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191127579New York: Macmillan 1911. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 inserted plates. ix 319 4ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated green cloth stamped in gold and red. Very good. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 inserted plates. ix 319 4ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 11926 Macmillan unknown books
19121063568vo. New York: Century Co. 1912. 8vo. 385 pp. eight b&w plates including frontis by P. J. Monahan. Original blue cloth stamped in white and black. No dust jacket. Very minor scattered foxing; fine copy. § First edition. A fine tale of adventure and romance in the Klondike. BAL 11939. Century Co hardcover books
17783057London: Henry Fenwick 1778. First Edition. Very Good/A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III covering the years 1769-1778 one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions placed on the American colonies in 1775 the court's recommendations to "suspend hostilities against our fellow-subjects in North America" and its extended position paper counseling conciliation with the rebellious colonies. The text reports correspondence from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock and from Richard Price and includes discussion of the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Newfoundland fisheries. Reference: Sabin 451. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
180222054London: S.W. Fores 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching with publisher note at bottom right "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido arms raised rails "Ah me a luckless Maid thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts the one for ever gone the other too Cold to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mother Love. I'll take to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Slight blemish on papers lying at lower right margin. S.W. Fores unknown books
18946433New London Conn: Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New London Conn.; Morning Telegraph Print 1894. Squarish book stapled in cloth-backed stiff boards 19 x 17 cm. 1-14 61 pages. Advertisements. Separate indices for Advertisers Authors and Recipes. Evident FIRST EDITION. A dual purpose set of "rules" composed of unattributed recipes for breads cakes cookies etc candies and ice cream dessert eggs miscellaneous helps preserving and pickling salads soups and meats and vegetables prefaced by quotations from various public figures - their handwritten messages reproduced photo-lithographically. The quotations and maxims - on the proper conduct of life - are from public figures including: Lyman Abbott Susan B. Anthony Alice Stone Blackwell Will Carleton Noah Davis Ellen Battelle Dietrick Gen. Meal Dow Wm. Lloyd Garrison Edward Everett Hale Thomas Wentworth Higginson Clara C. Hoffman Isabella Beecher Hooker Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Mary A. Livermore Lady Isabel Somerset Elizabeth Cady Stanton Katherine Lente Stevenson Mark Twain Bishop John Vincent Zerelda G. Wallace Charles Dudley Warner Frances E. Willard and Prince Serge Wolkonsky. Some light creasing to a few leaves; stiff white moiré wrappers cloth backed and printed in blue and gold. Some edgewear and adhesive stains to edges of wrappers otherwise very good. Previous owner's name in pencil to front endpapers; bookseller ticket of Household Words of Berkeley Ca to rear endpapers. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies though it does identify two copies of an 1895 publication not referencing an earlier issue; not in Brown Cook or Cagle. [Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New London, Conn.]; Morning Telegraph Print hardcover books
1912180219003New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Very Good. Cloth rubbed at extremities. Foxing to top edge. Binding a bit shaken with possible glue repair to hinge at title and half title page. Scarce. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1912150117014New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. In Very Good condition. scuffing and edge wear to cloth with a chip to the top of the spine cloth and chipping to white stamping on front cover. Light shelf lean to binding. First edition. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1911228229New York The Macmillan Company 1911. 1911. First edition "Published March 1911". 8vo. Original dark blue cloth with a ocean scene from an island with palm trees and a sail boat in the distance signed "G.H." stamped in blue black and cream white lettering on spine is flaked off. Very good tight copy. 405 pages 6 pages of advertisements at end. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1911. hardcover books
1920126891920. New York: The Macmillan Company 1920. Original maroon cloth. First American Edition which consisted of only 4990 copies. HEARTS OF THREE was published four years after London's death and two years after it was published in England. Like his two late books about dogs this was hackwork necessary to raise cash which he wrote in Hawaii during his final year. The last long novel of his life HEARTS OF THREE was a sorry business a piece of romantic trash that bore no mark of Jack's style at all. It was the first time he had been asked to "novelize" a screenplay. In fact HEARTS OF THREE was a serial adventure story of fifteen episodes written by the screenwriter of "The Perils of Pauline" and "The Exploits of Elaine." To ask an author of Jack's quality to flesh it out was an insult and an indignity. He wrote it because the Hearst Sunday supplements bribed him with $25000 over and above his regular contract with Cosmopolitan. He thought the book would have a large sale; it was so badly done that in fact it failed. Sinclair "Romantic trash" or not it is a Jack London title and a none-too-common one at that. This is a remarkably bright copy fine except for the slightest of wear at the spine tips. Quite uncommon thus. Sisson & Martens p. 104; Blanck 11982. