jurisdiction - A BARRISTER-AT-LAW / Lord RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN, Lord Chief Justice of England 1894-1900; Lord KINGSBURGH, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland . . . / The Lo:
CASSELL'S LAWYER AND BUSINESS MAN'S LEGAL HANDBOOK: A popular Exposition of the Civil, Commercial, and Ecclesiastical Law of Great Britain, with such Criminal Law as affects the Trader. - Special Edition, with full-page illustrations and facsimiles of legal and commercial Documents; Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III; 3 Volumes complete. London - New York a.o., Cassell and Company, not dated (ca. 1900). 563 pages, 4 plates with documents / 572 p., some tipped-in original form-sheets / XVI, 655 pages; with some document-forms. - *** Original clothbound edition, 3 volumes complete. - Spines slightly rubbed, small piece of lower right corner of frontpanel of volume 3 chipped; else in very good conditions.
Bestellnummer: 1210152250x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
press - A. DICK LUCKMAN (Editor):
THE SPORT SET, edited by A.D.L. ('The Scout'): ''OCTOBER, 1908 TO JULY 1909 (Complete Series).'' Strand; 'The New Sport Set' Company Ltd. - 15, Essex Street; 1908-1909. Each some 60(+/-) pages on thick paper with few singleside printed glossy plates (mainly racing-horses). - Publisher's darker-red half-morocco binding over 5 gilt-ornamented slightly raised bands with grained grey panels and leather corners, all edges gilt; lex.-8vo.(ca. 24 x 16,5 x 7,5 cm; ca. 1,5 kg.). *** EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST SERIES OF THE SPORTS-PERIODICAL (mainly on horse-racing). The only proof of its existence is a chapter in 'SHARPS, FLATS, GAMBLERS AND RACEHORSES' by A. Dick Luckman (London 1914) which contains a detailed description of its foundation and progress. - Leatherparts of the binding partly rubbed; A VERY GOOD COPY.
Bestellnummer: 2204260110x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
americana - BERGER, Meyer 'Mike' (1898-1959, The New York Times Journalist; Author, Autograph) / Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. (1912-2000, N.Y.T.-Editor from 1964-196:
THE STORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1851-1951. - Inscribed Copy to Clifton Daniel. . . New York (City), Simon & Schuster, 1951. xiv (i), (1) 589 pages on untrimmed pages; 1 folded plate. - Publisher's gilt-titled dark-red cloth binding, topedge black; large-8vo.(ca. 24 x 17 x 4 cm; ca. 1,3 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; FRONT-ENDPAPER INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO CLIF[TON] DANIEL, then New York Times London- and later Moscow-bureau-chief before he became Managing Editor in 1964: ''To Clif Daniel, friend and / associate, whose good works / will show up in Volume Two. / With sincere Good Wishes / . . .'', dated 'Jan. 4 1954'; front flyleaf with later holograph ownership-name 'Tanner'. - Clifton Daniel was married to former U.S. President Harry S Truman's only child, Margaret, a celebrated opera-singer and mystery-novel writer. The first of the couple's four sons is Clifton Truman Daniel (* 1957), now honorary chairman of the board of trustees of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. . . --- A BEAUTIFUL COPY WITH A NICE ASSOCIATION.
