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19034843Concord: The Sign of the Vine. Good; A solid copy of a charming little book assembled by noted printer . Will Bradley on handmade paper circa 1903. Soiling to covers edgeworn . with light water staining. 1903. Hardcover. In this humorous essay Charles Lamb describes his version of essentially the first barbecue. ; 6.5 x 4.25 x 0.25 inches; 19 pages . The Sign of the Vine hardcover
183077017London:: Edward Moxon 1830. First edition. full calf; gilt spine; t.e.g. The front cover is detached and the rear cover nearly so. Two bookplates on front endsheet; tiny owner's monogram at rear. . 12mo. Lacking the half-title and leaf of ads. Edward Moxon, unknown
1965000815Los Angeles CA: Dawson's Book Shop 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Miniature hardcover; one of 250 numbered copies this being 188; 2.75 x 2 inches; 1 v-vii 9-24 1 pages; frontis illustration of Lamb at his desk. Red leather boards with gilt titles to spine boards show faint wear with tiny nicks at edges and corners silver Lilliput booksellers label in rear with old price in Japanese Yen. Collects letters from Charles Lamb to various literary figures relating to his love of books. Printed and with introduction by Wallace Nethery. Dawson's Book Shop hardcover
192900003082London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited 1929 2 turquoise volumes backstrip shows minor staining and wear bindings are firm. J. M. Dent and Sons Limited hardcover
188930838New York: A.C. Armstrong & Sons 1889. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 411 pages. Hardcover. Bound in dark red with Gilt title on spine. Covers slightly darkened with age. Top edge gilt. Pages and edges have a touch of age-yellow. In decent shape for its age. Record # 30838 A.C. Armstrong & Sons hardcover
18931238London: Walter Scott Ltd. 1893. The Scott Library. pp. xxv 237 14 pages of publisher's advertisements. Small 8vo. measuring 5" x 7". Original dark green cloth over boards with lovely gilt rules and ornamentation to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt lovely untrimmed page edges. Very light edgewear neat period ink name to the ffep otherwise the contents remarkably bright clean and unmarked. A very lovely and comapact edition. Very good to near fine. <br/><br/> Walter Scott, Ltd. hardcover
1889r0484London: Field & Tuer 1889. Handsome reprint of an exceedingly scarce book; Tuer in his introduction discusses the complete 1811 copy in his colledction the only one he knows of as well as the value of other Lamb rarities. Number 166 of 500 printed SIGNED by the publisher. Hardcover half vellum over blue boards gilt titling. Shows some wear waterstains to the edges of cover pages slightlt affected; binding coming loose with center section nearly detached. Text clean; xii 31 pages wood engraving nine hand-colored plates as called for. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 6¼" by 8". Field & Tuer Hardcover
193068663New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 375pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Red cloth over boards lettered and pictorially stamped in black ink on the spine and front board. Illustrated endpapers. Small ding to top edge of rear board. Light foxing to the text block edges. Endpapers discolored along the hinges. Prior owner's name on the front free endpaper and again in the top margin of p. 100. Discreet May Co. label and price ticket on rear pastedown. In the dust jacket with periodic shallow chips to the edges and one tiny open tear in the surface of the rear panel. The popular retellings of Shakespeare's best-loved plays by the brother-and-sister duo of Charles and Mary Lamb. With four color plates a numerous illustrations in black and white by Maud and Miska Petersham.<br /> <br /> "Maud Fuller Petersham was born August 5 1890 in Kingston NY. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912 and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. While working for the International Art Service an advertising agency in New York City she met and married co-worker Miska Petersham. He had been born Mikaly Petrezselyem in Torokszentmiklos Hungary on September 20 1888. In 1920 the Petershams illustrated their first book for children The Enchanted Forest by William Bowen. During their long and prolific careers they illustrated dozens of books by many different authors of both fiction and nonfiction. The Petershams also wrote and illustrated many books together beginning in 1929 with Miki the story of a little boy's trip to Hungary. In 1942 the Petershams received a Caldecott Honor citation for An American A B C and in 1946 they won the Caldecott Medal for The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Miska Petersham died on May 15 1960 and Maud Fuller Petersham died on November 29 1971." - University of Minnesota Libraries website. The Macmillan Company hardcover
24337New York: Dutton n.d. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good. Folkard Charles. Small 8vo full green cloth stamped in gilt with color cover plate illustrated with 8 color plates by Charles Folkard. Lightly edgeworn but a nice pre-WWI copy. Dutton hardcover
1925124357Philadelphia Toronto: The John C. Winston Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. A Very Good edition with soiling to the boards and throughout ; Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of short stories based on the works of William Shakespeare. The stories are written in a humorous and light-hearted manner and are meant to be enjoyed by both children and adults.; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 311 pages . The John C. Winston Company hardcover
