Lyon George EllaABAA
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199950716Spring TX: Absey & Company 1999. First edition. Softcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Where Poems Come From. Spring TX: Absey & Company 1999. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Numerous b/w photographs. Photography by Hoskins Robert. ix 98 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Black trade paperback. Review copy. Light edge wear. Pages bright and clean. A few annotations which seem to have been made by the author. A very good copy overall. Very good/No dust jacket. Absey & Company paperback books
198626363Scarsdale NY: Bradbury Press 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. NF/VG spine wear. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Oblong 4to. <br/><br/> Bradbury Press hardcover books
198988692NY:: Orchard Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0531084310 . First printing library binding - NOT ex-library. SIGNED and dated by the illustrator on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Orchard Books, hardcover books
199026356New York: Orchard Books 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. NF/NF. Unpaginated. Illustrated. 4to. <br/><br/> Orchard Books hardcover books
1825WRCAM54185London: John Murray 1825. xvi198pp. plus folding map and seven plates. Contemporary three-quarter calf and floral- patterned boards spine gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. Minor shelf wear. Modern bookplate on front pastedown minor foxing to plates. Very good. Lyon's official report of this important expedition with much if not most of his narrative concerning his relations with the Eskimos with whom he was on excellent terms. This report includes three plates of Indian subjects with the map illustrating Hudson Straits and northern Hudson Bay. "Exploring for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay the author penetrated with the GRIPER into Roes Welcome about halfway between Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay in 1824 but was driven back by foul weather. He gives here a narrative of the voyage description of Southampton Island and its natives notes on tides in Roes Welcome Sound and on compass variation" - ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 10530. TPL 1324. FIELD 962. SABIN 42851. DECKER 22:265. HILL 1055. John Murray hardcover books
1828E00212 Volumes: viii323 pages; iv304i ad pages with glossary. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5" in original paper covered boards and spine title labels as originally issued. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Sabin:42852; Hill page 186 1st edition.<br /><br />G F Lyon was an English traveler born in Chichester England in 1795; died at sea in October 1832. He entered the British naval service in 1809 was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth in 1816 and in 1818 was commissioned to accompany Joseph Ritchie on his tour of exploration into central Africa. Ritchie died in Fezzan and Lyon returned to England after encountering many dangers and privations which he described in his Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa London 1821. In 1821 in command of the Hecla he accompanied Captain William E. Parry on his arctic expedition publishing on his return The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon 1824. In 1824 he sailed in command of the Griper' with the mission of exploring Melville peninsula and following its western shore as far as Turn-again he found after three months' searching a passage through the group of islets called Southampton island but was unable to enter Repulse bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome. On 13 September a violent tempest compelled him to return to England. The story of the voyage was told in A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt 1825. He subsequently passed several years in Mexico and died on his return from a second visit to America. His remaining works are The SketchBook of Captain G. F. Lyon during Eighteen Months' Residence in Mexico No. 1 London 1827 and Journal of a Residence and Tour in Mexico in 1828 London 1828.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. Condition:<br /><br />Spines renewed with original chipped spine labels laid on front end papers chipped and damaged at edges corners bumped and rubbed Foster's stamp on end papers old owner's signature on covers internally near fine else over all very good. John Murray hardcover books
18255897London: John Murray 1825. First edition. Narrative of search for the Northwest Passage through the Hudson Bay; observations on Southampton Island Eskimos tides and compass variations. George Francis Lyon one of Barrow's favorites had made a name for himself in the exploration of Africa before serving as commander of the HMS Hecla during William Edward Parry's second Arctic voyage. Thereafter in the spring of 1824 Lyon was given command of the sluggish and cranky HMS Griper with orders to winter in Repulse Bay in northwest Hudson Bay and then cross Melville Peninsula to explore the northern coast of mainland America. Ice conditions were difficult however and he was unable to even reach Repulse Bay and had to return home that same Fall. He was never given another naval command. . 21 cm; xvi 198 2 pages and 7 leaves of copper-engraved plates folding map. Bound in contemporary green polished calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt by Henry Young. Gilt tooling on spine. Color faded from spine and from top edge of upper board. Fine condition. References: Arctic Bib. 10530; Lande 1292; Sabin 42851. John Murray hardcover books
19311123031931. Rare half-tone portrait of Canadian golf legend George Lyon. Signed by Lyon "Geo. S. Lyon." Period frame. The entire piece measures 8.25 inches by 5.75 inches. In very good condition. Although he only began playing golf at the age of 38 due to lack of available golf courses in most areas of Canada before that date George Seymour Lyon won the gold medal in golf in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis Missouri at age 46 only eight years after beginning the sport. He won the Canadian Amateur Championship a record eight times between 1898 and 1914 the last time in his 56th year. He was also runner-up in that event on two further occasions. He won the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association Championship ten times between 1918 and 1930 the final time in his 72nd year; these events were staged before the inauguration of the Canadian Senior Golf Championship by Golf Canada. unknown books
