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117648Paris Amyot 1859. 8vo. 4 III blank 164 3 pp. plate. Contemporary half calf gilt faded spine and black paper boards front board with gilt initials â€L.v.H.†From the library of Leopold von Horn with his signature on title page dated 1862 gilt initials on front board and his heraldic library stamps. Cordier Sinica 2292. A reply was made by Charles Gay â€L’Europe devant la Chineâ€. The plate depicts â€Plan de l’embouchure du Pé-Ho et de ses ouvrages de défenseâ€. Marquis Marie-Jean-Léon d'Hervey de Saint Denys 1822-92 was a french sinologist known both for his studies on chinese literature history and ethnography but also for his researches on dreams. The Swedish marine officer Leopold von Horn 1836-92 took part in the French military expedition to China in 1860-61 with the frigate L’Emperateur Eugeniè. He wrote an unpublished diary during the expedition. hardcover
176211927Amsterdam Pieter Meijer 1762. 2 delen portret CXCVI 312 4 412 p. Origineel leer met ribben 8° Met het portret van James Hervey. Mooie set. Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer unknown
ria9781138127395_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This new edition features material from business law and literary texts. This is Essential reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of French the book will also appeal to language students and tutors. hardcover
1937009988N: Limited Editions Club 1937. With a new Introduction by the author and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. In three volumes. Title page vignettes 9 lithographic plates numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; full rust coloured linen stamped in colours and gilt; top edges green; within slipcase edges lightly worn printed title label on spine; Limited Editions Club Mount Vernon 1937. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. With printed Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs loosely inserted. LEC Bibliography 94. Limited Editions Club unknown
93124803New York 1927 Cosmopolitan. Black cloth very good 301p. 35 b. w. photos folding color map 15 x 23.5 cm. silver stamped. AUTHOR'S SIGNED COPY on a clipped paper laid down. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION . . . AN EXCELLENT SOURCE ON SAIGON SCULPTURES OF ANGKOR . . . APSARAS STONE TEMPLES CAMBODIAN KING'S ELEPHANTS . . . THE KHMERS LAOTIAN DANCERS A.HANOI GARDEN . The author traveled throughout Cochin-China Cambodia and Laos in search of the ancient architectural stone ruins. He has written an exceptional narrative laced with his travel experiences impressions with the people customs flora and fauna. His description of the profane beauty the tattooed men concubines gentle beauty of the women the Me-Kong River as he traversed the countryside. . A keen work describing the people culture customs and his travels in Cambodia Laos old Annam & Tonking N. Vietnam. This is also a fascinating insight to his impression of Prince Phetsarath who was his guide around Vientiane. Nice views and commentaries on Angkor as well. Lovely primary insights to the area during the sleepy 1920's. . This work is also a record of the author's quest to find the second of two magnificent cities in Cambodia inhabited by the ancient Khmers: the first was the best known Angkor and the hitherto lost and vanished Wat-Phu. Wat-Phu was buried deep in the jungle abandoned and lost since the second century A.D. It vanished suddenly completely mysteriously and all that remained of it was smothered under eons of jungle growth. . Written by Hervey whose works led to such famous films as SHANGHAI EXPRESS 1932 starring: Marlene Dietrich Clive Brook and directed by Josef von Sternberg. Also his very memorable ROAD TO SINGAPORE 1940 starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. GREEN HELL 1940 AND GREEN HELL 1940 starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Joan Bennett directed by James Whale. . This work was based on the author's primary travels in Southeast Asia Indo-China and that area. . Exquisitely written flamboyant vocabulary distinct and elaborate descriptions in much detail and elaborate color. . PRESS REVIEWS: "King Cobra imparts all the tremendous excitement of coming upon a hidden treasure in the jungles of Indochina. Once I began to surrender to Hervey's spell I started as perhaps he did to lose all sense of where fact ended and fiction began." Pico Iyer . "Hervey sees the jungle one moment as a vindictive monster he next as an annihilating river beneath which a whole civilization drowns." Margaret Mead . REFERENCE: . A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HERVEY'S WRITINGS: . THE EUROPEAN INDIA 1913 . THE BLACK PARROT: A Tale of the Golden Chersonese 1923 . WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL 1924 . ETHAN QUEST: HIS SAGA 1925 . KING COBRA: An Autobiography