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187646697Brooklyn: The Author 1876. Paperback. Fair. Wraps half title and last prelims loose but present. Dampstain to left edge of signatures text not affected. Fifteen leaves printed on rectos only five vignette illustrations of fable but lacking the one showing Webster at work. <br/><br/> The Author paperback books
178619712Newbury-port: Printed by John Mycall 1786. 61 1 blank pp. Half title. Disbound partly untrimmed. Light uniform tanning light scattered foxing. Half title inscribed "Leonard Wood" portion of 'd' trimmed away. Two holes in a blank foremargin no text affected. Small hole in title page affecting two letters else Very Good. Worcester's scarce version of his doctrinal dispute with Reverend Murray. FIRST EDITION. Evans 20158. NAIP w003489. Not in Jenkins. Printed by John Mycall unknown books
180343744New Haven: Joel Walter 1803. A new edition "improved and enlarged" 12mo pp. iv 2 137; disbound remnants of calf spine still present; last leaf detached but present; pages quite browned and frayed along edges else mostly very good and sound. Skeel 683: "Of the original contents No. VI 'The Grace of God in Dollars' and the Conclusion have been omitted.The essays from p. 75 to the end are new under the heading 'Additional Numbers Written and First Published in 1803.'" <br/><br/> Joel Walter unknown books
1900021885Austin Texas: Gammel Book Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with black lettering; includes frontis. Boards have moderate wear and soiling; front and rear gutters are cracked; previous owner's inscription on front pastedown; first few leaves are starting to detach from text block; text block has light toning. Memoirs of early Texas written by long-time resident Noah Smithwick. Smithwick "drifted to Texas with the tide of immigration in 1927and spent the next thirty-four years of his life in the new territory. First as a Texas Ranger and later as a merchant and mill operator Smithwick was a keen observer of the panorama of passing events and personalities in Texas" from the publisher's prospectus. He gives anecdotes on men he knew such as James Bowie San Houston Stephen F. Austin and others. Smithwick's opposition to secession took him to California in 1861. Jenkins states that "of all Texas memoirs this is the most fun to read." Jenkins 189. ; Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pp . Gammel Book Company hardcover books
18331338976New York: N. & J. White 1833. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo 536 pages; VG-; bound in full contemporary calf black label with gilt titling to spine; some rubbing and wear to binding; foxing throughout; text in double-columns; shelved case 9. 1338976. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. N. & J. White hardcover books
198652201Herzlia: Palphot Ltd 1986. Edition not stated. Oblong quarto ca 25cm x 33cm; glazed boards; unpaginated; illus. Signed by illustrator Jossi Stern on title page with a full-page original drawing by him on final preliminary leaf a self-portrait in which a seated Stern is being patted on the head by a beneficent angel mal'ach; captioned and signed at lower right "M. Katz and Jossi Stern." Fine copy but lacking the publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/>An attractively-produced Haggadah published as a gift book for attendees of a fundraising dinner for Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem April 3 1986. Includes 27 full-page four-color illustrations after watercolors by Stern. Bilingual text Hebrew and English. Stern 1923-1992 a prolific and highly-regarded Hungarian-born Israeli painter and illustrator his works still widely published and exhibited in Israel. Palphot Ltd unknown books
1802TB29021Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Charless 1802. Later Printing. Good in 1/4 leather and marbled paper covered boards. A 16mo measuring 6 1/4 by 4 inches with the text block close to loose within its original boards held on only by the sewing cords which are woven into the boards. The pages are all uniformly tanned and there are two early prior owner's names on the front paste down. Page 23/24 has two small chips from its upper and lower margins which does not impact on any printing. 80 pages of text. Skeel 682 Printed by Joseph Charless hardcover books
183344482New-York: N. & J. White 1833. Eleventh edition small square 8vo pp. 4 vi 7-536; lexicon in double column; full original sheep black morocco label on spine; edges rubbed leather scratched with 2 small losses lacking front free endpaper else good and sound. American Imprints 22572; Skeel 598. <br/><br/> N. & J. White hardcover books
18369580New Haven 1836. 8vo 8pp. stitched as issued with 2 small corrections in the text in the hand of Noah Webster in red pencil and in ink as usual; fine copy. Skeel 751: "This pamphlet was printed but not published copies being given to each of Webster's children and grandchildren for the purpose of preserving the history of the family . and to correct an error in Dr. Trumbull's History of Connecticut". Surprisingly it is only the 11th printed genealogy of an American family. <br/><br/> unknown books
1794WRCAM20219Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom 1794. 96pp. Leather backed birch boards. Most paper worn away from boards 20% loss to rear board which is detached. Lacks free endpapers. Else a sound copy. An early edition of a popular guide reprinted well into the 19th century first printed in Hartford in 1791. SABIN 102383. EVANS 28050. Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom hardcover books
