Search Results: Authors starting with A from Rulon-Miller Books

N.p. [Warwick: publisher not identified, 1817. 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; uncut, self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; some foxing, else very good. The text is signed in type on p. 14 "A Citizen" and is dated at Warwick, March 6, 1817. Campaign literature in favor of Governor William Jones who was seeking reelection, but who lost to Nehemiah Rice Knight. American Imprints 42299; not in Bartlett.

Denver, 1957. Square 8vo, pp. [50]; illustrated throughout; original gold foil covers with Hirschfeld crest and title in blue on the upper cover; foil a little rubbed, but very good. With a typed letter from the president of the company Edward Hirschfeld laid in, as issued. The 50-year celebration publication of the famous Denver press.

New York: Garret & Company, 1856. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [2], iv, iv, [2], 356, [4]; original brown blindstamped cloth; gilt lettering on spine; spine extremities a bit scuffed; spine faded; binding a bit skewed; otherwise very good. The author of this anonymous work has been attributed either to Matthew Estes, the author of A Defence of Negro Slavery (1846), or Marion Southwood, the author of Beauty and Booty: The Watchword of New Orleans (1867). On the spine the title reads: Tit for Tat: A Reply to Dred, probably in reference to Dred Scott, an enslaved African-American who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and citizenship in the 1857 Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. In the preface, the author criticises the hypocrisy of British citizens for directing their outrage at American slavery, but not the state of their own "slaves," namely, Britain's exploited class of chimney sweeps. Wright II, 2288 identifies the author as Southwood. NUC identifies the author as Estes. LCP/HSP… Read More

[Tours: Etablissement A. Papeghin, 1920. Oblong 8vo, 12 sepia photographic plates; original red wrappers lettered in black and gilt; upper cover faded, top edge dampstained, textblock fine. At head of cover title: "Album Artistique." Text in French and English. Tourist pamphlet of various views of the exterior and interior of the Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France. See OCLC nos. 79761885 and 2810143 for similar items.

[Providence: publisher not identified], 1844. Large folio broadside (approx. 24½" x 17½"), text in quadruple column under the running head; a few short tears and wrinkling in the margins, some show-through from an old ink notation on the verso, but overall very good. A pro-Law and Order broadside containing a lengthy letter addressed to "Fellow Citizens," and signed "A Rhode-Island Man," attacking members of Rhode Island General Assembly who asked Congress to uphold the Dorrite's People's Constitution, and calling for a protective tariff. It also prints "Resolutions of Censure" upon them by the General Assembly and reprints a Providence Journal article entitled: "Fraudulent voters for the Algerine constitution." Brown only in OCLC. DeSimone & Schofield 21 (adding R.I. Historical). Not in American Imprints, Bartlett, or Sabin.

[Boston: publisher not identified, 1844. 8vo, pp. 17, [1]; original printed wrappers; near fine. Regarding the introduction of a copious supply of pure and soft water into the City of Boston. The text is signed in type "A Selfish Tax Payer." American Imprints 6119; Sabin 6785.

Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. 12mo, pp. 282, xxiv, 282, [6]; contemporary full vellum, manuscript titling on spine; vellum a bit soiled, else very good. The final 3 leaves consist of advertisements for Foulis books and proposals for an edition of Plato. Gaskell 218.

Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1913. Small 8vo, pp. [8], 203, [5]; text in Danish, tan paper wrappers printed in black and red; wrappers toned, one-inch closed tear to spine, owner's signature, residue on inside of wrappers suggesting old bookplates, text clean and sound. A collection of short stories. Jeppe was a member of the Jutland Movement and focused on stories on his native land, particularly the struggles of the poor. A few copies in Europe; Minnesota, Wisconsin and Claremont in the US.

Philadelphia: published and printed by the authors, 1823. First edition, 12mo, pp. 432; contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled spine in 5 compartments with red morocco label in one, edges dyed yellow, some nibbling on top edge, else very good and sound.

