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London: The Folio Society, 1995 First Edition Thus. Hard cover in orig. slipcase, 8vo (6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches), in decorated paper-covered boards, with orange cloth to spine; black printed labels in gilt; illustrated map endpapers;172 pp. Introduction by Owen Chadwick new with this edition. Sixteen black and white illustrations by book illustrator Alexy Pendle. Condition: Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase. The Warden of a Barsetshire almshouse is suspected of fiduciary irregularities in this classic of Victorian literature, first published in 1855. The first installment in Trollope's Basetshire Chronicles series, made into the 1982 BBC mini-series, "The Barchester Chronicles." . Hard Cover. Fine . Illus. by Alexy Pendle.

Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, 1983 Reprint. Hard cover, 12mo., 276pp. In publisher's full brown leather-like binding with four raised bands to spine, maroon spine label lettered in gold, paint speckled textblock edges, cream colored paper stock, 276pp., Fourteenth Printing. ** A modern publication (a faux facsimile, if you will,) of old American recipes, drawn from publications such as "The Compleat Housewife, or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion" (1742) as well as more modern contributors. Entries include "Williamsburg Beef Steak Pye", "Ham and Egg Pudding (A Spring Dish)", "Madison Cakes", "King's Arms Pecan Confections", and "King's Arms Green-gage Plum Ice Cream". Full-page illustrations included are: "The Kitchen of the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg", "The Market Square Tavern Kitchen", "The Blair Kitchen & Herb Garden", "A Moral & Physical Thermometer" and "The King's Arms". . Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936 Hard cover, in tan cloth with titles in brown ink, with the original, unclipped dust jacket, with mylar protector. 8vo., 508 pp. Chicago author James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was most famous for the semi-autobiographical Studs Lonigan trilogy, completed just prior. He looks at some of the same themes of urban poverty here, writing about several generations of two immigrant, Irish-Catholic American families, the O'Neils and the O'Flaretys. Condition: This is a very clean, Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. There are some chips to the head and spine of the jacket and tape on the top front. The binding is firm and pages bright. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, Philadelphia, Chicago: The Nottingham Society, 1111 Reprint. Circa 1920. Hard cover, 8vo in three-quarter black leatherette over tan buckram, titles blocked in gold to the spine, top edge gilt, green-grey endpapers, engraved frontispiece illustration, various pages, CONDITION: Very Good Plus. A few small splits to the head of spine. Partly unopened. Remains bright, the full page halftone illustrated pages are on slightly different colored glazed stock which is more yellow in tone than the text, which has more line illustration within.**Englishman William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1852), multi-talented mid-18th century author, artist and journalist, was a man who successfully navigated vicissitudes of fortune brought on by gambling, financial loss and widowhood. He is remembered for his great variety of wit and social satire, often having been first serialized in journals such as Punch, and later his own Cornhill Magazine. This particular collection of his work was first sold by… Leer más

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1928 Hard cover, 8 vo., in publisher's green cloth with gilt "TH "monogram design to center front, and titles in gilt to spine, with unclipped dust jacket in tan with black print, 202 pp. In mylar protector. Printed R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Very Good : Ffep has ghost from the original application of binding glue near the gutter. Very slight wear to head, tail of spine. Interior is clean, tight and gently age toned. Many pages unopened. D/J: Good, with sunning to spine, a loss at head of spine, split at front joint, and some damage to rear at top. This was the valedictory volume of poetry written by English poet Hardy, who died the same year. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1862 First Edition, in 7 Volumes (complete), published 1862-63. Hard cover, 12 mo, (5 x 7 1/4 inches) in full polished calf gilt, finely bound by Bickers & Son, London, (stamp sighed.) Double gilt-ruled borders to both boards with small corner circles, the spine richly gilt with five raised bands, with tooled titles in second and third compartments on labels of red and green, the remaining decorated with a triangular arrangement of small gilt elements surrounded by small circles and corner festoons, additional banding in a Greek key pattern near foot of the spine, dotted lines along the bands, zigzag banding on labels and additional rolled gilt decoration to all board edges. Turn-ins are stamped in blind with vertical lines. Glazed marbled endpapers match the trimmed, and beautifully marbled text block edges. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, Printers.**CONDITION: Near Fine (or better): A few light marks to some boards, (one small scuff through to rear pasteboard, vol. VII.)… Leer más

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1913 Hard cover 8vo in attractive trade decorated binding printed with a landscape scene in cream and dark green upon a lighter green cloth. Titles in cream to front and spine, 388 pp. plus 7 page publisher's catalogue. Benziger Magazine order blank laid in. Condition: Very Good Plus or better, with slight sunning to spine, edges a bit dusty and mildly toned. Author Rev. Michael Earls (1875-1937) was a Massachusetts-born Jesuit priest who earned a literary masters degree from Georgetown University before entering the seminary. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories and a play in addition to teaching English at Holy Cross University in Worcester, who have his archival material. Not surprisingly, the novel is a somewhat heavily-messaged Catholic reflection on marriage and duty, but not without a good bit of drama and suspense. A young woman, Elenora Gomez, has been raising her younger siblings after the death of her parents, and she has been… Leer más

