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1974TB06245New York: Oxford University Press 1974. First Edition. First printing Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with red & gilt decorations and text on the spine and front board with top edge dust stained. In a very good dust jacket with spine lightly faded and ends rubbed and worn with small flecks and chips. This award winning author examines the development of "The New Country" as it was known between 1776 to 1890 as pioneers eager to start a new way of life called it. 247 pages with index & maps Oxford University Press hardcover books
174064hardcover. illus. 487pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Oxford UP 1974. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1909017117Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1909. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 90 pages. Original cloth spine and decorative printed paper-covered boards; moderately shelfworn and rubbed. No dustjacket. Contains numerous illustrations by A.W. Bartlett. Title continues ".And containing a Calendar and reliable Weather Predictions for every Month besides an Entertaining Miscellany of Golfing Literature and Information hitherto probably unassembled in a single book." The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover books
1986WRCLIT39294Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press 1986. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis by N. Scott Momaday. First edition wrapper issue. With excerpts from Erdich's THE BEET QUEEN Momaday's SET Dorris's YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER Vizenor Linda Hogan Louis Owens et al. About fine. Univ. of New Mexico Press unknown books
191664641New York: Dodd Mead and Company. Good. 1916. Hardcover. This is an ex-library copy with usual library marks including a card pocket at the rear library bookplate and stamps and numbers to the spine. Green library buckram with gilt printing to the spine. Covers are soiled and scuffed tape repair to hinges contents are toned. This is a rough copy. Good for reading or reference. . Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1850122476London: Arthur Hall Virtue and Co 1850. Second. Hardcover. VG- Corners bumped; Light wear to extremities. Grey cloth over boards; Gilt titling and decoration to spine; Gilt decoration to both covers; Yellow endpapers; 218 pp.; 52 bw plates and figures. Chronicles the author's travels to Egypt in 1845; Wonderful wood cuts and engravings by various artists accompany the text. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co hardcover books
18502310184London: Arthur Hall Virtue and Co 1850. Second Edition. Second Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Edges rubbed owner bookplate and ink name and date on front endpapers ink gift note on front flyleaf dated Easter 1857 at Eton. 1850 Full-Leather. vi 2 218 pp. Full leather all edges gilt gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated with 17 woodcuts 33 engraved plates and 2 maps. Bartlett was a British artist known for his engravings and published a number of works focusing on the visual aspect of world travel. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co unknown books
185189584New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 1st American ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis engraved 2nd title-page map 32 steel-engraved plates vi 2 218p. plus 2p. publisher's adverts. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. 26cm. Partial tear in lower corner of tissue guard for frontis. Former owner's name "Joseph K. Brick" of Brooklyn N.Y. on recto of blank following free front endpaper. An appealing copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
197070196Westport Ct: Negro Universities Press 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations 2 folding maps xii 532p. Red cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1910 Edinburgh edition. <br/><br/> Negro Universities Press hardcover books
1822WRCAM35022Boston: Munroe and Francis 1822. 396pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked in matching style. A very good copy. A "regular" medical handbook intended for physicians and medical students. The work is alphabetically arranged and includes the American pharmacopoeia. CORDASCO 20-0040. Munroe and Francis unknown books
185361768London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co 1853. First edition. 28 steel engravings and numerous woddcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Upper hinge tender head of spine chipped else Near Fine. First edition. 28 steel engravings and numerous woddcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Howes B-631; Sabin 3789 Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co unknown books
1853239074London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co. R. Clay Printer. Bread Street Hill 1853. First edition. 28 steel engraved plates by Bartlett and numerous woodcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original publisher's pebbled purple morocco gilt extra a.e.g. minor rubbing and wear else very good. Bookplate of John Lane Merriam. First edition. 28 steel engraved plates by Bartlett and numerous woodcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Engravings by Bartlett 1809-1854 as superb as those for his famous AMERICAN SCENERY 1840. Sabin 3789 "The principal merit of this work is in the fine plates" Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. [R. Clay, Printer. Bread Street Hill] unknown books
1987700357NY: Random House. 1987. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Random House paperback books
1904272352Philadelphia: George Barrie 1904. First. hardcover. very good. Plates several in color. xix 502pp. 8vo publisher's 3/4 brown morocco margins uncut spine sunned. Philadelphia: George Barrie 1904. Very good<br/><br/> One of 100 numbered copies. History of the American Revolution. The History of North America volume VI. Edited by Guy Carleton Lee.<br/><br/> George Barrie unknown books
