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Imprint: 1847 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian, transl. and with a brief biography by Mary HOWITT. THE IMPROVISATORE: OR, LIFE IN ITALY. London: Richard Bentley/Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1847. xxx + [2] + 340 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. 12mo., brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Bentley's Standard Novels series. Gilt spine, corners gently bumped, Light rubbing to cloth. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Frontispiece engraving by Clara Cawse has minor foxing to margins; tissue guard intact. Binding tight. A very nice early English translation (first edition published in 1845). Stock number: 83915.
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Imprint: 1890 ANDERSON, JOHN. ENGLISH INTERCOURSE WITH SIAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd., 1890. Trubner's Oriental Series. First edition. Color fold-out map. Octavo. xiii,503 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with printed decoration and gilt on covers and spine, black coated endpapers. Cloth binding is heavily soiled on spine and lightly so on covers. Text is clean and lightly toned throughout, except for two blank pages that face the front and rear endpapers which are both quite browned. A good copy. Rare in 1st edition., Good Stock number: 86509.
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Imprint: 1908 ANDERSON, William. JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. New edition. London: Seeley and Co., 1908. 16mo., blue cloth decorated in gilt; 219pp. + ads. Slight foxing and waving of text; the ads are quite water-damaged. Bleeding of dye from bottom edge of boards. As is. Stock number: 38061.
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Imprint: 1908 ANDERSON, William. JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. New edition. London: Seeley and Co., 1908. 16mo., blue cloth decorated in gilt; 219pp. + ads. Mild wear at boards, else good., Good Stock number: 39856.
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Imprint: 1895 ANDERSON, William. JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. Their history, technique and characteristics. London: Seeley and Co., 1895. Small 4to., green cloth; 80pp. + ads. With 6 color plates (frontis. loose), and many other ills. Overall, about good., Good Stock number: 85354.
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Imprint: 1939 ANDERSON, Maxwell. KEY LARGO. A play in a prologue and two acts. Washington D.C.: Anderson House, 1939. 12mo., grey cloth. A very good copy that shows some offsetting at the front endpapers, ink ownership at ffep; dust jacket shows only light soiling and sunning at the spine., Good Stock number: 48219.
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Imprint: 1795 ANDERSON, Aeneas. A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY TO CHINA, IN THE YEARS 1792, 1793, AND 1794; CONTAINING THE VARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EMBASSY, WITH ACCOUNTS OF CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE CHINESE; AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, TOWNS, CITIES, &C. &C. London: Printed for J. Debrett...1795. [a2, b4-c4, B4-2Q4] 278 pp. + [2] + [24] pp. 4to., original calf boards, corners and edges worn, backstrip missing, half bound with cloth tape, of which the top 5 inches is missing. Owner's nautical bookplate to front pastedown, with small clipping noting the American edition tipped in. Small auction sticker affixed to blank verso facing title page. Minimal foxing in the text. Appendix: Remarks on Board his Majesty's Ship the Lion, in the Yellow Sea. (Cordier 2386) An account of the important Macartney Embassy to China. Complete, sold with all faults of condition. Stock number: 80514.
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Imprint: 1947 ANDERSON, Isabel. NEAR AND FAR. Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1947). 8vo., terra cotta cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards. Touch of soil to boards, else fine, in a spine-sunned, slight edgeworn dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 74091.
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Imprint: 1927 ANDERSON, Sherwood. A NEW TESTAMENT. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1/265 signed and numbered copies. 8vo, black cloth boards, with white paper shelfback and corners, foxed. Very good, in the slipcase (rubbed, chipped at base)., Very Good Stock number: 35404.
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Imprint: 1790 ANDERSON, Adam, and William Combe. ANDERSON'S HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL DEDUCTION OF THE ORIGIN OF COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS. Containing an History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies; and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest. With an Appendix, containing the modern politico-commercial geography of the several countries of Europe. Carefully Revised, Corrected, and continued to the Year 1789, by Mr. Coombe [sic]. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1790. Volume 1 - 4 only (of 6). The first three volumes of this edition comprise "the original part of the historical and chronological work by Mr. Anderson" (v. III., p. 651) and volume 4 begins the contribution of William Combe. This celebrated and informative work was first published in 1764. (This edition - revised, corrected, and continued by William Combe - was first published at London 1787-89.) Four octavo volumes. [2],xv,[1],lxxx,735; [2],656; [2],651; [2],576 pp. Volume 1 is rebound in modern light brown library cloth; volumes 2-4 are in worn contemporary leather bindings with split joints and loose boards. Ex library with all of the usual, but not excessive, library marks. Volumes 2-4 have an early ink ownership (N. Dane) of ffep. Volume 1 has an engraved frontispiece and two folding maps. Both maps are hinged onto a modern blank leaf to allow or easy opening. One map is toned along one edge and trimmed just at the plate margin at the lower half of the inside edge. Volume 3, p. 391-2 has irregular loss at lower forecorner, resulting loss of type to final few lines of text on one page; and p. 561-2 has an open tear in fore-edge margin resulting in small loss of type. Otherwise text is clean. Stock number: 82288.
