Search Results: Authors starting with A from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

Andover [Massachusetts]: Flagg and Gould, 1829. First Edition. About very good in original cloth-backed paper boards with almost all loss to the spine label, grubbiness and staining to the boards, some staining to the pages, prior ownership name in ink, some underlining.. First edition. Contains rather interesting content, including an entire chapter on witchcraft in Massachusetts. Small 8vo. [4], [5]-204pp. Sabin 32127.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. Very good but with with somewhat grubby boards.. Number 45 of 250 copies. Introduction by Pre-Raphaelite W.M. Rossetti. Bookplates of former owners, including Edward Crane, noted collector and publisher. Top edge gilt.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845. First Edition. Good plus with some faiding and tearing to the head and tail of spine; contents generally clean with some foxing and numerous unopened pages some of which opened by a prior owner. The large folding map is present.. First Edition of the important work on prison reform. This work most famously contains a lengthy attack on the views of prisons expressed by Charles Dickens. Adshead argued, influentially, that what Dickens had written in his American Notes (1842) on the "Pennsylvania [prison] system" was fiction, and could not be taken seriously as commentary. Dickens scholar Phillip Collins even notes that Adshead criticism constituted "the basis for most of the subsequent attacks on American Notes during Dickens's lifetime". In all, a wide-ranging work with discussions fiction of Dickens, American prisons and the Pennsylvania (Eastern State) model, prison discipline, reform, and the architecture and construction of prisons.… Read More

London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills, 1728. Disbound but complete, with some smudges to the general title page, minor foxing near gutter, open tear to a page not affecting text, LC perfin stamp, otherwise very good, protected in 19th century paper folder with manuscript title.. There was no parties, shindigs, soirees, or the like during 1728 - that is unless King George II got his cut of the action. From the first year of the reign of George II. Folio. [2], 3-30pp. ESTC N50861. A rather scarce printing, with Worldcat reflecting only one copy at UNC.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Very good without dust jacket.. First edition featuring a presentation inscription from C.H. Bretherton's wife to the wife of Kenneth Grahame on the flyleaf. Bretherton was a frequent contributor to Punch magazine and an enthusiastic support of Grahame. Poems was published after the death of both Bretherton and Grahame, hence the inscription to/from their respective spouses.

Boston: Roberts Bros, 1880. First Edition. Very good in gilt stamped blue cloth with minor wear and tears to spear and light penciling in contents.. First edition. Signed and inscribed by author Joseph Henry Allen on the front free endpaper. Important work in ecclesiastical history by the noted nineteenth century Unitarian pastor and Harvard lecturer.

New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 1850. About very good with wear to edges and spine, loss of ink to spine, some child penciling, scattered foxing and soiling throughout.. A fantastic block printed cloth binding in three colors, a challenging task for the binder to line up the design perfectly. 12mo. iv, [5]-104pp. + 6 plates (including frontispiece).

Boston: Phonographic Institution, 1846. Second Edition. Spine chipped with some loss, significant wear to boards and prior owner bookplate, front board nearly detached. Good.. 12mo, pp. 60; printed paper boards backed in reverse calf. Westby-Gibson pg. 7.

New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St, 1856. Very good with some staining to wraps and tasteful prior owner's name to final page.. I never heard of a lazy child on a Christmas morning". A pleasant chapbook with five full-page woodcut illustrations. 32mo. [1], 2-16pp. Scarce with one institution located on Worldcat as of October 2020 holding the imprint with the aforementioned William St. address. AAS dates this imprint to 1856-57. In pictorial wrappers with the "just published" variant.

New York: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, 1847. Good with staining throughout, wear to wraps and substantial tear and minor hole not affecting text to rear wrap.. Features several engravings. Likely published between 1854-57 given the Philadelphia address noted on the rear wrapper. 24mo. [2], [3]-16pp. Relatively scarce in the separate offprint.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, 1870. Staining, one page with tear not affecting the text, and wear to wraps, otherwise very good.. Well-illustrated chapbook with a woodcut on each page. 32mo. [2], 3-8pp. In yellow publisher's wraps.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, 1870. Very good with some staining to wrappers and some penciling.. 32mo. [2] 3-13pp., [3]. In publisher's pictorial wrappers.

