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19037143New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition Sixth Printing Signed. First edition sixth printing from January 1904. Signed by the author Jack London on the front endpaper: "With best wishes / Jack London / Xmas 1905". Measures approximately 7.75" x 5" with 231 numbered pages. In a custom half leather and folding chemise slipcase.<br /> <br /> This book is in very good minus condition. Moderate wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Hinges are cracked but holding strong. Dampstaining visible on the front board front pastedown and front endpaper but nowhere else on the book or textblock. Interior pages are otherwise clean and well preserved. <br /> <br /> "The Call of the Wild" is a novel set in Yukon Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The main character of the story is a dog named Buck.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory number P6-8. The Macmillan Company unknown
190344499New York and London: The Macmillan Company 1903. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition first issue of one of the best-loved works of American literature in scarce original dust jacket. Jack London's animal fiction has captured the hearts and imaginations of generations of Americans. A socialist animal activist and eugenicist London was a complex man who participated in unemployment protests and the Alaskan Gold Rush. The working dogs of Alaska clearly left an impression on him leading to several pieces of canine literature the most famous of which is CALL OF THE WILD. <br /> <br /> Published in 1903 CALL OF THE WILD hit the shelves in the second year of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency; Americans were hungry for the outdoors and red-blooded adventure stories. With its narrative of civilization pitted against instinct the title was enthusiastically received by critics and was an immediate hit. A BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE reviewer notes that London "does not make the mistake of endowing his dog hero with superhuman qualities of intelligence and cunning" praising his handling of the plot as "strikingly novel." <br /> <br /> A true classic in remarkable condition. 7.75'' x 5''. Original decorated green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Illustrated endpapers of a dog team and mountain scene. Pictorial title page printed in black and blue. Full-page color frontispiece 10 full-page color plates and a number of full-page landscapes in printed blue; smaller blue and color illustrations throughout. "Set up electrotyped and published July 1903" on copyright page BAL. 232 pages with one leaf of ads to rear. With folded leaflet from Macmillan advertising this and other titles laid in. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. Dust jacket with a bit of chipping to spine head not affecting title; two small spots of soil to front panel. Binding with mild edgewear corners and spine ends lightly bumped; leaves with occasional tiny spots of soil. Vibrant. The Macmillan Company unknown
190515535New York: Macmillan 1905. First Edition second printing. Near fine/very good. Henry Hutt. PRESENTATION copy INSCRIBED to one of the book's illustrators Octavo : pp. 14 15-182 6 publisher's advertisements : illustrated by Henry Hutt and decorated by T.C. Lawrence : t.e.g. : green publisher's cloth lettered in red with vignette of shrouded Death snipping a thread : image repeated on scarce pictorial dust jacket in blue against orange and white background lettering also in blue : inscribed by the author at the half title to "Henry Hutt - with grateful appreciation and hearty best wishes Jack London Glen Ellen California August 8 1905." In blue chemise and blue half morocco slipcase.<br /> <br /> A chipped and slightly soiled jacket from another copy previous cataloguer's admission; corners of top board lightly bumped. First edition second printing with the Metropolitan Magazine rubber stamp to the copyright page. <br /> <br /> Provenance: Sotheby's - New York April 2024 - The Maurice F. Neville Collection. Included at the sale with the Autograph manuscript see item #15534. Macmillan unknown
19032210103MacMillan 1903. first. hardcover. very good/very good. First edition published in July 1903 stated on copyright page. Book very good faint water stains along top of pastedowns and end papers and rear cover. rubbing along edges some foxing on page after half-title page. Dust jacket very good to good minor soiling some pieces missing. Housed in custom-made slipcase. More photos available upon request. MacMillan unknown
19069347London 1906. Edwardian station map approx 40 x 60 inches this example 101 x 150.5 cm printed in colours some restoration with small areas of loss along the folds made good blank verso. Un-titled undated and without a printer this exceptionally scarce early poster was created for display in stations but establishing which ones presents a challenge. We can date it with reasonable confidence to 1906 or perhaps a fraction earlier. Our map predates the western extension of the Central London Railway to Wood Lane which opened for the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908. Angel is still shown as the terminus of the City & South London Railway but the western extension to Euston which opened in May 1907 is under construction. The use of a green border appears to be a nod to the successful series of green-bordered UERL Underground Group maps but as those were introduced in 1907 it might be the other way around. Another