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London: London: printed for the author; and sold by G. Hawkins, at the Middle Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street, 1759. 1st Edition . Full leather. Good. First edition; two volumes, quarto; xxvii, 452; (iv), 350, (xxxviii), 71, (xxix)pp; with 7 copper-engraved maps and plans (5 of them folding), folding table, and frontispiece portrait. Full contemporary leather (worn, hinges weak, boards held by cords, spine label missing from vol.2), five raised spine bands, some browning and spotting particularly to opening and closing leaves, early ink inscription to vol.1 front free endpaper. Good complete working copy of this uncommon first edition. Harte's work, Ian Campbell Ross suggests [in The Shandean v.20, November 2009, p.9 et seq] was the source of several Shandean elements - from his early reflections on the difficulty of writing his book and his use of digression through to his reference to the Abbess of Quedlingberg - and though debate continues as to the precise influence Harte's work may have had, the…
Read More Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late provost of Eton Colledge. The second edition with large additions. by Wotton, Henry (1568-1639); Walton, Izaak (ed.) - 1654
by Wotton, Henry (1568-1639); Walton, Izaak (ed.)
Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late provost of Eton Colledge. The second edition with large additions.
by Wotton, Henry (1568-1639); Walton, Izaak (ed.)
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SUMMER SALE PRICE REDUCTION FOR LIMITED PERIOD. London: London: printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1654. Full leather. Very Good. Lombart, P. Second edition; 12mo; [8], 515pp, complete with portrait frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates. In recent period-style blind-panelled full calf with five raised spine bands and gilt lettered label to second compartment, very occasional unobtrusive spots and stains otherwise an unmarked clean copy. This celebrated posthumous collection includes Izaak Walton's life of Wotton, Wotton's lives of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; "The difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Essex" (actually by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon), "A panegyrick to King Charls" (with separate dated title page); "The election of the new Duke of Venice, after the death of Giovanni Bembo"; "The elements of architecture"; "A philosophicall surveigh of education, or Moral architecture"; "The great action between Pompey and Cæsar"; "A meditation upon Christmas-day"; and "Poems found among the papers of S.H. Wotton", including a verse on angling contemporaneous with Walton's Compleat Angler. A very attractive copy. ESTC R38765.
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SOURCE FOR STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY: The history of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, sirnamed, the Great.
by Harte, Walter (1709-1774)
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr.Hume's History.) In Five Volumes. A New Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements.
by Smollett, Tobias.
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London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.
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A compendious history of the British churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. By John Brown, Minister of the Gospel in Haddington
by Brown, John (1722-1787)
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Glasgow: Glasgow: printed by John Bryce, 1784. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; two volumes; 340, 368pp. In contemporary full speckled calf (somewhat worn, front hinges cracked but secure), gilt volume numbers and remains of title labels to spines, early ink ownership inscription to half-title of volume 2, sporadic light paper browning but overall a very good complete copy of this uncommon history. ESTC T128905, citing 8xUK and 8xUS institutional copies.
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Tales of Passion.
by St. Leger, Francis Barry (1799-1829)
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London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, octavo, three volumes; 315, 319, 356pp. In contemporary half leather over marbled boards (a little worn), four raised spine bands, gilt lettered red morocco title labels to second compartments, remaining compartments richly gilt. Spotting and staining to early and closing leaves of each volume, author's name inscribed to title page, first quire of vol.1 misbound, otherwise a very good clean copy. Attractive copy of St.Leger's increasingly uncommon final novel, the last before his untimely death at the age of thirty following an epileptic seizure.
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SOURCE FOR STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY: The history of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, sirnamed, the Great.
by Harte, Walter (1709-1774)
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London: London: printed for the author; and sold by G. Hawkins, at the Middle Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street, 1759. 1st Edition . Full leather. Good. First edition; two volumes, quarto; xxvii, 452; (iv), 350, (xxxviii), 71, (xxix)pp; with 7 copper-engraved maps and plans (5 of them folding), folding table, and frontispiece portrait. Full contemporary leather (worn, hinges weak, boards held by cords, spine label missing from vol.2), five raised spine bands, some browning and spotting particularly to opening and closing leaves, early ink inscription to vol.1 front free endpaper. Good complete working copy of this uncommon first edition. Harte's work, Ian Campbell Ross suggests [in The Shandean v.20, November 2009, p.9 et seq] was the source of several Shandean elements - from his early reflections on the difficulty of writing his book and his use of digression through to his reference to the Abbess of Quedlingberg - and though debate continues as to the precise influence Harte's work may have had, the…
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr.Hume's History.) In Five Volumes. A New Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements.
by Smollett, Tobias.
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London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.
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A compendious history of the British churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. By John Brown, Minister of the Gospel in Haddington
by Brown, John (1722-1787)
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Glasgow: Glasgow: printed by John Bryce, 1784. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; two volumes; 340, 368pp. In contemporary full speckled calf (somewhat worn, front hinges cracked but secure), gilt volume numbers and remains of title labels to spines, early ink ownership inscription to half-title of volume 2, sporadic light paper browning but overall a very good complete copy of this uncommon history. ESTC T128905, citing 8xUK and 8xUS institutional copies.
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Sermons on practical subjects, by the late W. Enfield, LL.D. prepared for the press by himself. To which are prefixed memoirs of the author, by J. Aikin, M.D. In three volumes
by Enfield, William (1741-1797)
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London: London: printed for J. Johnson, 1799. Half leather. Very Good. Three volumes complete, second edition, octavo; xlviii, 436; viii, 440; x, 458pp. In contemporary half calf over salmon marbled boards (lightly worn with very minor loss to extremities), flat spines divided by double gil fillets into six compartments, gilt lettered black spine labels to second compartment, gilt volume number direct to spine in fourth compartment, early ink inscription to front pastedowns (bequeathing the set to one John Hyhatt, 1824), a few unobtrusive very light stains and spots to opening and closing leaves. A clean and attractive example of this uncommon complete set. ESTC N37556 citing just three institutional locations, 1 x UK (National Library of Wales) and 2 x US (McMaster University and Union Theological Seminary).
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
by Cholmondeley, Mary
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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.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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