New York: Bigelow, Brown and Co., Inc., 1111 Hard cover, 8vo, (5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches) in gray buckram, with blue label, gold titles blocked to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece illustrations by various artists, v.p.,undated (circa 1920's) rubricated title page, various pages. Each volume contains a brief publication history, and list of the full-page illustrations reproduced from the original famous Dickens artists listed above, usually about ten to a volume. Full length novels and shorter works are included, as well as a selection of the author's correspondence, poems and a life of Dickens in the final volume. Indexed, where appropriate.**CONDITION: Near Fine, clean, and with no apparent shelf wear. One bumped rear corner and one small closed tear to as half title page is noticed in the twenty volume set. One exterior title label lightly rubbed. Bright and virtually unread.**TITLES INCLUDE:" Sketches by Boz, Parts I and II, " (465 pp.) "The Pickwick Papers," (522pp.) "Oliver Twist "and "Hard… Leer más

Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1998 Hardcover. 8vo. 157pp. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Near Fine. Very light foxing to edge of textblock visible when book closed. From the series Masterworks of the German Enlightenment. ** Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811) and Moritz August von Thümmel (1738-1817) were popular German authors, here with two of their best works, in modern translation by John R. Russell. ** "Wilhelmine", published in German as "Wilhelmine, oder der vermählte Pedant" in1764, is comic prose. "The Life and Opinions of Master Sebaldus Nothanker", pubished in German as "Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker" between 1773 and 1776, tells the fictional story of Sebaldus Nothanker, a minister, is a moralistic tale, but sheds light on the daily life of 18th century Germany. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863 Hardcover, 16 volumes dated 1863-1886. 8vo, finely bound by Bumpus of London in three-quarter navy morocco with with 5 raised bands and gold lettering to spines. Condition: Almost Fine, with some very light shelf-wear, with a small scratch to volume one, and some tiny chips to the board edges. *** Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was the quintessential man of letters - visitors would describe his rooms as being strewn with papers and books. He was friends with the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and enjoyed instant popularity with the magazine publication of his "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in 1821. *** Contents include "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", his widely praised essay on Shakespeare, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1823), and his opium-inspired dreamscapes in "The English Mail-Coach" (1849). *** De Quincey recalls in his "Confessions" his escape from an English public school, his subsequent… Leer más

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1909 Hard cover in green cloth, titles blocked in gold to front board and spine, with pictorial decoration in black, red and gold, with tissue-guarded frontispiece plus four additional full page black and white illustrations. top edge stained green, 333 pp. plus 4pp. publisher"s catalogue. Lacking d/j. **Condition: Very Good. Creasing to cover. Lacking ffep. and front hinge has some perforation. Overall, it is sound and generally clean internally, with mild age-toning. Soiling to top of rear board. **Two teens, Rex and Dill, must travel into the Rockies in order to find the famous trapper, Kit Carson. Their mission is to convince Kit to travel with them in search of some papers needed by the family back in New Orleans, being held by their Uncle Manuel in California. Wagon-training, trapping, hunting, and general outdoorsy adventure are promised in this well-written novel. Contemporary attitudes of the time it was written may prompt discussions, but that's why we… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984 Hard cover with dust jacket, 192 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the British author who, in real life, is an esteemed dealer in antiquarian books. Mild-mannered librarian Henry Franklin is a specialist in Arabic manuscripts, whose detection services are required to crack the case of the theft of priceless ancient materials stolen from British museums and libraries. International adventure ensues. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Front board has a couple of small dents and one front corner is minimally bumped. The pages and edges of text block remain clean and bright, and the binding is tight. The dust jacket has small edge wear at upper front and lower left corners, some pinpoints of wear on front, and at head of spine.. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Concord, Massachusetts: Sign of the Vine, 1903 [Four titles sold here as a set.] Hard cover, various sizes, in graduating color, paper-covered boards, various pages, 1903, First Edition. This was the complete output of famed American graphic designer Will H. Bradley designed at his home studio called The Sign of the Vine in Concord, Massachusetts and features all his own artwork and some hand-lettered typography process lithographed with zinc plates. Printed at the Heintzman Press, Boston. Colophon in each reads : "Arranged and Put into Type by Will Bradley, and Issued from The Sign of the Vine, Concord, Massachusetts." CONDITION of entire set, OVERALL: Very Good Plus, with specifics noted below. **First item, RABBI BEN EZRA, by Robert Browning, first published in 1864, 16mo, (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), grey paper-covered boards, cream end papers, unpaginated ,[24pp.],unopened, untrimmed, rubricated title page with sprays of transitional art deco roses (which pay some tribute to Glasgow artist… Leer más