of Travel in French Indo-China 1927. The same contents published in the UK under title: TRAVELS IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA 1928 . CONGAI. Mistress of Indochine 1927 . RED ENDING 1928 . THE DAMNED DON'T CRY 1939 . THE IRON WIDOW 1931 . BARRACOON 1950 . And others. WHO WAS HARRY HERVEY 1900-1951: . Harry Hervey was born in Beaumont Texas on November 5th 1900 but was educated in Savannah Georgia and Tennessee. He started writing at about age eight and sold his first work to H. L. Mencken at the age of sixteen. He spent much of his life at Savannah's old Desoto Hotel as his mother was in charge of housekeeping from 1923 to 1957. . Hervey has traveled widely in Asia Africa and the South Pacific. He authored twelve noels and numerous short stories and screenplays. Harry Hervey was a life-long bachelor and died at the age of fifty in New York on August 13th 1951. He is buried next to his mother Jane Louise Davis in Bonaventure Cemetery. unknown
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19265371apMacmillan. Good. Hardcover. 1926. 1st Edition. 546 pages. ex-library book <br> . Macmillan hardcover
192918316<p>November 1929; 1st printing of 1st edition. Good HC no DJ. Blue cloth over boards black stamped titles on front cover and spine. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; some fading along cover edges; very faint damp stain at front cover lower fore corner; very slight bow to front cover; tightly bound; clean interior with slight general age darkening; leaves remain supple. 12mo 256 pp; index. See OCLC #504559425.</p> London: G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
193844824New York:: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. Galley proofs printed two galleys to a page side-by-side. original cloth-backed plain stiff wrappers. Light creasing to the first few leaves and the wrappers. 12-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Farrar & Rinehart, hardcover
1933384323New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Three volume set. Uniformly bound in gray pebbled cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Bookplate removed leaving glue residue on front pastedown of volume one spines tanned else near fine. A typed publisher's notice neatly taped in before the title page of the first volume states: "Originally designed to appear as three separate volumes the publishers have produced the book five hundred thousand words complete in one volume for the convenience and comfort of the public." Scarce in this binding possibly making this an advance copy. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
19406799JNew York: Farrar & Rinehart 1940. First Edition. From the library of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with elaborate engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. With the numbered label of the sale of her estate. The front free endpaper is rubber stamped “From the Collection of Eleanor Roosevelt. John A. Roosevelt beneath which John Roosevelt has signed his name in ink. Very good in a morocco and cloth slipcase. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
19472352924New York: Rinehart & Company Inc 1947. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Fink Robert. 4th printing. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1947 Hard Cover. 406 pp. Black-and-white woodcut vignettes by Robert Fink. One of the scarcest titles in the Rivers of America series. "The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years.The Everglades: River of Grass is a non-fiction book written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1947. Published the same year as the formal opening of Everglades National Park the book was a call to attention about the degrading quality of life in the Everglades and continues to remain an influential book on nature conservation as well as a reference for information on South Florida used as recently as 2007 by the New York Times. Rinehart & Company, Inc hardcover
1935197934Boston Little Brown and Company 1935. 1935. First edition. 8vo. Original yellow stamped blue cloth. Dust jacket designed by Quinn unclipped; a few nicks. Fine fresh unread copy. No signatues or bookplates. F. Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. hardcover
19274<p>This is a rare colliectoes ook- leather bound with gilt lettering. There is minor wear at the top and corners. No writing. Pages are pristine. <br /><br /></p><p>Hervey Allen 1889-1949 was a writer educator and poet. He wrote the biographical intro</p> Walter j black hardcover
195043792New York: G P Putnam's Sons 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 275p octavo. A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket. Two tiny spots on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author in 1950. <br/><br/> G P Putnam's Sons hardcover
