Search Results: Authors starting with U from Buddenbrooks, Inc.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885, 1886. 2 volumes. First edition of both volumes in publisher’s deluxe bindings. With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontis-portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Also with fold out printed copy of manuscript and the dedication from Grant in holograph reproduction. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s very scarce deluxe bindings of original three-quarter morocco over boards, gilt lettered and finely decorated with gilt emblematic decorations including a General's stars in compartments of the spines separated by raised bands, each of the covers featuring large gilt medallions, endpapers and all edges marbled. 584; 647, index. An especially fine, bright and very pleasing set in the scarce publisher’s deluxe binding state. An unusually well preserved set, the text exceptionally clean and fresh, the bindings in excellent condition. The text-blocks appear near as pristine, the bindings very well preserved indeed, the… Read More

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1928. 2 volumes. First edition, “first and second printings before publication”. With a CARD SIGNED BY SINCLAIR tipped in. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the covers decorated in dark green and gilt with pictorial designs and typography, the spines lettered and decorated in dark green. x, 374; 375-756. A handsome and attractive set, the bindings in very good order, the corners showing only the very slightest bit of evidence of shelving, the text blocks are clean, tight and fresh. FINE FIRST EDITION WITH TIPPED IN CARD SIGNED BY SINCLAIR. Upton Sinclair was no quiet author. From beginning to end, the author covered a plethora of subjects more intently than any other modern Renaissance man, exposing one clandestine act after another, and in so doing, enraging organisations and institutions throughout the United States. During an age just before the HUAAC’s inquisitors were exposing and attacking Communist contingents and sympathisers,… Read More

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1936. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, the upper cover bordered along head and foot in green and lettered in black on a green background, the spine lettered in green. 415, (17 advertisements). An attractive copy, the binding remains in good order with only very light mellowing to the spine panel and a small jag at the head, the edges are clean and the text block is fresh. FIRST EDITION. Upton Sinclair is known to have commented that he had been brought up in education by Shakespeare, but the world in which he lived never reflected the beauty in which his learning was steeped. This incompatibility between education and reality, along with his disenchantment with American learning institutions, may have been his inspiration to focus his writing away from utopian thought and dive into the grime of the day. As well, the author seemed not to fit in with his age, as he was an American socialist in a time when the non-capitalist ideal was… Read More

Paris: by Ferra J. et L'Auteur,, 1824. Very Scarce First Edition. Illustrated with seven finely engraved large foldout plates illustrating both anatomy of the maladies and veterinary tools. Thick 8vo, in a handsome French binding of half black morocco over marbled boards, the spine gilt lettered, the original front and rear wrappers printed in black on green are bound in. x, 432 pp. A very pleasing and handsome copy of this scarce and important veterinary work, the text and plates essentially without flaw but for some very minor and occasional light spotting, the original wrappers a bit mellowed only, the binding very fine. A VERY IMPORTANT AND EARLY TREATISE ON VETERINARY OPHTHALMOLOGY. The paper was winner of the Médaille d’Or of the Société Royale at the meeting of 1823. One of the most famous of French Veterinarians, Leblanc was the first to apply the use of auscultation in animals. He was member of the Académie de Médecine and President of the Société de Médecine… Read More