Original first edition (12 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, [12], 628pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. In the publisher's illustrated dust jacket, $50.00 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, a near fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Bill - Best Wishes - S.E. Ambrose / Bismarck 4/28/98." Published by Viking in New York in 1997, this revised and updated edition is based on Sulzberger's earlier American Heritage Picture History of World War II, first published in 1966. The signed first edition, first printing of The New History of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose, with original text by C.L. Sulzberger. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo, 189pp, [3]. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, stamped in blind on cover. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln with tissue cover. (Sabin 30158) (Monaghan 543) (Monaghan 3780). The first edition consisted of 5000 copies. Other imprints include Cleveland by O.P. Ritter, Boston by B.B. Russell & Company, and Chicago by S.S. Boyden. The first edition of Abraham Lincoln, Sein Leben und Seine öffentlichen Dienste, translated into German in 1865. The original work, Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Service, was also published in 1865 and was the first biography published (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 175pp. Black hardcover with title in white on spine. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $15.00 retail price on front flap, a fine example. Signed by the author on the title page, with his signature "Hangman" sketch in the same ink. Signed first edition of Watchman by Ian Rankin, with an original sketch by the author. (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 213pp. Orange hardcover, title in gilt on blue cloth spine. Stated "First Harper & Row Edition 1985" on copyright page with full number line. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, $13.95 retail price on front flap, touch of sunning to spine. Housed in a custom brown morocco slipcase. Signed by the author on the half title. Includes a hand-colored illustration by artist Ernie Franklin, with their signature at the bottom corner. (Hieb, A8b). This first edition was preceded by a limited edition published by Dennis McMillan. Signed first edition of The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman, with an original hand-colored illustration by artist Ernie Franklin. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Small octavo, x, 389pp. Blue cloth, border stamped in blind on front cover, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, light rubbing to corners and spine, a near fine example. Complete with 19 full-page plates, including frontispiece. In publisher's dust jacket, faint soiling to front and rear panels, slight chipping to corners and spine, toning to spine, one short closed tear to rear panel, a very good example. This biography, written by the subject's daughter, Sophie Radford De Meissner, outlines the naval achievements of Rear Admiral William Radford (1809-1890). Radford served during the Mexican-American War and fought for the Union in the Civil War despite being born in Virginia. First edition of Old Naval Days by Sophie Radford De Meissner, in the scarce original dust jacket. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvi, 253pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in black on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Light dust along text block, internally clean. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, shallow chipping at spine, illustrations on panels. Inscribed by Katherine Van Akin Gates on the half title: "For Frannie and Ralph - With sincere appreciation of a fine and enduring friendship - hospitality expressed! Katherine Van Akin Gates / June 1941." Mrs. Ramabai Ranade (1862-1924) was an influential social reformer and advocate for women's rights in pre-independence India. She was the founder of the Seva Sudan Society, one of the first organizations to offer educational, medical and social services to women in India. This autobiography, titled "Amchya Ayushyatil Kahi Athavani" in her native language of Marathi, was translated by Katherine Van Akin Gates in 1938. This translation is the only known copy to appear on the public market and one of a handful of copies held in public institutions. Signed first edition of Himself: The Autobiography of a Hindu Lady by Ramabai Ranade, translated by Katherine Van Akin Gates. From the original Marathi title of Amachya Ayushyatil Kahi Athavani. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good +. Reissue. Octavo, [two volumes], iv, 156pp; iv, 148pp; iv, 140pp. Publisher's original green cloth, elaborately stamped in blind with gilt bird's nest stamped on front covers. Title in gilt on spines with floral embellishments. Yellow endpapers. Complete with 225 hand-colored engravings with tissue guards, bright colors, occasional mild foxing. Corners and board edges lightly bumped. Spine ends and edges lightly rubbed with minor loss of cloth. Mild intermittent foxing to text pages, some foxing to edge of text blocks, each volume has a few unopened leaves along top edge, touch of shelf wear to covers. Front endpapers of each volume cracked, but hinges secure. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Jones on front pastedowns. (Fine Bird Books, 1990 p. 125) (Wood 472) (Mullens & Swann p. 417) (Zimmer p. 443) An attractive example. Rev. Francis O. Morris (1810-1893) was known for his popular writings on natural history, particularly birds and insects. Morris' A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds was first published in 1853-1856 by Groombridge and Sons of London and printed by noted engraver Benjamin Fawcett. This set is a reissue of the first edition, published and printed by the same duo in 1865-1866. The illustrations are hand-colored wood engravings. Mullens & Swann describe the first edition of Nest and Eggs as containing 223 plates, less nine plates which were not published. A reissue from 1866-1867 found in Zimmer contains 225 plates, having the addition of plates XL and XLII which were two of the nine omitted from the original edition. This 1865-1866 reissue has the two additional plates noted in Zimmer, plus an insert-slip at page 21 noting the omission of plates XI, LV, LVI, LX, LXIX, XCIV and CXIX since "properly identified specimens have not been procurable." The second edition of this work was published by Bell and Daldy of London in 1870. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds by the Reverend Francis O. Morris, 1865-1866 reissue of the first edition in the publisher's original cloth. (illustrator).…

