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Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art 1850
1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850..... More
William Shakespeare, His World, His Work, His Influence, Complete in 3 volumes
New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, (1985). 0684178516. Three 4to. volumes, each bound in maroon cloth with spine stamped in gold. Maroon endpapers. This three-volume work contains sixty original essays that, for the first time, present the broadest range of Shakespeare studies in one accessible set. As a valuable learning..... More
The Log of a Limejuicer, The experiences under sail of James P. Barker, Master Mariner
New York: Huntington Press, (1933). Twelve photo illustrations plus a vivid full color fold out chart of the Approximate track and noon positions of the ship "British Isles" of Liverpool - James P. Barker, Master on a Voyage to Pisagua, Chile from Port Talbot, Wales, A.D. 1905. Stated First Edition..... More
Lejeune: A Marine's Life, 1867-1942
University of South Carolina Press, (1991). Illustrated with photos and maps. 0872497712. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8". 214 pp. including index. White leatherette covered boards stamped in gold. More
White Nights, The Story of a Prisoner in Russia
New York: Harper & Row, (1977). 0060102896. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2." Black cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in silver. Orange endpapers. Translated from the Hebrew by Katie Kaplan. The Times of London has called White Nights "nothing less than one of the greatest pieces of prison literature..... More
Richelieu
Phladelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, no date (1929). Illustrated with black and white photos of contemporary images of Richelieu. Eleventh printing. Red cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. 392 pp. including index. This is an astonishing story of an ardently Catholic cardinal, one of the first major exponents of nationalism..... More
Danton, A Study
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928). First American Edition. Thick large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-5/16". 2" thick. 448 pp. including index. More
Folling Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
New York: 1943. Bernhardt Wall. First Edition. Hardback. More
Mad Anthony Wayne
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 8vo. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. 351 pp. including index. More
Simon Girty, The White Savage
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 6-1/4". Black cloth covered boards with paper spine label and pictorial cover plate. 252 pp. Salmon colored endpapers. More
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
New York: Coward-McCann, (1932). Stated First Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Top of text block stained red. 384 pp. including index. One expects fine things from John Buchan, but in Sir Walter Scott he has surpassed himself. As the London Times in a two-column review said: "The hour occasionally..... More
Pilgrim's Way, An Essay in Recollection
Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. Large 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/4". 336 pp. Beige linen binding stamped in brown. "This book is a journal of certain experiences, not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory." More
When Iron Gates Yield
Chicago: Moody Press, n.d. (ca. 1950s). The dauntless story of the British Missionary in Tibet, captive in Chinese Communist hands for three years. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in red. 254 pp. "In this well written . . . well-mapped . . . book a young..... More
Pilgrim's Progress
Franklin Library, 1976. A Limited Edition. 8vo. Full leather stamped in gold. Red taffeta endpapers. Red ribbon book mark. Printed in red and black inks. 381 pp. All edges gilt. The text of The Franklin Library edition is taken from the 19th Century text edited by Edmund Venables, Canon of..... More
My Private War, Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey
New York: Pegasus Books, (2008). 9781605980157. First Pegasus Books edition 2008. 8vo. Black paper covered boards. Red paper covered spine stamped in gold. 310 pp. The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. More
The World of Carl Larsson
La Jolla: Hans-Curt Köstner, A Star and Elephant Book from the Green Tiger Press, 1982. Charming illustrations grace each and every page, most in color. 0914676938. First Edition. Square 4to. 11-3/16" x 11-2/16. Glossy pictorial boards. 193 pp. The Carl Larsson Exhibitions at the Amos Anderson Museum in Helsinki in..... More
The Book of Days, A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character
London and Philadelphia: W. & R. Chambers and J. B. Lippincott, n.d. (ca. 1900?). Two 4to. volumes, 832 pp in vol i and 840 pp. in vol. ii, including comprehensive index. With at least 529 engraved illustrations scattered throughout the text. The Book of Days consists of - 1. Matters..... More
Men Who Have walked with God, Being the Story of Mysticism Through the Ages Told in the Biographies of Representative Seers and Saints with Excerpts from Their Writings and Sayings
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Second Printing, October 1945. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 6". Black cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 395 pp. Index viii. Top edge of text block stained red. Table of Contents: The Golden Age and the Mystic Poet Lao-Tse; The Buddha, the Great Light and the..... More
The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordships Manuscripts
London: Printed by T. Bensley for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. 10 Engraved Plates (4 by Richard Westall) engraved plan of Martello Tower, Corsica, 4 battle plans by Nicholas Pocock, 4 vignettes. Plates are numbered 311 in pencil indicating that this set is #311 of a limited edition of..... More
The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill
New York: Century Company, 1909. Illustrated with photos. Large 8vo. 6-3/8" x 9-1/4." Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. 470 pp. More
"Boots and Saddles" or Life in Dakota with General Custer
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885. Illustrated with portrait and map. 8vo. Pictorial brown cloth cover stamped in gold and black. 312 pp. More
Chas Addams, A Cartoonist's Life
New York: Random House, (2006). 0679463259. Stated First Edition. Large 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". 682 pp. including extensive index. Hard cover with glossy pictorial boards. "One of America's most gifted biographers, Linda Davis, has given us an engrossing, unforgettable portrait of the legendary New Yorker cartoonist. In Davis's empathetic narrative..... More
Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States
Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1989. With Notes by R. H. Early New to this Edition. Introduction by Gary Gallagher. Maps by Blake Magner. Thick 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8". 496 pp. including index. Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. More
"BIlly" Sunday, The Man and His Message with His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ
L. T. Myers, (1914). Illustrated with photos and drawings. Authorized Edition. Large 8vo. 8-5/8" x 6-1/4". Blue cloth stamped in gold and black with sepia tone photo portrait cover plate. 451 pp. More