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Imprint: 1886 ANDERSON, William. THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN. With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Korean. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [n.d., circa 1890-1900]. Complete: 80 of 80 plates, some in color, plus numerous text illustrations. Each plate has a guard which is printed with a line illustration on one side and descriptive text on the reverse. Text is in five parts, with continuous pagination throughout; each part is separated by a section title which is not included in the pagination: xix,276 pp. Folio. Publisher's binding: pictorial green cloth boards stamped in red gilt and black, 1/4 brown morocco, raised bands, boards detached, with the original gilt-titled leather. Interior fine., Fine Stock number: 86183.
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Imprint: 1886 ANDERSON, William. THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN. With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Korean. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [n.d., circa 1890-1900]. 79 (of 80) plates, some in color, plus numerous text illustrations. Each plate has a guard which is printed with a line illustration on one side and descriptive text on the reverse. Text is in five parts, with continuous pagination throughout; each part is separated by a section title which is not included in the pagination: xix,276 pp. Folio. Publisher's binding: pictorial green cloth, expertly rebacked in black morocco, with the original gilt-titled leather spine laid-down. This copy lacks one plate (#40) and the half-title, and has a small amount of light foxing on a couple of pages of the plate list, else fine and fresh., Fine Stock number: 68756.
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Imprint: 1886 ANDERSON, William. THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN. With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Korean. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1886 Folio. Each plate has a guard which is printed with a line illustration on one side and descriptive text on the reverse. Publisher's morocco spine and pebbled cloth. xx, 276 pages, 80 plates, 16 of which are chromolithographs, 146 additional illustrations in the text. "Gabriel Weisberg, in Japonisme, an Annotated Bibliography, referred to Anderson's book as 'a seminal work on the pictoral arts of Japan.' It is also certainly one of the most beautiful. The combination of chromolithography, collotype photographs and original Japanese woodblock prints are handsome. Anderson's text builds on the early writings by Jarves, Alcock, Audsley, and Bowes, and extends it with great expertise." [cit. BookPress] The boards are worn, as is the spine; the boards are detached and affixed to the spine with black electrical tape. Exlibrary with usual markings. Half title is detached, laid in, with nicked edges. Complete, a fair to good copy with fine contents, needs work on the binding. [a], Fine Stock number: 82992.
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Imprint: 1963 Andoo Ichiroo. HIRAITA TE. Tokyo: Shooshinsha, 1963. 8vo., tan cloth, 101pp.+, slight soiling to cover, else very good in a slipcase with a paper label. This copy is inscribed by Andoo., Very Good Stock number: 27106.
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Imprint: 1854 ANDREWS, Stephen Pearl. DISCOVERIES IN CHINESE OR THE SYMBOLISM OF THE PRIMITIVE CHARACTERS OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM OF WRITING. New York: Charles B. Norton, 1854. First edition. 137 pp. 8vo., brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Faint stain to front board; gilt lettering bright. Ex-library with no external markings; inkstamps to tile page and Introduction, and rear flyleaf (recto). Pencil underlining to author's name on title page; pencil notes to front endpapers. Chinese characters printed in the English text. Very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 83079.
