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0755London: ca.1880: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Quarto. 52pp. 12 colored photographic views including a folding color panorama of Jerusalem with descriptive letterpress. Bound in original brown cloth over beveled boards elaborately decorated in gilt and black with blue accents; all edges gilt; prize certificate mounted to front pastedown. A very handsome copy especially the color fold-out birds eye view of Jerusalem; internally very clean; light edge wear. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge hardcover books
4174London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A handsome example of the complete 12 volume set. Published 1925-1928. Each volume limited to 1000 copies. 7 of the volumes translated from their original French by Eric Sutton 4 of them translated by H.B.V. and one of them by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. All volumes have held up nicely and are solid and VG to VG in their original decorative cloth with bright gilt-lettering along the spines. Octavos top-edges gilt deckled fore-edges and bottom-edges. The 12 volumes are as follows: Vol. I: The Fairy Doll La Poupee by Jean-Galli de Bibliena; Vol. II: The Opportunities of a Night La Nuit et Le Moment by M. de Crebillon le Fils; Vol. III: The Queen of Golconda and Other Tales by Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers; Vol. IV: Angola: An Eastern Tale by Jacques-Rochette de la Morliere; Vol. V: Rameau's Nephew and Other Works by Denis Diderot: Vol.VI: The Prophet's Cousin Le Cousin de Mahomet by Nicolas Fromaget; Vol. VII: The Masked Lady Le Masque by Joseph Durey de Sauroy; Vol. VIII: All the Better for Her! and Other Stories by Claude-Henri de Fusee de Voisenon; Vol. IX: The Coachman's Story and Other Tales by Anne-Claude-Phillipe de Tubieres; Vol. X: Spleen and Other Stories by Pierre Victor and Baron de Besenval; Vol. XI: A Thousand and One Follies & His Most Unlooked-For Lordship by Jacques Cazotte and Vol. XII: Never Again! Point de Landemain and Other Stories by Claude-Joseph Dorat. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall Ltd hardcover books
198852844Stoke by Nayland Suffolk: Jardine Press 1988. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the poet and the illustrator this being no. 50; 8vo pp. 32; pictorial endpapers title printed in blue and black 16 linocuts by Dodds; original full blue calf lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover; gift inscription at top of title page "from one East Anglican to another." else fine in publisher's slipcase. Not found in OCLC. <br/><br/> Jardine Press unknown books
19459012630West Hartford: Countryman Press 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a damaged slipcase. Foreword by John Taintor Foote. Illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt. Author's and Artists' Edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Holland and Hunt. <br/><br/> Countryman Press hardcover books
00041London: Privately Printed 1939. Posthumously Published<br/>Signed by the Author's Mother<br/><br/>HOLLAND John. Song of a Boy. London: Privately Printed 1939.<br/><br/>First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author's mother on the front free endpaper: "To thank you for your/appreciation of my/son's work./Phyllis Holland." Small quarto. 2 blank 6 177 1 blank pp. Twenty-five plates twenty-three in color including frontispiece portrait and two portraits from photographs. Descriptive tissue guards.<br/><br/>Original cream-colored cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt on the rough others uncut. Inner hinges hint at starting. Minimal foxing at beginning and end. A near fine copy largely unopened.<br/><br/>A memorial book dedicated to the life of John Holland who tragically died at the age of nineteen. An accomplished artist and poet he attended Winchester and was destined for Oxford when he died of polio in Dalmatia in 1936. This volume collects his poetry and reproduces a number of his drawings and paintings in color. <br/><br/>"John Douglas Holland was born at Basing Houre Southsea on August 30th 1917 and was the only son of Rear-Admiral L.E. Holland. He entered Winchester College when just thirteen.On leaving Winchester he went to the Architectural Association for one term and then decided to go to Oxford and was to have entered Magdalen College in October 1936 but while on a short sketching tour in Yugoslavia he caught infantile paralysis and died at Split Dalmatia on July 30th after six days' illness.These poems and rhymes were written from the age of fourteen. They are not arranged in any particular order of writing as though some were written out carefully others were found scribbled here and there in his books and on odd pieces of paper. His paintings some of which are also reproduced in this book were like his poems quick and unlaboured—done at any moment he might feel in the mood" preliminary p. 3. London: Privately Printed, 1939 unknown books
182410103London: Printed by Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press 1824. First Edition. 280 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed boards upper joint split spine slightly chipped uncut. Fine. First Edition. 280 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed in Original Boards. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "With the Author's affectionate regards April 6 1824." Desirable copy of this curious 'tale' in the form of essays by John Holland 1794-1872 of Sheffield miscellaneous writer and journalist. Block calls for a frontispiece though none is present in either this nor Wolff's copy also in boards. Wolff 3241 Printed by Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press unknown books
