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1900133570New York: The F. M. Lupton Publishing Company 1900. Octavo inserted frontispiece original pictorial yellow green cloth stamped in black white and gold. First edition. Nine stories most if not all set in Virginia. Three stories are original to this collection the remainder appeared in GODEY'S MAGAZINE and other periodicals. Wright III 6033. Early owner's signature on front paste-down. Cloth lightly worn at edges several faint stains to spine panel partial hairline crack to inner front hinge still a tight good copy. #133570 The F. M. Lupton Publishing Company unknown 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
188926328Firenze: A cura del Municipio 1889. First edition. Decorated paper-covered boards. Binding cracked some tape repairs to spine and interior small tear to map about good. 133 pp. Illus. with 4 of 6 plates some folding. 26 cm. Contains the maps including the large 29 x 27 inches colored map of central Florence. A cura del Municipio hardcover books
1876157514Chicago: 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 lightly worn at spine ends 25 mm narrow loss of cloth along lower fore-edge of front cover scattered foxing to text block a very good copy. Scarce. #157514 Jansen 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
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
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
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
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
1898277607New York.: Longmans Green & Co. no date circa 1898. green cloth binding with paper covered boards. fair with no dust jacket: damp stains faded and frayed spine shelf wear and very worn edges on cover with some of the paper torn off the cardboard owner’s inscription on ffep soil on pages-As Is. oblong4to. Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover books
1898277609New York.: Longmans Green & Co. no date circa 1898. red cloth binding with paper covered boards. fair with no dust jacket: damp stains faded and frayed spine shelf wear and very worn edges on cover with some of the paper torn off the cardboard owner’s inscription on ffep soil on pages-As Is. oblong4to. Longmans, Green & Co. 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
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
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
185947323Philadelphia: G.G. Evans 1859. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; red cloth decoratively stamped in blind and gilt; 240pp. Boards comprehensively soiled rubbed and worn; leading corners bumped; spine gilt dulled heel and crown chipped. Foxing and dampstains throughout textblock else bindings sound a Good and complete copy.<br/><br/>Those craftier bibliophiles might be interested in trying their hands at the really retro patterns and projects in this 1859 needlework handbook. Compiled by Florence Hartley the text assumes a basic level of skill with a needle and thread and includes patterns/ideas in bead work knitting and crochet quilting tatting/guipure/lace work embroidery braiding netting feather flowers and more. Hartley advocated needlework as essential to a woman's overall happiness and usefulness to society making this craft guide an interesting look back at 19th century values and mores. G.G. Evans unknown books
18992289600H.S. Nichols Ltd 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii 337 3; vii 1 348; viii 356 pp. 8vo. Translated with an introduction and notes by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay Jean Jacques Rousseau and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay "was a French writer a saloniste and woman of fashion known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot Jean le Rond d'Alembert Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century." - Wikipedia H.S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
1899184031London: H.S. Nichols 1899. Hardcover. Good light shelfwear to boards expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise very clean and clear. Bookplate of previous owner inside each front cover. Volume 3 frontis is torn loose protective tissue guard sheet has tears. Three volume set bound in red cloth with gilt tooling and lettering; each volume has a bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet; Volume 1 xlviii 337 pp. Volume 2 348 pp. Volume 3 356 pp. "Edition strictly limited to 500 copies." Includes bibliographical references v. 1 pages xlv-xlvi. Translated with introduction and brief notes by J.H. Freese. H.S. Nichols 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
189831928London & NY: Neely 1898. 12mo pp. 294. Red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover little faded and stained o/w VG. A novel. Neely 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
