Search Results: Titles starting with U from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

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.

Chicago, Ill; Philadelphia, Pa: International Publishing Co, 1898. Very good with some bumping and wear to the publisher's gilt and colored brown cloth boards. Ghosting to the mounted backstrip.. Scarce salesman's sample/dummy, consisting of three pages of notices, title page, preliminaries, sample pages and illustrations of various paginations, followed by one page of publisher's description and six unnumbered, ruled pages for recording subscribers' names. Sample backstrip mounted inside front cover.

[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 An unpublished handwritten manuscript which appears to be a final draft of an ecclesiastical history of the English church, and which clearly takes issue with many of the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

[n.p., England], 1917. Very good internally but vellum heavily soiled and toned, boards bowed, contents clean with some light finger-soiling.. Attractive manuscript children's book filled with watercolor illustrations. A whimsical story in verse about a carefree itinerant fellow and his dog set in the early twentieth century wandering the towns of southern England before finding and then losing untold riches in Canterbury - and learning that time and leisure are more valuable than money. This book appears to be unpublished as we trace no printed version of any variation of this title by this author or illustrators. Oblong 4to. 7 leaves. Clearly a work of love as it is bound in full vellum with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers.

London, 1854. Disbound with a small hole to lower blank corner of title, occasional staining, marginal creasing, but otherwise good.. First edition. An apparently unrecorded collection of four vignettes as well as a poem on Wellington's death. An apparently amateur work, the preface asks for a "humble apology for having placed before you a great deal of bad grammar, and, no doubt, worse writing." No. 1 in the Illuminated Psychclopaedia series, however, this work appears to be the only volume from said series. 8vo. [1]-24pp. Apparently unrecorded with no copies located on OCLC or Library Hub Discover as of March 2024.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Henry Gibb, Liberator Office, 1840. First Edition. Disbound with light spotting and browning but otherwise very good.. First edition. Provincially published work of poetry by a Chartist-affiliated publisher, when Fettes was 21 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, it was apparently his first work as the comparatively lengthy introduction (which spans 1/7th of the entire volume) notes it was "his first immature production." The ballad tells the tale of a knight of Richard the Lionheart who becomes enamored with Zuleika, the daughter of the Muslim emir who captured him, and as may be expected in a work of this sort, knight and daughter escape the emir and unite in Christianity. Also contains a lengthier poem entitled The Dream as well as thirteen shorter poems. Small 8vo. [i]-viii, [9]-36pp. Apparently unrecorded with no copies located on OCLC or Library Hub Discover as of March 2024.