American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street: Philadelphia, 1853. A fair copy with prior owner's name in ink, early added support for wraps, and staining throughout, though still scarce in miniature.. Miniature. 8pp. In publisher's yellow wraps, which are variant from the UF copy both in color and this copy has a woodcut of a fly on the rear wrap.

Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, 1853. Good with foxing, prior owners name in ink twice and final leaf torn a bit but not affecting text.. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, "take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important hour of death". 32mo. [2], [3]-8pp. Not in Rosenbach. In publisher's wraps, but this appears to be a variant as the rear wrapper has different wording that OCLC 950909583.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street; New York: 375 Broadway, 1867. Very good with some staining to wraps.. 32mo. [2], 5-16pp. In publisher's wraps.

London: J. Marshall & R. White; Bath: S. Hazard, 1795. Very good self wrappers with the first leaf has a paper flaw resulting in skewed printing and a loss of a few words, several pages shaved too closely, and pages age-toned and smudged.. A scarce Cheap Repository printing of the story of James Maclean, who was executed at the infamous Tyburn tree on October 3, 1750, following a short but successful stint as a highwayman who rid his victims of their possessions in the most courteous manner. With an ominous vignette on the title page of the gallows at Tyburn with crows circling a hanging body in the background while three Newgate inmates look on. 12mo. [title], [3]-22pp., [2, advertisements]. ESTC N490066 (of the five editions noted, this is the only edition featuring "Cheap Repository" printed at the head of the title); Not in Spinney, but compare to Spinney 7 (not indicating priority in different editions, though this edition uses his #3 imprint); Blanch, A Reassessment of the Authorship of the… Read More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, 1853. Very good with a print error on page affecting one line of text.. 32mo. [1], 2-7pp., [1]. A brief but heavily illustrated chapbook, featuring a woodcut on each page. In self wrappers.

Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, & Co, 1822. First Edition. A good plus copy, uncut, in the publisher's original orange marbled boards with a printed paper spine label, the spine worn and chipped with loss and hinges weak. Relatively scarce in the 21st century, though an apparently popular work at the time, which saw a second edition in the same year and a third edition in 1825.. First edition of a scarce historical romance about Mary, Queen of Scots, published to coincide with the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822, the first by a reigning monarch since that of Charles II in 1651. A work clearly brimming with Scottish nationalist sentiment, the preface by the "authors" states the novel was "sketched some years ago" but was written "when a rumour arose, that an unknown author of great power [Sir Walter Scott, in publishing The Abbott in 1820] was about to bring back to our ken the days and fortunes of Queen Mary." However, disappointed that Scott only featured Mary while imprisoned rather than… Read More

[n.p.], 1848. About very good in contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards, rubbing to edges and corners, spine label missing from vol. I, prior owner bookplates removed, vol. I front hinge broken, some pages reinforced, others with cancels as apparently intended, and with minor foxing to some pages (as the leaves are in a variety of papers, some more susceptible to foxing than others).. An unpublished handwritten manuscript which appears to be a final draft of an ecclesiastical history of the English church, and which clearly takes issue with many of the teachings of the contemporary Catholic church. Written throughout in a clear hand and with extensive footnote citations to writers such as Bede, Gildas, Columba, and others. The work appears to be an abridged compilation of many works (in a similar vein to F.G. Tomlin's History of England), with a significant portion of early chapters borrowing heavily (and verbatim) from Tindal's translation of Rapin de Thoyras's History of England. A… Read More

London: H.P. Such, Machine Printer and Publisher, 177, Union-st., Borough, S.E., 1885. Very good with minor tears to edges.. Scarce slip song ballad. Not located in OCLC as of March 2024. Broadside Ballads Online, Bod10100 (though our copy has different type used in the title and different type decorations than the Bodleian's copy, but with the same imprint, thus appears to be an unrecorded variant).