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186154214Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley 1861. 8vo pp. 240; frontispiece and a profusion of illustrations throughout text; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine the covers ruled in blind surrounding a central blindstamp in the shape of a small handled purse the title stamped in blind in the center; one crack at the base of the spine extremities a little rubbed; all else very good. This copy with the ownership signature of one Nellie Marshall Hobart Del. Co. N.Y. An invaluable guide to the activities costumes and accessories of women in the US just before the Civil War. First published in 1859 the book was still in print in the 1890s. <br/><br/> J. W. Bradley hardcover books
1896001150London New York and Bombay: Longmans Green & Co. 1896. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Oblong 11 By 9 Inches. 63 pp. Full color plate illustrations not quite every other page with text illustrations interspersed in margins of comic verse. One of the best of the politically dubious relics of late nineteenth century children's literature. It is hard to say whether the infectious humor of the illustrations or of the fluent inspired doggerel almost certainly emulated by the likes of Roald Dahl is the bigger draw. Probably the rarest of the highly desirable Golliwogg series this one taking our characters to Paris Japan and Africa. This copy has considerable soilage on the boards which are illustrated paper pasted onto the boards. Shelfwear along edges and corners. Original spine band survives with some wear by tips and rubbing along gutters. Interior tight. Some scattered soilage to pages but text and especially the illustrations remain attractive. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover books
1900162658Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. Good tight copy contents free of extraneous marks to text; ex-lib. copy with occasional marks including a few perforation stamps. front cover and spine are a bit mottled. Olive cloth/boards; gilt insignia and lettering. 418 5 pp. with bw tissue-guarded frontis and very occasional bw illustrations. An exhibition notice printed on a small pink slip of paper is incorrectly bound between pages 122 and 123 nearly unreadably; possibly part of this book; possibly not! The comprehensive listing of arts events including the Paris Exposition of 1900 auction sales art publications obituaries of American artists exhibitions prizes and scholarships museum reports artist directories schools teachers and much much more.Scarce edition. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
188122705New York: R. Worthington 1881. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth beveled edges gilt decorated spine and backstrip. Very good. XII 251 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Wood engraved frontispiece title vignette and 11 plates. Lady Florence the Marquis of Queensberry's daughter journeyed to Patagonia and to South Africa the Land of Misfortune. She traveled to South America because she was suffering from social ennui. In this title the author reels off a single dinner menu of guanaco-head soup a guanaco is a sort of llama; ostrich and describes a hartebeest chase of the veld. The Times in its obituary rather sadly concluded that Lady Florence Dixie would best be remembered as a "somewhat peculiar woman." Four pages of adverts at rear. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities. R. Worthington hardcover books
1895005285Boston: Arena Publishing Company 1895. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. On front end page inscription reads - "To Dr. J. O. Buck in the friendship and fellowship of a common cause Florence Huntley". First published in 1892 stated Fourth Edition contains preface to the Second Edition. . Very Good end pages browned and with corner tears. Boards rubbed title at spine a bit dulled. A fantasy novel. Early editions of this book and SIGNED copies of any of her books are RARE. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arena Publishing Company Hardcover books
189608466Boston/London: Robert Bros./John Lane 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First American Edition issued as the 26th title of 33 in the "Keynotes Series" published by John Lane in London and by Roberts Bros. in Boston. Near fine copy bound in original light blue cloth decoated in green gilt lettering spine. Binding design by Patten Wilson. Illustrated tite page. 210 pp 10 pp. Ads. <br/><br/> Robert Bros./John Lane hardcover books
1895243578London: F.V. White 1895. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Originally published in 1893 under the title A Passage through Bohemia in three volumes. Glover/Greene 449; Wolff 7045 note F.V. White unknown books
1885242017London: W. Stevens 421 Strand 1885. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff gray paper over boards. Very good. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wolff 7052 W. Stevens 421, Strand unknown books
1876135400Chicago: Jansen 1876. 12mo pp. 1-6 7-282 1-4: ads flyleaves at front and rear original decorated brown cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold brown coated endpapers. First edition. Eleven stories most of them dark tales of mental aberration. The title story concerns the invention of a machine to amplify sound and the murder of an elderly deaf woman who tries to take the instrument away from its inventor. Most of the stories can be characterized as Gothic fantasies. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 546. Bleiler 1978 p. 131. Not in Reginald 1979. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1087. Wright III 3531 locating 2 copies. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. Scarce. #135400 Jansen unknown books
1872242124London: Richard Bentley 1872. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very Good lendinbg library lael removed on upper cover of each volume. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1761 second edition; Wolff 4849 Richard Bentley unknown books
188313616London Paris & New York: Cassell & Co 1883. First and only edition oblong 8vo pp. 52 4 ads; 16 mounted chromolithographs showing various painted designs on assorted ceramic ware 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original maroon cloth gilt lettering on upper cover. <br/><br/> Cassell & Co hardcover books
19007547nd circa 1900-1950s. Unique. Hardcover. Very Good. Minor shelf/edge wear pasted in envelop with duplicates owner signature at front else bright and clean. Brown cloth boards. <br/><br/>A dense and well-organized collection of publishers' marks and booksellers' tickets many reflecting various iterations that evolved over the years. hardcover books
1896RUPTGOL00EFLongmans Green & Company 1896. Very Good. Upton Florence K. illustrator. The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club. Upton Bertha. London: Longmans Green & Company 1896. 62pp. Illustrated. Oblong 4to. 1/4 blue cloth and illustrated boards. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled boards and rubbed edges. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown and gift inscription to contemporary owner on front free endsheet. Title page is faintly yellowed and spotted. Pages have a few small faint stains in margins but content is crisp and clean. Fantastically illustrated. A scarce copy in remarkable condition. Consignment. Longmans, Green, & Company hardcover books
