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193330067NY: Farrar and Rinehart. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1933. 1st Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth over flexible boards gilt lettering on spine blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering on cover fore-edge deckle. NB. William Hervey Allen Jr. 1889 1949 was an American educator poet and writer. He is best known for his work Anthony Adverse made into a 1936 movie of the same name regarded by many critics "as the model and precursor of the contemporary American historical novel." . Gilt lettering on spine faded head and heelof spine lightly worn else fine; unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE. Decorations. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. xi 1224 pp . Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1937445468Mount Vernon: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition this is number 1252 of 1500 copies printed. Three volume set. New introduction by the author. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Spine gilt tarnished else fine housed in a very good worn slipcase with chipping on open edges one edge split. Signed by the illustrator on limitation page of volume three. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office hardcover
19340088622New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1934. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth with gilt titles inscribed by Hervey Allen clean unmarked text good copy minor tear to the front flyleaf's top edge small label on the rear pastedown discoloration and light wear to the book's covers no dust jacket. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
193314940New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. First Edition First printing. Hard Cover. Rinehart colophon present. FINE BOOK IN FLEXIBLE BLUE BOARDS WITH GOLD TRIM. DUST JACKET IS NEAR-FINE TO FINE CLEAN AND BRIGHT SLIGHT INEVITABLE DARKENING AND VERY MINOR EDGEWEAR. NO WRITING OR MARKS. A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY. Farrar & Rinehart unknown
193424938New York:: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. publisher's green gilt cloth in publisher's slipcase with applied color illustrations. Bookplate on each pastedown; spines a little sunned; otherwise very nice in a slipcase with some splitting along one joint and other minor use. . Large 8vo. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Pen Docorations by Allan McNab. Farrar & Rinehart, hardcover
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
192641298New York: George H. Doran 1926. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to hardcover with olive green boards and a paper title on the spine. Limited edition 603/1000. A collection of Edgar Allen Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe's poetry and a history of the family. The condition of the book is Very Good binding intact though there is weakness at pg 63; general aging; little to no shelf wear; little to no interior damage. 93pgs. <br/> <br/> George H. Doran hardcover
1923622542New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue papercovered boards titled in silver. Small red leather gilt bookplate of Anne J. Smith on front pastedown which has offset onto the facing page else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eugene Delafield. Yale University Press hardcover
192211762New York:: James F. Drake 1922. First edition; No. 330 of 350 copies signed by the author. publisher's cloth-backed boards in glassine. Slight sunning to spine and edges of boards else a nice copy in glassine with some chips. 8vo. Illustrated by Bernhardt Wall. James F. Drake, hardcover
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
2010309884London: Pickering & Chatto 2010. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.361 Volume 8 in the Chawton House Library series previous owners name on FEP Pickering & Chatto hardcover
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
1948allen_morningNew York: Rinehart 1948. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Andrew Wyeth. Towards tbe Morning by Hervey Allen with illustrations by Andrew Wyeth. First edition first printing published by Rinehart in 1948. Near fine in a very good jacket. Apparently inscribed to actress Elizabeth Patterson by the author. Includes a guild review pamphlet with the corresponding illustrations and cover art by Wyeth. The third book in a triology of historical fiction 1st Rinehart hardcover
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
192410093New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. First edition. A near fine copy front hinge starting in a very good dust jacket shelfwear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners spine age darkened with a damp stain. 10093. Octavo cloth. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. The Century Co. unknown
8128Historical Publishing Network. 2002 First Edition so stated Large 9" by 11 3/4" Near New/Near New SIGNED BY AUTHOR a new look at Denton County Texas history with information from many previously unpublished sources an excellent illustrated history ISBN 1-893619-07-9 112 pages Historical Publishing Network unknown
181815576London:: F.C. and J. Rivington 1818. Later edition. contemporary diced calf gilt panelled spine expertly rebacked. Bookplate on pastedown; a nice copy. 8vo. 4 engraved plates by Westall. F.C. and J. Rivington, unknown
1948249660New York: Ralph F. Hartenstein. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. The contents of this volume are in two parts: Book I American Harness Horses and Horsemen by John Hervey and Book II American Harness Horses and Horsemen of Today edited by Edwin T. Keller. Rear cover is slightly stained front cover has a slight stain to the lower edge. Covers are slightly rubbed. Light wear to lower outer corner of rear cover. Owner's handwritten "Property of." or his name ink stamp on several pages including endpapers title page copyright page and foreword page. . Ralph F. Hartenstein hardcover
FORT281323Edward Arnold. Used - Acceptable. Duodecimo. Prize binding. Half bound in green leather with raised bands and gilt stamped lettering to spine; Red leather backstrip label with gilt stamped lettering to spine; Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped decoration to the front board. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Contains a b/w illustrated frontispiece with b/w plates throughout. Textblock is internally clean. Edward Arnold hardcover
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
19250086037New York: Theatre Arts Monthly 1925. Paperback. Near Fine/Slipcase. July 1925 issue of this monthly literary journal featuring 'America's First First' a poem by Hervey Allen signed by him at the end. Softcover. Near Fine housed in folding chemise and leather-backed slipcase. From the Hervey Allen Collection of the University of Pittsburgh with their official withdrawn stamp and removed bookplate on the inside of the front wrap. Another stamp and bookplate are on the inside of the chemise as is a former owner's bookplate Major W. Van R. Whitall Of Pelham NY. A bright copy in ornate two-piece box. Light scuffing to leather spine on slipcase. Theatre Arts Monthly paperback
191900006402Grinnell Iowa: Character Building Co. 1919 7 pamphlets: The Conquest 1918 18 pages The Golden Keys 1919 26 pages Down the Line 1918 29 pages That Little Tin Box Southwestern Publishing Co. no date The Trail A Boy Travels 1914 130th thousand 32 pages A Heart of Gold 1915 16 pages The Haunted House of Danville unpaginated. All in great condition. Character Building Co. paperback
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