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Imprint: 1854 ANDREWS, L[orrin]. GRAMMAR OF THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. Honolulu: Printed at the Mission Press, 1854. [2],156 pp. 8vo., side-sewn, brown cloth back with flexible textured-paper sides. Ink ownership at ffep. This copy is without the folding table, which was apparently not issued in all copies. Leaves are increasingly browned within the text block as they progress toward the center of the volume, though they are all easily readable, with light to heavy foxing in margins throughout, and some slightly bent corners. The cloth has largely worn away at spine; the sides are rubbed and creased at fore-corners. Nonetheless, this is a very good copy of a rare early Hawaiian grammar and imprint. (Judd 324). Andrews (American, 1795-1865) arrived in Hawaii as a missionary in 1828 and he remained there the rest of his life. Within a few years, he was appointed as the first principal of the "mission seminary," where he established a press and printed the first Hawaiian newspaper. Along with his work as a teacher and industrialist, he gave attention to translation of the entire Bible into the Hawaiian language and, for a time (1837), acted as a teacher and interpreter for certain Hawaiian chiefs. Andrews resigned from the Mission in 1841 and entered government service. After his retirement in 1859, he devoted his last years to the study and research of the ancient songs and traditions of the Hawaiian people. Besides the Grammar of the Hawaiian Language, he published a Hawaiian dictionary of some 17,000 words in 1865, on which he had begun work in 1835. (D.A.B.), Very Good Stock number: 70659.
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Imprint: 1794 ANDREWS, Jamse Pettit. THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, connected with The Chronology of Europe: with Notes &c...Containing Anecdotes of the Times, Lives of the Learned, and Specimens of Their Works. Volume I (of II). From Caesar's Invasion to the Deposition and Death of Richard II. London: T. Burton & Co., 1794. First edition. Small 4to., half-bound in red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers; fold-out plates of family trees. Ex-library. Much rubbing, edgewear, some soil to boards, which are starting, with light splitting at the joints. Internally, the main text block is sound, fairly tight, and lightly foxed throughout. Short edge-tear to one fold-out plate. A good working copy of the text. (Lowndes 43)., Good Stock number: 63597.
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Imprint: 1944 ANDREWS, Phillip and Leonard Engel, editors. NAVY YEARBOOK. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1944). Oblong 8vo., blue cloth, illustrated. Touch of soil and sun to boards; very good, in an edgeworn, slightly soiled dust jacket., Very Good Stock number: 73446.
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Imprint: 1888 ANDREWS, Jane. ONLY A YEAR AND WHAT IT BROUGHT. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. 8vo., yellow cloth; 233pp. First edition? Ex-library. A very good copy. (Not in Wright), Very Good Stock number: 81421.
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Imprint: 1918 ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman. THE THREE THINGS. The Forge in which the Soul of a Man was Tested. Boston: Little, Brown, 1918. Presumed first edition. Dark green cloth, floral design in lighter green and gilt. A fine copy with only minimal shelfwear to extremes., Fine Stock number: 81417.
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Imprint: 1974 ANGELOU, Maya. GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME. New York: Random House (1974). First edition. 214 + [1] pp. 8vo., orange cloth stamped in red and gilt. Boards have moderate soil, faint ripple to text pages (no dampstaining to cloth or interior). In orange pictorial dust jacket with moderate wear and dampstaining to reverse, spine sunned. Personal inscription from the author dated May 1974 on front flyleaf. Continuation of Angelou's memoirs, following I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. Stock number: 85351.
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Imprint: 1926 ANGLE, Paul M. Lincoln In The Year 1854 [-1860]. Each volume of this 7 volume set is devoted to a year of Lincoln's life from 1854-1860. Springfield, Illinois: The Lincoln Centennial Association, (1926-1930). Volumes contain on average 60 pp. each and are 8vo., uniformly bound in white wrappers. Occasional creasing to top opening fore-corners. Clean and crisp within. An uncommon set. Very good., Good Stock number: 74999.
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Imprint: 1779 (ANIMAL HUSBANDRY). DER PRAKTISCHEN GEISCHICHTE EUROPAISCHER NATURPRODUKTE. Nurenberg: auf Kosten der Stiebnerschen Buchdruckeren, 1779-1782. 7 parts, numbers 1-7, bound in one volume. 288pp., continuous pagination between parts. 14 engravings of horses, asses, bulls, cows, sheep and goats, all with contemporary hand-coloring. 4to., green paper wrappers, hand-lettered paper label to spine. A near fine copy, remarkably clean, with minimal foxing and slight thumbing to edges of some leaves. The plates are bright and fresh, and sensitively colored., Fine Stock number: 52278.
