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London: Published for the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Longmans, Green and Company, 1915 Hard cover, in cream colored cloth, with gilt insignia of the Napier family to center front, and gilt title to spine, 15 plates, 441 pp. Printer's colophon at rear:" T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty, at Edinburgh University Press." Ex-library. Maroon red endpapers coordinate nicely with the frontispiece portrait of John Napier, Baron of Merchiston in color, reproduced from a painting owned by the University of Edinburgh. Engraved library bookplate and two blindstamps are among the front matter; also an inked stamp with collection notation in pen. Condition: Very Good. Edges, especially top edge, are a bit dusty, and there is slight soiling to the cream colored exterior, a bit of darkening to the spine.Some mild crimping to head and foot of spine. Corners are minimally rubbed. Light age-toning to the text, with offset to half title page. Slight offset to title page from frontispiece portrait.***… Leer más

London/ New York: Adam & Charles Black/The MacMillan Company, 1904 Hard cover, large 8vo, in publisher's maroon cloth binding with art nouveau style design of red, green and pink carnations in a vase, top edge gilt, Titles and top edge are gilt. 236pp + 4pp ads, first American edition, stated publication date June 1904. MacMillan listed as American sales agents. CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Spine is sunned, slight dulling to exterior decoration, as well as a drop of white paint on upper right cover. Hinges are fine, and text block is tight. Prelims are browned. Moderately foxed throughout, although the lovely color illustrations are clean, being on different paper stock. Labelled tissue guards protect the 80 full-page color illustrations' vibrant hues.**The book cover design is by Boston-born Albert Angus Turbayne (1866-1940) and contains his signature beetle cipher made of his initials "AT" on the bottom right of front board. Turbayne was considered one of the premier book binding designers… Leer más

Pall-Mall, London: G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1793 Hard cover, elephant folio (14 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches), pp [4] xiv 198 + 23 full-page plates [4]. Bound in the original boards of diced full calf, with the spine rebacked. This has six raised double-bands with titles and the date in gilt to spine. Boards are triple-ruled and rolled with gilt flowers and banners. All edges gilt. Gilt rules also appear on board edges and end caps. Inside, the turn-ins feature a slightly different gilt rope & flower rolled decoration. Blue and white marbled endpapers. No bookbinder's signature. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown with the Duke of Leeds coat of arms.** Condition: Overall, Very Good Plus. Some marks, scuffs & other small losses to boards. Browning affects a few prelims, plus one page (p. 73) of the text. (No plates are affected.) The rebacked spine has with one small scuff to the rear surface, and loss of gilt at head to endcap. Hinges are professionally reinforced, and holding firmly.… Leer más

London: Printed for the Author, and for F.C.and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1810 First edition. Hard cover, 4to, (measuring 6 X 9 1/2 inches,) finely bound in three-quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, rolled with gilt banding of small floral sprigs; the spine in 6 gilt compartments containing the title, volume number (14) and four geometric decorative motifs. 90 pp., complete with 36 beautiful hand-colored plates, Nos. 469-504, and indexes. Signed "Charles F. Hutchinson in old ink to title page; his monogram, featuring a rooster, is stamped in goldish ink to front pastedown. Condition: Very Good. The exterior marbled boards are quite rubbed, and there are some scuff marks along the spine and at head and foot. Two minute holes of insect damage near foot. However, the volume is otherwise sound. There is minor staining on pastedown corners where old polish has bled (?) The tissue guards are foxed and this has led to some offset on the facing pages of text; the… Leer más

London: Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1876 Soft cover, 8vo, in blue paper wraps, 519 pp + 14pp appendix. Condition: Good. Covers cracked at hinge. Some dog-ears to first few pages. Signed by owner to front cover and title page (dated 1880). ** Book of tables showing the position of the moon, planets & stars throughout 1880. Also, describes a partial eclipse of the sun visible at Greenwich, on December 31st, 1880. Provenance: Bought from Newburyport sea-captain's house.. Soft Cover. Good .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963 Hard cover in green cloth, with red titling, with dust jacket in mylar, 236 pp. Mod cover art by award-winning graphic designer Lawrence Ratzkin. Chicago-born author James Michael Ullman was also a finalist for the 1964 Edgar Award for Best First Novel with this title. A classic crime thriller, it tells the story of Steve Kolshak, a civil engineer returned from a contract in Arabia in order to find his brother Ed, who disappeared without a trace from a downtown Chicago hotel. He employs a private eye, and is on the radar of police Lt. Van Doyle. The blurb dubs it "an action-filled, fast-moving story of detection and suspense which increases with every page to a thundering finish." Condition: Very Good, with a very good dust jacket. Board corners are slightly rubbed and bumped, and a small dent appears on the front board. Contents are clean but tanned. Dust jacket has wear to quite a few edges, a fold along the bottom rear, head and tail wear to spine, and a couple of… Leer más

