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1788315882London: Sold at the White Swan Shoe Lane and the Black Boy St. Martin's Lane 1788. First edition. Additional engraved allegorical title and 20 copper-engraved plates sixteen after Thomas Shearer. xvi 143 1 4 Price of Doors Extra Prices of Doors pp. 1 vols. 4to. Recent quarter calf red morocco spine label marbled boards. Dust-soiling to plates some marginal dust-soiling and spotting and small losses to a few blank corners of letterpress leaves bookplate. First edition. Additional engraved allegorical title and 20 copper-engraved plates sixteen after Thomas Shearer. xvi 143 1 4 Price of Doors Extra Prices of Doors pp. 1 vols. 4to. First edition of this work by the journeymen cabinet-makers of London which lists prices and provides designs for common furniture forms of the period. Subsequent editions followed. This edition is scarce on the market with no copies appearing at auction since 1981. Sold at the White Swan, Shoe Lane, and the Black Boy, St. Martin's Lane unknown books
1911140940363New York: The Macmillan Company 1911. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Jack London on the title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth with pictorial stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and spine stamping. Former owner bookplate to front paste down and hinge at title page slightly exposed. A lovely copy signed by the author. The Macmillan Company unknown books
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
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
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
1916180420006San Francisco: Town Talk Press 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Good. First edition. Includes inserted leaf at rear dated December 1917 addendum. 47 2 pp. Illustrated yapped wraps. Good with a few small stains to wrap edges a little chipped and worn hinge cracked at front. Famous author Jack London contributed a recipe for rice on page 21 followed by one for rice camp style by writer Stewart Edward White. Also recipes contributed by prominent San Francisco merchant Raphael Weill "Brandade of Salt Codfish & Frog's Legs" and businessman Henry J. Crocker "Corned Beef Hash". A scarce early San Francisco cookbook. Town Talk Press unknown books
1900190813Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1900. Hardcover. frontis by Maynard Dixon inserted i-viii 1 251p. printer's imprint 252 blank leaf very good blackish green cloth with silver buckled belt and corners silver on spine somewhat worn first edition printing of 2028 copies according to Sisson/Martens pages 2 &116 and BAL 11869 and Woodbridge. Publisher's imprint at bottom of spine first state with no periods around ampersand : Houghton Mifflin & Co.; no broken type on page 147 perfect "e" in spruce and perfect "t" in might no broken type on 64-67 commas before and after 1900 on copyright page sets of binding threads between 6/7 18/19 and every six leaves thereafter. Two neat previous owners' book plates on front endpapers. This copy matches all first printing first state points with the following two discrepancies from Sisson: 1. the frontispiece has the caption "Malemute Kid Halted Him" page 64 as opposed to "The Men of the Forty Mile" as stated in Sisson; 2. The frontispiece appears to be inserted rather than sewn-in although Swann's auctioned described first printing with frontis tipped-in stating later printings were sewn-in a disagreement with Sisson. Also to this bibliographer the color of the binding is in question as well. Appears to be a blackish-green but could be interpreted as a deep gray-green. All-in-all a very nice copy of the author's rare first book. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1903L0051i-iv v iv vii viii 2612 ad pages with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original blue-gray cloth with white lettering on both spine and front cover in white with totem pole like decorations in red white and black. Inscribed by London. 3466 copies printed of the first edition. This is the second printing. <i>Children of the Frost</i> is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: The League of the Old Men; In the Forests of the North; The Law of Life; Nam-Bok the Unveracious; The Master of Mystery; The Sunlanders; The Sickness of Lone Chief; Keesh the Son of Keesh; The Death of Ligoun; Li Wan the Fair. Condition: Inscribed by London on the front end paper. Slightly cocked rubbing to spine ends and hinges corners bumped else a very good copy. MacMillan and Company hardcover books
