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1902180811008New York: The Century Company 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. vii 250 pp. Cream cloth stamped in black orange and blue. A Good copy with rubbed spine and stained cloth cloth starting along front joint front hinge cracked reading smudges and light stains throughout text gift inscription and former owner's name written on prelims. All six illustrated plates present. Jack London's only juvenile novel issued in book form after its appearance in St. Nicholas magazine and one of his scarcest works. The Century Company hardcover books
1923301381<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Pages 9-60 comprise Jack London's "My Hawaiian Aloha." Pages 61-264 are by Charmain. Illustrated with 16 halftone photos; double page map of Hawaiian Islands. Original gilt stamped blue cloth With the rare unclipped original dust jacket. Fine fresh. No other signatures or bookplates. Laid down on the front pastedown is a 1 page Autograph Letter Signed "Charmain London" in blue fountain pen ink January 1928 Waimea Hawaii to Judge and Mrs. David Forbes. See BAL 11984 for the 1922 American printing issued under the title "Our Hawaii".</p> Mills & Boon, Limited hardcover books
189569083Oakland Cal.:: Oakland High School November 4 1895. First edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some slight soiling to wrappers; small stains in the area of the staples; wrappers unchipped and unworn. Folio. Woodbridge 621. Walker & Sisson 5. Jack London's story appears on pp. 2-4. It was later reprinted in The Oakland Herald April 17 1907. Oakland High School, unknown
1915748841915. LONDON Jack. The Star Rover. Original pictorial cloth non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1915. First American edition. BAL 11963. Woodbridge 132. Inner hinges just starting loss to head of spine panel jacket slightly toned else near fine in very good jacket. unknown
19032511218MacMillan 1903. first. hardcover. very good. First edition 1903 stated on title and copyright page with ".published July 1903". Book very good minor wear to cover edges and spine ends some discoloring to part of front and rear free end papers faint writing to top of front free end paper gilted top edge. MacMillan unknown
1902180811008New York: The Century Company 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. vii 250 pp. Cream cloth stamped in black orange and blue. A Good copy with rubbed spine and stained cloth cloth starting along front joint front hinge cracked reading smudges and light stains throughout text gift inscription and former owner's name written on prelims. All six illustrated plates present. Jack London's only juvenile novel issued in book form after its appearance in St. Nicholas magazine and one of his scarcest works. The Century Company hardcover
16853170771685. docketed. Folio. Split at central joint and mended at other joints. docketed. Folio. Signed by Check at upper right and signed by various ministers below including: Lawrence Hyde Earl of Rochester Lord Treasurer; William Craven Earl of Craven Privy Councillor; George Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem; Christopher Duke of Albemarle Privy Councillor; the Earls of Middleton and Bridgewater; and Baron Dartmouth<br/><br/>Consent signed May 1686 by R. Howard. unknown books
1800016157London: The Committee 1800. Book measures 67x51.cm. 1pp list of 21 plates this copy has an extra 3 plates so 24 double page folding plates in all of which 5 are partailly coloured. Bound without original wrappers. Bound in red calf both boards in-set with red cloth gilt lettering. Binding rubbed scuffed some loss on edges and corners. Internally contents becoming loose a couple of plates creased 1 plates with loss of margin not encroaching onto engraved area some surface wear to a couple of plates some light spotting. Generally plates in good clean condition. A good copy.F. Hardcover. Near Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. The Committee Hardcover
199126522London: Christie's. New. 1991. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE -. Prices realized stapled to inside front cover. -- with a bonus offer-- . Christie's paperback
195729777London: Hazlitt Gallery. As New. 1957. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Name of former owner recorded upper corner of title page. Corot Daubigny Rousseau and others. -- with a bonus offer-- . Hazlitt Gallery paperback
