Search Results: Titles starting with A from Aardvark Rare Books

Wheaton, Illinois: R. Blanchard & Co. (Self-Published), 1882. Hardcover. Good Plus. Small Quarto. Brown cloth-covered books ruled and corner-decorated in blind, with gilt lettering to front and copper lettering to spine. Moderate shelfwear to extremities - a bit of scuffing and corner-nudging is all. Sage-green floral endpapers. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Frontis photograph of Lincoln by Brady, "engraved by A.H. Ritchie expressly for this work". Title page shows 3-inch tear along bottom seam, but solidly attached. 141 pp. + advertising at rear. Publisher's red stain to all edges. A book-length poem consisting of rhymed couplets, in fifteen cantos.

Dublin, Ireland: Self-Published byHibernia Press Office, No. 1, Temple Lane, for John Cumming...and George Cowie, 1818. Hardcover. Good Plus. 16mo, 6.75 x 4 in., pp. 2 (Preface) + 389 + 3 (advertising). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title to red panel and decorative gilt design to spine. Rubbing to extremities; light scuffing to boards. Corners are peeping. Previous owner's bookplate, "John Ferrar", to front pastedown. Signature of "Clara L Ferrar", dated 1860, to top of front pastedown. Closely trimmed. Additional previous owner's inscription, dated 1868, to free front endpaper. Spine is tight; pages bright. Abridgment is aimed towards pupils: "The author has carefully excluded from this Work all occurrences, the narration of which is incompatible with the culture of that moral sense, whose delicacy should never be unnecessarily invaded; and conceiving that the events farthese removed from the present scene of action, are those of which age has the least chance of acquiring a… Read More

London, England: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1719, 1719. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Leather remnants on spine. Edges neatly trimmed. Octavo, 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" pp. [2], 38. Small ink inscription "x" on top left corner. Pages lightly tanned. (ESTC T188803). The prominent politician and Christian apologist John Shute, Viscount Barrington (1678-1734) wrote this pamphlet amidst the Salters' Hall debates in London. In 1719, 150 dissenting ministers convened at the Salters' Hall to debate subscription to the Trinity. Originally they had convened to "heal the doctrinal differences that had. arisenamong the leading ministers there", but the dispute widened and "the debate came to be seen as a controversy over orthodoxy..." and their subscribing to the doctrine of The Trinity. In this pamphlet, Barrington provides an account of the heated debates and advocates for peace. (Paraphrased, ODNB).

London: Printed for Capt. Wilson by G. Nicol, 1789. Third Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. 4to. Printed for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol, Bookseller To His Majesty, Pall-Mall. 3/4 leather with (scuffed) marbled paper boards. Gilt decorated spine. Red leather title label. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontis portrait of Wilson. xxvii,[1],378p. 13 of 15 plates MISSING foldout chart before Introduction, and 2 of the 15 plates ("Cove and Tents"; "Views of The Land" ) Includes: A Vocabulary of the Pelew Language (pp.365-378). Clean copy with plates in good condition. Full title: An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet belonging to the Honourable East India Company, By George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near… Read More

York, England: A. Ward, and sold by W. Tesseyman, J. Todd, H. Sotheran, T. Wilson, N. Frobisher, and R. Spence, Booksellers in York, 1783. Second Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. Good. 12mo. Contemporary calf boards, xii + p. 136. Board surfaces scuffed, nicked and altogether abraded in places, with wear, peeling and stray-poking stitching particularly, at bottom of spine.All leather edges gilt-detailed. 11 (of 14 copperplates present, 1 detached but present). Printer's Device of Crossed Keys to title page. (Note: The author is not the famous explorer by the same name). Solildly bound copy in original binding, with fascinating copper plates depicting intricate architectural and artistic details. Cathedrals were once designed consciously, with deep knowledge of how shape of wall, play of light and shadow, affected the inner lives of worshipers and aspirants, remarkably inspiring within the "wish to Be", to rise up, to commune with God. The copperplates within this eighteenth-century study,… Read More

Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Quarto. Blue, cloth-covered boards (10 in. x 8 in.) with gilt lettering to spine. 56 pp. including Bibliography. Limited to 1400 copies.Small indentation to bottom of front board. Small smudge to first page of Mr. Stewart's Foreword. Housed in plain, grey, dustjacket. Folding map laid in. Written down forty-four years from when as a 12-year old survivor of the Donner Party, Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe Reed (later) Murphy recounted her tale mostly from memory, but consulted for details - sometimes inaccurately -- the text of McGlashan's 1879 account.