149634First Edition. hardcover. Complete with large folding map and 7 engraved plates. 468pp. 8vo handsomely rebound in new 3/4 brown calf red morocco label; offsetting from plates including onto the title page otherwise internally very good. London: John Murray 1824.<br/><br/> "Record of an expedition to discover the northwest passage 1821-23. This journal sets forth details of the expedition especially concerning Eskimo life which were not included in Parry's official account The Journal of a Second Voyage etc." Staton & Tremaine 1289.<br/><br/> unknown books
1828018731London: John Murray 1828. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two volumes bound in one. Vol. I: viii 323 pages of text followed by i page of publisher's advertisement. Vol. II: iv 304 pages of text. Original publisher's paper covered boards cloth spine with printed paper label. The hardcover binding is heavily shelfworn and rubbed with the backstrip almost detached; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. Minor foxing scattered lightly throughout the text. First edition. John Murray Hardcover books
1929197893San Francisco Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar 1929. 1929. First edition. 12mo. Frontispiece etching by Blanding Sloan. Title printed in black and purple decorations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Original white over lilac boards. Fine fresh copy. #56/230 numbered copies signed by L.A. Patterson: "To Frederich H. Meyers." Pressword by Lawton R. Kennedy. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. San Francisco [Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar] 1929. hardcover books
19133130St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. First edition 8vo v & 319pp.; original gray pictorial cloth blocked in black and orange light wear at edges darkened spine else very good. <br/><br/> William Marion Reedy hardcover books
1913292066St. Louis: Reedy 1913. First. hardcover. very good. Gray pictorial cloth stamped in black & orange. St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. First Edition.<br/><br/> The author died young. This is the second and last of his two books dedicated to Joseph Conrad.<br/><br/> Reedy unknown books
1913139125St. Louis: Reedy 1913. First. hardcover. very good. Gray pictorial cloth stamped in black & orange. St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. First Edition.<br/><br/> The author died young. This is the second and last of his two books dedicated to Joseph Conrad. Ownership signature 1915.<br/><br/> Reedy unknown books
1913145058St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-319 320: blank original pictorial gray cloth front panel stamped in orange and black spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The second and last of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in GRAPHICS a collection dedicated to Joseph Conrad are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "The Wind in the Lilacs" and "A Book in a Running Brook" contain short fairy tales with talking objects. "Ask and It Shall Be Given" features a blind boy who asks for the return of his sight on Christmas; an angel appears and gives him the ability to see into the hearts of people and this leads to an acceptance of his condition. Another Christmas story "The 2000th Christmas" is set in the future and features a mysterious young Jew who possesses magical abilities and whose visit may constitute the second coming. "These stories of the straitened lives of people most of them poor but a few rich alternate between bleak cynicism and pietistic sentiment." - Robert Eldridge. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-614. Hubin 1994 p. 519. A clean bright very good copy. #145058 William Marion Reedy unknown books
1913136278St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-319 320: blank original pictorial gray cloth front panel stamped in orange and black spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The second and last of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in GRAPHICS a collection dedicated to Joseph Conrad are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "The Wind in the Lilacs" and "A Book in a Running Brook" contain short fairy tales with talking objects. "Ask and It Shall Be Given" features a blind boy who asks for the return of his sight on Christmas; an angel appears and gives him the ability to see into the hearts of people and this leads to an acceptance of his condition. Another Christmas story "The 2000th Christmas" is set in the future and features a mysterious young Jew who possesses magical abilities and whose visit may constitute the second coming. "These stories of the straitened lives of people most of them poor but a few rich alternate between bleak cynicism and pietistic sentiment." - Robert Eldridge. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-614. Hubin 1994 p. 519. A bright fine copy. #136278 William Marion Reedy unknown books
1913130370St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-319 320: blank original pictorial gray cloth front panel stamped in orange and black spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The second and last of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in GRAPHICS a collection dedicated to Joseph Conrad are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "The Wind in the Lilacs" and "A Book in a Running Brook" contain short fairy tales with talking objects. "Ask and It Shall Be Given" features a blind boy who asks for the return of his sight on Christmas; an angel appears and gives him the ability to see into the hearts of people and this leads to an acceptance of his condition. Another Christmas story "The 2000th Christmas" is set in the future and features a mysterious young Jew who possesses magical abilities and whose visit may constitute the second coming. "These stories of the straitened lives of people most of them poor but a few rich alternate between bleak cynicism and pietistic sentiment." - Robert Eldridge. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-614. Hubin 1994 p. 519. Cloth lightly rubbed at lower spine end a clean bright very good copy. #130370 William Marion Reedy unknown books
