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2003Q-0486432300Dover Publications 2003-10-17. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
2014G1584741996I4N002014. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. hardcover
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1717284581London: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall 1717. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Good binding. One of Defoe’s infamous pamphlets published under his second period of employment by the British government as a literary fifth columnist. Defoe would publish political or current event pamphlets either anonymously or posing as a Whig Tory Jacobite whom he said “my very soul abhors†DNB 738 or even a repentant double agent all while writing revolutionary works that lacked their bite incendiary news which proved incorrect or polemical pieces with unsound arguments. In short he worked a a pamphleteering agent of chaos all in the service of the government pacifying their erstwhile opponents. Defoe was seen as a renegade traitor and spy by a number of his contemporaries: “the little art he is truly a master of of forging a story and imposing it on the world.†DNB 737. Mercurius Politicus was published in the years shortly before his fantastical Robinson Crusoe. The periodical ran from May 1716 to December 1720. This being the April 1717 issue. With “An Account of the Spaniards taking Twelve English Ships in the Bay of Campechy sic never printed before†as well as new appointments for the Bank and the East-India Company and updates on the Jacobite situation in Scotland. Sewn pamphlet lacking original paper wrappers. 211-273 pp. An ex-library copy with a punch-stamp dampstain and writing on the title page not affecting the text; library stamp on the verso of the title page. ESTC P2105. DNB V 737-738. Good binding. Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall unknown
197616497Bicentennial Edition. Red-brown morocco-grain cloth over boards; gilt stamped titles; map end papers. Clean covers and spine; gilt titles somewhat dulled but legible; tightly bound; bright clean interior. Large 8vo 756 pp; index; illustrated. Pittsford, VT: Pittsford Historical Society hardcover
185052819126 pages all edges gilt each meditatiion with yellow and pink floral border decoration publisher's advertisements at the front and back. The First Book of Binns & Goodwin's Christian Miniature Library Published by Binns and Goodwin unknown
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1822875T37London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co. 1822. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None. A very scarce copy of the UK printing of this collection of letters supposedly written by an American traveller on visiting England. Very scarce. Originally published in New York by Charles Wiley re-printed in London by Sir Richard Phillips & Co. Published the same year as the first US edition. A collection of twenty-three letters supposedly written by an American from New England during their travels through England and Wales. Written as a satirical retort to the unflattering accounts of British writers with regard to the new American republic over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century criticising English customs and social life in comparison with the US. Written by "A New England Man" or James Kirke Paulding an American writer known for his violently anti-British views. He was also the United States Secretary of the Navy for a time. Bound in contemporary paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light shelf wear only. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed Sir Richard Phillips & Co. hardcover
1822976Y28London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1822. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. The first UK edition of these unfavourable letters discussing England from American writer James Kirke Paulding. The first UK edition of this work. Smartly rebound in quarter calf with red cloth boards. Though published here anonymously under "A New England Man" these writings are credited to James Kirke Paulding an American writer and for a time the United States Secretary of the Navy. Comprising twenty-three "letters" this work was one of several responses from American writers to the unfavourable accounts given by English writers on their visits to the new nation. This reply retorts satirical criticisms of English customs and social behaviours and is one of five works Paulding wrote expressing his anti-British views. Bound in quarter calf with cloth boards. With renewed endpapers. Externally very smart with a couple marks to the boards and minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spots. Very Good Indeed Sir Richard Phillips and Co. hardcover
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1812TB29956Boston: Printed by Chester Stebbins 1812. First Edition. Very good- in stab sewn wrapper with Bowdoin College and the name of an early prior owner Ezra Abbot Jr. written across the upper edge of the front page. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches with the fore edge and lower edge rough cut and shallow chipping to the fore edge of the front page. Written in pencil is the author's name surrounded in brackets just above the word "Boston". The contents are spotted with foxing throughout but primarily in the margins. 117 pages of text. The author John Lowell 1769-1840 was a Massachusetts lawyer agriculturist philanthropist and a well known Federalist who wrote many pamphlets in support of his point of view. He was often at odds with the Democratic Party and published many unsigned pieces critical of President James Madison's efforts to build a standing army and navy and the War of 1812. DAB Printed by Chester Stebbins unknown