198450872London England: Weidenfeld & Nicholson / Royal Academy of Arts London. As New. 1984. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Pages unmarked tight to spine - 123 works catalogued. Many color and black & white illustrations. Among the artists represented: Edward Lear W. H. Hunt Gerome Guillaumet Fromentin and others. -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition . Weidenfeld & Nicholson / Royal Academy of Arts, London paperback
1911042607New York: The Macmillan Company / Norwood Press 1911. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 3/4 Tall. 319 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Olive Green Not Brown Cloth Lettered In Gilt Stamped Intaglio Not Flat Surface Printing In Light Gray-Green And Red On Front Cover And On The Spine. Some Other Copies Of First Printing Have Printing All Intaglio Of Light Gray-Green On Front Cover And Dark Green On Spine But Most Others Have Color Printing Without Intaglio Red And Gray-Green On The Cover And Spine Differences Not Noted By Sisson And Martens No Priority Established. We Find This To Be The Scarcest Variant And We Believe It To Be The First Issue One Of Only 3748 Copies Of All Three Variants. The Book Is In Exceptional Condition Very Near Fine Just Traces Of Rubbing Right On Edges At Corners Tight And Clean; Former Owner's Bookplate With Illustration From An Antique Print Of Man And Death. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company / Norwood Press hardcover
18358044London: Londinensis Societatis Antiquarium. Good. 1835. Hardcover. Elephant folio 15" x 21". Volumes 4 5 and 6 only. Three quarter leather bound covers with brown stain covers are frayed at corners and spine caps with two missing spine strips and 3 of the 6 boards are detached but all present. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Marbled end sheets and paste down clean and vibrant. Text pages are barely toned largely free of foxing with only very sparse modest soiling and overall in very good condition. Plates range from being untoned to light toning and from being completely free of foxing to moderate foxing although those with moderate foxing tends to be more in the margin areas. The plates are overall in very good condition. Volume 4: complete with 53 plates one being an extra also labeled plate VII but not identical several of which are folding plates and 2 of which are handcolored. Volume 5: complete with 69 plates 2 of which are double page. Volume 6: unknown how many plates are called for but present are a total of 14 plates as follows 2 b&w partial page plates within a text page 4 full page b&w one has very heavy foxing and 8 handcolored plates. These volumes are excellent candidates for rebinding with new covers as the page bindings are solid and condition of the contents overall in very good condition. . . Londinensis Societatis Antiquarium hardcover
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT, MONUMENTAL, AND BEAUTIFULLY-PRODUCED HISTORY OF LONDON. viii, [7], 800, [14] pp plus folding frontispiece engraved view of London and 24 additional full-page engravings and etchings (three folding). COMPLETE. Laid in is the rarely-encountered folio broadside "An Account of the Number of Persons Dying at the Several Ages Undermentioned for Ten Years Past", printed in 1738 or 1739 (from which we learn, for example, that of 1000 children born alive, only 495 survived to age 9). In addition to the beautiful full-page plates, this volume is illustrated with numerous smaller engravings (depicting the gates of London, including the infamous Newgate Prison), over 100 woodcuts of the arms of the various guilds, and assorted typographical ornaments. Includes a lengthy account of the history of London, a description of all of the Churches (with hundreds of epitaphs, of notable and unknown people, given in full); a description of the politics, the commerce, the schools, the inns, the courts, the hospitals, the arts, the ale-houses, the alms-houses.... A complete listing of the streets. An extensive description of Westminster and nearby areas of Middlesex. Fully indexed. PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER, WITH LARGE MARGINS. Large folio. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND in recent quarter vellum and marbled boards. A few short, closed tears to the folding plates (no pieces missing), and some spots of foxing, else FINE AND BRIGHT. An extremely good copy of a rare and important book.
