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23714<p>Longman's Green & Co. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations by Florence K. Upton and verses by Bertha Upton; smudging in various margins of various pages from handling; a 4-inch long tear on pp17/18 has been judiciously repaired with adhesive; one-inch tear on pp27/28 near spine; two-inch tear on pp47/48 wear to top edge of front board; book is in a protective wrapper</p> Longman's, Green & Co hardcover
189723703<p>Longman's Green & Co 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrations by Florence K. Upton and verses by Bertha Upton; A touch of soiling to the rear boards otherwise all appears very near to new; complete and interior hinges are intact; has a protective wrapper</p> Longman's, Green & Co hardcover
1860DR6BRWN1302London: Harrison 1860. Original limp cloth covered covers gilt title to spine. 21.5cm x 14cm. 2 ads to front end-papers 79pp 2 ads to rear end-papers. 1st edition later issue 1860. Adverts on front end-papers for 1860 edition of Barker's peerage. Slight fraying to spine edges. Small water staining to lower edges of end-papers. A decent copy. dr6. Soft Cover. Good. Harrison Paperback
SLIVCN-9781620815151NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (9/2012)
DADAX0688037968Morrow 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Morrow hardcover
192528957Maryknoll N Y: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Catholicism; Martyrs; Photo frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 4 pages; Blue cloth in tan printed dust jacket. DJ with some wear to extremities. Clean throughout. Two martyrs of the Vincentian Missionary Society. . Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America hardcover
1927056652San Francisco Ca: The American Committee For Fair Play In China 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 6 Pp Outer Covers. Soft Cover Staple Binding But Disbound Original Covers No Marks. "The Unequal Treaties Are The Weapons By Which The Powers Have Established Themselves In China". In Hindsight The Treaties Left An Opening To Japan To Seek Similar Opportunities At The Expense Of The Chinese Which Even The Near-Idiots In Charge Of American Foreign Policy 1789 To 1927 Should Have Foreseen. Very Scarce Worldcat Locates 4 Institutional Holdings All On The East Coast Of The Usa. Unpopular Viewpoints Pointedly Criticizing The Habitual And Monomaniacal Acquisitive Childishness Of The Great Powers Here Shown Particularly Egregiously In China For Hundreds Of Years And Setting The Climate For Japan's Essentially Copycat Invasions And The Start Of Wwii. <br/> <br/> The American Committee For Fair Play In China paperback
057718International Book Company. Hardcover no jacket in Fair condition a little writing inside text is clean and unmarked paper is Browning with age some edge wear Columbus Series well worn but a good reading copy . Fair. Hardcover. International Book Company hardcover
1938355490724445London: Cape 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. London: Jonathan Cape 1938. First UK Edition. Publisher's dark-pink boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Red top-edge. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Black and white illustrations xiv 324pp. Includes bibliography and index. A fine copy in a VG price-clipped dustwrapper with a slightly darkened spine a hint of wear to the spine tips and the extremities and with a short closed tear to the top-edge of the back panel. Biographies of significant and incredible Chinese women women poets calligraphists painters educators and warriors from ancient to modern times are collated by Florence Ayscough a sinologist writer and translator of Chinese literature. The author paints through facts poetry and pictures the "then" and "now" of life for professional women - in childhood girlhood marriage education and professional life. She dwells admiringly on the 3 remarkable Soong sisters who became wives and able counselors of H H Kung Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request. Cape hardcover
