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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859 Likely reprint of an early American Edition, in one volume, with the stated date of 1859 on title page (no copyright info. given). Hard cover in brown cloth blind stamped with circular intersecting forms to both boards, the titles in gold to the spine, along with "Scenes of Clerical Life." Glazed brown endpapers, iv, 5-452, plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. There were a number of early reprints and repackaging into sets which included this very successful debut novel, but Harper & Brothers was the first American publisher. First published in serial at Blackwoods Magazine. CONDITION: Good Plus, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, with old water stain to lower bottom fore edge most pages and some minor foxing to prelims. Some edge wear. Hinges are in order. and pages are generally bright.** Warwarkshire-born Victorian novelist, Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), using the pen name George Eliot, tells a delicately drawn tale of the seduction of a… Leer más

New York: The Woman's Press, 1931 Hardcover, 8vo (5 ½" x 7 ⅞"). Revised version of the 1926 first edition. Condition: Fine. *** A study of the music, musical instruments, dance, songs and ceremonies of Native Americans, by the American anthropologist, Frances Theresa Densmore (1867-1957). As well as writing about the tribal songs, she made may recordings of them too, for the Bureau of American Ethnology (many of which are now housed in the Library of Congress). Her studies included the Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, Pawnee and the Papago.. Revised edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1960 Hardcover. Black "Novelex" cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5 ⅛" x 7 ¼"). 227pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories of adventurers seeking their fortune only to be confounded by harsh reality, and ends with some Kafka-esque tales of wistful regret. Includes the story "The Third Episode of Vathek", which completes a fragment by the author William Beckford, author of the early Gothic novel with Arabian setting, Vathek (1786). *** The dust jacket design is by Ronald Clyne and Wynn Bullock. *** Condition: A Fine,… Leer más

15 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, and London: T.N. Foulis, [1897] Hard cover, in gray cloth with color illustration to cover, the titles and framing blocked with darker gray and gold, with title in gold to the spine. Has the original glassine wrapper, now in mylar. Also, with the original gifting to/from 2-color sheet tucked within. Contains four color illustrations upon gray card tipped in, signed K. Cameron..(4) 67,(3)pp. CONDITION: Near Fine. Some mild foxing to prelims, not affecting plates. Endpapers slightly browned. Glassine has some small losses at head and foot of spine but remains generally clean, and has done its job to keep the boards tidy.**Glasgow Artist Katherine Cameron (1874-1965) trained at the Glasgow School of Art contemporaneously with the "Immortals," famously among them the artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, in the late 1880's and early 1890's. These images reflect the Glasgow style of Art Nouveau, using watercolor, delicate pen and ink work and attenuated, twining figures. Cameron… Leer más

Garden City and New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1923 A later reprint of the first American Edition (Doubleday Page , 1905.) Hard cover, 12mo, in full red lambskin over boards, with publisher's monogram vignette title blocked in gold to front board, the spine titles within decorative festoons, paste downs in terracotta and white Doubleday Page design, 359pp. Not illustrated. No advertising.** This is the sequel to Haggard's well-received lost civilization adventure genre novel "She," first published in book form 18 years prior in 1887. The story has some elements that will be familiar to fans of the "Outlander" television series, involving time travel through a portal of British standing stones...A manuscript written by the now-deceased Horace Holly is brought along with the sistrum of "She," to the Cumberland estate of the narrator, thence carrying the prior story forward. The adventurers Leo Vincey and his uncle Horace Holly wander through Asia, wintering at a lamasery in Thibet (sic). More… Leer más

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1996 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp [12] 307 [1]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a manuscript text, gilt titles to spine on red labels, and end papers featuring facsimile autographs. With color photographic plates. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. Condition: Near Fine. *** An account of the Uruguayan rugby team's 72-day fight for survival, after their airplane crashed in the Andes in 1972. The 16 survivors of the crash were forced to take shelter in the wreckage of the aircraft, and for sustenance had to ea the bodies of the dead. The original rescue mission was abandoned after eight days, and so two of the survivors eventually made a ten-day journey over 32 miles of mountainous terrain to fetch help. This account by Piers Paul Read has been widely praised as being a "classic in the literature of survival". *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the… Leer más