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Imprint: 2002 ANKER, Deborah E. U.S. LAW AND PROCEDURE 2002 SUPPLEMENT TO: LAW OF ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES, THIRD EDITION. (Boston, MA: Refugee Law Center, 2002). 69 pp. 8vo., paperback wrappers. New in print @ Stock number: 76256. ISBN: 0966514920
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Imprint: 1939 (ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE). ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE, Publiees sous la Direction de Marcellin Boule, Professeur de Paleontologie au Museum National D'Histoire Naturell et Jean Piveteau, Docteur es Sciences, Chef des Travaux de Paleontologie a l'Ecole Superieure des Mines. Tome XXVIII- 1939-1940. Paris: Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1939-1940. 4to., wrappers; illustrated. Slight ink, pencil notation to wraps. Mild soil, edgewear to wraps. Very good; unopened., Very Good Stock number: 63519.
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Imprint: 1939 (ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE). ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE, Publiees sous la Direction de Marcellin Boule, Professeur de Paleontologie au Museum National D'Histoire Naturell et Jean Piveteau, Docteur es Sciences, Chef des Travaux de Paleontologie a l'Ecole Superieure des Mines. Tome XXVIII- 1939-1940. Paris: Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1939-1940. 4to., wrappers; illustrated. Slight ink, pencil notation to wraps. Near fine; unopened., Fine Stock number: 63520.
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Imprint: 1929 (ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE). ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE, Publiees sous la Direction de Marcellin Boule, Professeur de Paleontologie au Museum National D'Histoire Naturell. Tome XVIII-1929. Paris: Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1929. 4to., wrappers; illustrated. slight ink, pencil notation to wraps. Near fine; unopened., Fine Stock number: 63514.
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Imprint: 1920 ANON. A TRIP OVER THE MOHAWK TRAIL. North Adams, Ma.: Benjamin Lenhoff, [ND. c. 1920?]. Souvenir album illustrated with 27 scenic photographic views (one panoramic) and a map, with illustrated margins depicting the early motor-tourist trade and one page of text. Oblong 8vo., blue stapled paper wrappers printed in black and pink to upper board and illustrated with anachronistic drawing of Native Americans camped by the roadside. Decorative stamped glassine end papers. Lightly bumped upper corners with one gathering loose; wrappers are spotted, creased and lightly soiled with tear to upper board. Good plus., Good Stock number: 57613.
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Imprint: 1888 [ANONYMOUS]. LE BAISER. ETUDE LITTERAIRE ET HISTORIQUE. (STIKEMAN binding). Nancy & Paris: Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1888. 4to. 316 pp. Headpieces by Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923). #74 of 300 on Holland paper of a total edition of 315. The author is unknown, but the dedication is signed by "Docteur ****". Signed binding by Stikeman & Co. of half brown crushed morocco over patterned silkcovered boards. Spine in 5 raised bands with elaborate gilt compartments, featuring butterflies. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound-in. Minor wear to silk over boards, otherwise near fine., Fine Stock number: 88854.
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Imprint: 1890 ANONYMOUS. CINDERELLA'S OUTINGS. [n.p./n.p./n.d. ca. 1890] 60 pp. 21 cm. Printed brown wrappers. Not in OCLC. Religious poetry and prose. The author previously published "An American Cinderella to Queen Victoria" alone; the poem is reprinted here, with others, and religious prose. New Jeruslaem Church authors series. Rare. Stock number: 81120.
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Imprint: 1904 (ANONYMOUS). THE HIGHROAD. Being the autobiography of an ambitious mother. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1904. First edition. 8vo., green pictorial cloth. Slight foxing at endpapers. Fine. (Kramer 305: "The authoress of this interesting work has not been revealed.") (Women's studies), Fine Stock number: 40924.