1841D12958London: George Virtue 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornately gilt-stamped contemporary morocco a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 4to; pp. iv 2 170 plus frontis. additional title-p. with steel-engraved vignette map of Ireland 60 plates; 4 186 additional title-p. with engraved vignette 58 plates; collates complete. Bookplate tasteful on front paste-down of both volumes. Bindings heavily scuffed along joints and edges of boards; some light chipping at spine tips and corners; boards rubbed and a bit scratched. Nonetheless a handsome set gilt remains nice and bright. Internally clean and unmarked -- plates are lovely suitable for display. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover books
19979229London: Artangel 1997. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. A lovely copy of the 1997 signed/limited. #58 OF ONLY 100 COPIES ISSUED SIGNED BY BOTH NEIL BARTLETT AND ROBIN WHITMORE who respectively wrote the text and illustrated this artist's book. Clean and Fine in its decorative cloth with Robin Whitmore's monoprints complementing the text. Oblong quarto 51 pgs. Also includes a Near Fine example of the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Artangel hardcover books
198919161AlbuquerqueUniversity of New Mexico Press 1989. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Albuquerque,University of New Mexico Press, unknown books
1908148825Augusta. : The Mitchell-Cony Company. 1908. Green cloth black cover title. . Very good ink name and label to pastedown no map. 23x15 cm. . Lacks the folding map. weight: 0.3 lb. The Mitchell-Cony Company. hardcover books
1925114301.2New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1925. Hardbound. Book VG- Content clean and bright but with lower front corner of cover quite bumped; cloth beginning to fray at head/tail of spine; rubbing to covers. Ex-lib. copy with perforation stamp on title page ink stamp on frontis and other lib. marks. Slipcase good but one edge is starting to detach; call number on lower spine and bottom opening edge rough. Greyish-blue paper/boards; cream cloth spine with gilt lettering. In patterned board slipcase. 185 pp. color frontis; bw plates. Oversize and heavy 7 pounds and will require extra postage. Un-numbered copy from an edition of 585. All sorts of information about about printing and type-founding people/places and with a list of type faces mentioned in the text Bodoni in Belgium; Baskerville in England; Didot in France; etc. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1925114301.1New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1925. Hardbound. VG- ex art library copy small label remnants on lower spine bookplate. Cloth spine and greyish board covers. 185 pp. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1925114301New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1925. Hardbound. Good only cover corners worn and rounded. Internally clean and sharp but with dust darkening to outer edges of pages; art museum ex-library with bookplate and stamp on title page. Cloth spine and greyish board covers. Gilt lettering. 185 pp. All sorts of information about about printing and type-founding people/places and with a list of type faces mentioned in the text Bodoni in Belgium; Baskerville in England; Didot in France; etc. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1925007403NY: G. P . Putnam's Sons 1925. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio half-linen spine over paper-backed boards spine soiled corners worn internals in fine clean condition. 185 pages #27 of 585 copies printed on Rives Paper sides untrtimmed at Bartlett Orr Press NY - a handsome production. G. P . Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1928165756New York: Experimenter Publishing Co. 1928. Octavo 22.1 x 14.7 cm. pp. 1-2 3-24 one illustration by R. E. Lawlor original printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Short story printed as a complimentary booklet by Hugo Gernsback as a circulation promotion for AMAZING STORIES. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 134. Bleiler 1978 p. 17. Reginald 00923. Just a touch of tanning a fine copy. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. #165756 Experimenter Publishing Co. unknown books
191670058Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A tale of New York and a young man's relations with two women: a young stenographer and his wealthy fiancee. Frontispiece and six illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with pictorial dark brown and orange stamping. Period previous owner's ink signature and date to the front flyleaf. Light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
19092288744Small Maynard and Company 1909. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fisher Harrison; Relyea Charles M. Second printing. No jacket. Hinges starting pencil name and note on front paste-down endpaper pencil name on front endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii 354 pp. Color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher three black-and-white plates by Charles M. Relyea. The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery intrigue and adventure that begins in the city progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson our hero finds himself in the midst of a battle between a deposed queen and revolutionists who have banded together in an effort to bring their country together as a republic. Wilson although torn between helping mercenaries freedom fighters and revolutionaries is more concerned with the rescuing of the girl he has fallen in love with but who has been snatched from him by a mysterious priest. That and the finding of the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frederick Orin Bartlett 1876-1945 wrote some of his books under the pseudonym William Carleton. His most famous works include: The Seventh Noon 1908 The Web of the Golden Spider 1909 The Red Geranium 1915 The Wall Street Girl 1916 One Year of Pierrot 1917 The Triflers 1917 and Jane and I 1922. Small, Maynard and Company hardcover books