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20132308347New York: Little Brown and Company 2013. Reprint. Reprint. Very Good/Near Fine. Reprint. Sticker on front endpaper. 2013 Hard Cover. viii 327 pp. The remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism of the fight for girls' education of a father who himself a school owner championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
20132308391New York: Little Brown and Company 2013. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A very nice copy. 2013 Hard Cover. viii 327 pp. The remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism of the fight for girls' education of a father who himself a school owner championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
20152304084New York: Back Bay Books 2015. Reprint. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2015 Trade Paperback. xx 330 16 pp. "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9 2012 when she was fifteen she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school and few expected her to survive. Instead Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism of the fight for girls' education of a father who himself a school owner championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world. Back Bay Books unknown books
19852290350Oxford University Press 1985. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First thus. 1985 reissue of 1910 original with a new introduction by Alastair Lamb. Jacket edges rubbed jacket spine bumped minor surface tear on rear jacket panel. Board edges lightly rubbed page ridges very faintly foxed. xvi 455 pp. The British military and political expedition which under the command of Francis Younghusband entered Lhasa the capital of Tibet in August 1904 marked the culmination of Britain's attempts over 140 years to establish good relations with Tibet. A treaty was signed but in 1910 Tibet was invaded by China. This book first published in the year of the Chinese invasion is Younghusband's own account of the expedition its nature and the profound consequences of its repudiation. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1830WRCLIT57659London: Edward Moxon 1830. vii11501pp. Small octavo. Full olive green straight-grain morocco gilt extra a.e.g. by Tuckett "Binder to the Queen." Pictorial vignette on title. Some occasional modest foxing joints and extremities rubbed with small crack at top of upper joint otherwise a very good copy enclosed in a silk-lined full morocco clamshell box a bit rubbed. First edition of this collection among the first books to appear under Moxon's imprint. A delightful association copy inscribed on the blank prelim: "To Miss E. Hamilton as a parting token of Friendship from Wm. Wordsworth 16th August 1830 Rydal Mount." With the ownership signature in the top margin of the title of "A. Hamilton." It would seem probable that the recipient was the Irish poet Elizabeth Mary Hamilton sister of Wordsworth's close friend mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton. Elizabeth visited Wordsworth in her brother's company during the summer months of that year. Elizabeth Hamilton is recipient of meaningful praise as a poet in O'Donoghue. With the bookplate of Frank Bemis. LIVINGSTON p. 169ff. O'DONOGHUE p. 94. Edward Moxon unknown books
194291081NY:: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Fourteenth printing. Very good in a very good moderate edge wear with a few small chips age toning price clipped dust jacket. . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, hardcover books
1876133810Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Hardcover. VG ex -library with minimal markings. a few smudges here and there and some chipped page corners small marginal tears and wear to page edges on bottom. library binding slightly dusty. Burgundy library buckram. All edges gilt. xix 16 pp of text and 120 plates each preceded by a letterpress page with a description. Very nice 19th century compliation of Hogarth engravings. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
1876278755Boston MA: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Half Leather. Very Good binding. .With a Sketch of Hogarth's Life and Career by William Makepeace Thackeray and an Essay on the Genius and Character of Hogarth by Charles Lamb. Complete with heliotyped plates. Bound in three-quarter morocco. Some repair to the moire endpapers and loss to the first blank page. A handsome volume. Very Good binding. James R. Osgood and Company unknown books
181355064Philadelphia: Robert Desilver 1813. 12mo pp. xxi 1 130; frontispiece with a depiction of the rotund Falstaff; quarter sheep over paper covered boards front board bent and nearly loose lower board starting lower margin of frontis excised a couple leaves chipped at corners not affecting text light spotting fair only. <br/><br/> Robert Desilver hardcover books
