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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
2005137488London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. NF unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 286 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1504 lots stamps from the British West Indies & South Atlantic 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 second in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Foreword by Charles Freeeland. Sotheby's paperback books
2005137489London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. NF unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 300 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1259 lots stamps from the Australian States & Australian Commonweath 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 third in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Has a personal remembrance by Tommy Sopwith and foreword by Richard Ashton. Sotheby's paperback books
1903140938535New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's rubbed grey-blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good or better with gilt stamping vert sharp light rubbing to cloth at extremities and front inner hinge slightly tender. A lovely copy of a book not typically found in such condition. The Macmillan Company unknown books
19038677New York. Macmillan. 1903. 1st Issue binding. Gilt and black lettered pictorial blue-grey cloth. t.e.g. 8vo. 1st Printing. Illustrated with photographs. BALL 11877: Sisson & Martens 15. Slight lean. Head and tailpieces rubbed. Corners bumped. A Very Good bright copy of this scarce title. Macmillan. hardcover books
189133025London: George Edward Wright & George Routledge 1891. 8vo. xx 196 pp. <br><br>Interesting account of the disruption and dissension during the last years of Parnell's life. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 0571660. Publisher's olive green cloth stamped in gold and black. Front hinge inside cracked but board holding nicely. Ex-library with call number label on spine bookplate rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper label and rubber-stamps on rear pastedown label on rear free endpaper; no stamps in text. Library name stamped on both edge of closed volume. George Edward Wright & George Routledge hardcover books
1926245370Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa 1926. Magazine. pp. 129-164 complete issue wraps with cleric edges slightly creased else very good condition. Contents: Trampin with Kelly through Iowa Jack London and Comment the editor John Ely Briggs. The State Historical Society of Iowa unknown books
1976279714New York: New York University Press 1976. hardcover. fine/very good. 8vo red cloth d.w. New York: New York University Press 1976. Very good<br/><br/> Study of social changes in America during the 1960s.<br/><br/> New York University Press 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
198516490London 1985. Softcover. VG- light corner and edge wear minor curling to front cover lacks clear dust jacket. Tan textured paper wraps with brown illustration and lettering. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Number 920 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. unknown books
1913Embry 144108The Century Co. New York: 1913. First edition first state with single blank at end. Inked name and date to front free endpaper light rubbing to joints and spine tips overall near fine in custom mylar cover. Blue/gray cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black. BAL 11942. The Century Co., New York: 1913. First edition, first state with single blank at end. hardcover books
1913191716New York: The Century Co 1913. Hardcover. 290p. i ad color frontis small neat ownership name in ink on front free endpaper light foxing to endpapers good first edition first printing in gary-blue cloth and gilt with black ink totems on front cover gilt on spine faded mild shelfwear. Sisson page 68 BAL11942. Includes an Edgar Rice Burroughs-influenced California fantasy and "The Mexican The Century Co hardcover books
1913WRCLIT38154New York: Century 1913. Grey cloth lettered in gilt decorated in black. Frontis. First edition BAL's printing 1 presumed priority binding 1. A couple tiny spots to upper board corners slightly rubbed else very good and tight. BAL 11942. BLEILER p.126. SMITH L-454. Century hardcover books
1913RLONNIG00MELCentury Co. 1913. Good. London Jack. The Night-Born and also Madness of John Harned When the World Was Young Benefit of the Doubt Winged Blackmail Bunches of Knuckles War Under the Deck Awnings To Kill a Man Mexican. New York: Century Co. 1913. First edition second issue. 290pp. 12mo. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges light soiling to covers edges of text block and endsheets chipping to spine ends with a tiny loss to head and a stain to fore edge of text block. Century Co. unknown books
