Search Results: Authors starting with A from THE FAMILY ALBUM

The Macmillan Company, New York: 1937., 1937 102p. Bookseller's label. Endpapers stained. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly worn and soiled. Original priced dust jacket, inside flap clipped. Spine darkened with small loss at head and tail. Hardbound. First Printing. LIT BOX 2 0.0. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.

Johnstone and Hunter, Edinburgh: ., 1852 77 p. + Sepia Engraved Half Title, Frontis and Full Page Plates of Monks. Also 4 full page plates of drawings of Monk's and Nun's habits, cowls, gowns, etc. printed on pink paper. Ruled in black throughout. Inked ownership of Geo. T. Strong, 1858 on title page. Strong was Treasurer U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. 215mm. Original quarter leather over marbled boards. Binding worn with rear board detached. First edition in English. Ignaz von Born (1742-1791) was Austrian by birth. Educated at a Jesuit college in Vienna, he spent 16 months as a member of that order before becoming thoroughly disillusioned. He studied law for a time in Prague and then toured Holland, France and Germany studying mineralogy. He returned to Prague in 1770, and worked in the department of Mines and the Mint. In 1776 he returned to Austria and wrote several books on mineralogy, including a very influential study in 1786 dealing… Read More

Morgan Wills, Norristown, PA: 1890., 1890 252 p. + Frontis portrait. Plus a unique little typed index to Montgomery County references in the text. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding, extremities worn with some loss. First edition. Aaron was the Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Norristown. Some of the correspondence concerns: slavery, abolition; Wm. Lloyd Garrison; Wendell Phillips; John Brown, etc. PA 3 Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Messrs Sotheby & Co., London: 1965., 1965 pp. xi, 279 + Plates of fine book bindings (three in color and 83 in monochrome). Small 4to. Original hardbound printed paper boards. The first of the Abbey sales and probably the most important. With a five page introduction by Howard Nixon. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF20 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

Syndicate Publishing Co. New York, Etc: 1913., 1913 413 p. + 16 color plates showing water-color paintings by E. J. Read and Gordon Grant + Advertisements + Folding color map as frontis. 'Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff.' Small folio (9 x 12"). Original full red cloth binding with a color picture of a painting mounted to the front cover. One corner bumped. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NW31 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Harper & Brothers, New York: 1854., 1854 pp. viii, 278, (6) [Publisher's Advertisements) + Brilliantly colored chromolithographed illuminated title page [apparently here instead of the frontis map called for]. 12mo. l8 cm. Original red full cloth bindin g, decorated in blind. Gilt lettered. Scarce. SMALL BOX 8 0.0. Hardcover.

Taggard and Thompson, Boston: 1864., 1864 226p. + Frontis and half title. Illustrated with small woodcuts. Age stained. Penciled ownership of Philip P. Chase. 16mo. Original full cloth binding, worn. Hardbound. Young Master Philip Chase went on to become an important figure at the Harvard Medical School. TRAVEL/3 0.0. Hardcover. Good.

Harper & Brothers, New York: 1874., 1874 Two volumes. Volume One Lacks title page and table of contents. Engraved frontis. Numerous text illustrations and maps. Age stained. Dampstained. Inked ownership of S. W. Barnes, 1878. 8vo. Original full gold decorated brown embossed cloth binding, worn. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FRENG 5 0.0. Hardcover. Good.

Brown, Taggard and Chase, (Successors to Wm. J. Reynolds & Co.), Boston: 1858., 1858 222p. + Frontis and half title. Illustrated with small woodcuts. Age stained. Bookplate of the Library of the Boys' Home, Baltimore. 16mo. Original full blue cloth binding, embossed in blind. Gilt lettered spine. Hardbound. TRAVEL/3 0.0. Hardcover. Good.

Peirce and Parker, Boston; H. C. Sleight, New York: 1832., 1832 84p. Age stained. Early ownership of John A. Clark on title page and front pastedown. 155 mm. Original leather spine over yellow paper covered boards. Original paper label on front board. Extremities worn with slight loss. Boards rubbed and stained. Slight loss at head and tail of spine. Hardbound. Very good. This popular work is attributed to Sallucia Abbott (1801-1886), a school teacher in Maine. AI #13348 (4 entries). Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BOX 8 0.0. Hardcover. Good.