180325341Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. First edition 8vo pp. 7; removed. Skeel pp. 523-24: "A discussion of the method of insuring the election of Federalists to the state legislature . Although Webster's name nowhere appears in this pamphlet which is signed p. 6 by Jonathan Ingersoll and S. Sam Smith the compiler i.e. Skeel believes that Webster wrote it. The New York Historical Society copy has a manuscript note 'Noah Webster Esq. is the reputed author of this pamphlet'." Page 7 includes a list of approved Federalists candidates which include Webster relatives Oliver Ellsworth and Chauncey Goodrich. Sabin 102333n; Shaw & Shoemaker 3636. <br/><br/> Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
182157146Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. Ten issues in all 8vo the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters William Cowper a poem "Pity for Poor Africans"; and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Most inside front wrappers and the back wrappers are generally advertising Worcester's text books geographies spellers gazetteers etc. as well as other books published by West & Richardson Joseph T. Buckingham and Cummings & Hilliard. Present in this gathering are: Vol. VIII - XII Boston 1817-1818; Vol. II nos. 3-5 Cambridge 1819; Vol. II no. 12 an Vol. III no. 1 Cambridge 1821. Several of the issues bear the ownership signature of the deacon and sawyer Eleazar Spofford for whom see Wikitree.com. <br/><br/> Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1831WRCLIT44380New Haven: Published and sold by Hezekiah Howe et al. 1831. 180pp. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf gilt crimson label. Scattered foxing and discolorations boards a bit bowed corner torn from rear blank free endsheet but a good copy the binding well-preserved. Revised edition of the work first published in 1807 as Webster's PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR. Its initial reception was tepid but with this revised edition Webster's GRAMMAR began to see wider academic adoption. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 10587. Published and sold by Hezekiah Howe, et al. hardcover books
179735147Leominster: Printed by Charles Prentiss 1797. Second Leominster Edition. Pp. 91 2 pages publisher's advertisements. 1 vols. 12mo. Later half-sheep over marbled boards. Rubbed spine torn hole and tear in advertisement leaf affecting ads some browning and foxing notes on pastedown with the very precise near-contemporary signature of John D. W. Williams on blank and first page of text else very good. Second Leominster Edition. Pp. 91 2 pages publisher's advertisements. 1 vols. 12mo. An examination of such expressions as "When a man's name is up he may lie abed till noon" "She carries the Bell" "It is just as the fit takes him" "A Stitch in time saves nine" and "He has come out at the little end of the horn". Sabin 102383 for first edition Printed by Charles Prentiss unknown books
178630995Newbury-Port: Printed by John Mycall 1786. 61 1 blank pp with the half title. Stitched in contemporary drab wrappers. Untrimmed. A lovely copy with occasional mild foxing. Near Fine. Half title inscribed "Edw. Titcomb". <br/><br/> The pamphlet is Worcester's argument in his doctrinal dispute with Reverend Murray the founder of Universalism.<br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 20158. NAIP w003489. Printed by John Mycall unknown books
18501278863Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1850's. 8vo.; VG; 3/4 bound in brown leather spine paneled with burgundy label and gilt lettering; repaired with original spine rebacked new label new endpapers; marbled boards; wear to corners rubbing to boards spine; some age-toning to pages; three of the images have been cut out of the Revue Du Salon De 1853; shelved case 12. 1278863. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari unknown books
17951336053Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1795. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. small 8vo. 239 pages; G; newly rebound in 1/4 brown leather black label on spine with gilt lettering gray cloth boards; pages have moderate wear including foxing slight waviness; small bookworm mark to lower rear corner of text block; small closed tear on title page repaired with tape; shelved in case 8 1/2. 1336053. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews hardcover books
1782266568State of Connecticut 1782. unbound. 1 page State of Connecticut Pay-Table Office March 9th 1782 -- a payment of "Two Pounds ten shillings.granted in May last exclusive of that Part payable in State Bills and charge the State." Signed by Committee men and Revolutionary War patriots William Mosley and Finn Wadsworth of which the document is completely in his hand. Signed "Noah Phelps Colonel" on the back. Partial tearing along the folds but still in very good condition.<br/><br/> Revolutionary War captain spy and later Major General of the Militia. He is best remembered for casually sneaking into Fort Ticonderoga disguised as a peddler needing a shave and viewing first-hand the weaknesses the British would have in defending the fort. He reported his findings to General Ethan Allen and later participated in the dawn raid that resulted in the bloodless taking of the fort.<br/><br/> unknown books