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Imprint: 1829 RARE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF NAVARINO: THE LAST MAJOR CONFLICT INVOLVING SAILING SHIPS [ANONYMOUS -- probably Charles M'Pherson]. LIFE ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR; INCLUDING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF NAVARINO. BY A BRITISH SEAMAN. Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co.; Arch. Fullarton & Co. Edinburgh; W. F. Wakeman, Dublin; and James Duncan, London. M. DCCC. XXIX. [1829]. First edition. viii, 193, [1] pp. 12mo., in a 20th century binding of three-quarter dark green calf, lighter green cloth sides, with delicate, gilt-stamped floral rolls, gilt lettering between decorative double-rules on spine, with the initials "P. & J. H." stamped at the base. Modern nautical themed bookplate on first fly-leaf. Early ink ownership at head of title-page. Fine. This is a first-hand account of the Battle of Navarino, the last major action involving sailing ships. It was written by a British seaman who served aboard the 76-gun battleship `The Genoa.' Navarino is a small port on the west coast of the Pelaponnese, now called Pylos. The battle, fought on 20 October 1827, was an affair between the great powers of the day: a small, combined force of the British, French and Russian navies against a larger fleet comprised of Ottoman and Egyptian vessels. The European forces were there to enforce the 1827 Treaty of London by establishing peace between Greek patriots and their Ottoman rulers. While the Greeks nationalists agreed to an armistice, the Turks did not and continued their ruthless campaign against the local Greek population. Having been given the vague and contradictory instruction to engage in a "friendly demonstration of force," the British and French squadrons sailed into the small bay merely to intimidate the Ottoman and Egyptian fleet anchored there. It has never been determined exactly which side shot first, but a battled ensued. The ships jostled for position within the cramped bay as they fired point-blank upon one another, inflicting as much damage as possible. Both sides fought valiantly. Although the Ottoman and Egyptian fleet would have been favored on paper, it was clear after the Russian squadron joined the fray, and after three hours of battle, that the Ottoman fleet was virtually destroyed and, amazingly, not a single European ship was lost. The battle was a turning point for the Ottoman Empire and the start of i, Fine Stock number: 89815.
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Imprint: 1844 [Anonymous] MIRANDA AND THE ROYAL RAM. Without illustrations. [N.p., perhaps London]: Puck & Co., 1844. A single leaf, printed on both sides, and folded twice to form 8 pp. Untrimmed. 14 x 11.3 cm. Paper is lightly toned, starting on one fold, and one corner is just nicked. A very good copy of this satirical poem. It was illustrated by George Cruikshank as part of "Daddy Gander's Entertaining Fairy Tales.", Very Good Stock number: 78897.
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Imprint: 1803 [ANONYMOUS]. THE MOTHER'S REMARKS ON A SET OF CUTS FOR CHILDREN. Part II. Two or more syllables. Phildadelphia: Printed for Jacob Johnson, No. 147 Market Street. T. S. Manning, Printer, No. 143 N. Third Street. 1803. Volume 2 only, all text; the cuts are in v. 1. 12mo.: 84 pp. Contemporary binding; brown paper spine, marbled boards. Occasional light foxing to text, but mostly quite clean. The binding is edgeworn and lightly rubbed at surfaces; the fore-corners are gently bumped. Very good plus. (Rosenbach 288), Very Good Stock number: 64685.
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Imprint: 1912 ANONYMOUS [?]. TEST OF THE ACCURACY OF THE TESTIMONY OF BY-STANDERS. [No place: no publisher: c. 1912]. Laid in slip notes: "Submitted by George G. Croker, Old South Building, Boston, February, 1912." Small 8vo., paper wrappers; 13 pp. Wraps have separated, and bear slight soil, wear. Contents clean; about very good., Very Good Stock number: 60805.
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Imprint: 1877 (ANONYMOUS). THAT HUSBAND OF MINE. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. First edition. 12mo., green cloth lettered in black. Edges rubbed with light spotting to the cloth. Very good, overall. (Not in Wright)., Very Good Stock number: 55510.
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Imprint: 1748 LARGE-PAPER SUBSCRIBER'S COPY PRINTED ON ROYAL PAPER PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR ANSON, George; Richard Walter, compiler. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from Papers and other Materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his Direction, by Richard Walter, M. A., Chaplain if His Majesty's Ship the Centurian in that expedition. Illustrated with forty-two copperplates. London: Printed for the Author, by John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, 1748. First edition, first issue: a large-paper subscriber's copy printed on Royal Paper (leaf size: 28.5 x 22.5 cm). 42 engraved plates of illustrations, maps, plans, and charts; all but one are folding. [34], 417, [3] pp., with a list of subscribers bound in near the front and directions to the binder at the end. Quarto: A4 a4 b1 c-d4 B-3G4 [ ]2. The final two leaves are unsigned. Page 319 is misnumbered 219. Plates are clean but for a few that are foxed. Some scattered, light foxing in text, though a bit heavier in one gathering (E). Full leather binding, worn but sound: contemporary calf boards that have been rebacked, long ago, showing discoloration along joints and some edges of boards. Plain endpapers. All edges marbled. Overall, a very good copy. "Of this important work there were many subsequent editions and translations. Four came out the same year as the original... Of the two first issued in 1748, one was for the author himself, which is the genuine first... This famous and unfortunate expedition, consisting at the start of eight ships, was sent under the command of George Anson at the beginning of the war with Spain, to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America. Seven ships were lost around Cape Horn and on the coast of Chili and out of 900 men who left England on board more than 600 perished... The primary objective of the expedition was not attained, but by the capture of the Manila Galleon near China, Anson and the surviving members of his crew reached England much the richer... Walter's account of the voyage is a model of what such literature should be..." Cox I, p. 49. (Also, Sabin 1629)., Very Good Stock number: 89692.