26.0010Madrid: La Biblioteca de Babel Siruela 1983 - 1988. . 1ª ed. 12.5x22.5. La Biblioteca de Babel, Siruela unknown
85046801London 1892-1941 Kegan. Green cloth very good with orig- inal covers bound in Vols. 1-37 1892-1941. An exeptionally nice copy. Vol. III Pt. III in wrappers 16 x 25 cm. gold stamped covers. VERY LONG RUN OF THE JOURNAL R A R E Eclectic coverage of all aspects of Japanese literature art & culture history science natural history diplomatic hi- story &c. Keen observations by the great Japanologists such as Chamberlain Aston Alcock Hepburn Batchelor and a host of others. They have skillfully described every aspect of Japan her social and economic & artistic facets in great detail. Of particular interest are the articles devoted to folk-lore ethnology science industry and art manufactures. Virtually every subject concerning Japan has been addressed. A wealth of knowledge presented in a readable and enjoyable format. This set wants parts vol. 4 pt.3 pp.127-240 and appendix. Otherwise a complete & very clean copy of an important work. . unknown
190195253New York: McClure Phillips & Company 1901. First edition of this early collection of short stories by Jack London. Octavo original publisher's cloth gilt. Presentation copy inscribed by the author with a full page inscription in the year of publication "My dear Charles Warren Stoddard - In memory of delightful South Sea tours. Gratefully yours Jack London. Oakland Calif. June 7 1901." The recipient Charles Warren Stoddard was an American author and close friend of London's best known for hi travel books about Polynesian life and the South Sea Islands. From the library of American journalist and lawyer John Francis Neylan with his bookplate to the pastedown. In very good condition small stamps. American novelist Jack London became one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing alone. His third collection of short stories the present volume contains eleven of his early works including: Where the Trail Forks The Man with the Gun Grit of Women and A Daughter of the Aurora. McClure, Phillips & Company hardcover books
1903140947999New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. 231 3 pp. with two advertisement pages at rear; complete with 11 inserted color lithographic plates. Bound in publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth with pictorial stamping in white black and red. Gilt lettering top edge gilt pictorial endpapers. Very Good with slight lean and crease to spine moderate rubbing to extremities and "snow" and several spots of soiling to rear board. Some thumbing and staining to contents; binding starting at several places. Traces of penciled ownership inscription dated July 1903 to frontispiece verso. The first edition of Jack London's iconic story of a domestic dog rediscovering his wild nature in Alaska. Sisson & Martens 14 BAL 11876. The Macmillan Company unknown
191513086New York: The Macmillan Company 1915. First Edition. Original cloth. Fine/very good. First edition of The Scarlet Plague by Jack London in the incredibly scarce first state dust jacket. Octavo 181pp 6pp ads. Original maroon cloth with cityscape illustration stamped in red and yellow on front cover. Title in gilt on spine. Stated "published May 1915" on copyright page. Solid text block dust remnants to top edge frontispiece a fine example. In the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket with "Illustrated By Gordon Grant / Price $1.00" label affixed to spine as issued. Small closed tears to edges sunning to spine small loss to bottom edge of spine. A bright example. Publisher's advertisement for "Novels of 1915" laid in. Sisson & Martens 80 BAL 11960. Jack London 1876-1916 was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford. The Macmillan Company unknown
1905c2410150320xbvkU.S.A., St. Paul - Minnesota, Ingersoll View Company, 1905. 100 colour-stereograph plates (ca. 9 x 18 cm) with captions under the photographs and extensive description on the rear, loose in the publisher's black cardboard box (ca. 9,5 x 19 x 7,5 cm).
1850c2206270149xbvkLondon, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850. 1 blank sheet; xii pages (incl. foretitle-sheet, title-sheet, printed dedication-sheet, 'Contents' and 'Introduction to Eidolon'), 240 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Richly gilt handbound green chagrin-leather binding over 5 raised bands with gilt title at spine (stamp-signed ''Bound by Hayday'' at inner frontpanel), all edges gilt, silken marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 11,5 cm).
Second edition, 2 vols., folio (407 x 250 mm), [2], viii, [6, list of subscribers], 3-712; [6], 713-1392, *1387-*1391, [2], 1394-1410pp., 121 engraved maps, plates and plans (including 12 folding), occasional offsetting and some light spotting, new marbled endpapers, nicely bound in modern buckram, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Originally published in 1739 as The history of London, from its foundation by the Romans - this second edition being greatly expanded by 600 pages. Adams, London illustrated, 38; RIBA, Early Printed Books, III: 2007.
18632307230011The Alpine Club London 1863 - 1891 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Golden Age of Alpine Mountaineering 15 volumes 1-15. Fine bindings. Bound in 3/4 leather over green linen boards. Gilt lettered spines gilt ruled. Engraved and photographic plates maps and illustrations many folding. Book plates of the Milton Academy on front paste down gifted by Cyril H. Jones. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. The Alpine Club, London, 1863 - 1891 hardcover
1914331869London : Illustrated London News and Sketch 1914. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved set overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 8v.: ill. ports.; 21 x 30 cm. n.s.: 29 cm. Subjects: World War 1914-1918. World War 1914-1918; Periodicals.Propaganda British; Specimens. World War 1914-1918 Great Britain; Periodicals. Genre: Periodicals - England - 1914-1918. Periodicals. London : Illustrated London News and Sketch hardcover
1774002778Londres, Chez L'éternel Jean Nourse, 1774