Northumberland, August 5, 1871.. 1871.. Good. - Octavo, 7-1/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Over 300 words penned on all four sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper with the address embossed in blind at the top of the cover sheet. Replying to a request for his assistance in working out a solution to the strike by engineers in Newcastle seeking that limits be placed on the hours they are required to work each day: "I also yesterday received a letter on the same subject from Mr [Lowthian ?] Bell - In answer to his letter I told Mr. Bell that I would be very glad to do anything in ... View More...
SIGNED LETTER BY JAPAN'S FIRST SCOUTMASTER CLARENCE GRIFFIN - Over 100 words typed on 9-5/8 inch high by 5-7/8 inch wide Hotel St. James / Times Square stationery. In his letter addressed to James B. Pond of the Pond Bureau Clarence Griffin, who is hoping to offer a series of lectures under Pond's management, wants to avoid undercutting the fees which Pond may eventually ask for his lectures and inquires what he should charge for his current appearances at schools and institutions: May I trespass so far on your good nature as to seek your kind advice? I do not not want to ask too much nor too ... View More...
London [U.K.]: Thames and Hudson, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The corners of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are slightly rubbed. There is some minor soiling to the dust jacket and its extremities are slightly darkened. The head of the jacket spine is creased with a short tear. 230 pages. 6 tipped-in color plates and profuse black-and-white illustrations, including 2 folding plates. Very good. This book aims at providing a succinct visual conspectus of the civilization of ancient Cambodia. [From... View More...
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1952).. (1952).. Very good. - Octavo, brick red cloth titled in gilt within a brown rectangle on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed. The spine is slightly faded with some tiny white marks. 312 pages. There is a book label on the front pastedown. An owner's ink name is on the front endpaper & a black-and- white illustration is mounted below it. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece, full-page illustrations & a folding map. Very good.
New York/London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.. 1922.. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt. The top edge is gilt. The binding is bumped. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 457 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with a sepia-toned frontispiece with a tissue guard and 11 black-and-white plates. The top page corners are lightly bumped. Very good.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926.. 1926.. Very good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed. xxiii & 889 pages with a section of 13 color & black-and- white maps in the rear. There is some soiling to the verso of the last map. Very good.
London, U.K.: The Harvill Press, (1997).. (1997).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial folding wrappers. The binding is slightly bumped with light foxing to the top edge of the rear wrap's inner fold. [xx] & 232 pages. Near fine. Proof copy from the library of Peter Matthiessen [as is common with proofs, the illustrations are not present].The autobiography of Palden Gyatso, as told to Tsering Shakya, a leading Tibetan historian, who translated the text from the Tibetan. In 1959, Gyatso was imprisoned by the Chinese for thirty-three years after taking part in a non-violent demonst... View More...
Nordiske Landes Bogforlag, (1979).. (1979).. Very good. - Large octavo [9-5/8 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with the extremities lightly rubbed. 277 & [1] pages plus colophon. Illustrated with a full- page color portrait & with black-and-white illustrations, including facsimiles & maps. Very good.
Solstice in the Night: Diary records of Greenland pastor Carl W. Wulff 1848-1858. The text is in Danish. View More...
- Over 160 words penned on 4 sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper, the letter measuring 7-1/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. In his letter penned from the Mount Dore Hotel in Bournemouth, England, Sir Edward Bruce Hamley first expresses his appreciation for the kindness Mrs. Ford has shown his niece and for her having inquired concerning his health. He responds that though my health is very well restored yet the disorder in my chest, causing sometimes much shortness of breath, still continues and disables me for active exertion. He goes on to relate that when he came to London to s... View More...
- Octavo, blue boards with printed labels on the front cover & spine. There are some small dents to the rear cover with corresponding dents to the rear panel of the dust jacket. The jacket is foxed & chipped with some light staining. Its spine is darkened with the head torn & the tail chipped. viii & 50 pages. There is light dampstaining to the front edges of the rear blanks & last 4 text pages with very light staining to the top corners from pages 5-42. There is light offsetting from the dust jacket to the endpapers. Good. First edition. The Jameson Raid was a botched raid against the South ... View More...
