Search Results: FICTION / General from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, green cloth, 309 pages

Reutlingen, GE: Ensslin & Laiblins, [ 1923 ]. New edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 576 pages, pictorial cloth; nicked pictorial dj. Rare Thus. Aethelburh of Kent provoked the conversion of the north of England to Christianity. Illustrated by Gustav Adolf Closs. Gustav Adolf Karl Closs lived from 1864 to 1938, from 1891 in Stuttgart and from 1907 in Berlin. He was a lawyer, a painter of historical scenes as well as important heraldry. In his young years he was very busy illustrating magazines (among others for "Über Land und Meer", "Die Gartenlaube", "Fliegende Blätter") and books . Note: it is unclear whether or not the author of this book is the Wilhelm Schmidt who was a both a Catholic priest and a world-famed anthropologist and linguist.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, brown cloth, gilt titles, inked name on front free endpaper, cocked, light edgewear, one lower corner bumped. This story of a girl coming of age is the vehicle for James to comment on the decadence of the fin-de-siecle era in England: told largely in dialogue. [BAL 10636 - state uncertain, pages appear to bulk at 1 7/16 in. = closer to state A of 1 5/8 in.].

New York: (Dell, 1954 ). First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 16mo, 222 pages No. 8 in this series of paperback first editions, Dell no. 5.

New York: Street & Smith, ( 1900 ). First edition. Fair. 12mo, 323 pages, green cloth, first signature loose

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882. Holiday Edition. Hardcover. Good. portraits. 8vo, 424 pages, embossed blue cloth, tip worn, title-page loosened, shaken Introduction and Notes by the editor of companion volume, AMERICAN POEMS. [Myerson, EMERSON, G97 -cites 1880; not in BAL ]. Portraits.

Edmonton, Alb., Canada: Alberta Press, 1973. Final, Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 320 pages, maroon cloth The final fruit of a lifetime of devoted work by Stott on Maugham

New York: Harcourt, Brace, ( 1935 ). First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, black cloth

Philadelphia: Lindsay And Blakiston, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 269 pages + publisher's ads., embossed green cloth, front free endpaper removed. A sequel to his studies on poet and painters, this work focusses on literary character. Chapters on Sir Thomas Browne, Dean Swift, T. B. Macaulay, Edmund Burke, Charles Lamb, John Keats, Mark Akenside. Binding state B, with publisher's monogrammed initials on top cover ( no priority). [BAL 20656].

London: George Routledge, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. R. Seymour. 16mo; ixi, 148 pages, full green polished calf, extra-gilt spine, a.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; spine sunned; in a worn slipcase. Rare. Illustrated by Phiz with four engraved plates. "We are ushered into the banking house and introduced to the senior partner, Sir Fograss ...; Thomas Snorton, the junior partner ... who rose from nothing to his present position; Jack Tripples, a clerk in the outer office; and Thomas Poundaweek, head messenger. These are the four persons with whom we will spend Christmas, each in his own setting ... All held together by a mystery - Walter Smauch." [ Not in Sadleir, VICTORIAN FICTION ].

Paris: Nelson / Calmann-Levy, 1934. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 16mo, 281 pages, decorated cream cloth; short tears in dj Issued in the Collection Nelson, no. 368. DJ cover art by Jean Routier.

Bethlehem Books, 1995. New edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 239 pages, green printed wrappers The first in a series of Bantry Bay books, about the O'Sullivan family, inspired by a County Cork family. Illustrated by the Dutch-Irish author. Originally published in 1938.

Dayton, OH: Christian Publishing Association, 1910. First edition. 12mo, Whitaker was the President of the Union Christian College, in Merom, Indiana. His first book, HERBERT BROWN (1905) went through 7 editions quickly. "Dick Haley" was the son of a miner who was killed in a saloon fight. This novel tells of the difficulties which ensued in his life. Dick's school days ended at the age of nine. Told with some Indiana dialect. "On that day when [the teacher] refused the flowers his innocent hands had gathered - on that day Dick Haley's teacher robbed her state of a true and useful citizen, and gave it, instead, a murderer." Illustrated with striking photogravures.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. John T. McCutcheon. 16mo, 292pp., pinkish red decorated cloth, discolored; inked name and rubber stamp on endpaper. Ade's third hardcover book. [Russo, GEORGE ADE, pp. 28-30; Kramer; STONE & KIMBALL, 206]. " Doc' Calvin Horne is an 1890s Baron Munchausen, purveyor of tall tales of Chicago's past and present; he confounds his listeners with several melodramatic performances that leave them wondering if he is a liar or a marvelous person - Andrews, CHICAGO IN FICTION, p.92." 40 plates by John T. McCutcheon.

Smithtown, NY: Exposition Press, ( 1982 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 416 pages, red cloth Presentaion copy to the Sandersons: "You may recognize some / of the characters - at least / partially ...." With Crawford's name and address in Arizona on the pastedown endpaper.

Paris: Nelson / Calmann-Levy, 1928. New edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 16mo, 282 pages, decorated cream cloth; short tears in dj Issued in the Collection Nelson, no. 388. Greville was in the Academie Francaise.

New York: Louis Carrier & Co., 1929. First. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, 309 pages, maroon cloth, good, lacks front free endpaper Author's first book. Woodford was a prolific writer during the Chicago Renaissace who knew all the writers here, but he is ignored by nearly all critics because most of his material appeared in 'sex magazines'. [See Andrews' CHICAGO IN STORY p. 213]. "The professor's faith in God was exactly equal to his faith in Santa Claus - p.2."

New York: William Morrow, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 308 pages, clothbacked boards When Louise Canova discovers a faded volume titled Elegance in a secondhand bookshop, she believes she's found the answers.

New York: Random House, ( 1947). First printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, cloth Not one of her novels of detection, but rather a love story -dedicated to her husband, mystery novelist Kenneth Millar, a.k.a. Ross Macdonald. Mrs. Millar insists "that fiction must aim at imaginative tather than scientific truth, and the kind of truth sh is interested in is, briefly, the truth of what makes people tick and do the strange things they do."

New York: Random House, ( 1947). First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 279pp., edgeworn dj nicked at tips of spine; with $2.50 price. Not one of her novels of detection, but rather a love story -dedicated to her husband, mystery novelist Kenneth Millar. Mrs. Millar insists "that fiction must aim at imaginative tather than scientific truth, and the kind of truth sh is interested in is, briefly, the truth of what makes people tick and do the strange things they do."