1818879851818. Hooker William. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. VOLUME 2. London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland Row; Sold by J. Hatchard Picadilly 1815. Second edition. Engraved title-page and 32 plates of which three are folding. 31 plates are engraved and one is a b&w lithograph. Of the engraved plates 16 are color plates a combination of stipple engraving with hand coloring mostly of fruit but for "Monopsis Conspicua" "The Large Vegetable Marrow" and a beautiful folding plate of "The Double-Sweet-scented Chinese Peony." Uncolored plates are mostly of plans and structures but for a couple of plants. Many of the b&w plates have the engravers' and artists' names while only one of the color plates does "Monopsis Conspicua" printed and engraved by W. Hooker after R. A. Salisbury. However according to Gordon Dunthorne William Hooker no relation to Sir William did the majority of the plates in the first five volumes "including many fine fruit plates which outnumber those of flowers . the fruit prints in particular comparing with the best of Hooker's work." Quarto. 28 x 21.5 cm. 2 XXIV VIII 186 185-186 187-369 372-410 10 28 pp. Disbound: Bookblock is sound with old marbled boards detached yet present but lacking the ffep. and backstrip. Some light foxing to engraved title-page and a few of the other b&w plates with offsetting to facing text pages; otherwise the plates and text are quite clean. Ex library with minimal markings only a cancelled bookplate on front pastedown and a blind embossed seal on p. 1 of text and none to plates. A complete copy in very good condition that needs to be rebound. Published between 1807 and 1848 the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London are esteemed for the very high standard of their production especially in their plates and for their interesting and useful content. References: Dunthorne FLOWER AND FRUIT PRINTS #142; Sitwell GREAT FLOWER BOOKS pp. 58 & 160. unknown books
5337JACK LONDON 1876-1916. London was an American writer and social activist. He is best known for The Call of the Wild. Archive. 4 pieces. A small archive of ephemera related to Jack London his social activism and his best-known work The Call of the Wild. All four include autograph writing by London. Pieces are in very good condition; a few have small filing holes or tears: aANS. 1pg. December 20 1904. Oakland California. London’s brief autograph note signed concerning a speaking engagement. “a Lecture – The Class Struggle b Readings from ‘Call of the Wild’ Jack Londonâ€. bAN. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A brief unsigned note by London written on the back of an empty envelope. “My Outlook on Life – How I became a Socialistâ€. This was the title of a 1903 essay by London. cAn autograph note by London on a typed sheet with recipes for horse medicines. In the recipe for “Tonic Digestive†London circled quinine and added “for exceptionally run-down condition & severe cold.†There is no signature date or place. dA typed list of seven miscellaneous articles under which London handwrote an addition: “That Dead Men Never Rise Up never republished in U.S. and in Eng.†He also crossed out the word Seven in the heading and handwrite “Eightâ€. There is no signature date or place but it must be after September 1908. unknown books
192231542New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in black on front cover; dustjacket; xii 4 180pp; with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and seven inserted black and white illustrations by George M. Richards. Mild offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers with faint scattered foxing to text edges; cloth uniformly bright and clean with the gilt bright and unrubbed; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with front flap trimmed at an odd angle as with nearly all copies we have seen; mild sunning to spine and front panel with uniform dust-soil overall; shallow losses to corners with small nicks to spine ends and a few closed tears; substantially complete unrestored and certainly Very Good or better. Posthumously-published work collecting 10 of London's adventure stories for young readers and notably including the only book appearance of his first story written for publication "Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan." With a preface by Charmian London. WOODBRIDGE 164; BAL 11985. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1778WRCAM44871London: Henry Fenwick 1778. 88; 151pp. bound with: A PETITION OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. London: Henry Fenwick 1769. 