Venezuela: The Lost World Balloon Society, 1990 Hard cover, quarto, 95pp. With mini CD of music by Gerry Weil, being a "fusion of ... modern Venezuelan jazz". Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Contained in original cardboard wrapper, which has a small piece of tape attached. ** Color photographs and writings of Cerro Autana, a flat-topped mountain in Venezuela with almost vertical walls. Includes photos of: a helicopter navigating through rock formations, balloonists above the clouds, sky-divers above Autana.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: The Classics of Ophthalmology Library, 1992 Facsimile of the 1875 original, printed in a limited edition, this being number 5003/5000 (!). With the publishers leather bookplate of the original subscriber, Frederick C. Blodi, M.D., a famous ophthalmologist in his own right. In publisher's maroon morocco covers with elaborate design in gilt and two raised bands to spine. Folio (10 ¾"x 8 ⅜"). Condition: About Fine. Contains parallel text in English and the original German. With 38 full pages of plates at the end of the text. *** Hermann Pagenstecher (1844-1932) was a German ophthalmologist who, aside from treating Queen Victoria, was famous for continuing his brother's work in pioneering cataract surgery.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1929 Hard cover, 8vo, in black and silver printed paper-covered boards 63pp. Limited edition number 32/200. Collection of poetry by the American poet Elinor Morton Wylie (1885 - 1928), which begin with a series of sonnets that her biographer Stanley Olson called "her finest achievement". The title of Tennessee William's play "In Masks Outrageous and Austere" is taken from one of Wylie's poems. Condition: About Near Fine in almost Very Good dust jacket which is age-toned and has chips to the edges. Includes slipcase which has shelfwear. Some pages unopened.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

North Salem, New York: The Adventure Library, 1995 Hard cover, 8vo., in half buckram with gray paper-covered boards illustrated with mountain scenery. First Edition Thus, xvii, 257 pp. Originally published in France, 1952. In English. Containing map endpapers and numerous photographs reproduced from the original book. Condition: Fine. Described as perhaps the best mountaineering book of all time. The obituary of the French climber appearing in the Guardian newspaper (December 14, 2012) describes how Herzog's pioneering ascent of this 8,000 meter mountain in Nepal in 1950 made the man a national hero of France, along with his team. The price was high, however, costing the Author the loss of all of his fingers and toes to frostbite. The current title was dictated from his hospital bed during a long, and agonizing recovery. Lucien Devies explains the mindset of high mountaineering in the book's original Preface : " Climbing is a means of self-expression...Man overcomes himself, affirms himself and… Leer más

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1882 Volume I only. (The Second Volume was not published until 1897.) Copyright 1881. Hard cover, 8vo, in the original brown cloth over boards with borders stamped in blind, the titles blocked in gold to the spine. Printed at University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Includes rare publisher's advertising handbill laid in. Chocolate brown glazed end papers, frontispiece illustration, plus 49 additional illustrations, facsimile signatures and other type decorations among text. CONDITION: Very Good. Some wear to the front joint, but hinges are in order. Some scuffing to both boards. Top edge dusty. Very faint ghost of a post-it ? removal to a prelim; but no signs this was ever ex-library. Pages show no foxing, and are gently age-toned. Now in mylar. CONTENTS: Preface, Contents and List of illustrations and Autographs: xviii [xviv-xvii]. Text 1- 551pp. Contents include Chapters on: I. The Puritan Commonwealth 1620-1664. II. Episcopy Planted in Boston 1667-1686.… Leer más

