruz and became poet in residence at UCSC. Oyez hardcover books