187217384London: Longmans Green and CO 1872. Hardcover. Very good. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an autograph letter form the author to Lady Pakington bound in. ".I feel grateful in learing that my little volume of Recollections has given you pleasure. Sir John knew well many of the public characters mentioned in it. ." Longmans, Green, and CO hardcover books
140937172New York: Holland House Sales Co. Very Good. no date. 23 pp. Small advertising pamphlet featuring recipes for cocktails and canapes. Very Good with light wear to covers and light creasing to rear cover. A scarce vintage cocktail item. Holland House Sales Co unknown books
2014285389Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2014. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. The Easton Press Collector's Edition of Tom Holland's Rubicon The Last Years of the Roman Republic. Photographic plates. With no marks of any kind. Easton Press introductory leaf and blank bookplate laid in. Brown leather with lettering and decoration in gilt. Silk ribbon marker bound in. All edges gilt. Near Fine binding. The Easton Press unknown books
1983144573Paris: Gaumont 1983. Two vintage borderless photographs of director Andrzej Wajda on the set of the 1983 Polish-French film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1929 play "The Danton Case" by Polish writer Stanislawa Przybyszewska. Set in 1793 Georges Danton has returned to Paris from his solitary residence in the countryside just as the Committee for Public Safety under the direction of Maximilien Robespierre his former ally begins a massive series of executions. Danton meets his fate before a revolutionary tribunal and is eventually sent to the guillotine. The film drew connections between the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution and the contemporary Polish "solidarity" movement against the Soviet-backed Polish government. <br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 464. Gaumont unknown books
197321803Barre: Barre Publishers 1973. First Edition. small 4to 96. Printed wraps illustrated with photos throughout. Signed on the title-page by composer Aaron Copeland. A photographic portait of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Lenox MA. Barre Publishers unknown books
1946137041New York: Julian Messner 1946. Octavo cloth. First edition. A hard-boiled novel Holland's second and last mystery the first being the film noir source FALLEN ANGEL. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A very attractive copy. #137041 Julian Messner unknown books
1910228101Philadelphia George W. Jacobs & Company 1910. 1910. First edition so stated; "November 1910". 8vo. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in green white red and gilt fresh and bright. Dust jacket which replicates binding design unclipped; two small chips and small stain. Rare thus. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company [1910]. hardcover books
183655074Hartford CT: Belknap & Hamersley 1836. Second edition. 12mo. xvi 2 13-372 2 10 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Van Buren. Errata leaf five leaves of testimonials for the first edition. Inscribed by the author in 1837 to Emily W. Ellsworth Noah Webster's eldest daughter. Contemporary calf gilt wide gilt ornamental border to boards spine gilt with title and ornaments between raised bands gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers and edges. Some light foxing but a very good copy. 1958. <br/><br/> Belknap & Hamersley hardcover books
1920008950New York 1920. Unbound. Very good. This one-page letter on the stationery of the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission and New Jersey Interstate Tunnel Commission measuring 8" x 8.5" was written to Mr. Leon C. Hills of Washington DC on October 17 1920. The lot also includes a newspaper clipping annotated Sunday Feb 26 22 about the tunnel titled "Hudson River Tunnel Means Jobs for Many." The letter and clipping are in nice shape; lightly toned. <br /><br />Holland's letter is apparently in response to a newspaper article not the clipping in this lot in a Washington newspaper announcing that funds had been appropriated to build the tunnel. It reads in part: "We are now engaged in a big undertaking which is occupying every minute of my time but it is very interesting and a great pleasure. . . .". <br /><br />In 1920 funding was approved for what was then known as the "Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel Project" and in 1922 construction began in New York at the corner of Canal and West Streets. Holland the tunnel's designer and chief engineer died on October 27 1924 the day before the tunnel was completed. Doctors attributed his heart attack to the stress of overseeing the tunnel's construction. The tunnel was named in Holland's honor two weeks later on November 12 1924. <br /><br /> books
194514897New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. lightly worn copy with some faint staining to the front cover short closed tear at bottom of title page; jacket edgeworn a few small tears some minor paper loss at both ends of spine all text on spine still present internally tape-repaired with modern tape at least at front foldover. Very scarce novel which served as the basis for one of the best of Otto Preminger's early films and a worthy follow-up to his classic LAURA. The first of five novels by this author who apparently also dabbled in screenwriting without any notable success. The only other film credit I've been able to uncover for her was a story credit for the 1950 noir THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON. Interestingly the front jacket flap bears a boxed notice to "WATCH FOR THE MOVIE" indicating that the book was "snapped up hot off the typewriter by Twentieth