unusual design feature is the two tone shading in line colours of the names of interchange stations such as The Bank. The Bakerloo Line which opened in March 1906 appears to be shown as a thin dotted black line but as it was owned by the rival UERL its use for dating purposes cannot be guaranteed: this is most emphatically not a UERL map. Just three underground lines are highlighted none of which was under the UERL umbrella in 1906: The Central London Railway the City & South London Railway and the Great Northern & City Railway the first two purchased by the UERL and the latter by the Metropolitan Railway all in 1913. Two mainline companies are featured: the Great Northern Railway with its terminus at Finsbury Park and the Great Western Railway which served Paddington. Of these two the GWR is far more prominent with an inset showing the route to Reading. The map promotes travel across London using the highlighted routes at the expense of all others including the UERL: all are razor thin black and unobtrusive with no further differentiation between underground mainline and suburban services and seemingly haphazard naming of stations. It seems likely that our map was a joint response by three of the independent underground railway companies to the growing power of the UERL possibly in co-operation with the GWR and was created for display in any of their stations. We have been unable to locate another example. Map unknown
19031508068MacMillan Company 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition correct statement on copyright page in a very good original dust jacket that is unrestored rare thus. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. MacMillan Company hardcover books
19031508068MacMillan Company 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. near fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition correct statement on copyright page in a very good original dust jacket that is unrestored. Dust jacket shows chipping to some corners and spine ends 3" tear to front spine hinge at bottom and 1/2" tear to top. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. MacMillan Company hardcover
1907Bv1406<p>SIGNED First edition of Jack London's Before Adam 1907. lengthily inscribed by London in the year of publication in the publisher's ORIGINAL DUST JACKET the only copy of this London best seller in jacket we've seen! Color illustration on frontispiece illustrations in text by Charles Livingston Bull. Publisher's original light-brown buckram with wraparound footprints illustration and tan topstain. Tan dust jacket printed in red. Chipping to top edge of jacket especially to spine with loss of text browning to endpapers. Before Adam tells its story in the words of a narrator who proclaims himself a "freak of heredity" with direct biological access through his nightmares to the memories of a prehistoric ancestor "Big Tooth." The narrator has assembled these memories into a chronological account of Big Tooth's life which occurred at a stage of prehistory in which humans existed simultaneously at three evolutionary levels. Before Adam has much in common with Stanley Waterloo's The Story of Ab published in 1897. Waterloo eventually accused London of plagiarism though the latter denied the charges and insisted he was merely inspired by it. Before Adam employs a common currency with The Story of Ab of course in its elements of primeval hordes brutes subhumans striving to enter the human state atavisms shamanistic racial memories and so on but the most probable direct source for London's characters is Darwin's notion of the Primal Horde in which a powerful male terrorizes the younger males of the group in order to monopolize the females. Remarkably Before Adam both foreshadows Freud's depiction of the origins of civilization in Totem and Taboo 1913 and obliges Darwin's The Descent of Man 1871. A Very Good copy signed inscribed and dated by London in Oakland CA. in its original dust jacket preserved in a custom clamshell box. Book #Bv1407. $8800. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand and other Legends and Landmarks.</p> Macmillan hardcover
1913140948665New York: Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company 1913. Reprint. Near Fine. Authorized Edition third printing. Presentation copy signed by Jack London on the front free endpaper and inscribed to his physician Dr. A.R. Goodman the latter's bookplate to front pastedown: "Dear Doctor Goodman: - It takes more than you think to make me dopey - witness my shameless confession when next we meet. July 10 1914."<br /> <br /> <p>iv 9 - 231 pp. illustrated with black and white plates. Bound in publisher's bead-grain blue cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light rubbing to cloth and light toning to contents; binding starting at p. 133. <br /> <br /> <p>A crisp inscribed copy of an early reprint of Jack London's most famous novel. The Review of Reviews was a reform magazine sister to the progressive British periodical of the same name and a natural choice to publish affordable editions of books by the socialist champion. That champion took a warm interest in the Mexican Revolution and traveled to Mexico in 1914 as a war correspondent for Collier's. Charmian London wrote in her 1921 biography of her husband that he was stricken with dysentery in Vera Cruz and was treated by Dr. Goodman the resident American physician. This book was one of a set he gave to his physician whose advice he had partially ignored in gratitude. Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company unknown
Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058, Book
51-6070New York: V.G. Audubon 1849 1851 1854. 3 vols. 8vo. 16.5 x 25.5cm. 6.5 x 10 inches. Gilt stamped full morocco by Root & Son London binder. One cover loose. Sabin 2368; Nissen 163; Church 1357; OCLC Number 2853409 wrong dates; McGill/Wood 208; Bennett 5; Phillips Sporting 27; Meisel II 468. 155 handcolored lithographs. Half-titles one loose and title pages present.Waterstaining to the text pages and to the margins of the plates barely visible on the rectos with the lithographs. Image colors fresh and rich with no foxing.FIRST OCTAVO EDITION of Audubon's final great work with the plates in fresh colors. The work was the result of Audubon's collaboration with John Bachman a Lutheran Pastor who had studied quadrupeds from his youth and who was recognised as an authority in the United States. The two began their association when Audubon stayed with Bachman and his family in Charleston for a month in 1831. Audubon knew that Bachman's contribution was critical but had to fight hard to convince his friend to take part. Bachman eventually relented with the proviso that all profits and expenses were to be the Audubons: the work was expected to show a healthy return and he was eager to benefit his sons-in-law Victor and John Woodhouse Audubon.In 1898 Charles E. Lauriat 1842-1920 decided to became a bookseller only and leave the publishing to his former partner Dana Estes. So their partnership was dissolved. Dana Estes continued to publish books as Dana Estes and Company. Lauriat bought out the stock of Estes and Lauriat and on June 1 1898 started his retail establishment at 301 Washington Street Opposite "Old South". He sold the Estes books as well as the books of other publishers He moved to larger quarters in 1906 just down the way at 385 Washington Street. Boston He remained as president of this company until his death. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854 unknown
17966886Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey 83 N. Second-Street 1796. Duodecimo 16 x 10 cm. xiii 14-132 pages. Index. Illustrated with three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition first printing. Carter's popular English cookbook circa 1765 became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the United States. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes & Gill of 1772 Lowenstein 4 and New York: Berry & Rogers of 1792 Lowenstein 7 and 1795 Lowenstein 8b. The Edes & Gill issue of 1772 was just the second American cookbook following the 1742 Alexandria printing of Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife. The two Berry & Rogers printings contained a number of changes which better reflected the American context of these books and which greatly influenced Amelia Simmons in the creation of her foundational American Cookery of 1796. In a statement "To the readers" page ii it is explained that the sections on Gravies and Sauces has been moved to the front and indexed for reference within the other recipes "as the chief excellence of all cookery consists in a perfect acquaintance with the making of Gravies and Sauces". Contemporary half calf over marbled boards untitled gilt-ruled spine; joints and extremities rubbed. Lightly age-toned with some light foxing scattered spotting darkening at edges. Ink ownership signature "Samuel H. Tumler" to rear paste-down. Rare. OCLC locates twenty-three copies; Evans 30168; Lowenstein 15; not in Cagle; this printing not in Bitting. Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street hardcover books
1931378785San Francisco: A. Roman & Company; John H. Carmany & Company et al. 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Magazine. 93 bound volumes and 40 single issues in wrappers. Octavos and folios. A long run of Overland Monthly California’s most important literary magazine of the 19th and early 20th Century. The set includes a near complete run of the original series from July 1868 until December 1875 lacking only the January 1870 issue else complete; and a long near complete run of the second series from 1883 when it resumed publication through 1931. In 1923 it merged with Out West to become Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine and changed its format from octavo to folio.<br /> <br /> Founded and first edited by Bret Harte Overland Monthly established serious literature and progressive social criticism in the American Far West. It quickly won national and international acclaim as a leading literary force in American letters. Ambrose Bierce Mark Twain and Harte contributed sardonic stories and verse and all manner of informal highly personal commentary which propelled Harte and the magazine to literary celebrity. The magazine gave rise to a new generation of writers loosely known as the West Coast Romantics that included Bierce and Harte John Muir Willa Cather Joaquin Miller Jack London George Sterling and fantasy/science fiction writer Clark Ashton Smith all of whom contributed to the magazine. Among the many important works featured in this long run is Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp†“Dickens in Camp†and “Plain Language from Truthful James†and Bierce's "The Haunted Valley" and “Grizzly Papers†in five installments. Mark Twain contributed his famous travel log in four installments: “By Rail Through France†and “A Californian Abroad: A Few Parisian Sights; Three Italian Cities; A Mediaeval Romance.†Willa Cather’s short story “On the Divide†appeared in 1896.