Poems, now first collected [ bound with ] Thoughts at Whitsuntide and other poems by Leigh, Lord - 1839

NY: Davis Publications, 1978. Vol. 2, No. 4. Cover art by Freas. Includes "Editorial: It's a Funny Thing" & "The New Magazine" by Isaac Asimov; "On Books" by Charles N. Brown; "Cautionary Tales" by Larry Niven; "The Great Ring of Neptune" by Martin Gardner; "Horseless Carriage" by Michael A. Banks; "Frank Kelly Freas" by Ginger Kaderabek; "Message to Myself" by Diana L. Paxson; "Public Relations" by Ginger Kaderabek; "Dance Band on the Titanic" by Jack L. Chalker; "On the Way" by Conway Conley; "But Do They Ride Dolphins?" by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss; "When We Come Down" by Stephen Leigh; "Fragger's Bottom Line. . .Line. . .Line" by Sherwood Springer; "One Rejection too Many" by Patricia Nurse; "The Suicide of Man" by John Brunner; "Leigh Brackett: A Memoir" by… Read More

NY: Davis Publications, 1978. Vol. 2, No. 4. Cover art by Freas. Includes "Editorial: It's a Funny Thing" & "The New Magazine" by Isaac Asimov; "On Books" by Charles N. Brown; "Cautionary Tales" by Larry Niven; "The Great Ring of Neptune" by Martin Gardner; "Horseless Carriage" by Michael A. Banks; "Frank Kelly Freas" by Ginger Kaderabek; "Message to Myself" by Diana L. Paxson; "Public Relations" by Ginger Kaderabek; "Dance Band on the Titanic" by Jack L. Chalker; "On the Way" by Conway Conley; "But Do They Ride Dolphins?" by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss; "When We Come Down" by Stephen Leigh; "Fragger's Bottom Line. . .Line. . .Line" by Sherwood Springer; "One Rejection too Many" by Patricia Nurse; "The Suicide of Man" by John Brunner; "Leigh Brackett: A Memoir" by… Read More

SONGS OF SENTIMENT A CHRISTY GIFT BOOK, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1910, first edition, some soiling to the spine and covers, else a tight good to very good copy. Illustrated with full page, full color plates by Howard Chandler Christy. Essentially an anthology of poetry with contributions by William Shakespeare, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Robert Burns, C. G. Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning, Robert Bridges, William Wordsworth, Algernon Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, W. E. Henley, James Whitcomb Riley, et.al.

NY: Dingwell-Rock, 1925. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Two volumes. Number 922 of 1999 copies of the Beau Brummel edition. Very good condition. Tissue guards intact. Both volumes have a small bookstore sticker on the front pastedown and a small whited out area (presumably a previous owner name). Front hinge of Vol 2 is a bit loose. No dustjackets. (box 60)

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS. 1922. First edition. Limited Edition of 500. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. lightest of shelfwear, #88 of 500. 33 p. .

BiblioLife, 2008-11-14. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2008-11-14. Paperback. Good.

Adelaide: South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30 Public Library of South Austalia, 1962. Later edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches. vi, [7]-95pp. Original green cloth boards with gold type on spine. Scuffing marks to front board. Overall very good condition.South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30. Photocopies from the original book published in 1839. All pages are copied on 4pp sheets and folded in book so each page is untrimmed as a two page section, complete, no missing pages. Full title: Canada and South Australia. A Commentary on that Part of The Earl of Durham's Report which relates to the Disposal of Waste Lands and Emigration. In three papers, Delivered at the South Australian Rooms, No. 5 Adam Street, Strand Ferguson, 2774Thornton Leigh Hunt was the son of the writer Leigh Hunt. He was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. By Laman Blanchard's influence he became, in 1836, director of the political department of the 'Constitutional,' of… Read More

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New York: Dingwall-Rock Ltd, 1925. Beau Brummel Edition, #1780/1999. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 vols.; VG; full contemporary navy cloth bindings; spines with gilt lettering and design of a gentleman; mild shelf wear and soiling; mild fading to spines; mild wear to heads and tails of spines; upper edges gilt; previous owner's bookplate at front paste down of both vols.; stamped #1780/1999 at limitations pages; pages of both vols. uncut; pages clean; shelved above Case 1. 1343543. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. V and VI of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations on 40 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xvi + 436 and x + 433 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Vol. I is NEAR FINE and Vol. II is VERY GOOD. Vol. I is in excellent condition but Vol. II is cracked… Read More

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Tight, bright, clean and square. Faint sticker shadow on back cover. 42 pages of text including "A Brief Guide to Textile terms", "references to the novels and letters", and a bibliography. Plus 16 full page illustrations. 5.75x8.25x.25". Inspired by the 1975 celebrations held at Steventon, Chawton and Bath - some of the places connected to the novelist's life - which included displays of costume, needlework and needlework tools, at the Bi-Centenary of Jan Austen's birth.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations on 39 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xviii + 435 and x + 430 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD + condition. Both volumes have bright, clean exteriors with… Read More

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, second issue, with title pages dated 1869 (first published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields, which became Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1869). Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne on 38 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all the illustrations that appeared in the 1848 first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. ix + 454 and ix + 459 text pages.… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne / G. Cattermole / F. Walker. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, first printing, of Vols. IX and X of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1867. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne and G. Cattermole in Barnaby Rudge and F. Walker in Hard Times on 36 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xi + 475 and vii + 471 text pages.… Read More

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.