New York: G.P. Putnam's and Sons, 1897 Printed at the Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, New York. Hard cover, 8vo. (measuring 6 x 9 inches) in blue cloth, the boards with a blind stamped double ruled border, and the spine with the titles in gilt, and author's name encircled in gilt dots. Vol. 1: (xvi), 389pp.15 black and white tissue-guarded illustrations. Vol. 2: (xxi) 391 pp., 12 illustrations. This edition features two-color title pages, and decorative borders in brown framing each page of text, with designs of acorns and pine cones. **First published in 1836, this account of the westward expansion of the fur trade was gleaned by the author Washington Irving from papers supplied to him from John Jacob Astor about the origins of the American and Pacific Fur Companies in the 18aughts. The author also relied on previously published accounts of Lewis and Clark, and others. American "manifest destiny," and tales of "remote and adventurous enterprises," all voiced with the skill of a novelist, makes… Leer más

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 Hard cover, 12mo, in green cloth, stamped in blind to boards and spine, with titles blocked in gold, text block with red stained edges, navy blue end papers, frontispiece plus three additional illustrations, 184pp., First Edition. Incudes a pithy handwrtten note to her publishers tipped in to the ffep.: "Dear Editors, If you wish to keep this poem please send check for it at once in enclosed envelope, if not, kindly ..at once..enclose it back to me, obliged, yours truly, C. Thaxter." CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Shows some exterior rubbing, along the joints, head and tale of spine and tips, one of which is bumped. Inside, the ffep has been reglued, but otherwise looks pristine. A small printed old bookstore label is on gutter edge of front endpaper. BAL 19848.. Signed Note to "Editors" tipped in demanding payment by return post. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.

Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2009 Hardcover, quarto, 152pp. Condition: Fine in like dustjacket and slipcase. ** Beautiful photographic book on bookstores. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1970 Hard cover, 8vo., 399pp. Publisher's red cloth boards. Listing early science books from Duns Scotus and Albertus Magnus (as precursors to physics), Ptolemy and Copernicus (for mathematics) etc. Condition: Near Fine, with bump to one corner. Covers very lightly marked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1982 pp xx 220. Folio (11" x 8 ½"). In publisher's red cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, in dust jacket depicting a Mayan temple. Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. *** The Books of Chilam Balam are nine books written in Yucatec Maya which preserve many of the customs, myths and traditions of the Mayan people. The "Chilam Balam" was a priest or prophet who lived in the last decades of the fifteenth century and foretold the arrival of "strangers from the East". Some of the Books of Chilam Balam are copies of more ancient texts originally written in hieroglyphic manuscripts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Yokohama: Katsuyuki Suzuki, 1991 Soft cover, 8vo., 166pp + index + photo gallery. Condition: Near Fine. Light shelfwear to edges of covers. Scarce. Text in Japanese and English. Delightful artwork and book design.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Llandeilo: Aylesford Review, 1960 pp 281-328. Includes "A Biographical Study" by Wesley D. Sweetser, the noted Machen biographer. Condition: Almost Fine, with light bump to one corner affecting pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York and Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 ** Signed by Author on title page: "Celia Thaxter August 4th, 1891. ** Hard cover, 12mo ( measuring 4 x 6 inches), in publisher's green cloth, design in black to top board and gold lettering to spine. Glazed black end papers, red stain to edge of text block. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard, title page printed black and red, 184 pp. With four black and white engraved illustrations. Condition: Good. Some wear/marks to covers and corners. Owner's signature, dated 1891, on title page in black ink. American poet and essayist, Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was famous for her life-long association with the Isles of Shoals: a group of islands nine miles east, straddling the Maine/New Hampshire seacoast. Among the writers who visited her: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Whittier and Sarah Orne Jewett. Artists William Morris Hunt and Childe Hassam… Leer más

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972 Hard cover, 8vo., pp xxxiv 1-368 1-134. In publisher's gray cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile of the original 1728 edition. *** William Whiston (1667 - 1752) was an English mathematician, who succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1702. Whiston was also an ordained minister, and was rector of Lowestoft from 1698-1699. He was a Boyle lecturer in 1707, in which position he defended the position of biblical literalism. In 1710 he was expelled from the university because of his religious views, in particular his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, saying it had pagan origins. *** The book contains lectures discussing the movement of the planets, eclipses, and measurements. It is illustrated throughout and contains a section of tables at the end. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.