<br /> <br /> Most volumes are bound in full beige or blue cloth. The original series lacks one monthly issue January 1870 otherwise it is complete in 14 bound volumes volumes 1-3 and 5-15 with four unbound issues in wraps February-May 1870. Volume 3 from 1869 has the original wrappers and supplements bound in. Volumes 1-6 of the second series is incomplete consisting of 11 unbound single issues in wraps from 1883-1885: April 1883; January April July August September October and November 1884; January March May 1885 then follows a consecutive run of mostly bound volumes 7-89 from 1886-1931 with 29 single issues from 1921-22 in wrappers. The bound volumes from 1901-1931 have the original wrappers bound in.<br /> <br /> An ex-library set with bookplates or ink stamps on the front pastedowns. Only two volumes in half calf from 1895 and 1897 are scuffed and worn thus good only about ten volumes and a few single issues in wraps from the 20th Century have some intermittent torn leaves the volume containing the “San Francisco Fire Number†May 1906 is split at the gutter with detached leaves else overall an about very good set. A scarce large assemblage of many first appearances of important American literary works and articles. A list of notable selections is available. A. Roman & Company; John H. Carmany & Company [et al.] hardcover
1913303825New York The Century Co. 1913. 1913. First edition "Published August 1913". 8vo. Frontispiece and 7 illustrations by H.T. Dunn. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth. Very good-fine. No dust jacket. 343 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with chemise. Boldly signed and inscribed by Jack London on the page before half title: "Dear Jim: Hope you don't get thirsty reading this. Don't you admire the expensive paper Century Co. uses for front sheets. Sincerely yours Jack London Sept. 9 1913." With Jack London's wolf bookplate tipped on the front pastedown. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, The Century Co., 1913. hardcover books
191222680EGlen Ellen Sonoma County CA 1912. Original Autograph Letter Signed by Jack London to his friend poet George Sterling. 3 pages 8†x 5†dated July 13 1912. With the postmarked envelope which is addressed by Charmian London to George Sterling Carmel-by-the-Sea CA - which is crossed out with “Bohemian Club San Francisco†at the bottom of the address. The text of the letter indicates that it was written on board the ship Dirigo toward the end of the voyage and reads in full: “133 days at sea On board Ship Dirigo 145 W. Long. 42 N. Lat. July 13 1912. Blessed Greek: Just to let you know we’re back. Expect to see you at Jinks and later at ranch to tell you all about the voyage. Say - never let him know it - I’ve forgotten the name of our partner in the tent at Bohemian Grove. You and I are third owners each in the outfit. Only I don’t know what I’ll have to bring. A cot Blankets of course. Find out from him and have a letter at Glen Ellen giving me his name and all essential data. Of course you’ll be at the Jinks. I haven’t had a drink for 144 days! Wolf. Charmian sends love. Say: this time you shall not escape me. You must play pinochle. Greatest two-handed game invented.†Creases from folding else fine. The voyage London speaks of is that of a 148 day sail from Baltimore to Seattle aboard the windjammer Dirigo he took with his wife Charmian. The Bohemian Club is a private club in San Francisco which has a restricted campground called Bohemian Grove in nearby Monte Rio. On August 18 1904 Jack London went with his close friend the poet George Sterling to "Summer High Jinks" at the Bohemian Grove. Subsequently London was elected to honorary membership in the Bohemian Club and took part in many activities. Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce Gelett Burgess Allan Dunn John Muir Frank Norris and Herman George Scheffauer. George Sterling 1869 - 1926 was an American writer based in the San Francisco California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. In addition to Jack London his work was admired by writers as diverse as Upton Sinclair Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. The American historian Kevin Starr wrote this about Sterling: “The uncrowned King of Bohemia so his friends called him Sterling had been at the center of every artistic circle in the San Francisco Bay Area. Celebrated as the embodiment of the local artistic scene though forgotten today Sterling had in his lifetime been linked with the immortals his name carved on the walls of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition next to the great poets of the past.†unknown books
19381720251938. LONDON BULLETIN. London Bulletin. Vols. 1 - 20 all published. 8vo ca. 250 x 185 mm. original publisher's wrappers. London: London Gallery 1938-1940. A complete set in the original wrappers of this important English contribution to the Surrealist movement. Edited by E.L.T. Mesens the distinguished list of contributors included Paul Eluard Herbert Read André Breton Paul Nash Tanguy Beckett Peret Picabia and Roland Penrose. The magazine was profusely illustrated throughout and printed on a variety of paper stock of differing colours. Complete sets in the wrappers are of great rarity. unknown
1913303825New York The Century Co. 1913. 1913. First edition "Published August 1913". 8vo. Frontispiece and 7 illustrations by H.T. Dunn. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth. Very good-fine. No dust jacket. 343 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase with chemise. Boldly signed and inscribed by Jack London on the page before half title: "Dear Jim: Hope you don't get thirsty reading this. Don't you admire the expensive paper Century Co. uses for front sheets. Sincerely yours Jack London Sept. 9 1913." With Jack London's wolf bookplate tipped on the front pastedown. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, The Century Co., 1913. hardcover