1925058927London / Boston & New York: Jonathan Cape / Houghton Mifflin Company 1925. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 464 Pp. Folding Map At End. Black Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt Multicolored Boards. First American Printing 1925 Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain "First Published In Mcmxxv" Stated On Copyright Page Cape Indicated Above With Houghton Dust Jacket Priced $5.00 Twice. Some Wear Spine Lettering Quite Clear But Not Bright No Marks Fraying At Tips And Along Bottom Edges Of Boards. Dust Jacket With Light Usage Smal Losses At Upper Corners. Florence Wheelock Ayscough Macnair 1875 -1942 Was A Sinologist Writer And Translator Of Chinese Literature Born In Shanghai China To Canadian Father Thomas Reed Wheelock And American Mother Edith H. Clarke. Ayscough Attended Shaw School In Brookline Massachusetts Where She Met Amy Lowell. The Two Were Lifelong Friends. Ayscough's Family Returned To Live In China When She Was In Her Early Twenties. Ayscough Was A Lecturer On Chinese Art And Literature And Was The Author Of Eight Books On Chinese History Culture Literary Criticism And Translation. She Traveled As A Lecturer To Cities Including London Paris Berlin And New York. Ayscough Accepted A Permanent Lecturing Post At The University Of Chicago In 1938 Where She Lectured On Chinese Literature And Continued Her Translation Work And Documenting The History And Culture Of China. She Was Honorary Librarian Of The North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society In Shanghai For Fifteen Years. She Collected Modern Chinese Paintings Including Work By Xu Gu. Her Efforts Introduced This Chinese Art Form To The American Public.Her Writings Included Translations Of Classical Poetry And Essays On Chinese Art History And Philosophy. She Work Also Attempted To Correct Previous Inaccurate Attempts To Translate The Cultures Of Ancient And Contemporary China For Example Perspectives Of China As A Stagnant Culture. In Addition To Countering Negative Stereotypes With Positive Reevaluations She Also Sought To Correct Misinformation. For Example Her Review Of The 1931 Novel The Good Earth By American Writer Pearl Buck Ayscough Praised The Choice Of Contemporary Chinese Peasantry As The Subject But Criticized The Accuracy. Ayscough Had A Strong Influence On The Work Of Her Friend Amy Lowell Being The Source Of Lowell's Interest In Asian Culture And Chinese Poetry. Ayscough Introduced Lowell To Chinese Paintings And Poetry In 1917. On A Visit To America She Brought With Her Chinese Word Pictures That She Translated Into English Which Lowell Turned Into Rhymed Poetry. Her First Book Fir-Flower Tablets With Amy Lowell Was A Translation Of Poems From The Chinese. A Chinese Mirror Published In 1925 Was An Analysis Of The Structure Of Chinese Society And Government In Particular The Symbolism Of The Beijing Imperial Palaces. She Published Tu Fu The Autobiography Of A Chinese Poet In 1929 And Her Translations Of The Poems Of Tu Fu With A Biography Constructed Using His Poetry. In 1934 She Published Travels Of A Chinese Poet. These Two Works Contributed To The Introduction Of Tu Fu To The British Public. Her Final Work Chinese Women Yesterday And To-Day Published In 1937 Examined Contemporary Chinese Women Leaders As Successors Of A Long Line Of Capable Though Secluded Chinese Women. Ayscough Contributed Articles To The Encyclopaedia Sinica. Ayscough's Correspondence With Amy Lowell Was Compiled And Published By Her Husband Professor Harley Macnair. Lucille Douglass 1878 - 1935 Was An American Painter Etcher And Lecturer. In 1920 Douglass Went To China As An Employee Of The Board Of Foreign Missions Of The Methodist Episcopal Church. She Organized And Supervised A Workshop In Shanghai Where Chinese Women Hand-Colored Photographic Slides For The Missionary Society. Douglass Also Became A Writer And Associate Editor Of Shanghai Times. Douglass Formed Close Friendships With Writers Florence Wheelock Ayscough And Helen Churchill Candee. Douglass Eventually Illustrate Books For Both Of Them. <br/> <br/> Jonathan Cape / Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
5244partie méridionale et en Italie partie Septentrionale-Sicile. Deux volumes grand in 8 demi-chagrin rouge à nerfs,titre et caissons dorés,plats percaline rouge,chagrinée.Quadruple filet à froid en encadrement.Premier volume:Faux-titre, frontispice illustré,château Saint Ange,titre avec vignette,524 pages,tranches dorées 23 illustrations hors-texte de ROUARGUES Frères,sous serpentes,dont 5 en couleurs Morizot libraire éditeur 1865,rousseurs plus ou moins fortes habituelles.Deuxième volume mention de nouvelle édition.Faux-titre,VIII,frontispice,titre avec vignette, 535 pages,tranches dorées 23 illustrations hors-texte de ROUARGUES Frères,sous serpentes,dont 6 en couleurs Morizot libraire éditeur sans date,rousseurs plus ou moins fortes habituelles
1925511019Nitecki. GOOD- Reading Copy/No Dust Wrapper. 1925. Polish Language/loose Binding. Hard Cover. Nitecki hardcover