Century-Fox." Dana Andrews was already announced as the star of the forthcoming film version in late September 1944 about seven months before the book hit the shelves with the finished film finally going into release in December. Andrews' co-stars were Linda Darnell sexy girl and Alice Faye nice girl the latter making a sort of "comeback" as well as a change of pace in a non-musical role after being absent from the screen for nearly two years. Ironically however it ended up being Faye's swan song as a major star after she got into a dispute with studio head Darryl Zanuck over his decision to cut down her role in the picture in favor of Darnell's. . E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1944255676West Hartford VT: The Countryman Press 1944. Deluxe edition No. 131 of 250 copies signed by the author and artist. With 9 reproductions of oil paintings Frontispiece is tipped-in and numerous line drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt. xiv 213 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original beige cloth gilt fine in almost VG original pictorial slipcase. Hunt Lyn Bogue. Deluxe edition No. 131 of 250 copies signed by the author and artist. With 9 reproductions of oil paintings Frontispiece is tipped-in and numerous line drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt. xiv 213 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Riling 2489; Biscotti p. 209; Heller 2:674 The Countryman Press unknown books
1745253456London 1745. unbound. 1 page 4.75 x 7.25 inches London February 6 1745 -- the lower half of an Exchequer receipt but complete in itself in part: ".the like sum.lent upon Credit of the said act and paid of his Majesty's Exchequer the said Sixth Day of February 1745 as by a Tally bearing Date the same Day appears: And these together with his or his Assigns Acquittance shall be your Discharge herein." Boldly signed by Henry Fox George Lyttelton and Richard Arundell as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. All three of these men would eventually be knighted. Very good condition.<br/><br/> British politician and Secretary of War best remembered for dispatching a large military force under the command of General Braddock to America with the intention of driving the French out of Ohio. Better known as the French and Indian War the expedition culminated into the annihilation of the General and most of his forces July 1755. This event would have everlasting consequences for both Britain and the American Colonies as it would cost Fox the office of Prime Minister and also launch the military career of Braddock%u2019s youngest officer George Washington.<br/><br/> unknown books
1946231719New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First edition No. 849 of 850 copies specially printed bound and signed by the authors. Profusely illustrated with full-page photographs. 1 vols. Sm 4to. Original green embossed cloth black linen spine gilt a fine copy in very good plus dust jacket spine panel sunned and publisher's slipcase cracked. First edition No. 849 of 850 copies specially printed bound and signed by the authors. Profusely illustrated with full-page photographs. 1 vols. Sm 4to. A splendid series of 150 full-page photographs with facing descriptions concerning angling and shooting. Bruns H 239 "scarce" Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1814305037York Street 1814. Bifolium with integral address leaf. 12mo. Some closed tears. Bifolium with integral address leaf. 12mo. unknown books
1907304210London George Bell and Sons 1907. 1907. Crown edition so stated. 8vo. 47 gravure plates tipped-in facsimile 21 maps in text. Bibliographical references. Title pages printed in red and black. 3/4 gilt stamped brown morocco over brown cloth with gilt Cardinal's arms on the upper covers spines with raised bands titled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Very good. 2 volumes. Volume I - 596 pages vii. Volume II - 512 pages xv. Printed by Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co. London. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, George Bell and Sons, 1907. hardcover books
1905264299New York: Underwood & Underwood 1905. 27 albumen print stereoviews. 1 vols. 8vo. In original brown cloth box. Images fine. 27 albumen print stereoviews. 1 vols. 8vo. Darrah lists a 1905 Holland set with 24 images Stereo Views p. 115. Underwood & Underwood unknown books
1855255722London: Longman Brown 1855. First. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco marbled boards t.e.g. London: Longman Brown 1855. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Longman, Brown unknown books
182434749London: R. Ackermann Repository of Arts 1824. With 18 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in full green morocco. Very fine. With 18 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 12mo. Part of this celebrated work consisting of descriptions and plates "to increase the store of knowledge concerning the various branches of the great family of Man not only for adults but.the instruction and amusement of the juvenille student." Abbey Travel I No. 6 R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts unknown books
1610WRCAM33905The Hague: Hillebrant Iacobsz 1610. 8pp. Large vignette on titlepage. Modern marbled boards. Very good. This pamphlet provides further definitions of the terms of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Netherlands. While negotiated as a prelude to permanent peace both sides hoped to use the truce from the long and grueling Dutch war of independence to build their military resources. In the end it greatly benefited the Dutch who ended the peace in 1621 greatly strengthened. Rare. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. KNUTTEL 1721. Hillebrant Iacobsz hardcover books