11pp. Contemporary calf spine gilt leather label. Boards heavily worn head and foot of spine chipped. Very minor scattered foxing. Good plus. In a brown half morocco and cloth slipcase. The county of Middlesex essentially London was the heart of radical politics in England at the time of the Revolution and the greatest pro-American feeling was found in the merchants and working classes of the metropolis. The colonists often appealed directly to Middlesex for support. These works contain petitions relating to the American colonies dating from June 1774 to March 1778 including petitions regarding the Quebec Act in which the people express their concern over the encroachment of Catholicism and French influence in the colony. Likewise it includes the text of a letter from John Hancock to the mayor of London dated September 1775 expressing a hope for peace between Britain and the colonies. Adams notes that these two titles are often found bound together sometimes with other publications of the Council. The petition of the freeholders of Middlesex County concerns the John Wilkes case. Wilkes ran for Parliament and was elected as a radical candidate for Middlesex but was arrested and imprisoned shortly thereafter for seditious libel. Wilkes spoke out against the British war against the American colonies and his opposition to the Crown was a rallying point for the American cause. ESTC T108621 T108605 T43921. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 78-65. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
19046118London: Heywood and Company Limited 150 Holborn E.C.; Printed by Spottiswode & Co. Ltd 1904. Large quarto 29 x 24 cm. viii 1-86 plates 1-58 pages. FIRST EDITION. One section complete in and of itself of a massive documentation of the Exchanges of London. A detailed description of the history people and product of the London Produce Market Mincing Lane. The work contains: "an historical survey of the London Produce Market from early times to the present day with illustrations" "the origin and history of the principal articles of produce dealt with on the Mincing Lane Market" and "Portraits and biographies of some leading brokers and dealers in produce". The historical section stretches well back before the establishment of the Mincing Lane Market to the earliest-known records of dealing grocery produce which date from the fourteenth century. Principle articles traded on the exchange and profiled here include Sugar Tea Coffee Cocoa Heavy Chemicals including bleach various acids and sodas Indigo Spices Shellac a cochineal product Rice and Flax Hemp & Jute. The largest section of the volume is given to portraits mostly photo-engravings. Each plate printed verso only and with a tissue guard; the name of the depicted is included in the engraving. Some tissue guard folded or crimped a bit of foxing or soiling to the extremities of leaves otherwise internally clean. In full black morocco blind-decorated and gilt-titled. Top edge gilt. Spine faded to brown; edges rubbed. Still very good. Rare. OCLC locates one copy Baker Library Harvard; and only one copy each of two other volumes in the series one on Lloyds and another on the London Metal Exchange. Heywood and Company, Limited, 150 Holborn, E.C.; Printed by Spottiswode & Co., Ltd unknown books
1903RLONKEM00MELMacmillan Company 1903. Very Good. London Jack. The Kempton-Wace Letters. Strunsky Anna. New York: Macmillan Company 1903. First edition. 256pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges spine yellow rippling to middle of front pastedown and endhsets have pencil inscriptions with tiny losses to top corner of rear endsheets. Published anonymously The Kempton-Wace Letterl presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex. Written in the form of a series of letters between two men ""Herbert Wace"" a young scientist and ""Dane Kempton"" an elderly poet. Writer Jack London wrote ""Wace's"" letters and Anna Strunsky wrote ""Kempton's"". Rare. Macmillan Company unknown books
1922278554New York: Macmillan Company 1922. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Jack London's posthumous collection of adventure stories uncommon in the pictorial dustjacket. With the frontispiece photograph of Jack London and seven plates from drawings. One of 4348 copies. The dustjacket is bright with just a trace of shelfwear; there is a minor crease to the rear panel as well as some soiling. The dustjacket has not been price-clipped. The binding is quite sharp and bright with a small stain about 1/4" to the top edge and some minor toning to the endsheets. BAL 11985; Sisson & Martens p. 105. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket. Macmillan Company unknown books
