By his sons (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. By His Sons (Thomas William Harvey). MEMOIR OF HAYWARD AUGUSTUS HARVEY. New York: 1900. 98 pages, illustrated, navy boards with gilt printing. This is an ex-library copy with usual library marks including a card pocket at the rear. The covers are rubbed and soiled, contents bright and complete, top page edges gilt. Good. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto. 270pp. Black-and-white plates. Very good with owner inscriptions and light edgewear. Introductory text by Louis Brès. Reminiscences by Edouard Gaubert. Translated and annotated by Alfred Johnson.

Zustand: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains [xxxvi] 456 printed pages of text. End papers cracked, spine age darkened, without any ownership markings and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHEMISTRY. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. The sixth edition, fifth English issue of this illustrated guide to artistic angling with several colour plates, full bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt titles. The sixth edition, fifth English issue of the work, originally published in 1882. As the preface to the work explains, "this issue is announced as the Sixth Edition, inclusive of the American reprint (a piracy of course!) The First Edition was a double one, this owing to the large number of copies bespoken whilst the work was in preparation. This Edition is therefore really the Seventh that has left the press in little more than as many years."With sixteen illustrations including thirteen plate illustrations, both monochrome and colour, accompanying the text. This copy has the 'Beaufort Loch Flies' plate and the 'Sun Beam Salmon Flies' plate present, which are not present in all copies.With thirty-two pages of contemporary advertisements to the rear of the work.This is a thorough, illustrated guide by the esteemed fisherman David Foster which was compiled by his sons following his passing. It features dedicated chapters on the habits and haunts of fish, fly making, and amateur tackle making. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with light rubbing and some minor handling marks. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Hinges strained. Slight offsetting to the free endpapers. Internally, binding is strained. Pages are a trifle age toned however generally bright and clean barring the odd marginal handling mark and a few spots, heaviest to the outer leaves. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Quarter morocco. Zustand: Very good. Presentation Copy. Octavo, [iv], [12], [4]. Quarter blue morocco, handmade blue paper boards, title printed in gilt on the front cover. Tipped-in frontispiece photograph of Rufus F. Dawes affixed to the frontispiece. Blue endpapers, uncut fore-edge. Notable loss to morocco spine, heavily worn. Solid text block, internally clean. This work was issued in blue paper wraps (with the title Rufus Fearing Dawes: A Father's Tribute to his Son's Completed Life) and this quarter blue morocco presentation edition. Princeton University Crest of Arms imprint on each leaf of text. (OCLC 9901006) This copy is inscribed on the second free endpaper: "For my son's friend Herman Pettibone / from / Charles G. Dawes / Nov. 26th 1912." The only recorded example of this tribute signed by future Vice President Dawes. Rufus Fearing Dawes, the only son of future Vice President Charles G. Dawes, died at 21 years old of heart failure and drowning on Lake Geneva, September 5, 1912. In tribute to his son, Dawes contributed $100,000 for the construction of a hotel for "Destitute Men" men in Chicago in 1914. The Chicago home was followed in 1916 by the Rufus F. Dawes Hotel for Men in Boston, and the Mary Gates Dawes Hotel for Women in Chicago in 1917. This eulogy received national attention in 1924 when it was discovered by the national media during the 1924 presidential campaign. Gen. Dawes would go on to serve as Vice President for years in the Coolidge Administration. The eulogy for Rufus Fearing Dawes by his father, Charles G. Dawes, inscribed and dated by Dawes to his son's friend in 1912. (illustrator). Signed.…