Mutiny Memoirs being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 by Mackenzie, Colonel A.R.D - 1892

Storrs: Univ. of Connecticut, 25 April 1972.. Folded quarto leaflet on stiff stock (25.5 x 18 cm). Top edge a shade darkened, a few small dust spots, else near fine. First edition. One of an edition of five hundred copies (of which the first twelve were to be signed by Duncan). This copy bears his signed presentation inscription to his chief trade publisher at the time, James Laughlin, and is also initialed and dated at the end of the text. BERTHOLF A42a.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, n.d. (ca 1936.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good only in a fair dust jacket. (stain to front cover of book, dust jacket is price-clipped, quite edgeworn, and has some loss in the middle of the spine.) . First US printing. Sheets printed in England. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Ernest Shepard. The basis of Housman's most sucessful play. A unique copy, SIGNED by Laurence Housman with the words "his signature" underneath (in Housman's hand) the words "Harry Essex, his book." Essex (1910-1997) was a writer, movie director and film producer. This copy is also SIGNED by Helen Hayes (1900-1993), whose starring role in this 1936 Broadway play was perhaps her greatest role ever. Hayes' signature is followed by the words, "his friend" with a line going up to Essex's name. 470 pp.

NY: Random House, 1994. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House, 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 305 pp. Very Good / Near Fine. Association copy. Signed by author on title page, "John D MacDonald Sept 1981," with inscription to friend and fellow writer Joe L. Hensley on front free endpaper, "For Joe and Charlotte, Somebody sent me a tear sheet of Don's article in GAMES saying 'This guy will write for ANYBODY!' Am soon sending you a fantastic pic of Nussbaum, with a letter. Best, John and Dorothy." Three-quarter light blue paper over quarter dark blue cloth on board, spine bearing stamped foil silver titles. Slightly canted, very light shelf wear, slight bumping at top and bottom of spine, outer corners front and back slightly rubbed, three-quarter inch crease at top of leaf 149/150, else Very Good. Glossy pictorial dust jacket has light browning along top-inside edge, slightly bumped at top and bottom of spine, else Near Fine with price of $15.95 unclipped. Dust jacket now in archival… Read More

Unknown: Self published, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Signed by Author. A chrestomathy of offprints from various journals, inscribed by Quine to fellow philosopher John R. Wallace. The inscription reads: "For John Wallace [phrase in Attic Greek] with best regards, Van Quine". Wallace, most recently a faculty expert at the University of Minnesota, was an assistant professor in the famous 1960s philosophy department at Princeton, which also included Stuart Hampshire, Richard Rorty, Walter Kaufmann, Thomas Kuhn, and several other luminaries in their field. Compiled are eleven papers authored by Quine (A logistical approach to the ontological problem; On Carnap's views on ontology; On mental entities; Mr. Strawson on logical theory; Three grades of modal involvement; Carnap and logical truth; Quantifiers and propositional attitudes; The scope and language of science; The philosophical bearing of modern logic; Posits and reality; On simple theories of a complex world;) and an… Read More

Storrs: Univ. of Connecticut, 25 April 1972.. Folded quarto leaflet on stiff stock (25.5 x 18 cm). Top edge a shade darkened, a few small dust spots, else near fine. First edition. One of an edition of five hundred copies (of which the first twelve were to be signed by Duncan). This copy bears his signed presentation inscription to his chief trade publisher at the time, James Laughlin, and is also initialed and dated at the end of the text. BERTHOLF A42a.

New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1896. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. [6] + 173 numbered pages, which are bright and clean. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Bound in striking full blue leather which is lightly rubbed and sunned. Gilt borders to covers and gilt title to front cover and spine. "Church Club of Connecticut" to front cover. The personal copy of Samuel Hart, one of the authors/lecturers, with contemporary pencil gift inscription on endpaper "Samuel Hart from the Church Club. From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892, he became secretary of the House of… Read More

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, n.d. (ca 1936.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good only in a fair dust jacket. (stain to front cover of book, dust jacket is price-clipped, quite edgeworn, and has some loss in the middle of the spine.) . First US printing. Sheets printed in England. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Ernest Shepard. The basis of Housman's most sucessful play. A unique copy, SIGNED by Laurence Housman with the words "his signature" underneath (in Housman's hand) the words "Harry Essex, his book." Essex (1910-1997) was a writer, movie director and film producer. This copy is also SIGNED by Helen Hayes (1900-1993), whose starring role in this 1936 Broadway play was perhaps her greatest role ever. Hayes' signature is followed by the words, "his friend" with a line going up to Essex's name. 470 pp.

NY: Random House, 1994. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House, 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Unknown: Self published, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Signed by Author. A chrestomathy of offprints from various journals, inscribed by Quine to fellow philosopher John R. Wallace. The inscription reads: "For John Wallace [phrase in Attic Greek] with best regards, Van Quine". Wallace, most recently a faculty expert at the University of Minnesota, was an assistant professor in the famous 1960s philosophy department at Princeton, which also included Stuart Hampshire, Richard Rorty, Walter Kaufmann, Thomas Kuhn, and several other luminaries in their field. Compiled are eleven papers authored by Quine (A logistical approach to the ontological problem; On Carnap's views on ontology; On mental entities; Mr. Strawson on logical theory; Three grades of modal involvement; Carnap and logical truth; Quantifiers and propositional attitudes; The scope and language of science; The philosophical bearing of modern logic; Posits and reality; On simple theories of a complex world;) and an… Read More