Original wraps. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, First State. Small octavo, viii, [v]-vi, 179pp, [32pp ads]. Original printed wrappers, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint dampstain to leaves at end of volume, not affecting text, Kennebec Historical Society bookplate on half title, a very good example. Price "Fifty Cents" listed on front cover, tape remnant on front cover, wear to spine. BAL's printing A and wrapper 1, including misnumbered page "x" with "vi" in Preface, copyright information in four lines, and three titles listed under "Library of American Books" on rear cover. (BAL 7597) (Moebs 80) In custom brown cloth clamshell with title printed on paper label. Signed by J.H. Williams on front cover. Joseph H. Williams (1814-1896) served in the State legislature of Maine as both a Senator and House Representative, and he was also Governor of Maine for one year. Williams was a relative of the author of this work, Horatio Bridge (1806-1893). Bridge, a U.S. Navy officer, served aboard the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga off the west coast of Africa from 1843-1844. The USS Saratoga was stationed there to protect American citizens and suppress the slave trade. According to correspondence, Bridge's roommate at Bowdoin College, Nathaniel Hawthorne, allegedly inspired Bridge to keep a journal of his travels, which Hawthorne helped edit and compile into the Journal of an African Cruiser. First edition of Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge in the publisher's original paper wrappers, from the personal library of and signed by Maine Governor Joseph H. Williams. (illustrator). Signed.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Beautiful depiction of the complex of the CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY IN BETHLEHEM ( one of the most important Christian sites in the Holy Land). Original antique etching (copper plate) by the Dutch topographer OLFERT DAPPER. DATED 1677. First edition (Dutch) . Size of image: 14,2 x 11,3 inch (36 x 29cm) + legend and margins. Some occasional light age toning. Untrimmed full margins. Crisp and strong paper , clear imprint. Olfert Dapper - (illustrator).…

First Edition. 8vo. 23cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi,419 & vii,400pp., with 2 aquatint frontis views, 2 page plan of the township, in the original publisher's boards, uncut, hinges are expertly restored, the original paper labels are worn and chipped on the edges, the text is clean and sound, untrimmed, a fine set of the first edition. T.P.L. 1299. Dionne 1018. Gagnon 3460. Lande 824. Sabin 94229. - The two plates, which are by T. Brown, are fine examples of early lithography. Edward Talbot was born in Ireland in 1796, and emigrated with his family and a party of Irish immigrants to Middlesex County, near London, Ontario, Upper Canada in 1818. He was successively a teacher and a journalist, founding the radical "London Sun" in 1831. He travelled extensively throughout Upper and Lower Canada, and was only 23 when he wrote this work which was published in London. He describes the life in Upper Canada at the time, and gives a detailed account of the flora and fauna, climate, society, education, emigration, manners and Indians, of the Lower Canadians. Talbot's account was written with a view to giving a more realistic appraisal of the prospects and difficulties for immigrants than he felt was afforded by a number of contemporary works. ~ "Edward Allen Talbot, a young Irishman, described the trip taken by his family up the St. Lawrence in search of a new life, replacing the discouragement of improved gentility in Ireland. Lively impression of Montreal, Kingston, York and the London region are capped by a last description of his solitary pedestrian return to Montreal. As a picturesque tour his book is cheerful and entertaining. But the book was written to warn potential emigrants of the danger of trusting agents' accounts of the new country, and to show the "semi-barbarism" of life in the settlements. This led him to brilliant humorous accounts of "bees", "Charivaris", [Chivaree], new York's visits, tavern life, elections and agricultural practices". Waterston p42.…

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Original duotone lithograph from the FOLIO 1st edition. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. Published by F.G.Moon, London, 1844. Full page (vertical). Size of image: 36,5 x 52 cm ( = 14,2 x 20,4 inch) + margins. .UNTRIMMED FULL MARGINS. .Very clean and FINE condition with excellent imprint. ONE OF ROBERTS' MOST FAMOUS AND DESIRED LITHOGRAPHS. Rare. David Roberts (illustrator).…

Bruxelles, F. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 1885, in-8°, (4)nn pp + iv pp + 462 pp, sewn, orig. printed wrapper, wrapper slightly dustsoiled, with small loss of paper (1 cm ) at lower right corner of front wrapper, interior fine. Good/fine copy of the original first edition of 1885. Documents and history illustrating how King Leopold of Belgium acquired the Congo in equatorial Africa. Text in French. Livre en français.…