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1885022181Boston: S.E. Cassino and Co 1885. First Edition. Octavo. Translated from the German by Rev. A.B. Hervey. 466pp. 4pp. ads at rear. illustrated which includes various types of microscopes their used adjustments lenses etc. Bound in green cloth spine lettering gilt floral endpaers rubbing to joints and corners light wear to spine ends previous owner's name dated 1894. S.E. Cassino and Co unknown books
502230See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good HERVEY Irene. Photograph half-length pose signed and inscribed to hair stylist Peggy Gray: "To Peggy Gray with every good wish / Irene Hervey". 10" x 8". Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
192968005New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The fourth collection of verse by Allen 1889-1949 the American author best known for his novel Anthony Adverse 1936. Presentation copy inscribed by Allen to the celebrated American poet Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943 on the front flyleaf. Small octavo. Original black cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is browned along the spine and folds; otherwise very good. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
195740748NY: McGraw Hill 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. 'Special Edition' produced by the authors from the fifth printing of the McGraw Hill Edition. ix 309pp. Very good hardback in a darkened and rubbed price clipped jacket. Inscribed by Thigpen and signed by Cleckley on the front free endpaper in November of 1980. <br/><br/> McGraw Hill hardcover books
18752818931875. unbound. very good-. 1 page on embossed personal stationery 7.25 x 4.5 inches August 13 1875 to an unidentified recipient in full: "I enclose a letter to the Christ Commission such as you suggest and hope it may be enclosed." Note: the Christ Commission undertook the rewriting of the Old Testament. Mounting remnants on the back; very good- condition.<br/><br/> English prelate who served as Bishop of Bath and Welles from 1869 - 1894 and was one of the Committee of Revisers of the authorized version of the Old Testament.<br/><br/> unknown books
1924126531New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. Octavo pictorial cloth. First edition. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. Front hinge starting a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners and spine panel age-darkened and damp-stained. #126531 The Century Co. unknown books
17426950London: Printed for J. Roberts 1742. First edition. Disbound. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. Title page lightly dusted. The text references Sir Robert Walpole. ESTC T39435. Printed for J. Roberts unknown books
1922D8837New York: Macmillan 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original pale blue paper over boards brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt paper label on upper board; 8vo; pp. 131. Signed by DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen on the FFEP -- and Allen has also added "275" though this cataloguer is at loss to explain its significance. Spine tips lightly bumped and frayed; some light chipping at corners and along top edge of front board; pp. 53-60 8 leaves roughly opened along bottom edge with some light chipping in the margin only nowhere infringing upon text. A nice copy of Heyward's first book Allen's fourth. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1957218598New York: McGraw-Hill 1957. First. hardcover. near fine. ix 308pp. 8vo two-toned cloth lightly rubbed d.w. New York: McGraw Hill 1957. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> McGraw-Hill unknown books
19891339112Cambridge: M.I.T. Press 1989. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; VG- Hardcover; Tan spine with Black text; Boards strong some edgewear slight shelfwear bending along tail edge of spine small faint brown marks on spine; Textblock has black and brown marks along edges otherwise clean; 837 pp<br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in wraparound bookcase next to 15's. 1339112. FP New Rockville Stock. M.I.T. Press hardcover books
19798077Midland Texas: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library 1979 First edition. Designed by Carl Hertzog. Introduction by J. Evetts Haley. Edited by B. Byron Price. xv 184pp. Illustrations by H. D. Bugbee; some photographs. Chapter bibliographies index. Two-tone illustrated cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Eleven chapters of interviews with "old-timers" who came to the western frontier as young men; their stories are of and from early Texas and Arizona. Includes an especially interesting commentary on the legendary lawman Jeff Milton. This copy with a presentation signed by J. Evetts Haley as well as an autographed letter signed by San Francisco Westerner J. Dudley Cramer. "Evetts Haley told me recently that they still had a few extra copies of Hervey Chesley's Adventuring with the Old-Timers at the Haley Library. I ordered several for friends who are Haley collectors and asked him to sign them. Regards Dud.". Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library hardcover books
174147283London: Printed for the Author and sold by J. H. on Ludgate Hill 1741. 1st printing State 2 ESTC T37936. Later plain blue paper wrappers. Modest wear to wrappers. Age-toning to paper. Very Good. 4 60 pp. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Printed for the Author, and sold by J. H. on Ludgate Hill unknown books
1937WRCLIT70515London: Paramount 1937. 10pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers with upper wrapper bearing Paramount's standard house imagery. Heavily illustrated. About fine. Original campaign pressbook for the British release of this film adaptation of a story by Paul and Elsie Fox with the screenplay by Louis Stevens and Robert Wyler. Directed by James P. Hogan starring Dorothy Lamour Lew Ayers Gilbert Roland Lionel Atwill Anthony Quinn et al. The film is obviously set within the context of the Spanish Civil War and was touted as the "First Spanish War Romance" but the war serves chiefly as a backdrop affording little insight into the causes and events. The publicity paper however offered some dramatic period imagery. Paramount unknown books
