Search Results: Titles starting with F from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Philadelphia: William T. Amies, [circa 1880s]. Quarto. lvi, 733 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with in-text and full-page woodcuts by Gustave Doré (all included in the pagination). Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Very good. Short tears to spine ends and head of rear joint; corners worn. The hinges are partially cracked and tender, and the text block has dropped, but both covers are holding fairly well for such a large and heavy volume. The leaves are a trifle age-toned but, aside from a few minor traces of marginal soiling, the volume is clean throughout. A bright and attractive copy. Later edition in a beautiful example of publisher's cloth.

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1863. xiii, [1], 57 pages. Original printed wraps bound into red library cloth with gilt spine title and gilt call number on front cover. [21 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other leaf, and small number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else very good. A few tiny traces of foxing, but interior is generally clean and bright. Later printing, issued within a few months of the first. Stated as the "tenth thousand." I have also seen references to issues stated as the "fifth thousand" and "seventh thousand." The "letter" is dated Oct. 30, 1863. George McHenry was a pro-Confederate Pennsylvanian, who moved to England at the outbreak of the Civil War. He formerly served as a director of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. He promoted the Southern cause in the Britain and published a book, "The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing upon the… Read More

Boston: J.K. Wellman, [printed by D.H. Ela], 1844. 16mo. 56 pages. Original printed green wrappers. 11 x 17 cm. Approximately one half of spine perished. The wraps are still attached and the book is held by the original stitching, but the lower third of the text block shows separation between gatherings and along some folds. Some soiling and small stains to the wraps. Corners worn or slightly turned throughout, with slight loss to lower corner of front wrap. Foxed throughout and with occasional small spots of damping. Good only. Twenty-fourth edition, so stated, following the first of the same year. While described as "carefully revised and enlarged" (p. [2]), all of the preceding editions we have been able to identify had the same pagination as this, with the exception of the first edition (46 pages with only 37 recipes advertised). By the end of 1844, the forty second-edition had been published and it was reprinted again in 1845 and 1846. By 1847, an expanded edition was… Read More

New York: George H. Doran, [1911]. 117 pages. Original light green boards lettered in dark green, with gilt centerpiece front cover. [19.8 cm.] Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Minor wear to spine ends; tanning to endpapers from binder's glue. Jacket is sunned on spine panel and shows minuscule chips to ends of spine panel. Still an attractive copy. First American edition, first issue, with price of $1.00 on spine panel of dust jacket. [A later issue is found with the price of $1.25 added to the dust jacket.] Preceded by the London edition of the same year.

Chapel Hill: John B. Neathery, 1861. [Title and publisher from front wrap.] 8vo. 34 pages. Original printed wraps, bound into dark blue library cloth with gilt spine lettering. Gilt call number on front cover and bookplate on front pastedown, but the only library marking on the pamphlet itself is a penciled call number on the verso of the front wrap (now erased, but leaving a faint impression on the recto). Otherwise near very good. Faint foxing to front wrap; moderate, mostly marginal foxing to first text leaf; a few light traces elsewhere. Leaves a little age-toned. Some very slight evidence of marginal damping. Two leaves with light creases. Second edition overall, but the FIRST CONFEDERATE EDITION. The true first edition was issued in Raleigh in 1859. The address recalls life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the first decades of the 19th century. William Hooper (1792-1867) received his B.A. from U.N.C. in 1809 at the age of 17 and his M.A. in 1812. He later… Read More

London: John Murray, 1822. Octavo. Leaves approx. 22 x 13 cm. vi, [2], 402 pages. Contemporary straight-grained purple morocco with black leather spine label, gilt decorations and rules on spine, and single gilt rules on covers. Leather faded to tan on the spine and portions of covers; rubbing to extremities, a few small scuffs to leather including one near the head of spine; slight scrape to spine label with modest impact on lettering; small stain to front cover. Moderate foxing to endpapers, title, and final text leaf; some very slight foxing to preface and a few marginal traces elsewhere, but the main body of the text is unblemished. Near very good. Engraved armorial bookplate of George Stanton on the front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. John Thomas James (1786-1828) was an English vicar who had studied painting in Rome and Naples. He also wrote "The Italian Schools of Painting" (1820) and planned a further volume on the English, French, and Spanish schools, but never completed the work.… Read More

[New York, 1922.] Quarto-sized pamphlet measuring 31 x 24 cm (approx. 12 x 9.5 in.). Unpaginated. [28] pages. Original printed wraps (rear wrapper printed identically to the front); verso of each wrap also printed. Good plus. Short (2 cm) tear to fore-edge of front wrap, a few other tiny tears, crease to lower corner of front wrap, minor wear to spine, some faint scuffs to wraps. Leaves are mildly age-toned but clean. Tiny tear to fore-edge throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive promotional piece for Channing Pollock's Broadway play, "The Fool," staged at Selwyn's Times Square Theatre. On the verso of the front wrap is a portrait of Channing with a brief sketch of his career. On pages [2-3] is an essay by Pollock under the caption: "Something Worth Reading. Channing Pollock's Own Story of His Struggle for the Success of `The Fool.' Reprinted from The New York Times of Sunday, November 19th, 1922." This is followed by a full-page composite portrait… Read More