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194132127New York: R. R. Bowker 1941. First edition limited to 750 copies 8vo pp. xvii 1 142; frontispiece portrait and 16 plates; near fine in original green cloth with the remains of the printed dust jacket laid in. This copy inscribed "For Colton Storm - who knows why and how this book was done. Without thanks but with appreciation none-the-less -- Jake Blanck 12/27/41." A popular writer of boys' fiction in the late 19th century Castlemon pseudonym for Charles Austin Fosdick 1842-1915 should be ranked along side Horatio Alger and G. A. Henty though his popularity was short-lived. He produced about 58 titles many of them featuring "Frank Nelson" a character Castlemon modeled after himself. <br/><br/> R. R. Bowker hardcover books
1959160567New Haven: Yale University Press 1959. hardcover. very good. Compiled for the Bibliographical Society of America. Volume Three: Edward Eggleston to Bret Harte. Sm. 4to black cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press 1959. Very good.<br/><br/> Light shelfwear; library mark removed from spine; corner cut from lower title page with no loss of text.<br/><br/> Yale University Press unknown books
197632611New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1976. Later printing. Cloth. A fine copy. xxii 643 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions and photos. Sm. 4to. Yale Univ. Press hardcover books
1974EEG1224Waltham MA:: Mark Press 1974. 1974. Fourth printing. 8vo. 4 vi 153 1 pp. Red cloth. Very good. Mark Press, 1974. hardcover books
1972140434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern costar in this understated film about estranged brothers the more grounded of which is surprisingly played by Nicholson. It is a unique chance to see Nicholson play the straightman reeling in his erratic irresponsible brother all set to the backdrop of Atlantic City's waning "classic era." Many of the iconic hotels featured were demolished in the proceeding years to facilitate hotel-casinos. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Holograph ink notation to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/>Criterion Collection 550. Columbia Pictures unknown books
180041277London: William Richardson 1800. Plate: 196x144 mm. Margin: 275x200 mm. Little faint soiling right and bottom margins are trimmed faint crease in top right margin. William Richardson unknown books
17753220Bath: S. Hazard for T. Mills 1775. 8vo. xvii 3 445 1 pp. Modern full calf red morocco spine label. Displeasing glue residue in gutter margin of first blank and title-page both of which are a little browned age-toning throughout not objectionable; top edge of textblock with stain near the head-cap which did not permeate through the text itself. Provenance: Mary Knowles contemporary signature on title - see below. A good copy with faults and priced accordingly. Was the "Mary Knowles" who first owned this 18th-century English translation of Boehme's first work the same as the well known English Quaker mystic poet feminist and abolitionist namely Mary Morris Knowles 1733-1807. While we have been unable to procure an autograph of Mary Morris Knowles with which to compare the two signatures if she did not own this particular copy of Boehme it is almost certain that she had in her library at least one of Boehme's texts.<br/><br/>This edition was published by Thomas Mills ca. 1735-1820 formerly a clerk in the one of the Countess of Huntington's chapels where he preached "in the Methodist way." It is not without interest that in 1778 Mills became a Quaker sic.<br/><br/>A German shoemaker turned mystic Boehme's writings found renewed interest in England during the late 18th century influencing Quakers Methodists and mystics alike William Blake in particular. Indeed Blake "inherited from Boehme the ideas which formed the foundation of his philosophy and his myth" Gerald Bentley "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers" B.Litt. Thesis Oxon. 1954 p. 233<br/><br/>Our copy is COMPLETE. The only other copy of this edition on the market is both ugly and seriously defective lacking everything after p. 390.<br/><br/>ESTC T216620. On Mary Knowles see: J. Jennings Gender Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing 2006. J. Jennings "Mary Morris Knowles: Devout Worldly and 'Gay'" in: Quaker Studies Mar. 2010 vol. 14 No. 2 pp. 195-211. S. Hazard for T. Mills unknown books
1962044760Cambridge: Mediaeval Academy of America 1962. Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Israel J. Kazis. x 227 109p. original blue cloth The Mediaeval Academy of America publication 75. Mediaeval Academy of America unknown books
181347139Harrisonburg: Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne 1813. 1st edition American Imprints 28029; Field 199; Harris Collection p. 42; Sabin 8787; Wegelin 889. Period full brown sheep binding with red leather gilt stamped title label to spine with 7 horizontal rules to same speckled edges. General wear to binding. Usual age-toning & foxing to paper; ffep lacking lower quarter. Prior owner signatures one dated 1858 of Jacob and Emeline Ritner. A solid VG copy. 252 12 pp. "List of Subscribers" last 12 pages which lists names in 3 columns per page ~ 60 names / column from 11 states: Virginia 7 pp Kentucky 3 pp Tennessee 1 page Ohio 2/3 page & Pennsylvania Maryland New York South Carolina Connecticut North Carolina & Louisiana comprising the last 1 columns. Of particular interest today is the large number of women so listed throughout this early 19th C. subscriber list providing strong evidence of their literary interests & financial wherewithal easily an academic project to research these women and gather additional demographics for this group. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/>From Harris we learn the author was born in Virginia served as a State Senator and subsequently as Postmaster at Georgetown. Captain Jacob Ritner a self-styled "MOUNTAIN MUSE" in his hand under his signature to the front paste-down played a role in "most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek Vicksburg Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta Sherman's March to the Sea the Occupation of Savannah and the Carolina's Campaign." Perhaps he viewed himself as a mid-19th Century Daniel Boone A nice copy of this heroic poem centered on one of America's frontier icons. Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne hardcover books
187031578Paris 1870. Very faint soiling around the edges otherwise in very good condition. unknown books