1913126025St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. Octavo. pp. 1-8 1-2 3-319 320: blank original pictorial gray cloth front panel stamped in orange and black spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The second and last of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in GRAPHICS a collection dedicated to Joseph Conrad are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "The Wind in the Lilacs" and "A Book in a Running Brook" contain short fairy tales with talking objects. "Ask and It Shall Be Given" features a blind boy who asks for the return of his sight on Christmas; an angel appears and gives him the ability to see into the hearts of people and this leads to an acceptance of his condition. Another Christmas story "The 2000th Christmas" is set in the future and features a mysterious young Jew who possesses magical abilities and whose visit may constitute the second coming. "These stories of the straitened lives of people most of them poor but a few rich alternate between bleak cynicism and pietistic sentiment." - Robert Eldridge. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-614. Hubin 1994 p. 519. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Edges of text block dusty mild bump to lower edge some general light rubbing small tear to cloth at upper right rear corner a very good copy. #126025 William Marion Reedy unknown books
1913128261St. Louis: William Marion Reedy 1913. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-319 320: blank original pictorial gray cloth front panel stamped in orange and black spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The second and last of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in GRAPHICS a collection dedicated to Joseph Conrad are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "The Wind in the Lilacs" and "A Book in a Running Brook" contain short fairy tales with talking objects. "Ask and It Shall Be Given" features a blind boy who asks for the return of his sight on Christmas; an angel appears and gives him the ability to see into the hearts of people and this leads to an acceptance of his condition. Another Christmas story "The 2000th Christmas" is set in the future and features a mysterious young Jew who possesses magical abilities and whose visit may constitute the second coming. "These stories of the straitened lives of people most of them poor but a few rich alternate between bleak cynicism and pietistic sentiment." - Robert Eldridge. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-614. Hubin 1994 p. 519. A clean bright very good copy. #128261 William Marion Reedy unknown books
19088425New York: Metropolitan Syndicate 1908. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-225 226-228: blank note: last leaf is a blank original light green cloth lettered in red on front and spine panels. First edition. The rare first issue with integral title leaf bearing the "Metropolitan Syndicate" imprint and bound in non-pictorial green cloth. SARDONICS is the first of Lyon's two books both collecting some of his short fiction. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in SARDONICS and GRAPHICS can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in SARDONICS and 'Revenge' in GRAPHICS are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon like Crane and Norris died before his talents had fully matured and unfortunately when his work had only begun to appear in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE and to attract special attention." - Bennett A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting p. 204. Most of the stories in SARDONICS are mystery or detective shorts some with fantastic elements. "Into the Fourth Dimension" concerns the fate of the inventor of a device to project people into other dimensions who is poisoned in a Chinese restaurant kills his tormentor and escapes into another dimension with disastrous results. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-615. Not in Hubin 1994. Light wear to crown of spine panel else a near fine bright copy. #8425 Metropolitan Syndicate unknown books
1929120321San Francisco CA: Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar 1929. decorated paper-covered boards top edge cut other edges uncut. Kennedy Lawton R. 16mo. decorated paper-covered boards top edge cut other edges uncut. 25 3 pages. Limited to 230 numbered copies. Presentation by Lawton R. Kennedy responsible for presswork on colophon. Frontispiece original etching by Blanding Sloan. Decorations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Small stain at top of front cover along spine. (Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar) unknown books
1929178866Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1929. Hardcover. Good foxing to block and several of beginning and end pages. Pages are clear to read. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and design top edge red tinted bw frontispiece viii 385 pages illustrated in bw plates portraits facsimile. Signed by author Hastings Lyon to previous owner on ffep. Title page reads "Edward Coke Oracle of the Law. Containing the Story of his Long Rivalry with Francis Bacon: Some Account of their Times and Contemporaries: Famous Trails in which Coke Participated: His Stand against King James I to Maintain the Supremacy of the Common Law: His Share in Wresting the Petition of Right from King Charles I: To which is added A Statement about the Law Writings of Coke on which Generations of Lawyers were Trained." Includes a list of the illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1986027819München und Zürich: Delphin Verlag 1986. Illustrationen Roxy Huxley. Deutsche Bearbeitung Hartmut Zahn. 124p. colored illus. original stiff wrappers. Delphin Verlag unknown books
189274661Boston:: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1892. Hardcover. Illustrated with 113 photographic plates. Second edition. Gift inscription by poet Edmund Clarence Stedman dated 1892 on front endpage. Ex-library copy with typical markings else very good in a modern sturdy black buckram binding. ; 285 pages . Houghton, Mifflin and Company, hardcover books
18911310571Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1891. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print worn exposed corners tattered spine caps tears to front and rear hinges shelfwear; Text block has name in pencil on front flyleaf endpapers torn along front and rear hinges spotting to endpapers vendor label on rear pastedown intermittent spine breaks deckle-edged with some pages uncut; xii 285 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. 1310571. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