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Imprint: 1807 (ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER). The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. A New Edition. London, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1807. Octavo. viii,155pp. +8ff. Satirical anecdotes of British spa behavior, with eight fine wood-engraved plates on India paper. A fine copy, bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown calf, with triple gilt rules bordering textured, blind-stamped boards, and plain and scalloped rules to inner dentelles. Spine gilt in six compartments with floral and scroll tools, sawtooth and pointille rules, and black lettering-pieces., Fine Stock number: 72493.
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Imprint: 1935 ANTHONY, Edgar Waterman. A HISTORY OF MOSAICS: The First Comprehensive History of Mosaics from 3000 B.C. to the Present. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1935. 332p. includes 80 additional pages of 300 illustrations. 1 of 50 copies, this one out of series and not signed. Bound in full black leather with gilt titles to front and spine, single line gilt border to boards and spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, AEG. Housed in box with printed label pasted to top lid. Box bears the light wear that might otherwise have been inflicted on this mint, though out of series, copy. Stock number: 86485.
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Imprint: 1899 ANTIN, Mary. FROM PLOTZK TO BOSTON. With a Foreword by Israel ZANGWILL. Boston: W. B. Clarke & Co., 1899. First edition. 80 pp. 8vo., light reddish brown wrappers printed in black. Extremities of wrappers chipped, darkened. An acceptable copy of a fragile item. Included in the Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing Series in 1986. This is a first edition of Antin's first book, a record of her voyage from her native Plotzk, White Russia, to America. Mary[ashe] Antin (1881-1949) spent her childhood in a small town in the pale. Like other immigrant children, in the days when grade levels were determined by competence in English rather than age, thirteen year old Antin squeezed herself into a desk meant for a kindergarten child. Her intelligence and evident literary gifts quickly impressed her teachers. Eager to demonstrate how much an immigrant child could accomplish in only four months, one of Antin's teachers sent her composition "Snow" to the periodical Primary Education. After seeing her name in print for the first time, Antin was determined to become a writer. She attended the Girl's Latin School of Boston, and later New York Teacher's College of Columbia University. Incredibly, FROM PLOTZK TO BOSTON was written when the author was only eleven years old! "...it was at that age that she first wrote the thing in Yiddish, though she was thirteen when she translated it into English" (Israel Zangwill, Foreword, p. 7). Antin's story bravely articulated the Jewish immigrant experience - "for, despite the noble spirit in which the Jews of America have grappled with the invasion, we still know too little of the feelings of the people themselves" (ibid). Thirteen years later, Antin would publish the work for which she would be best remembered, her autobiography entitled THE PROMISED LAND (UJE, Volume 1, 337). Jewish Women in America, Volume 1., Acceptable Stock number: 85430.
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Imprint: 1914 ANTIN, Mary. THEY WHO KNOCK AT OUR GATES. A Complete Gospel of Immigration. With illustrations by Joseph Stella. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1914). First edition, later printing. 8vo., brown cloth, spine in gilt. Signed by the author at the ffep. Library ink stamps to ffep, no external marks. Slight patches of rubbing to rear board. Mild marginal foxing to plate-edges, slight offsetting to two leaves; rear endpapers show a shallow dampstain to edges. A very good plus, tight copy overall, in a rather worn dust jacket jacket which shows label removal to spine, and some chipping, including a triangular two-inch chip to rear panel., Very Good Stock number: 74584.
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Imprint: 1914 ANTIN, Mary. THEY WHO KNOCK AT OUR GATES. A Complete Gospel of Immigration. With illustrations by Joseph Stella. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First edition. 8vo., contemorary half blue leather. Inscribed presenation copy with a short autograph note from the author laid in. In 1894, Mary[ashe] Antin (1881-1949), along with her mother and siblings, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Like other immigrant children, in the days when grade levels were determined by competence in English rather than age, thirteen year old Antin squeezed herself into a desk meant for a kindergarten child. Her intelligence and evident literary gifts quickly impressed her teachers. Eager to demonstrate how much an immigrant child could accomplish in only four months, one of Antin's teachers sent her composition "Snow" to the periodical Primary Education. After seeing her name in print for the first time, Antin was determined to become a writer. She attended the Girl's Latin School of Boston, and later New York Teacher's College of Columbia University. Stock number: 86738.
