Rare books from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches.  First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni. A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Born in Scotland, James Chalmers was a missionary in New Guinea. He was an early explorer and brought first-hand descriptions of the land and people. Early Edition. 6 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece. Decorated boards with title in gilt band. Bindings firm. Lower corners rubbed. Previous owner's name on flyleaf; Closed tear top page 192. [last page]. Text clean with light even toning. Occasional minor staining. 192 pages. 16mo; 5.75 inches tall.. Background Information: James Chalmers was a Scottish-born missionary, active in New Guinea. On 4 January 1866 Chalmers sailed in the missionary ship John Williams to Australia. Chalmers was initially disappointed to find the island partially Christianized, but soon found there was much work to be done in fighting drunkenness and in directing the natives' energies into wiser practices. He learned the language, did much teaching, and became personally… Read More

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition, Thus. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Box. Near Fine/Near Fine. Profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions from old prints. No flaw to book to note. Has a gift inscription. Clean and tight. Box has light wear to corners.. Connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England Ireland and Scotland. Containing narratives, descriptions, and many views some done from old prints. Additionally, there is much pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic.

New York: James Locken, 1881. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Slipcase. Near Fine/Slip Case. Bound in red cloth pictorial covers with stamped gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. There is bumping to the lower front fore-edge corner and very light rubbing visible to the covers. The covers are protected by a clear Mylar dust jacket. The binding is tight and square. The text block is adorned with gilt edges and patterned endpapers. A tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait depicts "The Constitution and Gurriere." The pages show mild age toning and scattered light foxing, mostly visible on the preliminaries. This work includes numerous illustrations of Silliman's travels and American history. This work contains a publisher's catalog leaf. The volume is protected by a black cloth-covered slipcase. A very handsome collectible copy. Travel, Adventure and Opinion in the early 19th Century including historical fiction of the War of 1812. REF: LCon: 01031951; OCLC: 15796870; Howes: S458

Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Henry Alken.. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, these stories originally published in the New Sporting Magazine. Rebound in period leather by Bumpus; five raised spine bands, titles in gilt. Hint of sun-fading on the spine. Minor corner rubs. Original cloth front and spine laid-in at the rear. Top edge gilt. Bookseller notations on Front Free Endpage. Foxing on the preliminaries. Minor foxing on the borders of plates. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Sixteen Colored Illustrations by Henry Alken including frontispiece and vignette title page.. Background Information: The Bumpus Bookshop of Oxford Street, London enjoyed a reputation for handsome bindings in classical styles from its foundation in 1780 until the… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition. Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coats, 1893. Near Fine Hardcovers in a Very Good Dust Jackets. Near Fine/Very Good. Photogravures by Charles L. Mitchell and Francis Frith.. In original red cloth dust jackets, with gilt spine titles. Jackets have moderate shelf handling wear. Red cloth covered boards with intricate gilt decorations on spine and front. Bindings very tight. Minimal wear. Bookplates in both volumes. Top edges gilt, Vol 1 - 516 pgs, Vol 2 - 565 pgs, 8.25 inches. No date; Circa 1893. 51 tissue-guarded Photogravure reproductions of works by Charles L. Mitchell and Francis Frith. . Lorna Doone was made into a1951 American adventure film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene. The BBC also filmed a version of the book in 2000. Richard Doddridge Blackmore referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Achieving a close following around the world; he won literary merit and acclaim… Read More

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Illustrated cloth Hardcover; No Dust Jacket As Issued. Publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt spine titles and black stamped front title and decoration. Bindings are tight and square with minor opening after the front free end page. Text clean, moderate even toning, some foxing to text block and preliminary pages. Modest shelf handling wear with a sun-faded spine. 8vo; 8 inches tall; v, 350 pages with index. Illustrated with fifty plates, mostly from photographs. Folding and in-text map. 8vo; 8 inches tall; v, 350 pages with index. Illustrated with fifty plates, most from photographs. Folding and in text map. First Edition, First Printing.. A narrative comprising of the author's missionary work and local native leaders joined to an account of hunting in Uganda and the Belgium Congo for elephant, lion, antelopes, and his rambles about the great mountain range of Central Africa. Background Information:… Read More