197610923New York: Atheneum. New York Atheneum 1976. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon book adapted by Disney in 1980 - an adaptation that was somewhat unsuccessful and resulted in a reshoot for the ending which didn't make sense. A couple of short tears to the lower edge one both around 20mm. Small nick to the crease of the rear flap. A little tanning to the spine. 10923 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1976. Atheneum hardcover
1916131283<p>The sole UK printing published by Blackie & Son Ltd London : nd but 1916. Size : 32 x 25 cm. The BOOK is in Very Good condition. Original publisher's boards teal cloth spine with black lettering and with a coloured plate to the front cover. Some age related pushing and fraying to the spine tips with some rubbing to the corners and edges in places. Moderating spotting to the blank end-papers otherwise internally clean with just some minor age related handling marks etc. The binding remains tight with just some early easing in places at the hinges. No loose or missing pages. Numerous colour and monochrome blue plates. A scarce title protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Blackie & Son Ltd, London hardcover
102563London John Long 1907. . First edition first impression; 8vo; publisher's device to title 40pp. publisher's catalogue dated 'February 1907' at end some foxing mostly confined to extremities; publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt & black spine lettered in gilt a very good copy; and a variant reissue binding of the same.<br /> Two attractive first editions of this Edwardian murder-mystery by female author and actor Florence Carr. From the collection of renowned crime fiction collector Otto Penzler.<br /> In Hubin. London, John Long, 1907. hardcover
SLIVCN-9781631172045NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (5/2014)
1870List36105N.p. 1870. Carte After the original photograph by William Edward Kilburn 1818–1891 taken circa 1854 with later CDV issue probably circa 1870s. Albumen print mounted on card; sitter identified in print beneath image. Standard carte-de-visite format approximately 2½ x 4 inches. Excellent contrast with light surface wear. Seated three-quarter portrait of Nightingale in dark silk dress with white collar hands folded over a paper posed beside an upholstered Victorian chair. The image derives from a sitting arranged in London with William Edward Kilburn one of Britain’s early professional photographers and a former daguerreotypist who gained fame by exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the early 1850s Kilburn had established a reputation for photographing members of the aristocracy and prominent public figures.<br /> <br /> The Nightingale sitting happened shortly before her departure for the Crimea in October 1854 at a moment when her name was just entering the public press. The portrait predates her full transformation into the national icon later known as the “Lady with the Lamp.†Unlike later more romanticized images Kilburn’s photograph presents a composed unsentimental likeness more consistent with standard portraiture practices than her later photographs. Following Nightingale’s wartime service at Scutari 1854–1856 and the subsequent surge of public acclaim Kilburn’s image became the primary photographic source from which engravings lithographs and later carte-de-visite reproductions were made.1<br /> <br /> 1 Denis Pellerin “Florence Nightingale: The Mystery Behind Her Iconic Photographs†The Classic November 15 2020 https://theclassicphotomag.com/florence-nightingale-the-mysteries-behind-her-iconic-photographs/ accessed February 27 2026. unknown
192639976Boston: Little Brown and Company 1926. 1926. First edition. Lightly foxed on the front and rear endpapers and flap folds else near fine in dust jacket lightly soiled on the rear cover with light professional restoration to the spine ends corners and extremities. During a poetry reading in a Boston bookshop a poet claims he can disappear into the fourth dimension. The next day the bookshop owner disappears followed by the poet leaving a puzzle for the college community. A very desirable title and scarce in this condition. Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. unknown
1941570609Boston: Little Brown and Company 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by W. Prentice Phillips. About fine in near very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the foot of the spine and several other small nicks and tears. A cook book "written especially for very young cooks." Very scarce. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