North Salem, New York: The Adventure Library, 1994 Hard cover, 8vo., in half gray buckram over illustrated paper covered boards, the titles printed in gilt upon olive green labels to the spine, map end papers, xxiv, 397 pp. Condition. Very Good Plus, with some rubbing to the boards, one small discoloration on the rear board. Otherwise sound, firm and bright. This was one of Australian-born war correspondent and travel writer Alan Moorehead's (1910-1983) best known books about the history of African exploration, complete with many illustrations, photo reproductions and maps. The Victorian push to find the source of the White Nile began in 1856, and ended in 1888 with Richard Burton and John Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria. (The Blue Nile, another branch, was addressed in a separate title.) Part biography, part novel-like prose, Jeremy Bernstein who writes the Preface, recommends the author's ability to size up a place or person with a concise elegance. A classic read in exploration and discovery.… Leer más

Boston: DeWolfe Fisk and Company, c.1891 Hard cover, oblong folio (14 1/2 x 8 inches), in quarter blue cloth, with illustrated tan paper-covered boards, 29 unnumbered pages, printed on card stock. CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Some marks and shelf wear slight water damage to front board. Lightly foxed in places, although generally clean. Pencilled gift inscription dated 1895 to ffep. Rear hinge partly cracked but holding firm.** This wonderfully illustrated anthology of sea poetry includes verses by Charles Kingsley, Michael Didbin, Samuel Duffield, Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Moore, Arthur Murphy, Walter Mitchel, and more. Each stand-alone page is a decorative, original design of illustration and hand-lettered text lithographed by the American artist G. W. Benneman. OCLC 622677386.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. Illus. by G. W. Benneman.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866 Set of Ten volumes. "New Edition" published 1865, 1866, 1867. Hard cover 12 mo, (5 x 7 1/2 inches) in three quarters tan calf and red cloth, with five raised bands to the spine, gilt with applied leather labels in red and black. Condition: Very Good Minus with occasional loss to applied title labels, light scuffing to the cloth, and signs of shelf wear to corners, some mild toning to a few volumes. Joints firm. Two nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplates to prelims, including J.H.W. Lockhart Ross, who we have not been able to trace, but is likely a relative of John Gibson Lockhart,(1794-1854) another important Blackwood's Magazine contributor in this period, husband to Sir Walter Scott's eldest dauhgter, and whose portrait is the frontispiece to Volume 4. Marbled edges to text block remain pleasingly bright.**The material has been abstracted from Edinburgh's Blackwoods Magazine, where Prof. Wilson was a frequent contributor of essays,… Leer más

London: William P. Nimmo, 1875 703pp. In three-quarter leather binding with five raised bands to spine and gilt lettering. Comprising works by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), who is one of the first English novelists. The titles in this volume are: "Adventures of Joseph Andrews", "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", and "Amelia". Fielding also wrote many plays, including "Tom Thumb". *** Fielding is known for founding the Bow Street Runners, London's first full-time police force. *** Condition: About Very Good, with some wear to the corners and edges of the covers.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928 145pp. Illustrated novel by Edith A. Sawyer about feudal Japan in the 1860s. Condition: Very Good or better in Very Good dust jacket, which has small mark to front and small piece missing from tail of spine. Now protected in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913 First Edition Thus of the Meynell "Definitive Edition." Three Volumes complete, in a contemporary fine binding. Hard cover, in three-quarter crushed green morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with five raised bands, titles in gilt to the second and fourth compartment, ruled in gilt as are the bands. Printed on laid paper, top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed, cream silk ribbon bookmarks. All volumes are stamp signed "G.P. Putnam Sons" verso ffep. Colophon: "Printed in England at the Arden Press." Stamp signed "The Knickerbocker Press" to rear endpaper. [We are assuming that the plates of the original English First Edition, published by Burns and Oats the same year and printed at the Arden Press, were then shipped to New York for the American printing by E.P. Dutton's Knickerbocker Press, and then distributed at Charles Scribner's Sons new flagship offices and bookstore opened in the Spring of 1813 on New York's Fifth Avenue. See The New York… Leer más

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1900 Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth with vivid print cover illustration by the artist Ida Waugh in orange, olive and black ink, the titles in gold to front and spine. 211pp. First American edition. (Printed in England in 1906.) A tissue-guarded frontispiece black and white heliotype reproduction of Waugh's is accompanied by an additional four illustrations within the text. Condition: Very Good. Exterior is generally bright and shows minimal wear, notwithstanding an area of staining to the rear board about two inches long. The interior has a small tear at hinge of floral-printed endpaper where remains of a small former owner's label was not wholly removed. Otherwise clean and gently age toned. One small stain to fore edge of text block, not seen on the shelf.**The story concerns the misadventures of a twin brother and sister, sent from their New York home in order to give their mother a rest after delivering her fifth child. High-jinks ensue when the twins… Leer más