London, England: Hurst and Blackett Ltd, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes: black cloth, thick octavos with titles in gilt to spines and covers. Corners bumped, some light spotting to covers and spines, textblocks square, bindings tight. Volume 1: xv, 396pp+4 page Hurst catalogue. Large foldout map at rear, 67 illustrations. Volume 2: xii, 511pp+1 page publisher advert. Index, 99 illustrations. NOTE: Lacks route map to volume 2. Inscribed and signed on endpaper to volume 1 by Landor: To "Dr. C.M. Sneed with kindest regards, Henry Savage Landor, London, Sept. 19th , 1913." The front pastedown to both volumes have the signature of C.M. Sneed in pencil. Two short handwritten letters in original postmarked stamped envelopes from Landor to C.M. Sneed written on Savoy Hotel stationary and posted from London on January and February 1924, laid in. Some browning to endpapers, light overall toning to pages, no marks, etc. The journey covered 8,500 miles. Arnold Henry Savage Landor [1865-1924] was a… Read More

Colvend, Scotland: Castlepoint Press, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Graham Kennedy. Trade paperback. 8.5 in x 5.4 in., pp. xviii, 86. Paper cover with dramatic brightly-painted colored war scene. Very light wear to edges of covers. No spine crease. Originally published in 1690, this is a reprint of the Belfast Edition of 1813. The gripping eyewitness account by the Rector of Kilskerry in County Fermanagh of the brave efforts in the defence of Ulster and the preservation of Ireland for the Williamite case.

Belfast, Ireland: W. & G. Baird, Limited, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 198. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Arthur Crichester, an engraving of the Poor House, and a fold-out map (18 in. x 27 in.) of the Poor House farm. Forest green cloth boards with gilt title to front. Light rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners nudged. Decorative endpapers. Unmarked interior. Three inch closed tear to map. n 1752 a group of Belfast's leading merchants agreed that "a poor-house and hospital are greatly wanted in Belfast for the support of vast numbers of real objects of charity in this parish, for the employment of idle beggars who crowd to it from all parts of the North, and for the reception of infirm and diseased poor". The society raised money through a lottery scheme and subscription and, following formal recognition by act of Parliament, opened the doors of Clifton House in 1774. Erected on land donated by Arthur Chichester, the first Marquess of Donegall on… Read More

Germantown, Pennsylvania: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1799. Pamphlet. Very Good. 24 pp. Stringbound. 7 5/8" x 4 1/2"

Pittsburgh, PA: Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Dustjacket. Ben Jorj Harris. Brightly-colored book. Front panel is Ben Jorj Harris's brightly colored airbrush depiction of little, elfin Tommy Teaberry standing atop a sprig of winterberry leaves and berries. Rear panel shows Tommy, winterberry sprig at his feet, but holding-in-display posture, a full pack of Teaberry Chewing Gum. Minor rubbing to extremities of book, and several very small dark spots to rear board. Additional lovely airbrush drawings to endpapers, and throughout. Text author unknown. Jacket shows several small cellophane-tape repairs to bottom edges, with chipping, cracking and browning to flaps, now protected in mylar. Book bears the ex-libris sticker of Anna Dorsey Cooke, to bottom of front free endpapers, Children's (pre-)"Disney-fication" about the back story behind Clark Brother's Teaberry Chewing Gum. An early "Infommercial" in book form, designed to get the kids hooked on… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. GOOD. Worth Brehm. Sunning to spine. Shaken. Moderate scuffing to paste-on illustration and board extremities. Corners nudged and edges frayed. Gilt lettering to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Color paste-on illustration on front. Color illustration of Huck Finn to frontispiece. 12 additional black and white illustrations. Clean, tight. 421 pp. Nice reading copy. One of the Great American Novels. The story is told in the first person using vernacular English of the era and region. Huck finds that being "civilized" is confining and escapes from his guardian with the help of his friend, Tom Sawyer. Circumstances reunite him with his shiftless father, "Pap" and Huck finds himself under Pap's custody and leaves town with him only to face more unknown adventures.