1956127863Munich: Hirmer 1956. hardcover. very good/very good. Color frontispiece portrait. 124 illustrations some in color 120pp. of text square 4to gray cloth d.w.; spine ends a bit chipped. Munchen: Hirmer 1956. Very good.<br/><br/> Hirmer unknown books
194322120ELondon: Victor Gollancz 1943. First Edition. Original paper wrappers. Staplebound 8vo 16 pages. Very good copy with some minor age toning and handling. During World War II in response to what would later be called the Holocaust in Britain in March 1943 William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury joined Ernest Henry Lamb Lord Rochester in this historical speech before the House of Lords outlining ongoing atrocities within the Nazi regime and calling for the British government to develop plans to resettle Jewish refugees with great haste and urgency. Temple concludes his powerful speech with this: “My chief protest is against procrastination of any kind. The Jews are being slaughtered at the rate of tens of thousands a day on many days. We know that what we can do is small compared to the magnitude of the problem but we cannot rest so long as there is any sense among us that we are not doing all that might be done. We have discussed the matter on the footing we are not responsible for this great evil but it is always true that the obligation of decent men are decided for them by contingencies which they themselves did not create. We stand at the bar of history of humanity and of God.†William Temple 1881 - 1944 was a bishop in the Church of England serving as Bishop of Manchester from 1921 - 29 Archbishop of York from 1929-42 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942-44 dying while in office. Much of his work as a leader in the church revolved around social reform and he is perhaps best remembered for his book Christianity and Social Order 1942. Ernest Henry Lamb 1st Baron Rochester 1876 - 1955 was a British Liberal and National Labour politician who served as Paymaster-General from 1931 to 1935 in the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald. He served as a Methodist lay preacher for many years and like Temple was involved in social reform and philanthropic activities. Victor Gollancz unknown books
143349St. Paul MN: University of St. Thomas nd. Softcover. 12 pages. Essay by Swanson. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. University of St. Thomas unknown books
1804WRCLIT52698Soho: J. Barfield 1804. 2pp. plus conjugate blank. Quarto. Lower edge slightly dusty else fine. First separate printing. The paper is watermarked 1804 and there is a proof corrected by Kirgate at Farmington. HAZEN 95. J. Barfield unknown books
19671341906Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1967. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; blue spine with black text; missing jacket; cloth shows slight tone to spine and edges; strong boards; text block exterior edges show light tone; dark blue marker to exterior head edge; some underlining and marginalia inside; tight binding; pp 241. 1341906. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
2013183850Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Soraia Cals Escritorio de Arte / Evandro Carneiro Leiloeiro 2013. Hardcover. VG upper corners bumped & creased. indentations to upper spine edge. dustjacket scuffed & smudged; corners creased. white & pictorial boards w/ gold printing. approx 300 unpaginated w/ color illustrations. white pictorial dustjacket. Text in Portuguese. The famed Brazilian model and actress's collection of glassware artwork and haute couture. Lavishly illustrated. Details 617 items for auction. Price List laid-in. Uncommon. Soraia Cals Escritorio de Arte / Evandro Carneiro Leiloeiro hardcover books
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes; G; bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering; some chipping and rubbing to boards; with 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume 2; Some foxing/spotting throughout; With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume 1; Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages; shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover books
1998180461United States: BLS Corporation 1998. Hardcover. VG/VG. Forest green stamped cloth gilt letters on spine white dust jacket illustrated in black and black lettering color illustration on front; 331 pp. BW & color illustrations throughout. A comprehensive consideration of the life and works of American artist and stained glass designer Ella Condie Lamb 1862-1936 complied by her granddaughter. Includes details about the operation of the J. & R. Lamb Studios. BLS Corporation hardcover books
1998137260BLS Corporation 1998. Hardcover. VG Perhaps a few marks from previous gallery owner; no dj; back flyleaf has a few tiny tears. Forest green stamped cloth gilt letters on spine 331 pp. BW & color illus. A comprehensive consideration of the life and works of American artist and stained glass designer Ella Condie Lamb 1862-1936 complied by her granddaughter. Includes details about the operation of the J. & R. Lamb Studios. BLS Corporation hardcover books
