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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
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
1835133617Worcester MA: Dorr Howland & Co 1835. marbled paper-covered boards. Astronomy. 16mo. marbled paper-covered boards. 144 pages. Rinderknecht 35408. Fifth edition. Dedication preface table of contents introduction glossary of astronomical terms appendices. This edition "improved" by the addition of problems in practical astronomy by E. Davis. Foldout frontispiece illustration of the solar system. Charts and illustrations in text. Front cover separated. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Foxing. Dorr, Howland & Co unknown books
192528960NY: Harper 1925. First Edition. 8vo pp. 126. VG. Poems. Harper unknown books
1925WRCLIT61223New York: Harper & Bros. 1925. Gilt cloth. First edition. Fine with publisher's prospectus laid in in very good bit nicked and edgeworn dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
1925127905New York: Harper 1925. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Harper 1925. First Edition.<br/><br/> Inscribed by the author.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
1925WRCLIT38783New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1925. Gilt cloth. First edition. Small nibble from upper joint otherwise a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
192516083JNew York: Harper & Brothers 1925. First Edition First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Hervey Allen to fellow poet Edwin Arlington Robinson three time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Inscribed: “To ‘Brother’ Robinson with best regards Hervey Allenâ€. The word “Brother†in the inscription amusingly refers to the monk like brotherhood Allen and Robinson shared at the McDowell Colony retreat for the arts. Yearly from 1911 to 1934 Edwin Arlington Robinson attended the McDowell Colony where he met and became friends with young poet Hervey Allen who attended and wrote at the Colony in 1921 1922 1923. Some of the poems in this book are the result of those stays. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some tiny chipping and a 2 inch tear to the top of the front spine fold. Hervey Allen went on to write more poetry and historical novels and is best remembered for Anthony Adverse which was made into the 1936 classic film starring Frederic March and Olivia de Havilland. Harper & Brothers unknown books
192582NY HARPER 1925 1925. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN TO BERNHEIMER; SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. F. NY, HARPER, 1925 unknown books
225712New York George H. Doran Company 1926. First edition. Small 8vo. Original tan wrappers stamped in black with photo of Du Bose Heyward on the front cover. 19 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Zane Grey's copy with his estate blindstamp on the upper front cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. New York, George H. Doran Company [1926]. paperback books
1907427460E. P. Dutton & Company 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Quarter vellum over red cloth-covered boards top edges gilt. lxiii 672 pp. Color frontispiece. Light soiling and wear to spine. Light shelfwear. Endpapers toned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to half title and to final leaf. Light foxing to glossary at rear. Very good. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
192521061New York: William Edwin Rudge 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. scarlet boards front cover paper label. Very good. Rogers Bruce. Seven leaves printed recto only. Limited edition one of 325 copies. Each page with decorative red border. Designed by Bruce Rogers. WARDE 177. Nicks to backstrip extremitieswear to joints. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
192283198NY:: Macmillan. Very Good. 1922. Hardcover. B015UO7JEA . First edition. INSCRIBED by Hervey Allen in 1924. Moderate shelf wear and aging else very good in tan cloth and light blue paper covered boards. No dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover 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
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. First Book. 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 books
192252597New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1922. Hardcover. New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. Authors First Book. Light blue boards show some soiling spine ends and cover edges are rubbed light foxing/toning to endpapers contetns are clean nice. A Very Good copy in plastic covertorn. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
194039436Mystic CT: Marine Historical Association 1940. xi 86 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />"Self portrait of an American Packet ship sailor." Townshend began his career in 1848 and continued throughout the age of sail transferring to the command of a steamship when he was 34 years of age. This account is compiled from his hundreds of letters to family members and gives an excellent sense of the daily life of a merchant sailor. This is copy #V in a limited edition of 100. Covers lightly faded else very good codnition Marine Historical Association books
1941146099Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Post-production script for the 1942 film.<br/><br/>An aviation drama celebrating Pan-American oceanic flyers wherein a young foreign correspondent agrees to take on one last mission to investigate a missing jewels case in Bombay India before retiring his wings and settling down with his fiancee. An early appearance by noted Dominican actress and so-called "Queen of Technicolor" Maria Montez better known throughout the 1940s for playing hot-blooded bejeweled seductresses in adventure epic films.<br/><br/>Set in India and the Philippines. <br/><br/>White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper dated AUGUST 26 1941 with credits for actors William Gargan Irene Hervey Charles Lang Maria Montez Lloyd Corrigan and Mary Gordon. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered REEL SIX PAGE 20. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with creasing to the right edges bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
194425858New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1944. First Edition. Hardcover. minor shelfwear to book very slight bumping to a couple of corners faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket has a few tiny chips along top edge short tear internally mended at top right corner of front panel small unobtrusive hole in spine modest wear along bottom edge. color frontispiece Follow-up to the author's "The Forest and the Fort"; the second book in what became a trilogy under the title "The Disinherited." Set in an American frontier settlement in 1764. . Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. hardcover books
1944WRCLIT80433New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1944. Cloth. Frontispiece and dust jacket by Andrew Wyeth. Frontispiece has a clean tear in the gutter at the toe tiny bookseller's label on front free endsheet clipping offset to half-title some mild foxing to endsheets with the pasted in erratum slip on page 298 else very good in very good dust jacket with light edge wear and a few tiny nicks. First edition of the second title in Allen's planned series featuring Salathiel Albine in frontier Pennsylvania. The colorful dust jacket features the tavern Pendergasses' as seen by a lonely sentry on the ramparts of Fort Bedford. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1944153282New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1944. First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. Allens' second novel in his North American romance series. An about very good copy in wrappers with some fading and wear to the spine and with some edge tears and wear to the integral dust jacket. Uncommon in this format. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc unknown books
1944TB11176New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1944. First Edition. First printing Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with a gift inscription on the first free end paper. In a very good- dust jacket due to a price clipped front flap a lightly faded spine area and shallow chipping at the ends of the spine area. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The second volume in The Disienherited series. This is an unusual variant as it lacks the pasted missing last line of text on page 298 which is pasted in on most 1st editions. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1944780721944. ALLEN Hervey. BEDFORD VILLAGE. New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1944. The second of three books issued spearately to constitute Sylvania Vol. I. of THE DISINHERITED. First edition inscribed to Robert Frost on the ffep. Color frontisp. viii305 pp. Octavo tan cloth title printed in blue to spine and upper board. Cloth is lightly sunned at spine and lightly spotted all over. An about very good copy but with an excellent association. unknown books
179666884Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Cambell Philadelphia by V. Bonsal Wilmington 1796. contemporary full calf with leather spine label. small 8vo. contemporary full calf with leather spine label. xi 13-226 6 pages. Printed for Robert Cambell, Philadelphia by V. Bonsal, Wilmington unknown books
197941575Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press 1979. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 313; text diagrams; original cloth in white dust jacket printed in black and red; damage to top 1 1/2 inches of spine affecting both jacket and cloth light edge wear the rest very good. Second half of this study devoted to applying the theory to Mandarin Chinese. <br/><br/> Scottish Academic Press hardcover books
