Resultados de búsqueda: Títulos que empiezan por U de Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

Philaelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition, 12mo, 250 (6), illustrated with 77 plates, some of them foldout. Issued by the Secretary of War, Simeon Cameron. Ownership copy of Peter M. Osborn of the famous 95th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, also known as the Warren Rifles. Signed by him with that identification in pencil and then again in ink on the flyleaf and the free rear endpaper in these latter cases listing along with the Warren Rifles the command of Col. Geo(rge) Biddle and Gen Burnside's Division, both Biddle and Burnside being famous Union commanders in the Civil War. A used unsophisticated copy, showing wear at the corners, its binding firm still. With the bookstore ticket of Lockwood 411 Broadway, lower right corner front pastedown. A Civil War troop artifact.

London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, decorated blue cloth. Spines browned, some shallow loss at ends, leaves toned. Solid bindings. With the ownership label of art historian H. Harvard Arnason, whose parents were Icelanders.

Sally Knee, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Squarish 8vo, printed polished covers in printed dustjacket, unpaginated (32pp), illustrated in color. Scarce 2006 catalog of works by 20 artists that used copies of James Joyce's "Ulysses" to present as gifts to gallery owner Sean Kelly on his fiftieth birthday. This version limited to 100 copies, this copy number 15 and signed by Kelly on the colophon; another 400 copies, unsigned were numbered 101to 500. (Sally Knee as publisher is a play on the artists name.) Among the contributing artists are Laurie Anderson, Christine Borland, and Gavin Turk. Our favorite is Turk's with a nail through a new copy of a Modern Libary edition of Joyce's masterpiece. Sean Kelly Gallery, founded in 1991 in New York City by British-born Sean Kelly, represents established and mid-career artists, particularly with work based in installation and performance art.

Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1899. Early Printing of New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Rust-colored cloth stamped in black on front and gilt and black on spine. 8vo, xlii, 499, 12. Some rolling to cloth head of spine, else a much better than very good copy. Druggists & Pharmacists, Books & Stationary stamp of Crossland Bro's of St. Clairsville, Ohio bottom right corner ffe. Stated new edition title page with 1887 date with slipped 7, last copyright date 1879. Gift inscription dated 1889 on fly.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A later printing (1894) of "A New Edition, with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" (1878). 8vo, publishers plain green cloth, black-endpapers, with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges, front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/ June 30, 1895" PROVENANCE: Heirs of the Cleaveland family, whose genealogy goes back to colonial Connecticut. Penciled in the inscription before "Miss Cleaveland" are the letters "EW" which identifies the inscribee as Elizabeth Whittlesey Cleaveland, one of Elisha Whittlesey Cleaveland's daughters, and great, great granddaughter of Moses Cleaveland (1754 - 1806), Connecticut lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor who founded the city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the American Revolution, he served as the brigadier general of the Connecticut… Leer más

NY: Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. ADVANCE UNCORRETED PROOFS. Printed paper covers. As issued by Knopf marketing and publicity. Scarce, especially in as nice, apparently unread, condition. From the 2017 Nobel Laureate for Literature.

1875. No Binding. Near Fine. Undated note, (circa 1875) two sided, on polished sheet approx 7x4.5" from author Anne Thackeray, daughter of the famous William Makepeace Tackeray, with embossed letterhead with her address in South Kensington, London "8 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington Gentleman I write to acknowledge/ with many thanks the safe/ arrival of the money/ which you have sent me for My Angel. I have / turned it into two fields / at Freshwater wh(ich) I shall/ always look upon as a / part of the American continent (and) consider that / I owe to its bountifulness/ Believe me overflow./ Yours faithfully." Miss Thackeray enthusiastically thanks presumably American buyers for their purchase from her of presumably American rights to publish her first novel "My Angel", published in England in 1875. The proceeds she writes financed purchase of land in Freshwater, a village on the western end of the Isle of Wright. Besides being the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke, during Thackeray's lifetime… Leer más

Chicago: C.F. Beezley & Company (Colonial Publishing Co.), 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Suibtitle on title page is "A Panorma of the Great Civil War". Large 8vo, blue faux leather stamped in gilt. Sample pages, random page runs up to page 592, with captioned inserts bound in, lots of duotone photographs, and blank subscription sheets in rear. Front pastedown has backstrip faux leather samples in blue and crimson with gilt title. Book heavily soiled, front cover in blue, rear in crimson, front hinge a tad shaken. Stamp of Colonial Publishing Co. covers publisher name of Beezley title page. Copyright 1896 Charles R. Graham.