193846129London. : London Gallery. 1938 April – 1940 June. Original publisher's wrappers each of a different colour and with titles to front covers in various colours later blue cloth chemise with leather title label to spine and matching slipcase. 20 vols. in 15. 4to. 250 x 190 mm. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome with text and illustration on a variety of paper stock of differing colour; the final triple number 18 - 20 also includes two hors-texte full-page woodcuts in two colours by Stanley William Hayter and John Banting and John Buckland Wright's original monochrome woodcut. A complete set of the London Bulletin the most influential English Surrealist periodical.Edited by E.L.T. Mesens this was the most influential English language Surrealist magazine and the only one to be published in England. Although it described itself as an avant-garde review Surrealist contributions were numerous; the periodical also featured Constructivism and more abstract art not Surrealist in tone but Surrealism was the dominant mode throughout. Contributors included Paul Eluard Herbert Read Mesens André Breton Nash Tanguy Beckett Péret Picabia George Reavey Humphrey Jennings Roland Penrose Eileen Agar John Banting Conroy Maddox and many others.The series includes three double numbers and the final triple number: 4 / 5: 'The Impact of Machines'; 8 / 9: 'Living Art in England'; 15 / 16: 'Picasso in English Collections'; 18 - 20: 'Surrealism'. In this set issue 1 includes the original printed order slip on thin blue paper loosely inserted.' . it was not until 1938 when E. L. T. Mesens published the Bulletin of the London Gallery of which he had become director in 1937 that the Surrealist group in England found a voice although theirs was not the only voice in it.' Dawn Ades.'London Bulletin has assumed the position of the only avant garde publication in this country concerned with contemporary poetry and art. Although its first number was practically a monograph by various hands concentrated on the work of the surrealist René Magritte it has rapidly expanded its range reflecting besides exhibitions of painting other activities of living interest in its pages. The July double number devoted to 'The Impact of Machines' further increased the value of its position by arousing the attention of numerous readers abroad . '. Introduction to issue no.7.Ades 14.53 see pp. 349 - 357; Fonds Destribats 403. London Gallery. hardcover
1903003214New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Philip R. Goodwin & Charles Livingston Bull. This is a jacketed first edition of perhaps the most iconic work of an archetypally American author and giant of early twentieth century literature. Though Jack London had experienced some preceding success as a writer it was The Call of the Wild written in his mid-twenties that brought him fame. London's tale of a pampered California dog who finds his strength his place and the brutal gift of his freedom in a savage primal North met with immediate popularity and critical acclaim. The first printing quickly sold out and the story has since seen a host of successive editions remaining continuously in print. London's story occupies a pinnacle amid the remarkably prolific output of his short strenuous and celebrated literary life. The story's hero Buck ranks among the most provocative and best known animal protagonists in literature. To the virtues of the story itself the first edition lends a striking aesthetic. The distinctive illustrated binding features vertically scored olive cloth with a classic London dog sled scene in three panels on the front cover in red white and black with gilt print on spine and front cover and a color illustration of the lead sled dog from the front cover repeated on the spine. Within the book is profusely illustrated in color by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull bound with illustrated endpapers and printed with generous margins its thirty two thousand words more novella-length than novel nonetheless fill 231 pages. The heavy gray paper dust jacket repeats the front cover illustrations and spine illustrations in dark green print. This copy is very good plus in an original dust jacket. The binding remains tight and bright with sharp corners. Minor wear is primarily confined to extremities. The typical abrasion loss of the white "snow" on the front cover and spine is modest. We note a modest forward lean to the binding. The contents remain bright and clean with a crisp feel. We find no previous ownership marks or spotting. The illustrated endpapers frontispiece tissue guard all illustrations and the two-page Macmillan advertisement bound in at the rear are all intact. The untrimmed fore edges and bottom edges remain exceptionally clean with only slight age-toning and the top edge gilt is bright. Searching for internal flaws we note only faint finger smudges at the blank inner margin of page 15. The illustrated dust jacket remains clean with clearly legible print and only perhaps a hint of barely discernible color shift to the spine. The jacket has suffered no repair or reinforcement. It bears unmistakable association with the first edition in the form of color ink from the front cover illustration that has transferred to the front panel verso of the dust jacket. We note chip losses at the spine heel to a maximum .5 inch depth a .25 inch deep strip loss at the spine head modest loss to the corners and fractional wear to the edges and front flap fold. Losses to spine extremities do not impact either title or publisher print. The dust jacket is protected in a removable archival quality clear cover. References: BAL 11876 Woodbridge 19 <br /><br /> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