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britannica - BLACK & WHITE / British Parliament:
BLACK & WHITE PARLIAMENTARY ALBUM 1895. - Photographically illustrated Original. . . Printed and published by 'The Black and White Publishing Company, Limited; 63, Fleet Street, London, E.C.'. 1 ad.-page (The Liebig Company's Extract of Beef), ca. 226 unnumbered pages on medium-glossy paper with ca. 770 portraits ('The rt. hon. the Marquis of Salisbury' wholepage xylograph; then 3 per page, mainly photographic, few xylographic) and detailed Photographers-Index (ca. 150 names), few advertisement-pages*. - Publisher's broadly gilt-titled illustrated (House of Parliament) cloth-binding; oblong-8vo.(ca. 15 x 20 x 2 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, RARE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; WITH PORTRAITS OF ALL NEWLY OR RE-ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE(S): ''The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery. The Irish Parliamentary Party was split at this time, the majority of its MPs (the 'Anti-Parnellites') following John Dillon, while a rump (the 'Parnellites') followed John Redmond.''(wikipedia). --- Corners of the binding slightly rubbed, frontpanel with 2 small spots, rearpanel partly bleached probably due to humidity-contact, not affectin the interior content; STILL A VERY GOOD COPY. - *) One of the wholepage ads at the end is a photograph depicting a hesitating naked young boy being allured towards a small bathtub by an old spinster, with the caligraphic text underneath >Come here you rascal it's Pears'<, signed 'Swain' in the plate; the other ads are of 'Trelour & Sonsl Ludgate Hill - Oriental Carpets. . . (''On the Floor of the House'')', 'The Swan Fountain Pen in three Sizes. . .' and 'The Mutual Life insurance Company of New York'. . .
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inscribed copy - BLATHWAYT, William:
THE GOLDEN ROAD. Verses, original and translated. - INSCRIBED COPY accompagnied by the Author's sister's holograph letter. London a.o., Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1928. Frontispiz on glossy paper, 62 (1) pages on thick paper. - Publisher's black gilt-titled cloth-binding; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 13 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; WITH THE AUTHOR'S 6-LINE HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AT FRONT FLYLEAF to ''Mr. & Mrs. Bremner / with kind remembrances / . . .'' signed and dated in the year of publication and a loosely inserted 1,5 page holograph letter by the Author's sister Mary to Erna (Bremner) from Batheaston of 1951, in which she expresses her joy about the longlasting friendship and discussed familiy affairs of her brother as well as of the Bremners. - Small old Collector's namestamp below the dedication and on the frontispice verso, paperedges slightly foxy, slight paper smell, the unwritten part of the letter-sheet slightly soiled; else in best condition.
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colonial history - BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS ('established' in June 1893 by Captain Herbert Gibson of HMS Curacoa) / [THE] BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE GAZETTE:
[THE] BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE GAZETTE for 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975. - VOLUME 1 to VOLUME 5, Published by Authority: No. 1, Friday 1st January, 1971 to No. 27, Friday 27th December 1971. / No. 1, Saturday 1st January, 1972 to No. 30, Friday 29th December 1972. / No. 1, Friday 1st January, 1973 to No. 31, Friday 28th December 1973. / No. 1, Wednesday 2nd January, 1974 to No. 32, Friday 27th December 1974. / No. 1, Thursday 2nd January, 1975 to No. 27, Friday 12th December 1975. - 5 CONSECUTIVE ANNUAL VOLUMES, COMPLETE. Honiara, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, printed by the Government Printer, 1971-1975. Detailed collation: I. Annual titlepage, v pages 'Index', 224 pages (Issue #1-#4 individually paginated [16 p. in total], Issue 5 starts with p. 17, then onwards to p. 224). / II. Annual titlepage, xiii pages 'Index', 245 pages. / III. Annual titlepage, xi pages 'Index', 200 pages. / IV. Annual titlepage, x pages 'Index', 245 pages. / V. Annual titlepage, xi pages 'Index', 196 pages. - 'Publisher's' titled greyblue halfcloth bindings with yellow thick cardboard-panels; 8vo.(ca. 20,5 x 14 x 9 cm; ca. 2,5 kg.). *** FIRST EDITIONS, HALFCLOTH ORIGINALS; 5 CONSECUTIVE VOLUMES, COMPLETE. - Front endpapers with holograph previous owner's name, inner rearpanels with corresponding namestamp; topedges with shallow foxing, foreedges slightly spotty; OVERALL A VERY GOOD SET.
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adventure - COOPER, James Fenimore (Author of 'The Spy', 'The Pilot', 'The Red Rover', etc.):
THE PRAIRIE. - A TALE, Revised; Corrected, and illustrated with a new Preface, Notes, etc. by the Author. Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1837. Titlepage, 354 pages. - Black-marbled stiff cardboard-binding with blank green spinelabel, edges sparkled in green; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 14 x 2 cm). *** EARLY EDITION (1st 1827), IN A BINDING OF THE PERIOD. - Panels minimally-, corners slightly-, spinelabel somewhat rubbed; titlepage and last printed page oxydized (glue-shadow - through the blank endpapers - of the inner panels); A VERY GOOD COPY.
