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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
43559New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated On Murray Hill MCMXXIX 1929 . Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm 7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75". pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards edges lightly rubbed. with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles faded. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "from the library of J. B. Priestley". Neat ink inscription to front endpaper: "J. B. Priestley Esq. with the cordial regards of Henry Allen". Clean throughout. A very good book with an interesting provenance. "William Hervey Allen Jr. December 8 1889 � December 28 1949 was an American poet biographer and novelist. His poetry heralded the birth of the "lost generation" of the 1920s. Allen was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He graduated from Shady Side Academy in 1909 and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1915 where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He served as a Lieutenant in the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July�August 1918. He wrote Toward the Flame 1926 a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war. His first book Wampum and Old Gold was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort 1943 Bedford Village 1944 and Toward the Morning 1948. The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel 1926 a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. For a period of time Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston South Carolina. He also taught English at Charleston High School which at that time although public was only for boys. The girls went to Memminger. There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward. He later was a professor at Vassar University where he met his wife Ann "Annette" Andrews. They had three children Marcia Mary Ann and Richard. In the 1940s he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass. Allen was close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash.Allen died at his home called the Glades in Coconut Grove Florida aged 60 from a heart attack and was found by his wife Annette." - See Wikipedia. New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . hardcover
48465Woodbridge: George Booth Church Street 1905 . A very good original green cloth binding. 8.5" x 7.0" x 1.25". pp.xxxii./pp.442/2pp. - Adverts . Edges lightly rubbed. Gilt titles to spine. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "David Gurling Lavenham". Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. clean text throughout. Preface signed by "S. H. A. H. Bury St. Edmund's June 30 1905." Contents include: Preface -- Explanations and corrections -- Hearth tax returns -- Original order of the parishes -- Summary -- Houses with 20 hearths and upwards -- Houses with a name -- List of peers -- Baronets knights and dames -- Military and naval officers -- Doctors -- Clergymen and parsonages -- Index of all persons. Woodbridge: George Booth, Church Street, 1905 . hardcover
11698212-nnew. unknown
3382123932.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2011Q-1841132357Hart Publishing 2011-04-11. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hart Publishing paperback
1811995F1Burslem: J. Tregortha 1811. Leather. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An illustrated early 19th century edition of James Hervey's sentimental devotional work on morality nature and divine providence. First published in 1746 James Hervey"s devotional work reflects on mortality nature and divine providence through a series of poetic essays.The book consists of two main parts: 'Meditations among the Tombs' which contemplates death and the afterlife and 'Reflections on a Flower-Garden' which draws religious lessons from nature.Illustrated with a frontispiece and two engraved plates. Collated complete.Hervey had a lasting impact on art through William Blake who was an admirer of his and influenced Blake's poem 'The Tyger'.Extensive 1873 inscription of Thomas Croulle to a front blank with the morocco label 'Mary Hudson 1814' to front board.Published in the civil parish of Burslem Stoke on Trent in the early 19th century by Tregortha a major figure in the book trade of the region and provided printing and binding services. He printed about eighty-one books and pamphlets many of a religious nature between 1796 and his death in 1821. In a full calf binding with contemporary owner's morocco label to front board. Minor loss to back strip tail with light rubbing to back strip and joints. Joint tails starting with boards firmly held. Inscription to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned with handling marks throughout. Good J. Tregortha hardcover
1982G071561584XI3N00Duckbacks 1982. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Duckbacks hardcover
2002x-0415255228Routledge 2002. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Routledge paperback
2009x-0415481309Routledge 2009. Paperback. New. 2nd blg edition. 304 pages. 9.13x6.14x0.59 inches. Routledge paperback
20454HERVEY. LONDON. 1741. A CORRESPONDENCE OF 60 PAGES REBOUND IN MODERN GREY CARD. NOT DATED BUT 1741. A LETTER OF COMPLAINT FROM HERVEY TO SIR THOMAS HANMER 1677-1746 WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. VERY CLEAN NEW END PAPERS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND SOLD ON LUDGATE HILL. HERVEY. LONDON. 1741 unknown
