London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1934. F. 277 pages; black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and other illustrations in the text; Forster had access to Goldsworthy's autobiographical notes of which he made some use in this memoir; dark blue publisher's cloth binding, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear to.....
France. A very good photograph of this street scene, pedestrians visible below, appears to have been taken from the third or fourth story of another building; no date and circa 1880, no photographer or actual location given; 7 5/8" x 11 3/8" image size approximate, mount card adds about 2.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1922. 275 pages; bound in marbled-paper-covered boards + dark orange hard-grained leather, five raised spine bands gilt spine titles, top edge gilt; former owner bookplate of Bert & Jay Lesnow on front pastedown, signed design by Bank B. Gordon; light wear to binding, small darkened spot.....
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1928. 409 pages; French language text throughout; Anatole France (Pseud. of Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault) 1844-1924, novelist, critic, and man of letters, born in paris, the only son of a book-dealer...The Dreyfus case aroused his strong sympathies and in later years he developed socialist leanings, at times taking part in.....
Kladno Czechoslovaki: Milos Kozisek, 1926. F. (2) pages of text; followed by 6 leaves with tissue-guarded black and white illustrations by the artist Vaclav Maly (1884-1959) Czechoslovakian artist; text in French, German, Czech, English; artworks are mostly studies of Chod peasantry in landscapes; approx. 8" x 10" size; printed paper.....
Florence Italy: Typographie Galileienne, 1861. F. 20 pages; biographical, scientific information on Galileo, text in French throughout: "...suivantes ont ete ecrites pour ceux qui desireront visiter et voir avec ordre ce nouveau sanctuaire scientifique, en suivant la pensee de celui qui l'a imageine..."; original paper wrap covers; light wear; very.....
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. F. 88 pages, including 5-page chart/listing of Mrs. Ewing's works at back; Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885), British writer for the young, wrote many soldier-stories. (DNB); bound in publisher's grey illustrated paper covered boards, with an (renewed) open-weave cloth spine, probably a type of.....
New York: John B. Alden, 1887. F. (5) + 224 pages; expounding and interpreting various topics, with a christian-educational aspect: Youth, Character, Companions, Success, Christianity, Reading, more; previous owner's initials and number on front endpapers; original publisher's dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt cover spine titles & decoratively black-stamped design.....
O.D. Case Hartford & John W. Fuller Utica, 1857. 178 pages; containing eight hand-colored maps, three double-page; including: The World or Hemispheres (dbl); North America; United States and Mexico (dbl); South America; Europe (dbl); Asia; Africa; Oceanica; double-page map size approximately 6 1/2" x 8", single maps half the width;.....
London & Edinburgh: W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1774. vii + 434 + 1) page errata at back; Alexander Gerard (1728-1795) philosophical writer and professor of natural history and divinity in Scotland and of some reputation for this book as well as his.....
Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1922. (90) pages; color illustrations by John Rae; one of the "Nature Children Books" of this publisher, with a series listing at back; pictorial endpapers; original illustrated paper-covered boards binding; al little edge, tips wear to the covers, old discoloration of paper at top left.....
London & Edinburgh: William Heinemann, 1894. F. xiii + 157 pages a few at back unopened + 24-page publishers' catalog at back; poetry, sonnets and The Masque of Painters by Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) British writer, one of the most prolific and powerful writers of his time (DNB); previous.....
New York: Graff & Company, 1883. Document partially printed and completed in manuscript for some of this company's offerings; approx. 4 ΒΌ" x 7" size; on back is a list of the equipment this firm repaired, including the Manhattan Furnace, Hot Blast Furnace, Burtis Furnace, Morning Glory F.P. Heater, New.....
Albany: Division of Canals and Waterways State Department of Public Works, 1927. 30 pages; black and white illustrated throughout, with views of locks & dam works along the New York State canal system, barges and motorships using the canals, including wooden and steel barges, the State Maintenance Plant, listings of.....
Paris: Lawrence Drake, 1932. F. 71 pages; Grudin's criticism of Eliot along Marxian lines: "....essay written in answer (to Eliot's Poetry and Propaganda). The importance of Mr. Grudin's approach lies in the fact that dialectical method is called upon to parallel the advances made in other fields. The implications of.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837. F. In two volumes; viii + 365 + iv + 418 pages; Howes G-449; contents including information on American manners, "Fashionable Coteries", Dandies, Aristocracy, domestic traits, various immigrant groups delineated, American theatres, painting, Wit, education, morality, literature, industry, commerce, agriculture, settlement.....
Edinburgh: C. Stewart, 1809. F. Two titles bound in one: Il Pastor Fido, or, the Faithful Shepherd, a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy, Attempted in English Blank Verse, from the Italian of Signor Cavalier Giovanni Battista Guarini (Translated By William Clapperton) 239 pages; tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Guarini and illustrated engraved title with.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. F. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...;.....
Melbourne Australia. Invitation card for this social event, Mr. Peabody & Lady handwritten in; printed in black with gold armorial crest; Captain Kayser is notable as having explored part of Guyana as a young lieutenant in the 1900s; approximately 5 " x 6" size; matted, framed and glazed to about.....
London: MacMillan, 1922. F. 288 pages; previous owner's inscription on back endpaper; publisher's green cloth, gilt 'TH' in wreath decorative motif on front cover; gilt spine titles; some light wear to binding, spine titles dulled; some foxing to leaves; good condition.
Paris: Librairie Plon. 326 pages; preface by J.-H. Rosny Aine; text in French throughout; bound in marbled-paper covered boards, red leather spine, gilt spine titles; some browning to endpapers; some edge, tips wear to binding, front hinge of leather split, binding cords holding on; good minus condition.
Franklin Square, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. C. 160 pages + publishers' advertisements at back; black and white illustrated throughout; contains articles Express Mail & Overland Express, with details on the Army Express Office; Ancient Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona; Moosehead Lake; Ticonderoga and Montcalm; Swiss Lake Village.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914. F. 338 pages + (4) + 24 pages of publisher's catalog at back, some unopened; Frank Harris (1856-1931) British writher, perhaps the most colorful figure in contemporary journalistic circles, an incorrigible liar, a vociferous boaster an unscrupulous adventurer and philanderer, with the aspect.....
New York: The Bibelot Brothers, 1901. F. 272 pages; seemingly a mystery story set in New York, with a lot of money, the Stock Exchange, a handless man and a romantic interest; Percy William Edward Hart (1870-1935) Canadian author; an OCLC search at time of cataloguing indicates 3 listings for.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. F. 98 pages; illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece & other color plates by Arthur I Keller, and with elaborate decorations and ornaments gold-gilt, by him throughout; decorative colored endpapers; bound in green cloth boards, with illustrated paste-down; top edge gilt; some soiling, edge and tips wear &.....