Paris: Société d' Éditions, 1924. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], 194; full-p. map, 44 photographic plates showing 121 illustrations; original gray wrappers printed in black and red bound in; both wrappers reinforced on blank versos at the margins, very good in ca. 1968-75 Vietnamese half red morocco with gilt-lettered spine.

San Francisco: Alan Wofsey Fine Arts, 1991. 2 volumes, folio, pp. xxi, [1], 427, [1]; xx, iv, 399, [1]; title pages printed in red and black, text in double column, illustrated throughout; fine set in the dust jackets. Facsimile editions taken from the Dawson editions of 1972 which in turn were taken from the first privately printed editions at the Curwen Press, London, 1952 and 1953 respectively. Essential reference. Scenery covers just that, scenery; Life covers architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc.

[Willetts Point, N.Y.]: printed on the Battalion Press, Corpl. Carmichael & Pvt. Redfield, printers, 1873. 4to, pp. [5], 16-23, [1] (i.e. 7 leaves); errata slip tipped in between the first and second leaves; original printed yellow wrappers; nibbling along the bottom edge; all else very good. There are several small ink corrections in a contemporary hand (authorial?). Hagley Museum & Library and Buffalo Historical Museum are the only copies located in OCLC where 13 titles are listed as being printed at the Battalion Press 1872-76, but by 1882 at least 50 had been published.

[Pittsburgh, PA]: University of Pittsburgh, 1977. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 265, [1]; frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations in text; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt spine. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography.

Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company; London: Kegan Paul, 1909. Third revised edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 340, [4]; full brown cloth, red title on spine and front board; edges rubbed, hinges starting, three clippings on endpapers including two magic tricks and an obituary (Edna G. Snyder), magic shop addresses in typescript on lower free endpaper, a couple of pencil annotations, including an address correction, good and sound. With the bookseller's ticket of Martinka & Co magical shop on dedication page. Martinka & Co. was the longest running magical supplier in the United States, having been established in 1877 and ceasing operations in 2021. Abbott was a friend and contemporary of Harry Houdini and a fellow skeptic. His expose of medium fraud enjoyed significant popularity.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 303, [9]; text illustrations; original terra cotta blind-tooled cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine darkened and slightly cocked, edges a bit scuffed; contemporary ownership signature on ffep; interior fine. Publisher's advertisements bound in rear.

[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1931. Edition limited to 250 copies, none of which were for sale; 12mo, pp. [8], 155; title page with press device printed in blue; very good in original blue morocco-backed blue cloth-covered boards, gilt title on spine, light wear to spine ends and cloth slightly darkened in some areas. The Press's third Christmas book. Press of the Woolly Whale Catalogue, no.8.

London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1877. 8vo, pp. viii, 254, 21, 29, [10]; dark plum cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine ends chipped, corners a bit bumped and worn, interior mostly fine.

New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. 182 Broadway, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834. 16mo, pp. 237, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine faded else very good and sound. Born in Hallowell, Maine, Abbott (1803-1879) wrote 180 books, largely juvenile fiction (his series of Rollo books were his most famous), biographies, religious books, and even popular science. He was professor of mathematics at Amherst, founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City. American Imprints 22802.

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1833. 12mo, pp. [5], iv [i.e. vi]-viii, [13]-164; original muslin-backed paper-covered marbled boards; printed spine label; bookplate on front pastedown of John Todd with his signature dated 1833 (likely the American minister who also wrote several books on moralistic principles of the time), corners bumped, covers rubbed, joints cracked, spine chipped, light foxing; otherwise good and reasonably sound. The Mother at Home was an influential work that employs simple language and direct advice on the practicalities of child rearing. American Imprints 17220.

[Monterey]: Blue Suede Shoes, 1972. 4to, 11" x 8½", [15] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; paper toning, corners slightly curled, else fine in pictorial wrapper, side-stapled. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.