2016x-0415705630Routledge 2016. Paperback. New. 2nd blg edition. 313 pages. Arabic language. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Routledge paperback
1922004721New York: Macmillan Company 1922. Book. Good - Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition / First Printing. Small Octavo. 132 pages. Lower inner paste down with surface roughness due to partial removal of bookstore bookplate ffep with signatures by both authors under the neatly inked number "300" also previous owner's inked unintelligible signature near bottom of ffep. Top and bottom board edges rubbed & worn a bit boards show on tips & less so on foreedges binding tight peges unmarked top edge darkened pages almost VG. 1/8 brown cloth spine 7/8 light blue papered boards in glassine wrapper. Macmillan Company Hardcover
189641645Privately Printed Colmer Press 1896. 8vo. First Edition thus with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present illustrations and plans a number full-page in the text and double-page map coloured in outline neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth upper board framed and blocked in black and lettered in gilt gilt back primrose endpapers a near fine copy. Abridged version of the original edition of 1880. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [Privately Printed, Colmer Press], hardcover
1771130930Amsterdam 1771 2 parties en un volume in-12, plein veau brun, dos lisse, filmets et dentelles dorés, 138 - 19 1pp. Coiffe sup. usée, mors fendillé en tête, quelques rousseurs éparses.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text, and double-page map coloured in outline, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board framed and blocked in black and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy. Abridged version of the original edition of 1880. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
1835FB290 /4D<p>Full tan leather binding with brown title plate gilt banding lettering and decoration on the spine. Gilt line edging on both boards. All edges gilt.</p> Edward Churton. hardcover
1982mon0000101175HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1982-09-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Light edge & shelf wear to DJ boards. Underlining on a few pages only. Else clean. Binding tight. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd hardcover
193222512Wellington: Harry H. Tombs 1932. First printings. Hardcover. An early but broken run of this little poetry anthology 15 volumes in total 11 in the publishers colored card wrappers and 4 volumes hard cover with printed dust jackets spanning 1932 to 1954. The early editions are edited by Charles Marris and published by Harry Tombs the later are edited by Louis Johnson and published by A.H. & A.W. Reed.<br /> <br /> Many of these issues were the property of J.R. Hervey New Zealand poet and Anglican minister. His signature appears on several front wrappers sometimes with his notation of his poems published within. Two copies of 1941 one stamped "Review copy". Most with the bookseller's label for Newbold's Bookshop Dunedin. Some issues are stamped "J. Dennis Hervey". The later hard covers were not Hervey's copies. <br /> <br /> A nice clutch of these magazines from the first anthology issued including authors such as Robin Hyde J.C. Anderson Eileen Duggan J.R. Hervey and Dora Hagemeyer. The early wrapper copies are in very good condition perhaps with the edges a little bent and rusted staples but very good overall. The hard bound copies with slightly worn dust jackets the boards very good. Harry H. Tombs hardcover
1937003888Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines just a trifle dull. About Fine in an about Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #1377 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
193629226Bermuda: Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. First printing. Hardcover book. Good overall. Designed to be a more in depth look at the island of Bermuda for people who may consider it a potential residence by a one time resident. Limited edition 1026 of 2000 copies. Folio 94pp explanatory text b&w photographic illustrations and color watercolors by Adolf Treidler. Bound with silver cloth spine and light blue cloth boards. Lightly rubbed on the corners and with some discolored patches on the boards. Internally clean. Bermuda Trade Development Board hardcover
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
196747593New York:: The Ronald Press Company. VG-/NONE. 1967. Hardcover. Hardback second edition originally published 1957 bound in red cloth covers with light wear sound hinges clean pages. Signed "Hervey Cleckley" by the author with lengthy inscription in French to the previous owners. No DJ. Not library discard. MOVED TO END OF DB; . The Ronald Press Company, hardcover
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
1938181325New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 369p. WITH TLS FROM THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed and tanning inside the front cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is edgeworn and has been reinforced with clear tape on all sides. Small pencil scribble on the spine. Contains a typed letter signed by Hervey Allen author of ANTHONY ADVERSE to Paul Ryan Byrne longtime librarian at the University of Notre Dame. Byrne's bookplate is inside the front cover. Also in the back is a pasted-in newspaper review of this novel. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