191360349New York: The Century Co 1913. First edition. Small 8vo. 4 169 1 publisher's ad. Frontispiece from a drawing by Gordon Grant. Boxing novel about a naive young man from the sticks who finds corruption in big-city boxing made into two movies "The Abysmal Brute" in 1923 starring Reginald Denny and "Conflict" in 1936 starring John Wayne. BAL 11945. Woodbridge London & Tweney 109. Very good copy in the scarce dust jacket. Original yellow and black-stamped olive cloth illustrated dust jacket some wear to spine ends and corners. 11088. <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1804WRCAM37730London 1804. Bifolium consisting of one unaccomplished broadside form and one broadside advertisement 19 1/2 x 12 inches. Copper- engraved scene 5 3/4 x 7 inches at head of form. Woodcut emblem 3 x 4 1/2 inches at head of advertisement. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Contemporary manuscript inscription "June 1804" in left margin beside engraving in first leaf; contemporary manuscript inscriptions dated November 8 1804 on blank verso of first leaf referring to policy rates in Charleston. Half-inch tear at gutter of first leaf repaired with tape on verso. Portion of upper corner at fore-edge and portion of margin at gutter lacking from second leaf supplied in later paper. Second leaf somewhat faded. Else near fine. Bifolium of two broadsides for the Phoenix fire insurance company of London at the time of the opening of its first agency in New York. The Phoenix Assurance Company still operating today as Phoenix Life Ltd. was founded in 1782 by a consortium of sugar refiners in London seeking more reasonable rates for the insurance of their risky holdings against fire. By the mid-1780s Phoenix had established itself as a successful fire insurer across the whole of Great Britain for a wide array of businesses and homes. In 1785 the Phoenix Company sold its first North American policy at Charleston and the first policy in New York was accepted two years later. It was not until 1804 however that Phoenix began establishing actual agencies in the New World breaking ground in New York with the appointment of Theophylact and Andrew Bache as agents there. <br> <br> The first leaf is a printed policy form for the Phoenix Company in New York never filled in. The second leaf is an advertising broadside for the company containing a table of rates for New York subscribers and a detailed list of conditions for new policies. The handsome copper engraving at the top of the form leaf depicts a helmeted goddess presumably Athena on a pedestal bearing a shield stamped with the word "PROTECTION" and the image of a phoenix rising from ashes. Behind the figure is a nighttime scene of the burning remains of a building and a family of victims spilling onto the street. A team of firefighters is extinguishing the flames with a pump-operated hose and behind them is a scaffolded building under repair. The engraved caption reads: "PHOENIX FIRE OFFICE LOMBARD STREET and CHARING CROSS." A similar illustration in woodcut is included at the head of the "Proposals" broadside. Here the goddess is the only figure depicted. On her left are both the burning building and the new construction; on her right is a ship at sea engulfed in flames. The hooks and axes of the firefighter adorn the sides of the cut. <br> <br> The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature at Harvard lists a copy of the Boston variant of the advertising broadside. The only located institutional holding of this New York issue however is at the Connecticut Historical Society. No records of the printed form in any issue have been located. A rare and interesting pair of documents from the early history of international insurance. KRESS B4839 variant. Clive Trebilcock PHOENIX ASSURANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH INSURANCE VOLUME I 1782-1870 Cambridge University Press 1985 pp.184-201. unknown books
1900151012003Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing first issue text first state binding. Near Fine with slight spine lean tape ghosts to endpapers small spot to cloth at rear gutter. Jack London’s first book; one of 2028 originally printed as per Sisson & Martens. Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
176022532London: Samuel Clark 1760. First edition. Hardcover. Half calf and marbled boards. Very good. 275 2 pages. Folio 12 1/2" x 8". Early ink owner inscription head of title of Benjamin Grubb. Britain even today remains the most prominent grouping of Quakers in Europe. Covers the yearly meetings from Epistle I 1675 through Epistle LXXXII 1759. Many of the accounts also cover Friends in New Jersey Long-Island Virginia Maryland North-Carolina and Barbadoes. Entire interior contents clean and fresh printed on wove paper raised bands maroon leather spine label printed in gilt wear to lower corners and spine chips to backstrip extremities with some loss leather repair to lower front cover corner binding tight and firm. Samuel Clark hardcover books
