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1934109898Folio. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1934-1935. Folio spiral bound printed brown paper wrappers black label tipped in on front cover with gilt type. § Includes sample pages for the 12 books of 1934-1935. Each sample includes the title page a page or two of text or illustration and a page with the details of the publication. The final work of these dozen is Joyce's Ulysses with an illustration by Henri Matisse. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
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 books
021116House of Representatives 31st Congress 1st Session Ex. Doc. No. 45 1850. 8vo 8 - 9 tall. 89pp. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern black cloth with gilt lettering; includes both plates and folding map titled Topographical Map of the Road from Fort Smith Arks. To Santa Fe N. M. and From Dona Ana N. M. To Fort Smith. Text block has light toning; map has been repaired with archival tape along all fold lines has a 4 tear and moderate toning. This government publication provides the report of Lieutenant James Hervey Simpson regarding the route surveyed from Fort Smith Arkansas to Santa Fe New Mexico and the report of Captain Randolph B. Marcy regarding his journey escorting citizens emigrating to the newly acquired territories of Texas and New Mexico. Howes S-500. . hardcover books
193640848Bermuda: Published by the Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. First edition no. 1391 of 2000 numbered copies. Designed and produced by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett. Printed in the U.S.A. by Edward Stern & Company Inc. Philadelphia. Illustrated with photos by David Knudsen Walter Rutherford Thurman Rotan and F.S. Lincoln and watercolors by Adolph Treidler. 94 pp. 1 vols. Imperial 4to 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches. Silver and turquoise cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition no. 1391 of 2000 numbered copies. Designed and produced by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett. Printed in the U.S.A. by Edward Stern & Company Inc. Philadelphia. Illustrated with photos by David Knudsen Walter Rutherford Thurman Rotan and F.S. Lincoln and watercolors by Adolph Treidler. 94 pp. 1 vols. Imperial 4to 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches. "Our remoteness from the rest of the world is a wholesome and helpful infuence"<br/><br/>Elegant large format brochure for prospective expatriates with a preface by Hervey Allen and chapters on the legal system requirements for residency the tax structure and costs of houses and servants with An Architect's View of Bermuda by Ralph Adams Cram and "A Landscape Architect Looks at Bermuda by Frederick Law Olmsted.<br/>With finely reproduced watercolors by Adolph Treidler celebrated for his posters for the Bermuda Tourist Board.<br/><br/>"Also in Bermuda the law is the law . once on the statute books the act is enforced and obeyed. This goes for whites and blacks of all conditions and classes. Hence the slick mentality is in the wrong place in Bermuda" - from the preface. Published by the Bermuda Trade Development Board] unknown books
1936291665Bermuda: Anno Domini 1936. First Edition. Very Good binding. Folio. 94 pp. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this is #443. With black and white photographic illustrations and color watercolors by Adolf Treidler who did numerous posters for the Bermuda Tourist Board. Blue cloth boards with silver cloth spine. Very little wear and no marks of any kind in the book.~~Includes articles by Ralph Adams Cram -- "An Architect's View of Bermuda" -- and Frederick Law Olmstead -- "As A Landscape Architect Sees Bermuda". Very Good binding. Anno Domini unknown books
185062375Washington D.C.: Senate 31st Congress 1st Session Doc. No. 12 1850. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 25 pp. Four folding maps at rear. Very good. A descriptive account of the route pursued by US troops from Fort Smith Arkansas to Santa Fe New Mexico via the south side of the Canadian river in 1849 while escorting a party of Californian emigrants. GRAFF 3790 HOWES S-500 WAGNER- CAMP 192 WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 640. <br/><br/> Senate, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 12 unknown books
173134395London: Pr. for J. Peele 1731. 8vo 18 cm 7.1". 62 pp. <br><br>Particularly biting attack on William Pulteney and Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke focusing on the latter's "ingratitude and treachery to the late Duke of Marlborough and the Earl of Godolphin" p. 11 as well as his alliance with the Pretender various alleged diplomatic errors with Spain and lust for power and wealth. This rebuttal to Bolingbroke's self-vindication in the Craftsman periodical opens with a woodcut pictorial headpiece and decorative capital; the present example is => the first edition of the several-times reprinted diatribe which has sometimes been attributed to Walpole himself as well as to William Arnall with the half-title marked "Price One Shilling" and the original headpiece. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T66320; Goldsmiths'-Kress 06912. Recent marbled papercovered boards front cover with printed paper label. Title-page trimmed closely touching final letters of title with loss of a few letters from publication information. Pages age-toned with light to moderate waterstaining in the inner portions of many and dust-soiling to first and last; title-page with small smudge and half-title with neat repair from verso to a short tear; two pages with upper portions offset from now-absent laid-in item; one page with a few early inked doodles. Pr. for J. Peele hardcover books
