The War in the Air and Particularly how Mr. Burke small ways fared While It Lasted by H. G. Wells - 1908

Geo. M. Hill Chicago, 1899. HB NODUSTJACKET, September 1899, 1st edition,1st Issue, Pictorial Tan Cover in Beige & Brown & Orange & white of Father Goose with feather in hand & Goose looking at him, MUCH Rub, Scuff & Wear & small StaiNs & Wrinkling to Covers GOOD- , cover Hinge has nice Tape Reinforcement Restoration Most Likely but has on spine printed Father Goose His Book , with Baum bottom of spine , Cover some chipping near Extremities & Scuff, Othrwise GOOD delicate Condition Cover, Interior Hinge probable white Tape Reinforcement,Few pgs small mended Tears & creases or Scuff, few small INK margin mrks, Minor Fox, OtHerwise Nice, & Tight, Most Plates are Nice & colors Bright, Few Page Repairs in Margins, Few small pencil mrks, Interior VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, UNpaginated. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Longman, Brown [et al.], 1852. Best edition, substantially enlarged over the first edition of 1850-51; 7 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding frontispiece maps, later full polished tan calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges; slightest rubbing of the extremities; generally fine and handsome.

London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm. D. Tarrant, almost certainly the same Tarrant as the mayor of Wichita 1965-67, and the Gun Dog Editor for Field & Stream, and twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo).

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. One of 209 copies of the rare true first edition privately printed for members of the Lee family in 1961. None were ever sold. The rarest of the Juanita Brooks' books. The trade edition was not issued until the following year. Very good plus to near fine in full blue cloth with blue top-edge stain. 404 pages with frontispiece portrait of John Doyle Lee. Illustrated with maps, plates, and portraits. This true first printing omits the last three paragraphs on page 376 regarding Lee's reinstatement to membership in the Mormon Church. Clean and tight with crisp text. No name, bookplate or other markings. One of the most desirable books on Mountain Meadows and John D. Lee. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No jacket as issued..

Newark: : Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge;, 1807. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. VG+, 1807, 1st ed, 2nd issue. In modern half dark green morocco over marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [3], (vi-xiii), [1] errata, [1], 2-187 pp, lacks half title, new endpapers. A very good + copy. (96*158 mm). (Wise V1 p8. Randolph p9 - stating its a forgery. Coleridge p250). This volume was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in June/July 1807, when he was 19 years old. It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Piece volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time. The "Fragment of a Translation from the 9th Book of Virgil's AEneid" was included as "The… Read More

Geo. M. Hill Chicago, 1899. HB NODUSTJACKET, September 1899, 1st edition,1st Issue, Pictorial Tan Cover in Beige & Brown & Orange & white of Father Goose with feather in hand & Goose looking at him, MUCH Rub, Scuff & Wear & small StaiNs & Wrinkling to Covers GOOD- , cover Hinge has nice Tape Reinforcement Restoration Most Likely but has on spine printed Father Goose His Book , with Baum bottom of spine , Cover some chipping near Extremities & Scuff, Othrwise GOOD delicate Condition Cover, Interior Hinge probable white Tape Reinforcement,Few pgs small mended Tears & creases or Scuff, few small INK margin mrks, Minor Fox, OtHerwise Nice, & Tight, Most Plates are Nice & colors Bright, Few Page Repairs in Margins, Few small pencil mrks, Interior VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, UNpaginated. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Longman, Brown [et al.], 1852. Best edition, substantially enlarged over the first edition of 1850-51; 7 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding frontispiece maps, later full polished tan calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges; slightest rubbing of the extremities; generally fine and handsome.

London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm. D. Tarrant, almost certainly the same Tarrant as the mayor of Wichita 1965-67, and the Gun Dog Editor for Field & Stream, and twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo).

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. One of 209 copies of the rare true first edition privately printed for members of the Lee family in 1961. None were ever sold. The rarest of the Juanita Brooks' books. The trade edition was not issued until the following year. Very good plus to near fine in full blue cloth with blue top-edge stain. 404 pages with frontispiece portrait of John Doyle Lee. Illustrated with maps, plates, and portraits. This true first printing omits the last three paragraphs on page 376 regarding Lee's reinstatement to membership in the Mormon Church. Clean and tight with crisp text. No name, bookplate or other markings. One of the most desirable books on Mountain Meadows and John D. Lee. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No jacket as issued..

Newark: : Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge;, 1807. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. VG+, 1807, 1st ed, 2nd issue. In modern half dark green morocco over marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [3], (vi-xiii), [1] errata, [1], 2-187 pp, lacks half title, new endpapers. A very good + copy. (96*158 mm). (Wise V1 p8. Randolph p9 - stating its a forgery. Coleridge p250). This volume was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in June/July 1807, when he was 19 years old. It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Piece volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time. The "Fragment of a Translation from the 9th Book of Virgil's AEneid" was included as "The… Read More