18974201London and New York: Longmans Green & Co 1897. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered boards. One of the greatest anthropomorphic classics of the late 19th Century these wonderfully creative and adaptive illustrations and story line by Florence Upton remain a classic to this day. A good copy with cover wear hinges cracked and repaired endsheets with wear and slightly clipped. Presentable internally. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
1892315100New York: George Routledge & Sons 1892. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. Publisher's lime cloth stamped in gold white and black t.e.g. A beautiful copy. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. The rules and play of poker with a chapter on poker sharps describing marked cards and other cheats. Jessel 511 George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1894136066New York: Charles B. Reed 1894. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-4 5-178 179-182: ads flyleaves at front and rear original decorated blue cloth front panel stamped in gold and blind spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind orange marbled endpapers. First edition. Published four years later in England as A SOUL ON FIRE London: Bliss Sands & Co. 1898. Sensational spiritualist romance of after death experiences; a salutary warning to a cold callous savant to mend his ways in the tradition of Dickens's moral ghost stories; also a polemic presenting many of the author's enthusiastic views on moral and social questions e.g. vivisection parental care etc. A prolific author with some ninety novels to her credit Florence Marryat 1838-1899 was the youngest and eleventh child of Frederick Marryat the popular nineteenth-century nautical novelist. "A Catholic Marryat was fascinated by spiritualism which she frequently introduces into her novels. As a spiritualist she wrote the popular book THERE IS NO DEATH 1891." - Sutherland Victorian Fiction p. 412. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 151 citing the 1898 UK edition. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 351. Bleiler 1978 p. 133. Reginald 09685. Spine panel lightly sunned a nearly fine copy. An uncommon book. #136066 Charles B. Reed unknown books
1860014565D.Appleton-Century and Company 1860. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy Without Wear in Prefered Brown Pebble Cloth First Edition First Issue Ownership Name Gorgeous Fresh Copy Scarce In This Condition. D.Appleton-Century and Company Hardcover books
1880320579Derby 1880. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. Usual fold. Old tape repair on conjugate leaf with resulting stain affecting a few words of text but not affecting signature. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. "I am very glad that there is to be a real life of the never to be forgotten glorious Dr. Livingstone. I wish Dr. Blaikie God speed. With regard to my private letter to you it was I need hardly say from the depths of my heart & not written with a view to publication and I cannot recall a word that was in it. But if you think that my poor words can contribute anything to what must be the object of every English speaking nation & not only this but of every man woman & child all over the world viz. to make known one who has opened the way of peace & not terror to those who were 'lying in darkness & the shadow of death' on so large a portion of the globe. I feel that I cannot decline what otherwise is so repugnant to me . And pray believe me ever the faithful servant of yourself & the great memory of as true a hero saint as ever lived ."<br/><br/>Written on the occasion of the preparation for imminent publication of William Garden Blaikie's biography of Livingstone published 1880 the letter gives permission for a letter of hers to be published in which she said of Livingstone: "We cannot console ourselves for our loss. He is irreplaceable" p. 458 and called him "the greatest man of his generation. unknown books
185947915London: John W. Parker and Son West Strand 1859. First Edition Bishop & Goldie 100 iii; Garrison - Morrison 1611. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Rust colored eps. Cloth along joints splitting. Rub mark to front paste-down. Prior owner signature to h.t. Withal a VG copy. 8 108 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts including one fold-out 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8" <br /><br />Per B & G "One result of the publication of Notes on Hospitals was to bring upon Miss Nightingale requests for advice on the building of hospitals and infirmaries from all over the world. She devoted much time and endless trouble to dealing with such requests ."Somewhat uncommon title in the trade. John W. Parker and Son, West Strand hardcover books
187749092London: Longmans Green and Co 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by Nightingale all in pencil on the half-title page. Modern binding of full brown calf stamped in blind. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG tideline visible to top edge. xxxi 1 blank 517 3 pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb" adding "delivered from ship wreck by our almighty Father's care & entering on a new post of usefulness at Lincoln Hospital". Followed by her full signature and dated "Nov. 1878" <br /> <br />We know of this incident for on August 16 1878 Florence Nightingale wrote to her local church pastor at Crich Reverend Acraman recounting the ordeal: <br /> <br />"Dear Sir Four of our trained Nurses have been wrecked on their way home from Canada where they had been nursing for us at the Montreal General Hospital & were returning for further Nursing employment under us. The steamer was wrecked upon a reef two days out from Canada on July 2. All night she was beaten about & in danger of going to pieces. At day break the Captain lowered the passengers into a life boat but she drifted out to sea & again they were with difficulty saved. For a whole week till the 28th they were on an island whence an officer made his way to the nearest light house swimming two rivers which the crew would not cross or battened down in the hold of a small fish schooner without food or air in a terrific storm. On July 28 they were rescued by the Erl King Capt. Ed. Scott whose kindness we can never forget bound for Glasgow where they landed safe on Aug 9. <br /> <br />Would you allow me to return thanks for them our four Nurses in your church next Sunday <br /> <br />Their names are: <br />Nurse Styring <br />Nurse Wilson <br />“ Cross <br />“ Webb" <br /> <br />Might I say in any terms you would be good enough to use: <br /> <br />Florence Nightingale desires to return the most humble & hearty thanks to Almighty God for four trained Nurses returning home on duty from Canada who were wrecked on July 21 were saved three times from a watery grave & after severe sufferings for a week from exposure & hardship were rescued on the 28th by a vessel bound for Glasgow & safely landed on August 9 thro’ a merciful Providence. <br /> <br />Pray believe me Sir <br />ever your faithful servt <br />Florence Nightingale" <br /> <br />Cf. "Parish life with a troubled Vicar: Crich 1875-1900". Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