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 332pp. Hardcover, with dust jacket in mylar. New Orleans private investigator Terry Manion takes up a long-unsolved murder case of a black militant leader, which in turn leads him back even further to methods used in several nineteenth century crimes, giving the reader, as the blurb says," three decades of fear, corruption and violence." Author Dick Lochte is a New Orleans born drama critic and contributor to various Los Angeles newspapers and magazines. Condition: Fine, with a Fine dust jacket in a Brodart cover. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: “Imprinted at London by William White dwelling in Cow-Lane", 1599 The first edition in English translation. The Lawes Agricultural Library copy. Rebound small 4to, (measuring 5 ¼ x 7 inches), in modern hard cover, with brown three quarter buckram and leather, titles to spine in gilt. **Collation: pp [4] 1-32 [lacking 33-36], 37 [1] where the pages are only numbered recto. A4-I4, [lacking K1-K4], L2, i.e., lacking a total of 4 leaves. **Condition: Good antiquarian condition. Aquisition markings, in pencil and pen, and inked stamp to endpapers. Ownership names to title page in old ink, are trimmed, as is the running head to title page, and at least one decoration at page head on successive leaf. Leaves are somewhat soiled, showing good use in the field. Some loss at bottom of first signature not affecting text. One worm hole near gutter. In addition, there are a number of charming decorative woodcut capitals, some historiated. Several type styles are used, including Roman, Italic and… Leer más

unknown: unknown, 1945 6 sheets typescript. Vol 1 No. 1. Condition: Browned with age, and stapled at the top center. Enclosed in a "Conjurers' Magazine" flyer.. Soft Cover. Good+.

Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925 First Edition, Two volumes complete. Hard cover in two volumes, red publisher's cloth with gilt design to top board, top edge red stained, other edges untrimmed, map end papers, 438 and 452 pp. with index, and many black and white illustrations. This work was the culmination of many years archival research by C. Alice Baker (1833-1909), a pioneering American female historian, and her research assistant, Emma Lewis Coleman to document the stories of individual American colonists, often women and children, kidnapped and marched to Canada by the French and their Indigenous allies during the intercolonial struggles known variously as [King ]Philip's War (1675-1678) , and the four "Intercolonial Wars." Baker died before the work was completed, and the book is dedicated to her. Her title "True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada" (1897) was the first attempt at this study. Of particular note is Cole's reportage of what happened at Deerfield,… Leer más

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868 First edition, an early printing. Contains I. John Endicott and II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. "The Boston Edition." Hard cover, 12 mo., in terra-cotta embossed cloth with brown coated endpapers, the TF device on spine of the "B" variety. Unbattered type on page 12 and 71. BAL, Vol. 5, No. 12150. Condition Very Good. Minor exterior soiling, and some wear to the gilt. Very light wear to corners and small fray at head of spine. Clean.. "The Boston Edition". Hard Cover. Very Good.

New Haven, Conn.: L. H.Young, 1833 Hard cover, 12mo, 106pp + 2 pp.ads. Half-leather with original marbled paper-covered boards. Wonderfully illustrated history of the early settlement of America by the pilgrims, with some accounts of the traditions of the Native Americans. Some notable New England religious founders, The Death of King Philip, Whitefield and the Religious Revival, Departure of thee Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, and more. Author John Warner Barber ( 1798-1885) was an itinerant artist who travelled around his native Connecticut and Massachusetts and New Jersey environs sketching scenes, later engraving them on boxwood. This was one of his earlier titles, and one of America's first "local histories." Condition: Fair. Water damage causing some staining or mold throughout, with some old ghosts of tape repairs. Some pages with illustrations are loose from the binding. Complete with all 19 woodblock carved engravings done by the Author. Covers very worn, with losses to the marbled… Leer más

London: J.Harris, 1805 pp xii, 250. General history of England. Marbled boards. Condition: Pages foxed. Covers very worn at edges. Front free endpaper has dog-ear fold from time of binding.. Hard Cover. Good-.