1698002656S. l. London: s. n. 1698. First Edition. Very good. First edition n. d. 1698 - place and date of publication from Wing; 11 1/4 x 7 1/4; pp. 1 2-4; laid paper printed and ruled in black; no wraps as published; spine strengthened with a thin strip of later paper; two small chips to fore-edge and upper right corner of first leaf; a few minor spots and light uniform age-toning; very good condition. One of the earliest works on a sensitive topic in late-17th-century England the publication discussed the subject of dispensaries vs. apothecaries the advantages of the former and the problems with the latter. Up until that point apothecaries dispensed medicines often risky and even dangerous pharmaceuticals and treated patients allegedly overcharging and overprescribing presenting themselves as genuine medical professionals despite the fact that they were not officially trained and approved by the College of Physicians. To stymy and undercut their competitors to break the apothecaries' monopoly and to show their goodwill the College Fellows set out to establish a dispensary in the summer of 1695 in Wasrwick Lane adjacent to the College. The intention was to provide outpatient medical treatment and advice to the sick poor. Shortly thereafter the services would become free of charge. The venture expanded and several more dispensaries were founded in short order including the above-mentioned one in St. Martin's Lane and another one in Gracechurch Street. Although controversial in itself the Dispensary Movement picked up speed and by 1800 around 40 were in operation across Britain. OCLC lists several copies in US institutions most of them on microfilm; none in the trade. ESTC R232139 s. n. paperback books
192133941New York: The Century Co 1921. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 422 3; viii 414; 43 illustrations on 32 plates 2 other full-p. illustrations in the text; original green cloth spines faded front hinge of vol. II cracked; a good set. Ostensibly Charmian's own copy with her bookplate in each volume and with a 1932 inscription from her in each volume to B. J. Hart "with best wishes from the author Charmian London." Also with her tipped in signature on the front free flyleaf a long autograph postcard from her mounted to the front pastedown regarding "this frightful disaster that has overtaken the South" etc. 2 printed poems of Jack London's pasted in on preliminaries and a typed note signed by Charmian pasted to the rear pastedown in vol. II to Woodruff Book Store in Los Angeles asking for a 10% discount on London's The Valley of the Moon together with typed envelope <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
195979321959. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. 1959 photo-offset of the long-hand account of the former chief warder of the Tower of London of all those imprisoned in the Tower from Flamburd Runnald Bishop of Durham in 1101 to Rudolf Hess in 1941. ONLY 3 SETS OF THIS VALUABLE RECORD WERE MADE-- and all 3 were presented to American institutions. After the chief Warder's death his widow presented the 2 manuscript books to the British military which then authorized a few sets to be copied in photo-offset. 2 folio volumes 247 handwritten pages. Clean and solid and VG. Bound in 1/2 red morocco over red boards. Bright gilt-lettering and rule to the front panels. A wonderful piece of London history and British criminology and a rare glimpse into British attitudes toward punishment and imprisonent over the last milenium. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190629006New York: Macmillan 1906. First edition. Maroon cloth lettered in white white cloth shelf back lettered in black top edge gilt. Light foxing to endpapers small private library stamp. A near-fine copy with the spine lettering intact although the cover lettering is partially effaced. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1903RLONKEM01MELMacmillan 1903. Good. London Jack. The Kempton-Wace Letters. Strunsky Anna. New York: Macmillan 1903. First edition. 256pp. 12mo. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges a small stain to front cover spine is yellow and chipped at ends with two tiny losses to head and gilt on top edge of text block rubbed off. Front endsheets are cracked with tiny loss and short inscription to top corner of front pastedown front hinge is mushy with super exposed soft gutter between pages 186 & 187 and rear endsheets cracked with super exposed and possible ex-library pocket affixed to pastedown. Published anonymously The Kempton-Wace Letterl presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex. Written in the form of a series of letters between two men ""Herbert Wace"" a young scientist and ""Dane Kempton"" an elderly poet. Writer Jack London wrote ""Wace's"" letters and Anna Strunsky wrote ""Kempton's"". Scarce. Macmillan unknown books
