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This book has a tight, full-red Morroco binding, embossed front and back and with raised ridges on the spine. The gilt title also appears on the spine. The end papers and page edges are beautifully comb-marbled, retaining their bright colors well. Some rubbing along the spine, and on the corner edges, otherwise the binding is near fine, sound and except for a few small pencil marks on the first page of the novel, the pages are clean. The book has 13 full-page hand-colored steel engravings, 69 wood engravings in the text. Illustrator John Leech (1817-1864) produced cartoons for Punch and illustrated Dickens' Christmas Carol. The book is an unforgettable portrait of English country life and the hunt fraternity that has thrived while many other Victorian novels disappeared into obscurity.

This volume shows almost no wear, spine is good, no loose pages or scuffing, pages clean. Poem "Bomb" as centerfold. Signed by author, "Ciao! Gregory Corso 1975"

Hardcover, no dust jacket (mylar added), corners rubbed and discoloration to front, otherwise condition is very good. Portrait of Owen with tissue guard that left offset browning on title page. Publisher's device on front cover. First publication in book form of Owen's poems, edited by Siegfried Sassoon, who was Owen's friend and mentor, with the assistance of Edith Sitwell. A rare find.

This is a first-class copy of Ginsberg's famed exchanges with "Fellow Poets, Students, Scholars, Sadhus." Like new red binding with silver lettering on the spine. Copy signed by Ginsberg on first front end pages "Allen Ginsberg" and "AH" (Omah Hum). No marking throughout. Dust jacket has slight wear along the bottom and top edges, minor scuffing on front and back, not price clipped. Great find!

This small volume appears to be the third known copy, with the other two referenced in an eBay listing by antiquarian bookseller Antiquates Ltd. in Dorset, England. According to its own introductory notes, this book was ",..formed upon an New Plan to facilitate the acquisition of the Spanish language" by utilizing phraseology found in writings of "the best Spanish authors, including Don Quixote and Cortez in South America." Besides the copy held by Antiquates Ltd., the other known copy of the first edition is reported held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). The book is in fair condition, with pages still attached though foxed. The brown paper repair to the binding is itself worn, but holding the boards in place. There is an owner signature inside the front board, no other markings. A rare find, indeed!

This beautiful memoir has a 3/4 binding with marbled dark blue boards and gilt edges. Inside of both boards and flyleaves also beautifully marbled. It is a first edition with a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Minimal scuffing along the sides of the spine, edges and corners. Pages tight and clean. Illustrations by author's brother Charles Huard, who was the official painter to the Sixth Army in France--12 illustrations and a full-page pen-and-ink sketch of a French soldier opposite the frontispiece. Bookplate inside the front cover reads "Edmund Lincoln Baylies" (1857-1932), who was a NY lawyer and member of NY high society during the Gilded Age. A very good copy and fine addition to any library.

This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a… Read More