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15195Stuart Gilbert. LONDON Hannah R. PORTRAITS OF JEWS. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle 1969. 4to. Cloth dust jacket. Frontispiece x i 197 pages. An interesting presentation of notable Jewish colonial Americans painted by Gilbert Stuart Rembrandt Charles Peale Jarvis Sully and others. With an appreciation by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and an introduction by Lawrence Park. Fine. unknown books
191618929ENew York: The Literary Digest December 9 1916. First Edition. An original issue of ‘The Literary Digest’ Magazine December 9 1916 with an article about Jack London. Illustrated. Small address label to the front cover. With some darkening and light dust soiling to the covers and with a few small tears and some edge wear. The Literary Digest unknown books
1979304113Secaucus N.J. Castle Books 1979. 1979. First edition thus. 8vo. 4 page introduction by Russ Kingman. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear. Fine. 488 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Russ Kingman on the front free endpaper: "For Curtis & Frances Clarkson - Nearly all of Jack London's book were first published in magazines so here is your chance to read some of his work as it was first published. Hope you enjoy it. Russ Kingman. June 9 1979 Glen Ellen CA." Also signed at the end of the introduction. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Secaucus, N.J., Castle Books, 1979. hardcover books
017359London 1915: Mills & Boon Limited. First British Edition. Octavo. 306pp. 311pp. ads at rear color frontispiece bound in green cloth spine lettering gilt minor wear to head and corners. A very good copy. The story of a sailing voyage from Baltimore to Seattle east-to-west around Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Mills & Boon, Limited unknown books
1986305037Orinda Privately Printed 1986. 1986. First separate edition. 8vo. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Original stitched tan wrappers. Very good-fine. 12 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs October 1986. This copy with original mailing envelope. Soft cover. Very Good. Orinda, Privately Printed [1986]. paperback books
192612942ELondon: Readers Library 1926. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of the silent film of the classic London tale starring Milton Sills. Near fine lightly used copy with a few tiny scuffed spots to the cloth on the front board in a bright dust jacket with a 1†narrow piece missing mid-spine and a shallow chip at the top of the spine. The front panel is a color painting of Sills as an exhausted and fiercely determined Wolf Larsen stripped to waist steering his ship with the rear panel illustrated with a painting of the ship being tossed by rough seas. Scarce. Readers Library hardcover books
19799002191Norwalk: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Fletcher Martin. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrations by Fletcher Martin and an introduction by Edmund Gilligan. Bound in the publisher's original blue composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Easton Press hardcover books
19799005976Norwalk: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Bound in the publisher's original red composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Easton Press hardcover books
1911D12709Cleveland / New York: International Fiction Library 1911. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth; full-color illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 319. Ownership signature of Bessie "Becky" London the author's second daughter from his first marriage born 1902 on FFEP. Boards faintly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped. Internally clean. Dust jacket a bit wrinkled and chipped along the edges with tape repairs on the verso. <br/><br/> International Fiction Library hardcover books
1913291167New York.: The Century Co. 1913. 1st Edition. Black cloth gilt titles. . Near fine top edge lightly dusted very slight wear to extremites no dust jacket. 19.5x13.3 cm. . weight: 1.2 lb. 8 black and white full-page illustrations. The Century Co. hardcover books
1905RLONGAM02KTMacmillan Company 1905. Very Good. London Jack. Game. With illustrations by T. C. Lawrence and Henry Hutt. New York: Macmillan Company 1905. 1st edition 2nd issue. 182pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Very Good. Name in pencil on front pastedown; gentle rubbing to extremities. Macmillan Company hardcover books
1913487901913. FE. LONDON Jack. THE ABYSMAL BRUTE. New York: The Century Co. 1913. First edition. There is a bit little bit of rubbing to the covers and some dampstaining along the top and front edge throughout; still an acceptable copy. unknown books
19766305NNew York: Bounty Books 1976. First Edition. A look at the walking dead from Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff to the Hammer Horror films. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket cover is a color painting of Lugosi and Karloff with a supine girl and a graveyard with zombies below. Profusely illustrated. Bounty Books unknown books
20041373782004. Softbound. As new lloc. Color illustrated wraps. 227 pp 166 lots all illustrated in color. A rather unique catalogue with an introductory essay by Norman Rosenthal and another unsigned essay preceding the presentation of the 166 illustrated lots. LACKS the two sheets of stickers. paperback books