Punch Office, London: 1864., 1864 Two volumes bound in one. (19 of) Twenty colored etchings and Two Hundred woodcuts by John Leech. Decorated title page. All edges gold. Lacks color plate number 3 in volume two. Some color plates loose. Some old staining. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full gold decorated green cloth binding. Some wear. HUMOR 2 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London: Ca., 1880 Two Volumes. Illustrated with twenty full page hand colored plates with original tissue guards and two hundred woodcuts by John Leech. Title pages printed in red and black with a comic drawing of Clio instructing the Young British Lion in history. Top edges gilt. Bookseller's label of R.M. Johnson, Scranton, PA in both volumes. Marbled endpapers. 220mm. Disbound. Original detached polished leather boards ruled in gold. Original gilt decorated spines worn with loss. A very accurate reprint of the first edition. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 6 Language: eng. No Binding. Very Good.

Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ: 1973., 1973 93p. Thin 8vo. Original full cloth binding. White dust Jacket. Copyright 1973. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W118 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Dust Jacket Included.

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, Cranbury, NJ: 1973., 1973 93p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. A fine copy of a significant book. OCC 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

A Londres [Paris / Brussels?]: 1780., 1780 Two volumes. pp. 201; 240 + Engraved portrait plates. Small 12mo. Uncut. Contemporary French half leather bindings, spines worn. Printed bookplate of Jan Paulus Schumacher. Edited by A. E. Cailleau. Pierre du Pallet, called by the name of Abelard, was a successful educator in the Cathedral School of Notre Dame when (in 1115) he was appointed tutor to Heloise, the beautiful and talented 17 year old niece of cannon Fulbert, with whom he was lodging. They fell madly in love and were forced to flee together to Brittany. After Heloise gave birth to a son they were secretly married and returned to Paris. Relatives of Heloise would not be distracted from their revenge and one night they surprised Abelard in his bedroom and castrated him. In shame, Abelard joined the Abbey St. Denis as a monk, and Heloise became a nun. As they both rose to prominence (and Abelard in philosophical and religious controversy), they kept up a loving correspondence. In the end, their… Read More

Bradford and Inskeep, Philadelphia: 1811, 1811 pp. 238, (1) [Publications by the Author for the use of the Philadelphia Academy]. Early manuscript ownership of Alex J. Frick on title page. Frick was a bookseller and publisher in Hazelton, PA. Partially unopened. Pages 231 & 232 torn with loss of a few letters. Top edge gilt. 8vo. 215 mm. Handsome late 19th century binding. Rebound in half red morocco over red cloth boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt. Raised bands. James Abercrombie was one of the assistant ministers of Christ Church, St. Peter's, and St. James and director of the Philadelphia Academy. Not found in AI. Second edition. Hardbound. Very good. PAIMP 10. Hardcover. Good.

(Published by Paul James Davies under the imprint of) Basilike, Toronto: 1976., 1976 31p. Title decorated in red. Running title printed in red. Designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. Tall 8vo. Original stitched printed wraps. Limited Edition of only 176 copies. Very nice copy. PRESS/W34 0.0. Soft cover.

The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia: 1920., 1920 371 p. + Full page plates. Inked ownership. Very XLib - from the Keneseth Israel Library (Philadelphia). 8vo. Original full dark blue cloth binding, very stained. Hardbound. An excellent reference to Jewish Literature. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Fair.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1954., 1954 370p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. First American Edition. AFRICA/2 0.0. F.. Hardcover.

J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia: 1929., 1929 pp. viii, 115 + Frontis + Rear pocket with three pattern sheets for making marionettes. Small 4to. 265 mm. Original full cloth binding. Original highly decorative dust jacket, worn. Mildly XLib. A handsome and unusual book with much appeal for the craftperson and performer. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GAMES 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.