Chicago: C.F. Beezley & Company (Colonial Publishing Co.), 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Suibtitle on title page is "A Panorma of the Great Civil War". Large 8vo, blue faux leather stamped in gilt. Sample pages, random page runs up to page 592, with captioned inserts bound in, lots of duotone photographs, and blank subscription sheets in rear. Front pastedown has backstrip faux leather samples in blue and crimson with gilt title. Book heavily soiled, front cover in blue, rear in crimson. Stamp of Colonial Publishing Co. covers publisher name of Beezley title page. Copyright 1896 Charles R. Graham.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Uncommon US edition by Putnam's, published in England by Chatto & Windus. Undecorated, vertically fine ribbed green cloth, plain gilt titles at spine soiled. Tidy owner stamp upper right corner ffe. Internals fine, lacking dw.

Boston: Fields, Osgod, & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, State A, Binding A (BAL 13129), and scarce thus. One of 1000 copies printed in Nov 1868, with the erratum slip at page 286-287. On page 97 is the erroneously numbered 7 (instead of 5 corrected later) and on page 224, line 3 of the second stanza is Thy (which in this copy has been corrected in pencil.) Green cloth with gilt-pressed willow upper and blind-stamped lower, gilt to spine, beveled edges. Some piercing of cloth upper right corner front and narrow surface loss at head and foot of spine. Ownership name in pencil dated January 1869 on fly. Pasted onto fly verso across from title is engraved portrait of Lowell from a later publication. Housed in a half-leather slipcase.

Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Ownership copy of Argentinian-born, American architect Cesar Pelli (1926-2019) with his signature and Sept 1989 date in his hand upper right corner ffe. An as new copy, apparently unused, 2 mediem sized chips to dw front panel lower edge and foot of spine. Laid-in is large foldout plan.

London: Macmillan, 1881. 1st Editions, Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Four titles uniform cloth binding of tight weave, olive linen and double band of gilt front to back across spine. All London editions - 1881, 1882, 1886 with Strom printed in NY by Whittaker 1887 but of uniform biding. Some minor cloth wear or loss spine tips, else clean, firmly bound copies.

Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. A near fine copy in uncommon pictorial dustjacket (by David Thomas Vernon) that is worn, chipped about edges but still presentable.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed on the title page by actress Tammy Grimes who played the totle character in the original Broadway production "Dear Jane and Bob - I remember her well - wishing you unsinkable joy. Tammy Grimes" Jane and Bob Emerson managed the Drama Book Shop for many years, the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados. Book near fine, dustjacket rubbed. Book club edition. Dustjacket worn and toned, especially at spine.

Frankfurt Und Leipzig, 1794. Early Pirated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Solid copy, oruiginal or contemporray 3/4 leather binding. (8) + 174; (12) + 215; (10) +175. Some minior loss top half inch of spine, otherwise the binding is very goo. Internals unfoxed, much nicer than usually found.

New York: MacMillan, 1902. Limited Edition. Boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. First Edition, Limited Issue: No. 36 of 100 copies on Japanese vellum, original cream wraps printed in brown and folded over boards, this copy with an ANS tipped in front pastedown to JC Squires discussing Forbes Robertson, jacket slightly scuffed, slight chipping spine edges.

NY: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition of 176 copies, this #4, signed by Lessing on the limitation. Spine a bit dusty, else as new.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 0. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Copyright 1837, no date, likely 1855. Stout 8vo, black half leather over marbelized boards, 648 pages, illustrated, plus 4 maps.

London: Fortune Press. Limited Edition. Cloth Boards. Fine/No Dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy - no prev owner names, inscriptions or bookplates. #224 of 800 copies.