Boston: Wm. J. Reynolds & Co., 1850 Hard cover, 8vo., (4 3/4 inches x 7 1/4 inches) in green cloth with ornate gilt floral design blocked to both boards, 287pp., Presentation Copy, with pen inscription to ffep.: "Ben: Perley Poore with kind regards and best wishes of the Author, Jan. 13th, 1850." Chromolithographed title page. Condition: overall about Good, but with significant damage to surface of spine. Otherwise, boards are dust soiled, with light wear to corners. Lightly age-toned interior, with text block tight. Occasional soiling, and top edge staining to a few interior pages. Splendidly bright four-color title page illuminated in gold, with original tissue guard. *** HANNAH FLAGG GOULD (1789-1865) was a popular poet in her time, residing in Newburyport for more than fifty years at 23 Charter Street, a three story brick Georgian home located only a couple of blocks away from this bookseller. She published eleven volumes of poetry, ranging in topic from verses on childhood and domestic… Leer más

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912 Hard cover, quarto, pp vii [1] 247 [1] + 6pp ads. Modern green cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. The Washington Manuscript of the Four Gospels (also known as The Freer Gospel), was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1854 - 1919) on a trip to Egypt in 1906. It contains the four modern gospels in Greek and contains some text not found in other manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark. Condition: Very Good.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925 Hard cover 12mo, in vellum. with border in blind, and crest and titles blocked in gold. Limited Edition: numbered 40/106 copies, Signed in ink by Author on Limitation page. front with the Clarendon (Oxford University) 88 pp. plus Notes. Appearing on the spine in gilt: NEW/VERSE/R.B. Frontispiece has a tissue- guarded, tipped-in, portrait of the poet. Colophon on verso of Title page: "Printed in England/ at the Oxford University Press/ by John Johnson/ Printer to the University." First edition. Features handmade paper with the watermark T H Saunders. **Condition: Very Good. Dusty top edge. Many pages uncut. Lacking dust jacket. Light soiling to edges of boards including one stain to upper left of front board. One scratch to fore edge of front board. Clean and bright pages.**This collection of verses by the British Poet Laureate was penned during his ultimate decade of life, while he was in his nineties. . Signed by Author on Limitation Page. Signed Limited Edition, No.… Leer más

New York: The North American Review, 1887 Hard cover, in original black three quarter leather with gilt, 656 pp. Ownership stamp of Maine laywer and politician Isaac Watson Dyer (1855-1937.) The NAR was the first literary and cultural magazine to be published in the United States, begun in Boston during 1815 and continuing to this day. The item here, Vol. CXLIV of 1887 contains the compiled contents of the six monthly releases, Nos. 362 to 367, January to June. This particular compendium features a number of articles on important topics of the day, which would be of great interest to anyone wishing to dip into the milieu of Gilded Age thought. Among others, John Jay Knox writes about "The Future of the National Banking System." Walt Whitman submits "Some War Memoranda Jotted Down at the Time." George Sand pens a column on "Assumption and Pretension." Articles concerning constitutional reform, suffrage, working women, and the fallout of the Civil War, as well as literary reviews abound in these pages.… Leer más

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1882 pp x + 505; vii + 504 + ads. Inscribed by Weppner to front free endpaper: "To Mr & Mrs Henry Bush, with the kindly wishes from Margaretha Weppner. Port Townsend, December 5th, 1884". Weppner was a German language teacher who sailed from France to the US in 1869, thence to Japan, China, Saigon, Singapore, Java and Batavia, then back to Singapore, Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, Suez, Cairo, Alexandria and finally back to Munich, Germany. Henry Bush, to whom the book is inscribed, was the United States Shipping Commissioner at Port Townsend. Condition: almost Fine, with light shelfwear to the covers, and light rubbing to the spine gilt.. Signed by author. American edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968 Soft cover, quarto, 121pp. Bibliography of Ontario, grouped by: ethnology, zoology, geology etc. Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket which is price-clipped, sunned, and has the ghost of a sticker to the front.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1957 Hard cover, demy octavo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in blue paper covered boards, the spine in darker blue cloth with gilt titles, First Edition, 138 pp. Protected by the original glassine wrapper (Very Good)and slipcase (Very Good Minus), the book itself is Very Good Plus overall. This has no copy number indicted on the limitation page. Includes frontispiece portrait,title page, diary entries and much of his poetry. ** Author Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) aka "Max Brand," wrote more than 400 full length pulp novels , excelling at western fiction, poetry, humor and journalism. He was also the creator of the character Dr. Kildare, removing o Italy in his later years to write screenplays for MGM. His life story reads like one of his titles. Orphaned at the age of 13, he attended college at the University of California and embarked on a most prolific writing career, using a variety of pseudonyms. He was killed in action in Italy… Leer más