1913126841913. New York: The Century Company 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of ten short stories. In addition to the title story the volume includes "The Madness of John Harned" "Bunches of Knuckles" and "To Kill a Man." This was the second of four books in a row published by Century after Jack had strayed from Macmillan on his trip to New York a year earlier. He had business in New York with the Millergraph investment he had bought into the invention of a new lithographic process which promptly went awry and he took Charmian there in the winter of 1911. It was the worst time of her marriage. He abandoned her most of the time in an apartment on Morningside Heights while he roistered night and day round the city with. a pack of friends. He stopped writing and drank heavily unable to resist the lure of being a literary lion. He went to boxing matches he spent the nights on Broadway or with chorus girls. Sinclair It was in this frame of mind that Jack marched into Macmillan and demanded that his royalty be increased from 15% to 20% -- and wound up with Century instead. This copy is in the primary binding lettering in gilt with totem poles in black; it has only one blank leaf at the rear other than the endpaper which is "presumed" by bibliographers to indicate the first state. It is an unusually bright copy fine except for minor natural wrinkling of the spine cloth; this is a Decorative Designers binding. Sisson & Martens p. 68; Blanck 11942. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191334647New York: The Century Co 1913. 1st edition 1st printing BAL 11942; Sisson p. 38; Smith L-454. Blue-grey cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering & black stamped totem polls to front board with "DD" monogram. Square & tight. A VG copy. 6 290 4 pp. Publisher adverts penultimate leaf; last leaf blank. Inserted color frontispiece. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> The Century Co 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
19312906Oakland: Published by the Author 1931. 1st edition. Brown cloth binding. Dust jacket. Nr. F/VG two small pieces msg from upper edge of dj frnt panel. Ex-lib faint stamp on top edge of text block. 252 pp. Illustrated w/ drawings & photographs. 8vo. 23cm x 15.5cm. <br/><br/>A reminiscence by a friend. Published by the Author hardcover books
196093655NY:: Popular Library. Very Good. 1960. Paperback. G480. First edition thus mass market paperback. Previous owner's name on verso of front cover else very good in illustrated wraps. . Popular Library, paperback books
1950ULONMUT00HMRArcadia House 1950. Very Good. London Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. New York: Arcadia House 1950. 378pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges and faintly browned endsheets. Arcadia House unknown books
1914126851914. London: Mills & Boon 1914. 432 pp ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition. This tale serialized as "Sea Gangsters" involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics per the theories he had read in Woodruff's EFFECTS OF TROPICAL LIGHT ON WHITE MEN. Jack wrote THE ELSINORE soon after he and Charmian returned from his "Millergraph" trip to New York City; their five-month return was on the clipper ship "Dirigo" out of Baltimore around Cape Horn in mid-1912. His last acts on shore were to shave his head bald and to have a photograph taken of himself standing by Poe's grave. Since there was no alcohol on board Jack went through withdrawal from his dependence upon it and proclaimed that he was not an alcoholic -- though Charmian knew that would last only until the pain in his kidneys and bowels would again become unbearable.Sinclair Jack with major gastrointestinal problems of his own watched the ship's captain slowly die of stomach cancer during the voyage. Charmian became pregnant again but soon after they arrived back in Glen Ellen she miscarried -- confirming Jack's fear that he would have no son and heir for the ranch. And so began Jack's new "period of disgust." This is the English edition bearing the same 1914 date as the New York edition but published four months later in January 1915 and containing the same dramatic color frontispiece. The reason the American edition has a detailed colorful binding and the English one does not is that England was already at war. Excepting that the volume is slightly askew this is a fine copy. See Sisson & Martens p. 78 and Blanck 11956. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1914017354New York: The Macmillan Co 1914. First Edition. Octavo. The "Sonoma Edition" was a collection of the best of London's novels all apparently using the first edition sheets bound in red cloth with a central gilt title "Sonoma Edition". 378pp. 8pp. ads at rear frontispiece tipped in. A very nice clean copy with slight fading and wear to spine. Beautiful Book Store label in back of book. The Jones Book Store 426-8 w. 6th Street Los Angeles. Unlike the rubber stamps with which he stamped the books in the store's early days his successors produced a beautiful label once the store relocated for the last time. The Macmillan Co unknown 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
1914000439New York: Macmillan Company 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo. Lettering and picture of ship on front board clear but with loss to the blue in particular. Spine lettering nearly completely rubbed out with only faint impression. Minor soilage to yellow boards otherwise. Pages inside generally clean. Slightest looseness to front hinge but book otherwise tight. Good or better overall. <br/><br/> Macmillan Company hardcover books
191527598London: Mills & Boon 1915. First British edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Spine a little dulled else very good. First British edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 11956 American ed. Mills & Boon unknown books