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191727864New York: The Macmillan Company 1917 1917. First edition. BAL 11972. Spine a trifle dull; edges very slightly rubbed; very good copy. 8vo original red brown cloth gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. Six pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. A collection of eight essays and sketches including two dramatic sketches published shortly after London's death in 1916. The title essay "The Human Drift" is London's treatise on the history of civilisation as a search for food. <br/><br/> New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917 unknown books
168230592London: Published by Randal Taylor 1682. 4to. 2 31 i.e. 35 1 blank pp. Title and last leaf dusted else Very Good in modern quarter morocco and green cloth with spine title stamped in gilt.<br/><br/> The Plea expresses the Corporation of London's determination to retain and if possible expand its freedoms despite the attempted encroachments of the King. The Mayor and Citizens of London assert their ancient "claim to have and use within the City of London aforesaid and the Liberties and Precincts of the said City divers Liberties Priviledges and Franchises." The Plea is printed in two columns per page the left column in Latin and the right in English. <br/>ESTC R15339. Published by Randal Taylor unknown books
169634541London: Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold by S. Keble. 1696. 4to. 4 35 1 blank 22 16 25-55 1 blank 55 1 65-126 pp. First leaf strengthened at margins light rubberstamp to title page light dusting and wear. Hole at one leaf affects several words. Good in modern green buckram title and call number stamped on spine in gilt.<br/> <br/> The Plea expresses the Corporation of London's determination to retain and if possible expand its freedoms despite the attempted encroachments of the King. <br/>ESTC R28154. Wing P2528. Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold by S. Keble... unknown books
1970151985N.p.: Les Films Corona 1970. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Yves Montand from the 1970 film. Large French "L'AVEU" stamp "Cinemagence" stamp and provenance stamp of "G. Troussier" on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1968 autobiography "L'aveu" by Artur and Lise London. Costa-Gavras' searing indictment against Stalinism and totalitarianism a grueling but riveting politic thriller wherein Yves Montand stars as Artur Ludvik a Czechoslovak Communist official abducted imprisoned interrogated and tortured over many months before he is groomed as a witness in a public sham trial. <br/><br/>Set in 1951 Czechoslovakia shot on location in Nord and Alpes-Maritimes France. <br/><br/>9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 759. Les Films Corona unknown books
1911290221911. LONDON Jack. ADVENTURE. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1911. True first edition preceding American. 8vo with color frontispiece. Green cloth. Boards just bowed slight wear to extremes. A very good fresh copy. Scarce. BAL 11927. unknown books
190757071907. New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and cream. First Edition consisting of 7973 copies of this collection of eight tales. He needed the money badly for he had overspent his income to satisfy his various desires. As well as paying for his ranch and his growing number of dependents he was beginning to squander a fortune on building a boat called the "Snark" for his seven years' voyage. He returned to panning out a living from Alaska in the stories collected in a volume with "Love of Life." His confidence in his own tenacity was shown in that extraordinary story of man's will to survive at all costs. Yet the instability of his long sickness also appeared in "The Sun-Dog Trail." In that underestimated story of a man and woman bent on vengeance against another man the reason for action is hidden and the white silence of the north is as ambiguous as it is murderous. Reality and appearance willpower and dream are all confused in a last reckoning. Sinclair As always the title leaf is a cancel. This is a bright nearly fine copy a damaged corner of the front paste-down and the slightest of rubbing at the extremities; there is none of the usual flaking of the cream-colored front cover border. Sisson & Martens p. 36; Blanck 11904. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1919160205002New York: The Macmillan Company 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Very Good lacking dust jacket. Cloth is lightly rubbed at edges darkened at spine and along edges. Top edge of page block is dust soiled and foxed. A nice copy of London's posthumously published collection of seven stories about Hawaii. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
19012783New York. McClure Phillips. 1901. Pictorial gilt decorated blue cloth. 12mo. 1st Edition. of authors' 2nd book. Bal11870 ; Sisson & Martens 3. Hinges repaired moderate chipping to head and tailpieces various wear to covers else Very Good with gilt in tact. McClure Phillips. hardcover books
191423985New York: Macmillan 1914. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Aqua cloth stamped in white gold and black on spine and front cover; i-viii 1-257 5pp. Frontispiece illus. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges; scattered foxing to title page and prelims; Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of seven stories including the socialist utopian romance "The Dream of Debs." WOODBRIDGE 121. BAL 11955. Macmillan unknown books