40973London: 1860. 380 x 390 cm. A magnificent wall map of London. Engraved over thirty sheets joined backed onto linen trimmed with green silk and mounted on original rollers. The whole housed within original wooden case measuring roughly 420 x 15 x 14 cm. Original wash hand colour demarcating the gas company districts the names of which have been handwritten in bold black ink. The map shows the extents from Crouch End down to Streatham and Plaistow across to Wormwood Scrubs. Scale - 12 inches to the mile. The altitudes given in feet at numerous intervals almost at every inch. Small tear within map towards upper edge. Fabric tape repair on reverse side of upper right corner. One of the finial posts missing from the lower roller. The signature of Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt "Chairman of the Select Comittee House of Commons" dated 14th Aug. 1860 appears in manuscript to the lower left corner beneath the title. Sotheron-Estcourt was M.P. for North Wiltshire and briefly held the office of Home Secretary in the previous year. The title repeated in manuscript on the linen verso on the reverse side of the upper right corner. Adjacent to this a manuscript note reads: "Deposited in the Clerk of the Peace's Office on the 22nd August 1860". The Clerk of the Peace was a semi judicial position appointed to the county council one the main tasks of the position was maintenance of local legal records. In passing the Metropolis Gas Act the House of Commons regulated the rivalling gas companies operating across London: demarcating the districts that they could supply outlined on the map establishing a standard unit of measurement for energy usage candle power and setting a maximum price per unit. The Home Secretary was effectively appointed to the role of ombudsman by the Act. [London: 1860] unknown
19034544New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition first <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">issue</span> of one of the most desirable classics in American literature. Octavo original pictorial green cloth pictorial endpapers top edge gilt. Near fine in a the original dust jacket with a few small chips to the crown of the spine and front panel. With 18 full-page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The Call of the Wild is "one of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the century this was considered the American dream" Parker 16. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1908339985London: no publisher 1908. Softcover. Good. Typescript manuscript. 16pp. String-tied maroon crocodile textured wrappers with hand-titled paper label. Numerous tears and moderate loss to the wraps but with only light toning to the interior pages except for last page which has some creasing overall very good. This memorandum was prepared by the London Committee of Deputies of Jews a group formed in the mid-18th Century to safeguard the interests of the Jewish community and given to Sir Edward Grey the longest tenured British Foreign Secretary. The memorandum outlines various violations by the Romanian government to the Convention of Paris 1858 and the Treaty of Berlin 1878. It was likely written in reaction to the previous year's Romanian peasants' revolt in which over 10000 people were killed and the origin of which was falsely blamed on the Jews. A notable document of European prewar Jewish solidarity and reaction to anti-Semitism. [no publisher] unknown
10630[Le Cannet], [1901 - 1927]. Important ensemble de 330 aquarelles, empreintes et dessins originaux d'Auguste Tavel, ayant pour motifs des compositions végétales. La plupart devaient servir pour des menus. Ainsi 74 feuillets sont non seulement décorés, mais ils sont datés, le menu y est inscrit à l'aquarelle, et les noms des invités figurent souvent au verso, avec le plan de table. L'artiste a utilisé des papiers de différentes teintes et textures. Presque chaque feuillet porte le tampon de Tavel. L'ensemble n'est pas relié, mais conservé sous une reliure portant la mention "Roc-Tavel - Menus" au dos et sur le premier plat.
1928ZB394238University of London 1928-1986. volumes 1-59. 1928-1986. partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the set. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. University of London unknown
1841214032London : Published at the Office 1841-1891 1841. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copies uniformly bound in contemporary gilt-blocked 1/2 leather over boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt with raised bands. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Staining and rubbing evident in varying degrees to the spine covers. Text and plates are a very clean and sound condition throughout. This unique and highly collectible set remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 1 pages; Description: 100v. in 25: illus ; 28cm. The first 100 volumes of Punch Magazine professionally bound in 25 books. Subjects: Punch magazine -- Satire -- British humour -- English wit and humor -- Periodicals. London : Published at the Office, 1841-1891 hardcover