1944012300NY: The Jockey Club 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A fine copy unfortunately missing its Volume 1. Limited to 800 copies this numbered 191. Lage 4to brown half linen over tan paper-backed boards 416 pages lots of plates. HORSES RACING EQUESTRIAN. The Jockey Club 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
1980238555New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club 1980. First editions. Illustrated. 6 vols. 4to. Original boards with linen spine printed spine labels. Label of Vosburgh volume worn some edge wear on first two volumes else a near fine set with interesting provenance. First editions. Illustrated. 6 vols. 4to. Presentation from Vosburgh. A cornerstone of any racing library including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy.<br/><br/>The Vosburgh volume covering 1865-1921 is a presentation copy inscribed by Vosburgh to Robert L. Gerry noted sportsman and member of the Jockey Club and the Coaching Club on an inserted slip with Gerry's bookplate. Podeschi 446 1922-1936 volume Privately Printed for The Jockey Club unknown books
1980236581New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club 1980. First editions. Illustrated. 6 vols. 4to. Original boards with linen spine printed spine labels. Small nick at foot of spine of Vosburgh volume. A fine set. First editions. Illustrated. 6 vols. 4to. COMPLETE SET. A cornerstone of any racing library including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. Podeschi 446 1922-1936 volume Privately Printed for The Jockey Club unknown books
1931012301London: The London and Counties Press Association Ltd 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition this # 566 opf 855 copies. Large 4to brown full leather gilt-ruled and titled gte sides untrimmed 502 pp illustrated printed at The Grethan Press of the Unwin Brothers. Besides horse breeding and racing in the US the book covers South America India Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada A near fine copy. HORSES EQUESTRIAN. The London and Counties Press Association Ltd hardcover books
1820012246London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. "Compiled entirely from the Polish system instituted by Marshal Prince Joseph Poniatowski and General Count Corvin Krasinski and adapted to the formations movements and exercise of the British Cavalry. To which is affixed an historical account of the most celebrated banners and orders of chivalry being emblematic and descriptive of the origin and honor formerly attached to bearing gonfanons or gonfalons chivalric banners and lances." Marbled endpapers. The attractive old binding is probably mid-nineteenth century. Spine with six panels two leathers spine labels and gilt rules. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Fine hand-colored frontispiece a folded engraving of Poniatowski astride his horse in full regalia. Nineteen full-page plates throughout the text. Bound with the half-title. Very light foxing and spotting. Several manuscript corrections in ink in an old hand. blank half-title frontispiece xiii iii 149 blank. Quite a handsome copy of a rare work on the use of the lance. OCLC Worldcat lists five libraries throughout the world with the book. ABPC and ESTC list no copies. Montmorency 1778-1827 was a strong proponent of the use of the lance. He studied the Polish system and recommended it to be used in the exercises of the British Cavalry. In 1816 four regiments of British Lancer was formed. This publication was to be used as a correct guide. Thimm 187. First Edition. 1/2 Vellum Over Marbled Boards. Minor Soiling. Quarto. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Hardcover 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
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
1742WRCLIT35923London: Printed for T. Cooper 1742. 24pp. Octavo. Extracted and resewn. A good copy with the half-title. First edition of this anonymous and vigorous response to Hervey's 'Miscellaneous Thoughts on the present Posture both of our Foreign and Domestic Affairs. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament and the People' 1742. ESTC T69648. Printed for T. Cooper unknown 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
1901101874New Bedford Mass: E. Anthony & Sons 1901. Softbound. Good internally vg covers are chipped and have previous owner's name ink stamped thereon. Green printed wrappers. 143pp. and some blank pages at rear. First edition o fthis early study. E. Anthony & Sons unknown books
1899101828New Bedford Mass: E. Anthony & Sons 1899. Softbound. Good internally vg covers are chipped and have previous owner's name ink stamped thereon. Green printed wrappers. 105 pp. and some blank pages at rear. First edition o fthis early study. E. Anthony & Sons unknown books
198041474South Pasadena CA : Harcourt and Ellen Hervey 1980. Oblong 8vo. 288 pp. <br/><br/>Very good condition in stiff printed wrappers. Harcourt and Ellen Hervey unknown books
192928956NY: Farrar & Rinehart 1929. First trade Edition. 8vo pp. 168. A very good copy. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
192983NY FARRAR 1929 1929. SIGNED BY ALLEN; NO DUST JACKET FIRST LARGE PAPER EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. NY, FARRAR, 1929 unknown books
1929130837New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. Copy 101 from an edition of 175. A clean very near fine partially unopened copy in a very good dust jacket that is moderately soiled and with some small edge tears and minor wear. Signed by Allen on the limitation page. Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated unknown books
1929WRCLIT82259New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1929. Gilt cloth. First edition trade issue. About fine in very slightly dust smudged dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover 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