181243722New Haven with Hartford: Printed by Walter and Steele with Hudson & Goodwin 1812. First edition. Contemporary stitched plain paper wrappers. Good to very good both signed browned some foxing second item untrimmed and creased. 31 1 pp. & 7 1 pp. 8vo. Two early Connecticut imprints most likely signed by husband and wife. 1. War of 1812. Sullivan George. "An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States to Their Constituents on the Subject of the War with Great Britain." New Haven: Printed by Walter and Steele 1812. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. Contemporary owner's name and one line summary on first page browned else very good. An antiwar address arguing that war with Britain was not "necessary or required by any moral duty or any political expediency. "Signed on p. 25 by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members. Provenance: Timothy Seward signed writing: "Serious truths attempted by the honest party in Congress." Most likely Timothy Seward of Guilford 1756-1849 a Revolutionary War musician. Various editions were published. With 2. Webster Noah Ingersoll Jonathan. "An Address to the Freemen in Connecticut" Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. 8vo. 7 1 pp. Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Contemporary owner's name and date on title page lower edges torn roughly with loss at lower margin otherwise a good untrimmed copy foxed. A speech to a Federalist meeting deploring the changes by the Jefferson administration. A list of names chosen for nomination in the next election is appended. Skeel argues that it was written by Noah Webster. Cf. Skeel E.E.F. A Bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster 1958 Appendix A p. 523-524 no. 6. Provenance: "Rebecca Seward Book 1810" signed Rebecca Seward born Lee d. 1859 was the wife of Timothy Seward. Uncommon. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. with Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Printed by Walter and Steele [with] Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
199844496New York: Random House 1998. 16mo pp. vi 376; lexicon in double column; wrappers in blue plastic dust jacket from the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum; small dampstain on top textblock fore-edge else fine. Signed by George H. W. and Barbara Bush with short note printed on the former president's office letterhead: "President Bush was happy to sign the enclosed item for your auction. It comes with his best wishes for a successful event." <br/><br/> Random House unknown books
183944554New Haven 1839. 12mo 12pp. stitched as issued; some light spotting along the gutter edge but generally fine. Skeel 763 showing this to be the same text as that printed in broadside form in 1836 with slight changes. See also Skeel 762: "An essay discussing orthography and pronunciation and the books which record and teach them with particular reference to Webster's series of books. This is followed by a testimonial subscribed by thirty-one senators and severity-three representatives . The compiler believes the introductory matter and connective notes were written by Webster. In this pamphlet version the names are not given individually. From this point the text and recommendations are partly the same partly new the latest date being January 1839." <br/><br/> unknown books
18399583New Haven 1839. 12mo 12pp. stitched as issued; some light spotting along the gutter edge but generally fine. Skeel 763 showing this to be the same text as that printed in broadside form in 1836 with slight changes. See also Skeel 762: "An essay discussing orthography and pronunciation and the books which record and teach them with particular reference to Webster's series of books. This is followed by a testimonial subscribed by thirty-one senators and severity-three representatives . The compiler believes the introductory matter and connective notes were written by Webster. In this pamphlet version the names are not given individually. From this point the text and recommendations are partly the same partly new the latest date being January 1839." <br/><br/> unknown books
185324645Springfield: George and Charles Merriam 1853. Large thick 4to pp. lxxxiv 1366 1; testimonials on endpapers; text in triple column; engraved portrait of Webster after Morse; original full sheep black morocco label on spine; extremities scuffed and rubbed but the binding is sound. Vancil p. 262. <br/><br/> George and Charles Merriam unknown books
191116927Paris: Masson 1911. Masson unknown books
1802180701802. Webster Noah. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. I. An Address to the President of the United States. II. An Essay on the Rights of Neutral Nations. III. A Letter On the Value and Importance of American Commerce to Great Britain. IV. A Sketch of the History and Present State of Banks and Insurance Companies in the United States. E. Beldon and Co. 1802. vii 228 48pp. 8vo. Half-leather over marbled paper boards marbled end pages leather spine with elaborate gold stampings upper edge gilt. The book has been neatly rebacked in leather original spine laid down closed tear on rear marbled end paper carefully mended with archival tape lower corner tip of first marbled page missing chip on rear marbled page. This book is lacking the title-page; the first blank page is present with the next page being the Preface page. Howes W203. Overall an attractive Very Good leatherbound hardcover of a scarce title hardcover books
