Search Results: History and Politics from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, London, 1768.. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition of the Book that made James Boswell Famous. Demy octavo, full contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title label, pp. xxiv + 382 [with the half-title and final blank]. Large folding engraved map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn 12? x 17¾". First printing of map, with neither imprint, the scale of miles, nor the division of the margins into degrees. Map inserted facing A1. E2 (pp. 67-8) and Z3 (pp. 357-8) are cancels. Without the misprint 'fo' on page 93, l, 6, nor 'my own of' on p. 296, l, 18, and with all the remaining misprints noted by Pottle. Offsetting from binding to margins of endleaves and title page. Text with scattered foxing and occasional minor staining. Map slightly offset to A1, with minor scattered foxing and slight staining elsewhere, 3.5 cm tear at right edge near gutter, but no loss. Small rubber-stamp indicating… Read More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954. First edition. Small octavo, blue cloth blocked in gilt, pp.xviii, (2), (1)-185; illustrations by Horace T. Pierce. Inscribed by the author and signed in Globe, Arizona. Near fine in dust jacket with red ink marker applied over price on front flap (in apparent effort to obscure the printed price), short closed tear at top of rear gutter, slight loss at corner tips, else a very nice copy. .

London: William Collins, 1941. First edition. A volume in the "Britain in Pictures" series. Edges of the fragile boards rubbed, else a very good clean copy in dust jacket, slightly worn at the spine ends..

London: Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. 8vo., navy blue cloth, xiv, 235. Near fine in dust jacket, with toning to the spine, very slightly edge-worn, and with "copy 2" pencilled on the upper panel. Very nice copy of an uncommon book..

R. Hentsch, 1997. Trade paperback format, pp. 288; illustrated. Presentation inscription from Hentsch on title page. Covers lightly creased and marked, else very good..

(Basingstoke): Macmillan Press, in association with College of Europe, (1999). First edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. xxiii, 365. Spine cocked, small bump to spine, else a good copy in dust jacket..

Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.: Clifton: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, (1973). Reprintof the 1955 edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. 231. A fine copy, as issued without dust jacket..

Nabu Public Domain reprint, made from a copy of the book in the University of California. Card covers, pp. 972, Reprint of the two-part 1907 edition from the Government Printer's Office, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30. Text that is very uneven terms of its legibility - in all a rather bland presentation, that will be of utility to researchers. Very good. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First edition. Brown cloth, pp. xix, 256; illustrated. Attractive bookplate of William Henry Newbrough depicting a flyfisherman. A few minute nicks to cloth, else bright and near fine. No dust jacket..

New York: Heritage Press, (1967). Edited by C. Harvey Gardiner. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. Fine in near fine slipcase..

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1998). First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, black boards backed in black cloth, pp. xxiii, 359. Fine in dust jacket..

New Haven: Yale University Press, [1991]. First edition. Octavo., red cloth, pp. [xiv], 378; a few illustrations. Publisher of The American Journal of Education. Light bump at base of spine, else a near fine copy in dust jacket. [Oversize*].

New York: Macmillan, 1916. First American edition. 19.5 x 13.5 cm, dark blue cloth, pp. xv, 148, + [8] pages publisher's ads. Page edges darkened, very faint damp-staining to covers, corner tips lightly bumped, else very good. No dust jacket..

London: John Murray, 1853. Small octavo, half binding of deep brown leather and marbled boards, pp. vi, 88 & 88; small engraving on the title page of Joan of Arc, depicting Joan and Charles VII kneeling. Marbled page edges. "Joan of Arc" is reprinted from Lord Mahon's Historical Essays; Milman's dramatic poem was first published in 1820. Shallow chip to leather at head of spine, marbled boards are rubbed, else very good and attractive..

(Charleston, SC): Bibiolife, (N.d). Reprint of the Edinburgh edition of 1822. Card covers, pp. 332. Light creasing to covers, large bar code sticker over spine and gutters, else good. .

Toronto: J.M. Dent & Son Ltd., 1919. Octavo, light green cloth, pp. [292]. Includes contributions by The Right Hon. David Lloyd George, George Bernard Shaw and Hillaire Belloc, amongst numerous others. Previous owner's name and date neatly on enspaper, a few pages roughly opened, else very good..

Belfast: The University Press Limited, (1983). Second edition. Octavo, grey cloth, pp. xii, 183. Signed by Clark. 1" ink pen stroke on endpaper, else very good in dust jacket, which shows wrinkles to the publisher's clear lamination. .

Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada, 1943. Offprint. Stapled wrappers. Inscribed by Innis to D.C. MacGregor (Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto). Creased vertically through centre of covers and textblock, covers a bit dust-soiled, else very good..

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, (1971). Second edition. Small octavo, cantaloupe coloured boards, pp. 137; Top page edge foxed, else very good in dust jacket with long diagonal crease through one corner of the front flap..

Columbia: University of Missouri, (N.d). Reprint. Trade paperback format. pp. xvii, 333; illustrated. Inscribed by Elena Poniatowska in Spanish to a Canadian writer and dated in 2013. Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, best known for her work on social and political issues relating to the disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. Near fine. .