033019New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company 395 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean bright tight portrait frontis; a.e. tanned front hinge starting. Cover: decorative wood veneer boards green backstrip green titles front gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear extrems moderately worn. A charming little book. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company hardcover
1906206941Boston Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society 1906. Hardcover. VG. Slipcase has some soiling and wear but book is in very good condition. Inside front cover is the bookplate of Henry C. Bernheim done by engraver Edwin Davis French. Plate is clean crisp and bright. Volume 3 only. Quarto. Orange slipcase. Hardcover. Brown paper boards. No jacket as issued. 337 pages. The Bibliophile Society hardcover
1906206942Boston Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society 1906. Hardcover. VG. Slipcase has some soiling and wear but book is in very good condition. Inside front cover is the bookplate of Henry C. Bernheim done by engraver Edwin Davis French. Plate is clean crisp and bright. Volume 4 only. Quarto. Orange slipcase. Hardcover. Brown paper boards. No jacket as issued. 337 pages. The Bibliophile Society hardcover
12021Derby & Jackson NY 1856 Frontispiece engraving by A. Dick. sm8vo. 611pp. Purple blind stamped cloth. Gold lettering on spine. 1/4" loss at top of spine. Small loss at bottom of spine. Page 281 and page 283 has a 2" tear. Good condition. Derby & Jackson, NY, 1856 hardcover
1890169686London/NY: The Chesterfield Society 1890. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated De Luxe Edition Limited 1000 Copies Number 381. Single volume. Edited with an introduction by Alfred Ainger. Three quarter red leather marbled papercovered boards and endpapers gilt-stamped spine title top page edges gilt. Owner's name on front fly verso offsetting on pages 76-77 spine is dry and brittle with some loss edges worn a good only copy. Edition De Luxe One Thousand Copies of This Edition Printed in America of which this is No. 381. The Chesterfield Society hardcover
1997540U. S. A.: Bay Island Books. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0965469417 . First edition/ First printing. Signed by author on title page. Trade paperback is Near Fine with edge wear and rubbing to the cover. ; Trade PB; Signed by Author . Bay Island Books paperback
1979240529Boston: Stone Wall Press Inc 1979. First edition. Illustrated by Tom Hennessey. 138 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated by Tom Hennessey. 138 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Stone Wall Press, Inc hardcover
1963MAIN033443IBarre MA: Barre Publishers. Fine in a slipcase that has some edgewear VG. 1963. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 97pp . Limited to 1500 copies. Has the publisher's original mylar. . Barre Publishers hardcover
193668566Peiyang Press 1936. VG -. Hardcover / One corner slightly bumped / Less than 1-inch tear at base of front & rear gutters / 7 black-and-white fold-out maps and 2 additonal plates intact / Time-line included in free-standing fold out in pocket at back of book / Gift insciption at base of front endpaper Peiyang Press hardcover
197780020Nashville:: Thomas Nelson. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0840765657 . Stated first edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Thomas Nelson, hardcover
1991fh749hByrgisey 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Heavy extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Tall. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There are closed tears and chips along the edges. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally there is a previous owners inscription on the title page. otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r31/10/2025. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Byrgisey hardcover
2123Minor shelfwear pages 135-150 upside down else fine. <p dir="ltr">Harold Lamb. Alexander of Macedon: The Journey to World's End. Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company Inc. 1946. First American edition. <br /> Octavo. 402pp. Publisher's red cloth spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and black mapped endleaves deckled edges original unclipped dust jacket. </p> . unknown
1995229473Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1995. Collector's edition. Full brown leather decoratively gilt. Fine. Illustrated. Part of "The Library of Great Lives" series. <br /> <br /> Includes "Library of Great Lives" note laid in.<br /> <br /> Foreword by Pamela Sargent. Easton Press unknown
1927250246<p>New York: Robert McBride 1927. 13th printing 1930. HC no DJ. PC Good. Maroon cloth gilt spine titling dulled front gilt titling edgeworn scuffs stains corners bumped maroon topstain FO plate to FPEP w ink offsetting to recto B/W frontis leaves toned w foxing now in protector. B/W plate illustrations throughout. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.</p> Robert McBride hardcover
193031915New York: Robert M. McBride 1930. Thirteenth Printing. Hard Cover. Inscribed by Lamb on the half-tilte page in 1933. NEAR-FINE CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH SLIGHTLY DIMMED SPINE. NO DUST JACKET. Books signed by Lamb are uncommon. Most of those listed as signed you will find are signed by illustarrators of his books. Robert M. McBride unknown