1905WRCLIT29458New York: Macmillan 1905. Plum cloth lettered in gilt. First edition of London's most extended articulation of his personal and curious melding of socio- political influences. Rear inner hinge cracking slightly extremities rubbed but a good-very good sound copy. BAL 11885. Macmillan hardcover books
19062288515The Macmillan Company 1906. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bull Charles Livingston. First edition. One of two states with no clear priority this being the issue with a tipped-in title leaf BAL 11896. Light dime-sized stain on front corner hinges loosening ink name address and date on front endpaper. 1906 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii 3 327 5 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and 7 color plates in text by Charles Livingston Bull. "White Fang is the titular character and a novel by American author Jack London. First serialized in Outing magazine it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel and a thematic mirror to London's best-known work The Call of the Wild which is about a kidnapped domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild. Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption. White Fang has been adapted for the screen numerous times including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1912191320New York: Macmillan 1912. Hardcover. v 232p. vi ads frontispiece illustration in b&w by Mac M. Pease inserted very good first edition as per Sisson page 62 and BAL 11936 green cloth boards with thatched roof cottage and palms at water's edge on front cover in blue black and white front titles white all very bright and clear spine illustration and titles in blue and white with titles bright but rubbing to vignette and publisher at tail. A very nice copy of a relatively uncommon title. Macmillan hardcover books
19799005480Boston: New York Graphic Society 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine stamped in silver. Dust jacket. <br/><br/> New York Graphic Society hardcover books
1912126831912. Illustrated by P. J. Monahan. New York: The Century Co 1912. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and cream. First Edition of this loosely-connected series of tales about a tenderfoot journalist who goes to the Klondike in search of gold and in his efforts to prove himself to the girl he loves undergoes a series of dangerous adventures. There was a humanity and a relaxation in his Smoke Bellew stories and they sold well in book form. Gone was the myth of Alaska the sense of a superman pitting himself against necessity and the unknown. The deeds of daring of the hero from Harvard were often tongue-in-cheek more Twain than Melville. Sinclair SMOKE BELLEW was the first book published after his string of titles based upon the Pacific voyage of the "Snark"; he wrote this thereafter while he and Charmian were settled into their "Beauty Ranch." Jack was still recovering from some of the diseases he had incurred on the trip and was increasingly relying upon alcohol to assist him. SMOKE BELLEW was also the first of several London titles published by Century: along with his drinking he was developing a sense of suspiciousness and superiority which led him to mistrust Macmillan and seek out another publisher -- a decision he quickly regretted since Century would prove to have much less patience or understanding with him. This is a handsome nearly fine copy just a hint of cover soil but essentially no wear; atypically the cream-colored moon on the front cover is quite bright and unrubbed. The pictorial cover is by Decorative Designers. Sisson & Martens p. 66; Blanck 11939. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190126096New York: McClure Phillips & Company 1901. Hardcover. 299p. very good first edition in blue cloth boards and gilt titles and decorations hinges sound minor rubbing to cloth deckled edges device on title page copyright 1901 Sisson/Martens page 4 BAL 11870. A very attractive bright copy of London's second booka collection of 8 stories originally published in McClure's Magazine. McClure, Phillips & Company hardcover books
1914137941914. With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot" he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco earthquake. In the former which was later published as a separate pamphlet San Francisco is destroyed by another form of catastrophe a nationwide general strike. The wealthy narrator wakes up with the premonition of an earthquake to come. Yet there is only silence the silence of nobody going to work. Slowly the city breaks down. Violence flares between the slum people and the upper classes. Sinclair In the title story London mocks his old god Kipling whom his earliest Alaskan tales emulated: primitive men choose brotherhood over capitalism rejecting the lies of their "Lip-King." Macmillan produced only 3948 copies of this book -- which with the exception of London's plays and his few nonfiction titles is one of the smallest number of copies of all his works -- fewer than THE SCARLET PLAGUE fewer than THE HOUSE OF PRIDE fewer than SOUTH SEA TALES fewer than THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS. Not only were a small number printed but the binding was unfortunately lettered in white -- which typically is found quite eroded today. This however is a fine copy with none of the white eroded cloth very slightly dusty. Quite uncommon in this condition. Sisson & Martens p. 76; Blanck 11955. <br/><br/> hardcover books