194743793New York: G P Putnam's Sons 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 370p octavo a very good copy in a good dust jacket marred by tape internally to the jacket clearly unecessary . Inscribed tby the author in 1947 <br/><br/> G P Putnam's Sons hardcover
1938007835Sagamore Press 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Photographs summaries and lineages of all the top horses of the day including the legend of the racetrack Seabiscuit. The year that Seabiscuit became the Horse of the Year. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Sagamore Press hardcover
1940007886The Sagamore Press 1940. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine. Photographs summaries and lineages of all the top horses of the day including the legend of the racehorse Seabiscuit. Over three dozen references to Seabiscuit mostly concerning horses trying to break his records. This was the year Seabiscuit finally won the Santa Anita Handicap and was the world's greatest money winner in 1940. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall The Sagamore Press hardcover
192239626New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. First Edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Original cloth-backed boards paper label on front cover. Minor discoloration to boards spine gilt faded else fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Heyward's first book it was Allen's fourth. He and Allen were among the founders of the Poetry Society of South Carolina "which had a strong influence on the rebirth of literature in the South." Kunitz & Haycraft. Heyward would later write a novel Porgy which became a play and then an opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin. Bruccoli First Printings of American Authors v.3 p.153; Seven Gables First Books 136 The Macmillan Company unknown
187610861Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1876. First Edition. 518pp. Quarto 30.5 cm In the original 3/4 leather over matching dark brown boards with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. Complete with all plates and the large map. Good only. Front hinge split. Bookplates on the front pastedown. Shelving number faded on the backstrip. In 1859 U.S. Army topographical engineer Captain James H. Simpson explored the Great Basin of Utah mapping a direct300-mile wagon route from Camp Floyd to Genoa Nevada. This faster route which avoided the older southern paths was crucial for the Pony Express the Overland Mail the telegraph line and later the Lincoln Highway. The report was submitted in 1861 but publication had to be deferred because of the Civil War. Portions however appeared in the author's 'The Shortest Route to California.' Flake/Draper 7724. Fales & Flake 170. Graff 3791. Howes S501. Moffat 57-59. Paher 1802. Sabin 8135. Wheat 999-1000. Government Printing Office unknown
195765593New York: McGraw-Hill 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Bookplate on the front fly else fine in a lightly rubbed very good plus dustwrapper. Nunnally Johnson wrote produced and directed the film adaptation featuring Oscar-winner Joanne Woodward David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb. McGraw-Hill hardcover
1878059639New Haven Conn.: Charles Hervey Townsend 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Together With Some Account Of Their Landing And Burning The Towns Of Fairfield And Norwalk July. 1779. Engravings Of The "Green" And Town Of New Haven 1779. This Copy Is Bound As A Hardcover. There Are A Half-Dozen Engravings Primarily Of The Town And Surroundings Of New Haven Including A Small Map. 112 Pages Including 2 Pages Of Lists Of Names Of Those Defended The Town On Ships. There Is Also A Tipped In Errata Sheet At Rear Board. The Hinges Are Split And Tender Although They Have Been Strengthen With Primitive Hinges. None The Less A Very Scarce Item In The First Edition With All The Plates. . Charles Hervey Townsend Hardcover
1957055638New York: Secker & Warburg 1957. Book. VG. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. First printing of the British edition. A VG copy in a VG MTI dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Basis for the film directed by Nunnally Johnson and starring Oscar-winner Joanne Woodward David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb. Inscribed dated and signed by co-author Thigpen on the FEP. Secker & Warburg Hardcover
1794028732Philadelphia: Robert Campbell 1794. Evans 27115. Worn copy in full calf with black spine label xii 1 14-218 6 pages including an elegy of the author at the end. Front cover and front free endpaper detached covers worn and scuffed text block sound insect damage to front endpapers and preliminary blank far top portion of title page darkened but title readily legible pages age-toned name of Mary Bacon dated 1834 on preliminary blank. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Robert Campbell Hardcover