1904WN57721New York: The Macmillan Company 1904. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and multicolor pictorial stamp on upper board. TEG. Binding rather heavily worn rubbed. Front hinge starting. Library checkout form on front pastedown. Owner signature on ffep. A well used though still very sound copy of this London classic. Second Printing. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by W.J.Aylward. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Private Library. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1906RLONMOO00HMRRegent 1906. Very Good. London Jack. Moon Face. New York: Regent 1906. 273pp. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed corners. Regent unknown books
1913RLONABY00MELCentury Co. 1913. Good. London Jack. The Abysmal Brute. New York: Century Co. 1913. First edition. 169pp. Small 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges soiling spine gently rolled ends bumped and lettering faded faint soiling to a few pages and soft gutter between pages 76 and 77. Century Co. hardcover books
1979TB23372Norwalk Conn.: The Easton Press 1979. Collector's Edition. Near fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Some of the gilt filled embossing on the front and rear boards is deteriorating and missing. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7" containing 354 pages of text. Illustrated with drawings by Fletcher Martin and with an introduction by Edmund Gilligan. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With the exception of the missing gilt on the front and rear boards this is a tight clean copy with no names dates notations or former owner's book plates. The Easton Press hardcover books
1916RLONTUR00MELMacmillan Company 1916. Very Good. London Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. New York: Macmillan Company 1916. Second printing. 265pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges and gently bumped spine ends. Macmillan Company unknown books
1923107539Prague: B. Koci 1923. quarter cloth marbled paper-covered boards. 12mo. quarter cloth marbled paper-covered boards. 142 144 157 pages. 3 volumes in one. Second Prague edition. Woodbridge London and Tweney 127. Text in Czech. Translation by Marie Masková of Jack London's The Mutiny of the Elsonore. Xerox copy of above-cited bibliography laid in. Spine faded; top of spine torn. Boards scuffed. Bookplate partially removed on front pastedown. B. Koci unknown books
1979WRCLIT80099Oakland: Star Rover House 1979. Quarto. Gilt lettered pictorial cloth. Plates and facsimiles. First edition. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Spine and a small band at the top edge of the rear board are sunned else near fine in a clear plastic jacket. Copley bookplate on pastedown. Star Rover House hardcover books
193010332London: Oxford University Press 1930. Hardcover. VG with the following condition notes: Ancient label remnants at base of spine and extreme top of spine two bookplates inside front cover deaccession stamp. A very clean solid copy of this large book. Tan cloth with gilt embossed title on cover and spine. T.e.g. xxx 311 pp. 7 color 114 bw plates. This large book is very clean inside. Includes a 12-page introduction by C.J. Holmes the full-page plates several of the color plates are tipped-in and the detailed and annotated catalogue arranged chronologically. Also contains a list of plates 95 paintings 19 drawings 4 silver 2 glass index of painters index of draughtsmen etchers silversmiths and glassworkers and index of owners. A major exhibition at the time. Cover and spine title is: A Commemoratiave Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900. Contents as follows: Introduction by Sir Charles Holmes.--Paintings by H. Schneider and W.G. Constable.--Drawings and etchings by A.M. Hind and D. Hannema.--Silver by Miss C.J. Hudig and E.A. Jones.--Glass by Wilfred Buckley. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2005135455London: Sotheby's 2005. Softcover. VG- Ex-library with some marks and labels cover shows average edge wear and scuff marks. Black & pictorial wraps 122 pp. numerous BW & color illus. The catalog of an auction held on May 17 2005 as a fundraiser for a women's center in London. Images depict the young and old the famous and the non-famous. Sotheby's paperback books
2005137491London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. VG unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 314 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1122 lots stamps from British Africa that come from the most important collection to appear on the market in more than 50 years. Assembled by Sir Gawaine Baillie 7th Bt 1934-2003 the collection was almost entirely unknown to international collectors and boasts highlights not seen on the market for several decades. The sale was the fifth in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Foreword by Richard Ashton. Sotheby's paperback books
19711307537New York: Ballantine Books Inc 1971. Softcover. First Printing Octavo; VG-/Wraps; Cream spine with black text; Moderate shelf wear to covers slight rubbing along edges and sides; Binding solid; Heavy toning to text block exterior and pages text block clean; 391 pp; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-136267. 1307537. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Ballantine Books, Inc unknown books
