Search Results: Titles starting with C from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

No Publisher, No Date. No Edition. Wrappers. Very good. Confederate Manuscript Military Music -- Among the Rarest Type of Confederate Manuscript Material: A VERY GOOD ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC BOOK BELONGING TO CONFEDERATE DRUMMER J.J. LAWRENCE OF COMPANY G [OF THE FIFTH TEXAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY] DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The book measures approximately 6 and 5/16th inches by approximately 3 and 9/16ths inches. The outer sides of the wrappers are in marbled paper. Within are 40 pages with lines drawn to be used by the musician to add notes for songs to be played by him. Nine of the pages have been completed with song titles and notes. The remaining pages are blank, presumably because of Lawrence's untimely early death. The musician would add his own notes for songs to be played. The contemporary marbled wrappers show some wrinkling, rubbing, staining, and edge wear. Within, the contents are mildly foxed. A unique collection of songs, likely written down and carried by J.J. Lawrence, a Texas… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. RARE ADVANCE COPY in the Dust Jacket. Bound Galleys in the Dust Jacket. Very good/very good. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ADVANCE COPY (likely prepared for the Publisher's in-house review and without any Table of Contents) consisting of what appear to be trimmed signatures (perhaps the final Galleys) bolted together and wearing what appears to be the final dust jacket. The book (which contains a collection of Mailer's journalistic and other pieces) shows some soiling and staining to the page block's top edge and some modest stain marking to the top margin of the first sixty (60) or so pages. The dust jacket shows wear holes above the bolts and some general tearing and wear as well as tide marking to the front panel. We never have seen another copy in this format and it certainly was printed ahead of any copies sent out for review. A RARE ADVANCE COPY.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth with the spine and the front board both lettered and decorated in gilt [such gilt being brighter and fuller than we usually see] and the closed page block's top edge stained in blue and here presented without the dust jacket.

Leipsig: Karl Baedeker, 1893. Eleventh Revised Edition. [ONE HARDCOVER; ONE FLEXIBLE]. Very Good + to Near Fine; Very Good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $125. NOW $55. A Very Good + or better copy of the Eleventh Revised Edition of Baedeker's guide for Central Italy and Rome, the Second installment of Baedeker's three volumes covering Italy. The first covers Northern Italy including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and routes through France, Switzerland, and Austria; this second volume covers Central Italy and Rome, and the third covers Southern Italy and Sicily with excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu; Handbook for Travellers. A number of relevant period items are loosely laid in as shown in the images provided with this listing; TOGETHER WITH: DETKEN'S GUIDE TO NAPLES AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD with a number of pages excised from the rear but with the maps remaining in place and with two other maps and a travel card hosting an image to the front and a handwritten message to the reverse loosely… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket (with some mild toning), Robert Ludlum's ninth novel, a work centered around a student, Peter Chancellor, who meets an American Ambassador after his (Chancellor's) proposed thesis subject has been rejected. The Ambassador suggests that Chancellor write a novel based on his idea, Chancellor accepts the idea, writes the novel and, based on his novel, becomes a famous author. Thereafter, the ambassador is revealed to be part of an organization of intellectuals who intervene in political and economic matters when they think such things are going off track. The group, who believe that J. Edgar Hoover, as head of the FBI, holds files that contain damaging information on various political, military and other important figures which he uses this information to such figures. Chancellor then falls into a maelstrom, not knowing who he can trust. A Fine… Read More

San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Company, 1900. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. A Very Good RARE Wrappered copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original red wrappers housed in a bespoke case. The front wrapper shows a split to the upper portion thereof measuring about two inches. [A small slip pasted-in at the front free endpaper mentions that a letter comes with the book, but that letter was removed before we acquired the book.]  QUITE SCARCE INDEED. QUITE SCARCE INDEED.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1889 [first published by Chapman and Hall in 1878]. Later Edition(s) but first edition of this set. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good set of the 1889 issue / printing of Anthony Trollope's famed group of novels known as "The Barsetshire Chronicles" published in 1889 [with their respective years of initial individual first publication here set forth in parenthetically -- earlier issue of this set was published in 1879], consisting of The Warden (1855), Barchester Towers (1857), Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)... // Per Sadlier: "The history of the edition is not without interest. Trollope himself was very anxious that his Barsetshire novels should be brought together in a uniform series. Originally the venture was to comprise only six volumes, for he did not himself regard The Small House at Allington as one of the Barsetshire set; but he consented to its inclusion at the urgent… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1866. True First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $365. NOW $100. A Very Good copy of the first American Edition, first printing in The Publisher's green boards. While dated 1866, Harpers published the novel simultaneously in both hardcover and in original wrappers on February 8, 1867. Both formats constitute the First American Edition (with the wrappered edition being so scarce that we have encountered only one copy of it the last four decades), and being, in fact, the TRUE FIRST EDITION as the first English Edition was not published until April 20, 1867. (see Smith). At the time of this Harper publication, the novel was still being published in serialization both in Littell's Living Age [March 3, 1866 through March 2, 1867] as well as in the Galaxy [May 1, 1866 through March 1, 1867], using the serialization appearing in England in the Cornhill Magazine. Both American publishing houses objected to Harper's publication of the full… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Editions. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY TOM CLANCY on the half-title, TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED LETTER FROM TOM CLANCY TO THE WIDOW OF JOHN BALL TO WHOM THIS BOOK WAS DEDICATED. The letter is in excellent condition and shows two horizontal folds for mailing and some slight bending to its upper left corner. The book itself is sharp, unfaded, with bright gilt lettering and is without the concavity to the spine that plagues most copies and the dust jacket has only modest bits of loss to the laminate (another matter that we frequently have seen on this dust jacket) and some wear to the extremities at the spine ends and to the edges where the spine turns to each flap. [In spite of such small flaws, this is otherwise easily the nicest example of the dust jacket that we ever have seen. The book's first edition was published both in a silver jacket and in a bronze jacket,… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Virtually Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (tiny bump to the front board's lower leading corner -- still rather sharp) in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY MICHAEL DORRIS on the title page. The book was published shortly before the author's untimely death. A Virtually Fine copy, SIGNED BY MICHAEL DORRIS.

London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good -/very good. A Very Good- copy of the first edition, first printing, first issue with the required typographical error to page 7, bound in the Publisher's original light blue cloth with some soiling to the cloth and quite light rubbing to the spine ends and leading corners and with foxing to the closed page block's edges. The volume is wearing the Publisher's first issue dust jacket with the front flap showing the price of 10s 6d. The jacket shows toning and a small spot of soil to the spine panel, general fading, and minor wear and tear to the spine ends and leading corners, and the book shows light rubbing to the spine ends and leading corners and bubbling to the rear pane.

London: Printed for R. Spavan, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, Pater Noster Row; and to be had at the Pamphlet Shops in London and Westminster, 1750. First Edition, First Printing. FLASH SALE. WAS $545.00 NOW TEMPORARILY $165.00. A Very Good copy of this notable work by John Dove with the leaves showing their age (including foxing and discoloration along with some edge wear, some dog ears, an a few closed tears), elegantly bound in half-leather with marbled boards (with the incorrect date "1770" to the spine tail.) The volume is mildly askew but remains quite attractive. Commonly called "the Hebrew tailor," due to his trade, Dove was a distinguished Hutchinsonian who possessed a good knowledge of the Hebrew language, and was considered a man of learning, but intemperate in his language. Dove's principal works are, the work presented here as well as "The Importance of Rabbinical Learning." (Anonymous) (London 1746); "An Essay on Inspiration" (London, 1756); "Plain Truth or, Quakerism Unmasked"… Read More