188240720London 1882. Very Good. <p>Brett Jacob. A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. London September 18 1882. 2- pp. 181 x 114 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark.</p> <p>Regarding Clark's request for a portrait photograph. Jacob Brett was the younger brother of John Brett the head of the Magnetic Telegraph Company in England and one of the co-founders of Cyrus Field's Atlantic Telegraph Company. In 1850 John and Jacob Brett laid the first undersea cable between England and France. This failed after one garbled message a French fisherman cut the cable thinking it was a new variety of seaweed but in 1851 the Bretts laid a much stronger cable that remained in use for many years.</p> . unknown books
UBROASC00OFFolio Society. Fine. Bronowski Jacob. The Ascent of Man. London: Folio Society ND. 320pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover in slipcase. Book condition: Fine still in publisher's shrink wrap. Folio Society hardcover books
195628349Bridgeport CT: Society for Social Responsibility in Science 1956. Reprint. 12mo 18.25cm.; original pink staplebound die-cut wrappers; 214pp. Fine. Society pamphlet no. 2. Short piece first published by the National Peace Council 1955. OCLC locates 2 copies of this edition as of December 2015 at Western Michigan and Swarthmore. Society for Social Responsibility in Science unknown books
1978033046New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1978. 2d Printing. xiii 144p. dj Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures. Yale University Press unknown books
1978WRCLIT47573Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 1978. Gilt black cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Edited by Piero E. Ariotti and Rita Bronowski. Edges dust marked otherwise very good in rubbed dust jacket with a couple of small chips and a short creased tear. The MIT Press hardcover books
1978033043Cambridge and London: MIT Press 1978. Selected and edited by Piero E. Ariotti in collaboration with Rita Bronowski. x 185p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. MIT Press unknown books
197846598Cambrige MA: MIT 1978. First Edition. 8vo pp. x 184. Index. Illustrated. Top edge slightly spotted small spot on flyleaf o/w a nice copy. MIT unknown books
19441090358vo. London: Secker & Warburg 1944. 8vo 4 153 pp with 4 illustrations. Second edition published six months after the first and on wartime paper: as usual this is now browned at the edges although not severely on this copy. In original pale green cloth generally good with just a pale dampmark along the bottom 1/2" of the front cover. § Bentley BB 1288 B. “One of the most illuminating books on Blake". Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1978BL2023New Haven and London:: Yale University Press 1978. 1978. Eighth printing. Series: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. 8vo. xiii 144 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0300024096 Yale University Press, (1978). unknown books
19607684New York: Harper & Brothers copyright 1960. 12mo. xviii 522 pp. <br><br>Publisher's cloth and d/j. Wrapper with shelf wear to edges and small paper label to foot of spine. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate. Pages clean. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
189816650St. Paul. Mn.: Collins 1898. First Edition. 2496pp. Illus 25 plates and 4 maps Orig. 4to cloth. First edition. Memoirs of explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi Vol. 1 One of 300 numbered copies. Howes B823. Chapters on Elliott Village Site Griffing Village Site Earliest explorers Relation of Coronado etc. Collins hardcover books
189658544Cumberland MD: Printed by J.J. Miller 1896. First edition. 8vo. 325 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Garrett and Allegheny Counties Maryland the National Road and other subjects related to the growth of western Maryland and Pennsylvania. Howes B-843: "On western Pennsylvania in pioneer times." Owners' names on endpapers and verso of frontispiece else very good. Original purple cloth floral endpapers. #5805. <br/><br/> Printed by J.J. Miller hardcover books
1814248076West Bloomfield NY 1814. 1 p. plus integral address leaf. 4to on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines minor soiling; near fine. In a green half morocco and cloth clamshell case. 1 p. plus integral address leaf. 4to on a folded folio sheet. A hasty note written by Major General Jacob Brown to New York politician Nathan Williams requesting more arms and equipment for the siege of Fort Erie currently underway. The Americans led by Brown captured Fort Erie on July 3 1814. British forces led by Lt. General Gordon Drummond engaged the Americans at the bloody Battle of Lundy's Lane on July 25th where Brown was wounded; the Americans retreated to Fort Erie and Brown was sent off to convalesce. After repeated sorties and engagements the American commander General Gaines was gravely wounded and Brig. General Eleazer Ripley - who thought the whole operation was doomed to failure - took command. Brown though not quite recovered from wounds taken at the battle of Lundy's Lane the previous month was sent to replace the pessimistic Ripley as the commander of the Fort. Brown had made a name for himself at the battles of Sackett's Harbor and Lundy's Lane and his actions at the Siege would cement his position as a national hero winning him the Congressional Gold Medal in November 1814. Brown jotted this note before setting out to command the troops at the Fort. He writes:<br/> <br/>"My dear Sir I am so far on my way towards Buffalo. The militia turn out better than was expected. We shall I fear be deficient in arms. You will jump into your easy carriage and ride to Rome as fast as possible upon the receipt of this and see that the keeper of the arsenal there forwards fifteen hundred stand with equipments compleat with all the rapidity possible. Your attention is of much importance."<br/> <br/>A wonderful letter written by Major General Jacob Brown on his way to the battle that would ensure his lasting fame. unknown books
192844599Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 158p. Dark green cloth. 19cm. Minor wear at extremities. Name on front endpaper. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Sunday School Publishing Board hardcover books
200139669Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press 2001. Paperback. Very good. 197pp indices. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> Westminster John Knox Press paperback books
