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Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Typis Academicis Wxcudit Joannes Smith, 1829. Marbled boards and endpapers. Panelled spine with gilt letters. Joints and raised bands are rubbed, binding is quite firm. Small owner's name on tag at top of front pastedown. The poem is included in "Prolusiones Academicae Praemis Annuis Dignatae et In Curia Cantibrigiensi recitatae comitiis Maximis". The first publication of Tennyson's second published work, the FIRST under his own name. Accredited to A. Tennyson, of Trinity College. The poem is printed on nine pages, with the preferred ":cones" on p.10. Other poems by C.R. Kennedy in Greek and by Charles Merivale. 41pp. in all. See CBEL lll, pp. 253-255.. First Edition. 1/2 Emerald Morooco. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1931. Gift inscription front feee endpaper, dated Christmas '42. Tape over name. Paper toned as usual. Dust jacket is well-preserved. 218pp. . Reprint Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Gentle Edge Wear/Lightly Chipped. Oct.

London: W. Bulmer and Company, 1799. Rebound in mid-1970's with binder's note at rear. Original endpapers. Half-title. Frontipiece engraving of the author with off-setting onto the title-page. Collated complete with three folding maps and six plates counting the frontispiece. The first map of Mr. Park's route has red and blue route markings. All maps are intact and in very good condition. A small 1" tear at insertion of the map of North Africa has been repaired with archival tape, no paper loss. Slight off-setting onto adjacent pages of the full-page plates. Brown spot upper margin of pp. 61-73 (see photo). Page 313 has a closed tear at upper edge, no paper loss, likely a paper flaw from time of printing. This copy contains the Negro Song with two pages of music at conclusion as a postscript, frequently missing. A very good, kindly rebound copy. xxviii, 372, xcii, (v). The author (1771-1806) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist, and explorer of the Niger River in Africa. He drowned on his… Leer más

Edinburgh: William Sams and Archibald Constable., 1824. Paper spine label. Corners worn. Spine chipped at extremities. Upper joint starting to weaken at top but firmly intact. Previous owner's name in a neat hand at top of title-page. This second edition is identical to the first edition published a year before, except for title-page. Clean copy throughout, many leaves unopened at the top. Uncut at free edges. Twelve full-page illustrations after G. Simpson, lithography by Forrester and Morison. Bound with half-title. [xvii, 12 illustrations, 181, blank]. See Thimm 243, Pardoel 2218, CBEL III, p.778, Vigeant 111 (for first edition). OCLC lists 7 libraries worldwide holding this edition, not in ESTC . ABPC lists two copies a auction in the past 33 years. The author was a fencing-master at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. His father, Joseph, was a famed London fencing master who studied under the French master Danet. (Aylward, "The English Masters of Arms"). . Second Edition.. Original… Leer más

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company ., 1900. Small chipo from head of spine. Almost no wear. Lettering and front cover silhouette are fresh and clean. Inscription on front pastedown dated 1902. Slight off-setting on pp. x-xi probably from old newsprint now removed. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. with his portrait frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates of campus buildings, important personages. A clean copy in a very nice cover. 215pp.. First Edition. Olive Green Cloth. Minor Cover Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. INSCRIBED TO JOANNE WOODWARD AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. "To Miss Joanne Woodward-for whom the beautiful part of Ellen was written- Gore Vidal, Aug. 1957". One small area of rubbing and brown stain lower 1/3 of spine. Small water mark at top of rear cover. Jacket is darkened at creases, some chipping, with 1" piece missing from spine at lower portion of "Planet". Light water-stain top of rear panel. Original $2.95 price on front blurb. Photo of Cyril Ritchard and Eddie Mayehoff on rear panel.This is the play based on the television script for an episode of Goodyear Television Playhouse aired on May 8, 1955. The play starring Mr. Ritchard, who also directed the play, ran 388 performances in 1957-58. The play was then made into a Hollywood film, starring Jerry Lewis, in 1960. We can find no evidence that Miss Woodward ever played the role of Ellen Spelding. Sylvia Davis is listed in the playbill for the… Leer más