196889653Paris: UNESCO 1968. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations 37p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Contains the speeches at the ceremony by Sarwat Tharwat Okasha Paulo E. de Berredo Carneiro and Rene Maheu. <br/><br/> UNESCO paperback books
02654London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1808. A Handsome Root & Son Binding<br/>Celebrating the Beauty of Elizabethan Poetry<br/><br/>ROOT & SON binders. LAMB Charles. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare. With Notes. London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1808. <br/><br/>First edition. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 in; 181 x 108 mm. xii 484 pp.<br/><br/>Designed and bound c. 1920 by Root & Son stamp-signed in full brown crushed morocco with double fillet and a secondary gilt-rolled frame with gilt corner-pieces and inlaid dots in green. Gilt decorated compartments. Top edge gilt. A fine copy <br/><br/>Elizabethan poets whose work is represented here include Thomas Sackville; Thomas Kyd; Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Decker; Ben Jonson; William Rowley; John Fletcher; Francis Beaumont; etc.<br/><br/>Charles Lamb was born in London in 1775. He studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When Lamb was twenty years old he suffered a period of insanity and was confined to a psychiatric hospital. His sister Mary Ann Lamb had similar issues and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother. Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favored political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley William Hazlitt Henry Brougham Lord Byron Thomas Barnes and Leigh Hunt. In 1796 Lamb contributed four sonnets to Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects 1796. This was followed by Blank Verse 1798 and Pride's Cure 1802. Lamb worked for the East India Company in London but managed to contribute articles to several journals and newspapers including London Magazine The Morning Chronicle Morning Post and the The Quarterly Review. He is best known for his pseudonymous essays for London Magazine collected and published as Essays of Elia 1823 and for the popular evergreen Tales From Shakespeare 1807 his collaboration with his sister. The volume under notice went a long way to popularizing Shakespeare's contemporaries. He died in 1834. <br/><br/>The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out uprooted of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 unknown books
1923WRCLIT64869New York: Privately printed for Frank Altschul 1923. Sewn printed wrappers. Illustrations by F.W. Ivins. First edition thus. One of five hundred copies printed by Bruce Rogers. Wrappers very faintly hand-smudged else fine. ROGERS 326. [ Privately printed for Frank Altschul] unknown books
1923WRCLIT58717New York: Privately printed for Frank Altschul 1923. Sewn printed wrappers. Illustrations by F.W. Ivins. First edition thus. One of five hundred copies printed by Bruce Rogers. A fine copy. ROGERS 326. [ Privately printed for Frank Altschul] unknown books
1991013315Quito Ecuador: Abrapalabra editores 1991. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 97 pages of text. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. Text is in Spanish. Illustrated by black & white photographs. Abrapalabra editores Paperback books
1965130702Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1965. Draft script for the 1965 film. <br/><br/>Two men attacked by Apaches try to warn nearby settlers of an imminent Apache attack but are rebutted by unbelievers and a group of stagecoach robbers. When the stagecoach then suffers an Apache attacked mid-robbery the two men must attempt to survive the attack themselves. <br/><br/>Pale green titled wrappers rubber stamped as copy No. 27 and noted as production No. 20039 dated May 25 1965 with credits for writers Lamb and Sanford. Front wrapper integral with the title page as issued. 109 leaves on pale green stock mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1928WRCLIT57741London 1928. 12mo. Publisher's full medium-brown niger morocco stamped in gilt t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Color initials. A bit of darkening to edges and endsheets bookplate otherwise a very good copy. First printing in this format. One of a total edition of 160 copies printed at the Reed Pale Press of which forty copies were on handmade paper and twelve on "special antique paper" of which this copy is likely one of the latter. An inscribed presentation copy from Edmund W. Brooks the publisher. Brooks farmed out more ambitious subsequent projects to commercial printers but the implication of the colophon is that this was printed by the proprietor. Ordinary copies were bound in linen and boards. Not in Ridler or Tomkinson. hardcover books