London: Printed for Law, Dilly, Robinson, etc., 1792. Revised Edition. Leather_bound. Good Only. Stated New Edition. [First published in 1748]. Volume 1: xvi, 280 pages; Volume II: xii,316 pages. Frontis engraving to each volume. Full mottled calf, small octavos. Volume I: 1/4 inch spine chip at bottom and small chips at top. Spine label chipped and general wear to spine. Corners chafed,wear along hinge, back panel has some chafing. Binding is strong. Text clean. Bookplate removed, some light browning to endpapers. Volume II: Chip to bottom of spine and fraying to top of spine. Corners chafed, general wear to spine and spine decorations. Wear along hinges. Interior: Bookplate removed. Rear endpapers and last nine pages have a small wormhole. Text clean, binding tight. Usual toning to endpapers.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very good. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in., pp. xiv + 2(Contents) + 207. Dull orange boards with black print on spine. Very light rubbing to edges and top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Three inch narrow white crease (almost a closed tear) to dust jacket spine. Six-page Introduction by Langston Hughes, who selects 9 articles, 10 miscellaneous writings, 4 essays, 13 stories and 14 poems, and provides biographical notes. xiv [2], 1-207 pp. "What white writers think of the once Dark Continent we long have known. These pages tell what black writers think" ( p. xiv), from "primitive" folk stories, to highly polished addresses before the United Nations, poetry to prose to political analysis. A ground-clearing collection put together thoughtfully including five African women's voices.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. After his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Africa to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. Small quarto (10 in. x 7 in.). gilt lettering with dual (bordering) elephant graphics in gilt to front board. One or two light scores to rear board. Some spotting and fading to spine. Several corners gently nudged. Map frontis. 48 pp. of illustrations, predominantly photography, but with some drawings.Tight, bright and clean. Chapters include: A Railroad Through the Pleistocene; On an East African Ranch; Lion Hunting on the Kapiti Plains; On Safari. Rhino and Giraffe; Juja Farm; Hippo and Leopard; A Buffalo-Hunt by the Kamiti; Trekking Through the Thirst to the Sotik; Hunting in The Sotik; To Lake Naivasha; Elaphant Hunting on Mount Kenia; The Guaso Nyero; A River of the Equatorial Desert; To the Uasin Gishu; Uganda, and the Great Nyanza Lakes; The Great Rhinocerous of the Lado. Down the Nile; The Giant Eland.… Read More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980. First Edition. Paper. Very Good. Set of Two Staple-bound book: Octavo, 9.1 in x 6 in. Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 96th Congress, Second Session. Light blue paper covers with black title in black frame to front. Sunning to spines. Light rubbing to extremities; a few brown stains and age-toning to covers (Is that Senator Cannon's coffee spill?). Unmarked interiors. "Parts 1 and 2" (May, 1980): pp. ix, [1], 1 - 264. Black title to spine. Lightly thumbed bottom corners. Light blue pages. "Part 3" (August, 1980): pp. iv, 265 - 379. Column of notes in ink to cover. Cover was placed 1/4 inch offset leaving fore-edge of cover shelf-worn. "Parts 1 and 2" was submitted by Eilene Galloway (1906 - 2009), an American researcher and editor. She was often called "The Grand Dame of Space" and described as "an influential force in the development and analysis of domestic and international space law and policy".… Read More

San Francisco, CA: SUNSET MAGAZINE HOMESEEKERS BUREAU, 1911. Softcover. Good Plus. Stapled booklet. 9.5 in x 6.5 in., pp. 64. Illustrated with color painting on verso of front and rear cover pages; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of Nevada farming, and map of Nevada. Pictorial farming scenes to front and back covers with title in red on gold panel. Rubbing and small creases to booklet edges. Two in closed tear on spine seam. Closed tears to top margin of pp. 31-34.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1918. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Minus. 12mo, 7.25 in. x 5 in., pp. 402. Black, flexible cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Crease to front board and wrinkling to spine. Corners showing. Chips to top/bottom of spine. Slight spine lean. Pieces of cardstock paper fixed to front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing. Occasional light spotting. Details on the general construction and maintenance of the bi-plane. Includes assembly instructions for the Curtiss JN-4, and overhaul instructions for the Curtiss OX, Gnome, Hall-Scott, Sturtevant, Thomas-Morse, Hispano-Suiza and Liberty engines.

Anchorage, Alaska: Anchorage Museum of History and a rt: Alaska Design Forum, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. Grey cardstock covers (9 in. x 6 in.) with a photograph of one of Mr. Goldsworthy's pieces to center. 15 color photos of his "extallations" The artist's "interest in the properties of cold and the process of working with the natural materials 'at hand' have resulted in intriguing statements about rocks, wood, water and ice. These are 'in tune' and sympathetic with their immediate surroundings and they dramatically demonstrate the continuous process of creation and entropy in nature, even in the depths of winter..." (From Foreword).

New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 179 pages. Folding map of Alaska with list of Episcopal Missions laid in. Over 50 photos including photos of Stuck. Original green wraps, small octavo. Interior clean, some wear to spine. Chapters include: Our First Alaskan Missions; The Invasion of the Gold Seekers; Expansion and Contraction; By Dog-Sled or Launch, etc. Stuck's dynamic language gives some idea of the energy and intensity of his life.