Dundee, Scotland: Valentine, James (and his studio), 1890. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Photography by Valentine, James (1815-1879). Album in red pebbled cloth, edges in gilt with hand-soiling some spotting from liquid to the cloth edges are sun-faded; some fading and minor yellowing to photographs around edges; Bindings firm. Photos are attached to cardstock on hinged leaves. 12 albumen photographs mounted on boards and bound in cloth-covered, gilt-stamped album. Photographs: 13.3 by 20.3 cm (5.25 by 8 inches); boards: 17.1 by 23 cm (6.75 by x 9 inches).. James Valentine was a Scottish photographer who, with his company Valentine's of Dundee, produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards. Valentine market was the national middle- and upper-class tourist market, with the production of both drawing room albums containing selections of photographs arranged geographically and individual… Read More

[St. Augustine]: [Record Co.], 1926. Color illustrated wrappers. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Issued. Color wrappers; 9.12 inches tall; folded once to 4 inches opening to 8 inches; (unpaged) 16 pages; illustrated with historical captioned photos on each page with some drawings, full-color two-page map of Florida in the center. Carefully handled, small rub on the fold on the bottom of last page / wrapper. Produced by the De Land (Fla.). Chamber of Commerce. [c1926] Only four copies are located in Institutions: the Univ of Virginia Southern States Pamphlet Collection; Univ of Miami; Fla State; State Lib. of Florida [OCLC]. A beautiful and uncommon piece of Central Florida History. Published to promote Deland on the 50th year of its founding by Henry A. DeLand.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Jacket. Two volumes, complete. Frontispiece in each volume. Original green buckram cloth, brown leather spine labels. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spines are mildly sunned, the spine labels have some edge chipping; ownership signature on ffep of vol 2; 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; First Edition, First Printing.. Badé was commissioned in 1915 as literary executor of Muir's estate, and he immediately began to collect Muir letters of copies of letters, accumulating nearly two thousand in all. Muir was a prolific letter-writer. According to his daughter, his first order of business each day was to answer letters and send out his on correspondence. His letters as first-hand reminiscences give and insight and understanding of Muir that can not be found in other sources. Ref: Kimes 366; BAL 14779.

S. l. (Havana): s. n.: Bar El Floridita, nee Bar La Florida, 1939. First Edition, Thus. Very Good Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine, No Dust Jacket As Issued. First edition thus; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. 1-72, [8]; glossy, pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous advertisements; minor nicks to tips of spine; a few small spots to bottom edge and several light smudges to pages; in very good condition.. One of Ernest Hemingway's Favorite Hangouts "I drink to make other people more interesting."Ernest Hemingway Background Information: Bar La Florida would gain worldwide recognition in the 1920s, after the so called "Cocktail King of Cuba" - Constante Ribalaigua Vert - had inherited it in 1918 from its original owner Don Narcisco Sala Parera. Starting in 1934, Vert published and gave away as souvenirs recipe booklets of his La Florida cocktails, history, and anecdotes. By 1939, the bar would be renamed El Floridita and although the booklet for that year had already been printed, Vert also decided to publish the… Read More

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1902. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half Dark Green Morocco with three spine bands to marbled boards which match the endpages. The Spine has toned to brown as typical, decorated in floral decorations in gilt and the flowers red, spine bands in gilt geometric patterns. Top edge gilt; with 31 captioned tissue-guarded etchings and photogravures [two of the frontispieces are in color]. From a set of 30. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubs on the corners and light brush of the leather on the spine bands minor loss; Light handling to spine; some pages unopened (Fore-edge was not cut) Personal bookplates of Frederic Roa. A handsome set. Contents: Volume 1 +++ Hernani +++ The Twin Brothers +++ Angelo +++ Amy Robsart Volume 2 +++ Mary Tudor +++ Ruy Blas +++ Torquemada +++ Esmeralda Volume 3… Read More

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1902. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half Dark Green Morocco with three spine bands to marbled boards which match the endpages. The Spine has toned to brown as typical, decorated in floral decorations in gilt and the flowers red, spine bands in gilt geometric patterns. Top edge gilt; with 37 captioned tissue-guarded etchings and photogravures [all of the frontispieces are in color]. From a set of 30. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubs on the corners and light brush of the leather on the spine bands minor loss; Light handling to spine; some pages unopened. Personal bookplates of Frederic Roa. A handsome set. . Background Information: Victor Hugo, a French novelist was a leading figure of the Romantic Movement in France, he is considered one of the greatest and best-known French… Read More