- Harcourt inscribes a 3-1/2 inch high by 5-5/8 inch wide partial sheet of note paper: The rights of women 1871 and signs himself W. V. Harcourt. Pakington responds below: should always be maintained but never overstrained / John S. Pakington. The paper, which is mounted on a slightly larger piece of card, is embossed in blind at left with a device and the words Amor Patria. The left edge is slightly rippled from the mounting. Very good. Sir William George Venables Harcourt [1827-1904] was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for Oxford, Derby,... View More...
The B.B.C., London: 3rd January, 1955.. 1955.. Very good. - 55 words typed on a sheet of cream paper, 7 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Signed Gilbert Harding. Together with a carbon copy of the recipient's letter. Folded once for mailing. Near fine. A delightfully typical response from Gilbert Harding to a correspondent who has suggested that Harding might come to his house and look at his Hans Andersen collection, hoping he won't mind not smoking while he is there. If you don't want to come drop me a card with just one word: 'NO'. Harding replies: It would be most discourteous of me to sen... View More...
- Quarto, cloth, in dw. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled; the dw is rubbed & lightly chipped. 456 pp. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
London: George Allen, 1897.. 1897.. Good. - Octavo, black cloth with rules in red, titled in gilt on the spines. The bindings are bumped & rubbed. The head & tail of the Vol. 1 spine are lightly chipped. There is a piece out of the head of the Vol. 2 spine & a tear to its tail. x & 343 pages; and viii & 352 pages; partially unopened. Illustrated with 52 black-and-white plates. There is a small piece out of the top margin of 1 Vol. 2 leaf where 2 leaves have been roughly opened. Good. Second edition.Hare writes in his Preface: "The Gurneys of Earlham were a Quaker family, who--through their... View More...
Privately printed, 1886.. 1886.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth (bumped & rubbed; covers partially faded with 2 small stains to front cover; spine completely faded); printed label (rubbed & darkened with small pieces out) on spine; deckle-edged. 61 & [1] pages; and 63 pages. There is offsetting to the endpapers; light soiling to prelims of both volumes; small piece out of bottom corner of 1 page. An unopened copy. Good.
Limited edition of 75 large-paper copies.
A book about Gian Luigi Fieschi [1522–1547], whose conspiracy against the Dorias was much romanticized in literature. View More...
Very good. - An approximately 1-3/4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide card with his name printed on it in capital letters is signed in green ink Albert Bushnell Hart. The bottom edge of the card is slightly unevenly cut. Two pieces of tape adhere to the verso where the card has been removed from an album, with slight offsetting to the recto. Very good. Albert Bushnell Hart [1854-1943], an American historian, writer and editor based at Harvard University, was one of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States. He was on the Harvard faculty for forty-three years... View More...
Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, (2008).. (2008).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL HASTINGS IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The corners and edges of the covers are creased and the rear cover is slightly rubbed. ix, [iii] & 276 pages. There are a couple of small stains to the fore-edge of the book. Good. First Australian edition of the author's first book, published in the same year as the first American.Inscribed and signed by Michael Hastings on the title page in the year of publication.The American author and journalist Michael ... View More...
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The top & bottom edges of the covers & the head & tail of the spine are faded. [vii] & 312 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & maps. Very good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with a small piece out of the cloth at the top corner of the front cover. The spine & extremities of the dust jacket are somewhat darkened. The jacket is chipped & lightly soiled with a piece out of the head of its spine. xx & 426 pages plus colophon. Very good.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967.. 1967.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is very lightly bumped with a few very light stains to the front cover. There is some light soiling to the dust jacket, the jacket spine is somewhat darkened & there is a price-sticker on the front flap. x, [1] leaf & 395 pages. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