186096102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1930ZZ1731New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1930. 8vo. xii 160 pp. Frontis. port. of Osborn plates index. Burgundy cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket worn and stained with some tape repair. Very good. GEORGE R. MINOT'S COPY 1934 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Dr. George R. Minot's copy with the Author's presentation inscription: "To Dr. George R. Minot; In memory of Charles Sedgwick Minot & Dr. George R. Minot- with the best wishes of Henry Fairfield Osborn December 18th 1930 Congratulations on the well-deserved award." Minot was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine which he shared with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple. The reference to the "award" in the inscription was not to the Noble Prize which came to Minot in 1934. Also in the inscription the use of the phrase "In memory of" certainly applied to Charles Sedgwick Minot who died in 1914 but not to George since he died in 1955. Osborn himself died in 1935. Two earlier editions of the bibliography had been published the first for the period 1877-1910 and the second for the period 1911-1918. Both were compiled by Harriet Ernestine Ripley and continued thereafter by Janette May Lucas. This bibliography is identified in the text as the third edition but it is the first edition of the complete bibliography. A special copy in every respect. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. hardcover
19483001471948. fine. Very scarce T.L.S "Florence Ryerson Clements" 4to. 1 page Los Angeles October 15th 1948 to her literary agent concerning the licensing of her plays in small part: "We have an offer of $500 for the Bedfellows and I was at first inclined to refuse. Quoted what you said about Harriet. They agreed with you about Harriet but wanted to do the broadcast of Bedfellows because they thought it would help it from the exploitation angle. They have I understand some scheme in mind for having a thirty-day limit on the broadcast and then getting the film. I suppose. to show to theatre managers ahead of the road show." Boldly signed and in excellent condition. From the archive and papers of Samuel French & Son's.<br/><br/> RYERSON Florence 1892 - 2013 1965 American playwright best remembered as the co-author of the screenplay for the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz. Her contributions were numerous including the creation of the multi-roles of actor Frank Morgan who played the Wizard and Ryerson's invented character Mr. Marvel. She also focused the story almost entirely on Dorothy's desire to return home and the Wicked Witch's desire to possess the Ruby Red Slippers. It was her script that introduced the blatant "There's No Place like Home" motif to the film: In order to return to Kansas Dorothy must click the Ruby Red Slippers together and say three times; "There's No Place Like Home". It was also her idea that Dorothy first melted the Wicked Witch by accident because the witch was attempting to set fire to the Scarecrow an idea that preserved Dorothy's purity of motive.<br/><br/> unknown books
16430071411643. No Binding. Very Good. Original etching on laid paper circular composition ca. 1643-48. Sheet size approx. 145 x 140 mm. A spirited etching of Bacchanalian Scene with Satyrs and Musicians by Stefano della Bella depicting a lively bacchanalian scene with satyrs and children engaged in music and dance within a wooded landscape. The animated figures fluid movement and delicately balanced composition exemplify della Bella's characteristic lightness of touch and his gift for narrative charm. The circular format enhances the sense of intimacy and rhythmic motion while the fine controlled line work reflects the artist's mastery of engraving and etching. Della Bella was one of the most accomplished printmakers of the Italian Baroque admired for his imaginative pastoral and mythological scenes and influential in both Italy and France. Good overall condition for 17th century print. Light even toning consistent with age and paper type. Minor surface soling and faint scattered foxing primarily in the margins. No major tears or losses. The impression remains clear with well-preserved detail and plate mark <br/> <br/> unknown
1895461496Boston: De Wolfe Fiske & Co 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition American issue. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Slight soiling on the boards a very nice near fine copy. The black Golliwogg doll entertains two new dolls that are sent to the U.S. from abroad. De Wolfe, Fiske & Co hardcover
2006DADAX1858943515Brand: Merrell Publishers 2006-10-01. hardcover. New. 7.75x0.75x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Merrell Publishers hardcover