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Imprint: 1951 ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. PICTORIAL REVIEW OF NOTABLE OBJECTS IN ITS COLLECTIONS AND NOTES ON THE SOCIETY'S AIMS AND HISTORY. American and European Decorative Arts: Furniture, Ceramics, Metalwork, Textiles. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1951. Wrappers. Very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 69303.
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Imprint: 1923 (ANTIQUES). COLONIAL LIGHTING. By Arthur Hayward. Boston: Brimmer, (1923). First edition. 114 plates. Several stamps of the "Nassau Galleries, Inc.", slightly shaken otherwise very good., Very Good. Illustr: FE Stock number: 49698.
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Imprint: 1972 ANTON, Ferdinand. THE ART OF ANCIENT PERU. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1972). First American Edition. 4to., taupe cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine, in a lightly edgeworn and priceclipped dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 68329. ISBN: 0500231478
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Imprint: 1970 ANTON, Ferdinand. ART OF THE MAYA. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American Edition. 4to., oatmeal cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine., Fine Stock number: 68438.
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Imprint: 1971 ANTONAKATOU, Diana. NAFPLION. Athens: [n.p.], (1971). 4to., tan cloth with dust jacket. Text in Greek, English and French. Illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 69219.
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Imprint: 1967 ANTONINUS, Brother. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BROTHER ANTONINUS: A COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF HIS POEMS WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1967. The Modern Poets Series. Inscribed by the author on half title. 86 pp. 8vo., green and black wrappers. Light rubbing, slight creasing to wrappers. Internally fine. Introductory essay by William E. Stafford., Fine Stock number: 86112.
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Imprint: 1964 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. ALCOOLS; Poems 1898-1913. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Translated by William Meredith. Inscribed presentation copy from Meredith to "K and Ted" and original poem by Meredith laid in. 8vo., black cloth, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to spine. Light foxing to endpapers, else clean and crisp within. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 78160.
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Imprint: 1942 Appalachian Mountain Club. APPALACHIA. Vol. 1, no. 1 - Vol. 14, No. 2. (June, 1876 - June, 1917). Boston: Published for the Club by Houghton Mifflin at The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Each volume of Appalachia contains four numbered issues. We offer a large, early run of the mountain periodical, complete. Illustrated with portraits, diagrams, photographs and maps; some of the maps fold-out. Octavo. Individual numbers are bound in original, printed paper wrappers. The first ten volumes are bound in black cloth, with the original wrappers for each number bound-in. The set is ex-library, with pencil notations to front wrappers of some issues and a bookplate to front pastedown of each cloth- bound volume. (External and internal library markings are minor.) The wrappers of the individual issues show some edgewear and occasional soiling, while the cloth-bound volumes show genral light scuffing. The text is uniformly clean throughout and well illustrated. Also included is a later, single issue of Appalachia, from June, 1934 (Vol. 20, No.4), in original green paper wrappers. Offered with: BULLETIN [OF THE] APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB. Vol. 10, No. 1 - Vol. 12, No. 4 (October, 1916 - January, 1919). Each volume contains ten numbered issues and this small run is nearly complete, lacking only one issue: Vol. 11, No. 10 (September, 1918). Each issue is approximately 16 pp. and records recent or upcoming chapter business, reviews of excursions and information about future outings. 12mo., printed paper wrappers, wire saddle stitch. Most issues have some dust-soiling to wrappers and a few are creased, but generally clean and crisp within. Also included is a later, single issue of the Bulletin, from January, 1942, (Vol. 8 N.S., No. 1), in original paper wrappers. Offered with: APPALACIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB REGISTER for the years 1879-83, 1885, and 1900. Published annually, each register lists the officers and by-laws of the club, as well as the general membership. Approximately 4.5 in. by 6 in. each. Printed paper wrappers, wire saddle stitch. Most wrappers have some library pencilling/stamping to top wrap, and show general dust-soiling and occasionally a nick. The back panel of one issue is detached. Clean within. While not complete, this is a substantial, early run of the periodical Appalachia, in very good cond, Very Good Stock number: 74778.
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