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irish literature - CORBELL, Edward (Author, Autograph):
AISLINN OF INNISFAIL. - Inscribed Copy. Atwell, 1929. 150 pages. - Publisher's titled green softcover; 8vo.(ca. 20 x 13 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; front flyleaf with 7-line autograph-dedication in german ''dem viellieben Kammersänger . . . Im Nachklang der . . . Melodeien in der Chicagoana'', fully signed and dated by Corbell ''Chicago, Ill. U.S.A. / den 27. des Eismonds d. U. 71''(January 27th, 1929); inner frontpanel with owner stamp 'Theo Strack, Kammersänger, Karlsruhe'. - Spine slightly sunned, panelcorners slightly rubbed; else in best condition.
Bestellnummer: 1703060123x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
literature - CRAYON, Geoffrey; Gent. (= Washington Irving):
THE ALHAMBRA, or THE NEW SKETCHBOOK. Paris; Baudry, Bokkseller in foreign Languages, 1834. VIII, 378 pages. - 'Publisher's' decoratively blind-embossed gilt-decorated and -titled cloth-binding of the period; 8vo.(ca. 15 x 11 cm). *** BIBLIOPHILE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL OF IRVINGS SECOND BOOK that lead to a renaissance of the mauric palace/fortress in Granada/Spain. - Panels minimally-, sharp corners somewhat rubbed; top of rearpanel slightly sunned; A VERY GOOD COPY.
Bestellnummer: 1712180998x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
DAILEY, Dan (autograph; drawing):
SIMPLE COMPLEXITIES IN DRAWINGS AND GLASS 1972-1987. - Inscribed copy with original drawing. Philadelphia, College of Arts, 1987. 63 pages on glossy paper, with many drawings and wholepage colour-illustrations. Illustrated publisher's black cloth; 4to.(ca. 31 x 23 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL, edited on the occasion of exhibitions at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, in 1987. TITLEPAGE WITH HALFPAGE BALLPEN-DRAWING BY THE ARTIST AND HIS HOLOGRAPH DEDICATION, signed and dated ''Zurich 1989''. - Best condition.
Bestellnummer: 1606a1130x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
inscribed > poetry - DAVIS, George Albury:
POEMS BY GEORGE ALBURY DAVIS, M.A. - These Verses were collected and printed in his Memory by his Sisters; MCMXLVIII. No place (The Coombe Press), 1948. 39 pages on uncut, handmade paper. - Blue grained-paper covered boards with gilt titled spine; 8vo.(ca. 24 x 16 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; certainly published in a small number of copies. - Best condition.
Bestellnummer: 26060107x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen
19th century - DEKROYFT (De Kroyft), Mrs. S. H. (Helen Aldrich; Haelen):
A PLACE IN THY MEMORY. New York, J. F. Trow - Printer and Stereotyper, 1858. Lithographed frontispice-plates 'New York Institution for the Blind', Portrait of 'Haelen De Kroyft' with her handwriting facsimile, a halftransparent tissue-guard inbetween; 191 pages. - Publisher's red blind-embossed cloth binding, spine richly gilt decorated and titled; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 12 cm). *** Early edition of this 'Blind-Literature Classic' in the original binding. - Ends of spine and corners slightly to somewhat rubbed; a very good copy. --- A few weeks after her husband Dr. William De Kroyft tragically died by falling out of a carriage on their wedding day(!) Sarah Helen Aldrich, now Helen De Kroyft (1818-1915), suddenly blinded by an eye infection. She published a collection her submissions for newspapers and periodicals as well as letters to family and friends to support herself and her family. . .
Bestellnummer: 1501150063x - Aus Liste: 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / exceptional Works ~ Frage zu diesem Angebot stellen