1831JS6947New Haven: Durrie and Peck 1831. Second Edition with an Appendix of Problems on the Globes and Useful Tables. Hardcover. Good. Marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-ruled morocco; 16mo 3.75 x 5.75 inches; pp. 8 mispaginated 9-144 plus folding frontispiece and 7 plates collates complete. Backstrip perished; front board detached. Text block browned as usual but still perfectly legible. <br/><br/> Durrie and Peck hardcover books
18761056Albany: Weed Parsons & Company printers 1876. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". 54 pp. <br/><br/>Devereux and Andersen's report on hospitals for the sick and insane in New York state occupies the first eight pages and Wilbur's highly important account of "the management of the insane in Great Britain" fills pages 11 to the end. <br/><br/>The three authors 'transmitted their reports to the legislature January 14 1876.' A slip tipped to the title-page 'With the compliments of Dr. H. B. Wilbur.' <br/><br/>Removed from a nonce volume. Very good. Weed, Parsons & Company, printers unknown books
19339016509New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1933. Hardcover. near fine. Decorations by Allen McNab. Rebound in half blue morocco with marbled boards and marbled end papers. Five raised bands on lightly faded spine. Spine stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities. <br/><br/> Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
173033451London: Printed for J. Roberts 1730. 8vo 20 cm; 7.875". 1 f. 531 1 blank pp. <br><br>Publishing anonymously Hervey 16961743 takes part in "a paper war" against "the Craftsman who seems of late under the Shelter of the Law and an Affectation of telling bold Truths to have usurped the Right of circulating guarded Treasons and weekly Falsehoods throughout the whole Kingdom" p. 7. Hervey is defending the Walpole administration.<br>Â Â Â Â "The Craftsman" was Lord Bolingbroke and the "weekly Falsehoods" were his letters on English history.<br>Â Â Â Â This is a copy of => the lengthier of two editions. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T41859. CBEL II 1713. Recent marbled paper-covered boards; light waterstaining in some upper outer corners into text lightly browner staining to one corner of title-page last leaf greatly trimmed into foremargin not text last three leaves dust-soiled. A good copy. Printed for J. Roberts hardcover books
1746WRCAM20822London: Printed for W. Webb 1746. 439pp. Modern green cloth. Unobtrusive cancelled library stamp else near fine. This work is attributed to the eccentric 18th- century British pamphleteer Thomas Hervey. Hervey studied for a time at Christ Church Oxford eventually took a place in Parliament for one of the seats for his family's borough of Bury St. Edmunds and gained a reputation for drinking scribbling and becoming "unhinged" before his time. In the work at hand he rails against newly voted-in regiments. DNB IX pp.741-42. Printed for W. Webb hardcover books
175148927London: Printed for N. Gibson Bookseller the Corner of Charles-Street St. James's-square 1751. 1st Printing. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning and bit of dust soiling to outer leaves VG. 52 pp. Tailpiece p. 52. 8vo: A - F4 G2. 7-13/16" x 5" <br/><br/>The trial took place on 11 July 1751. <br /> <br />Somewhat uncommon pamphlet documenting this mid-18th C. trial. Printed for N. Gibson, Bookseller, the Corner of Charles-Street, St. James's-square unknown books
1892263099Troy. : Nims and Knight. 1892. . Brown cloth; gilt red and black floral decorations on cover; black spine title; all edges gilt. . Very light wear to covers owner’s ink name to ffep marginal stain to two pages not affecting plates otherwise a near fine copy tight and bright. folio. 10 full-page chromolithograph floral prints with tissue guards by Isaac Sprague. Nims and Knight. hardcover books
1937101990Folio tan cloth-backed boards printed spine labels errata slip attached before contents page illustrated 293 pp. Some very light shelf wear; else near fine. This is Hervey's first installment of his history of horse racing in America which would be followed by a two volume set covering the 1665-1865 period. In this volume he covers the 1922-1936 period and provides ample details on races horses and events surrounding the sport. He pays places a good deal of attention to breeding and includes a table on pedigrees. He also includes a table presenting placements and winnings for lead horses for each year. This volume is handsomely illustrated. The Jockey Club, books
1835271800London: Edward Churton 1835. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The fictitious biography of the most notorious executioner in English history and there have been a number of them!. A nicely bound copy in 3/4 crimson morocco. The bookplate of W. R Grace is on the pastedown. With fourteen illustrations from designs by Meadows. Very Good binding. Edward Churton unknown books
1957006987McGraw-Hill 1957. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.$4.50 on flap. First Edition. Slight rubbibg to spine ends.Great Movie.Excellent Copy. McGraw-Hill Hardcover books
193314957New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc 1933. First Edition earlier state of the text on pages 352 and 1086 and the word "found" duplicated on page 397 line 22. Decorations by Allan McNab. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Some light rubbing browning of endpapers from tape on glassine wrapper else a good copy of this adventure. First Edition earlier state of the text on pages 352 and 1086 and the word "found" duplicated on page 397 line 22. Decorations by Allan McNab. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Achmed Abdullah. Inscribed "Dear Achmed : To sign this for you first memory but some trepidation-remembering it goes to one of the best tellers of story and narrative alive. Cordially and faithfully Hervey Allen. New York City April 19/33 Achmed Abdullah." With the bookplates of Abdullah and Jean Wick. Merle Johnson p. 27 Farrar and Rinehart, Inc unknown books
195739035NY: Popular Library 1957. Mass market paperback. Very Good. 264pp. Slight spine lean wraps have some edgewear and a couple of small abrasions to the rear else about very good. <br/><br/> Popular Library paperback books
