The author 1870 (10 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 806 pages. 6.14x1.69x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains [xvii] 131 (+ family tree) printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Eleanor Poe Barlow'. Triple SIGNED dedications by Cedric Dickens, twice to the title page, and once to the end of his introduction. We know the recipient of the three dedications, and will pass on our written provenance to the prospective purchaser of the book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock over 75 other books by Charles Dickens. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0951852531 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).…

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged grey paper. He notes an advertisement for Campbell's 'Lives of the Chief Justices' in that morning's Athenaeum. 'Had I been earlier aware of the preparation of the work it would have afforded me much pleasure in offering for your Lordships acceptance a Copy of the probate Copy Will of the Lord Chief Justice Fitzjames which I have in my collection of M.S.S. &c.' The will is very long and contains 'much curious matter'. Although it may be too late for any notice of the will in Campbell's book, 'yet a copy shall be very much at your Lordships service, should your Lordship desire to possess it'. A postscript reads 'I sometime ago sent a Copy to Mr Foss. [i.e. Edward Foss, author of the 'Judges of England']'.…

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cloth printed in pastel colours with Dickens characters. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Some entries by previous owner, some Ardizzone related. Each three days on double page one with extracts from Dickens books opposite, Ardizzone illustrations on monthly headings as well as the boards. Rubbing of the cloth along the bottom edges. Good condition book in Poor condition torn dust wrapper with significant losses. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the second front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone | Christmas 1970' signed for Aingelda (Edward Ardizzone's daughter-in-law) Ardizzone.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).…

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide. Approximately 173 words penned on three of the four sides of a folded sheet of personalized letterhead. The letterhead from his family home of Brockhurst, Grange Road, Guernsey was used elsewhere as is indicated by the identification having a line crossed through it. Dugmore is most probably writing from France. He writes to the American lecture manager James B. Pond that "I am to return under the instructions of the comparatively new Ministry of Information as soon as I have gathered the material I want. This will include the results of a visit to the front both with the British & American forces in France, a probable visit to the Grand Fleet, visits to the largest munitions works & ship yards. So I hope to be ready to return in September. That is to say leaving here about the middle of that month. The plan to go to the west coast California etc. will be first rate.By the way I have been a Major since Feb 10th & never knew it till the other day." He signs in full, "Very truly yrs A Radclyffe Dugmore". In a postscript he writes: "Are you mentioning the African lecture for the west?". Pond has stamped the note:"ANS'D AUG 29 1918". A few words are slightly smudged and the letter is folded twice for mailing. Very good. The big game photographer and author Major Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1952) was also an artist, illustrating some of his books and producing a series of prints of wildlife. He traveled extensively photographing and filming animals throughout the world and particularly in Africa. The author of "The Wonderland of Big Game", "The Romance of the Beaver", "Camera Adventures in the African Wilds", and "The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou", among others, his films include "The Wonderland of Big Game". He was the subject of a 1931 Lowell Thomas biography "Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore".At the beginning of World War 1 Dugmore went to the battle front and recorded his experiences. He wrote of them in his book "When the Somme Ran Red". Quoting from the dust jacket of the book: "This book was written during wartime by a gassed British infantry officer incapacitated and no longer fit for service in the trenches. Dugmore was an unusual soldier who would normally have been considered too old for front line duties from the outset. He was already well into middle age at the outbreak of hostilities having spent a career as a naturalist and sportsman and it was only due to influential friends that he managed to obtain a commission in an infantry regiment - the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Yet this was not his first experience of the Western Front. As the German Army swept into Belgium, the civilian Dugmore-armed only with a cine camera-travelled to the front as the small Belgian Army vainly attempted to stem the advance, to experience the war at first hand. His account of this early stage of the war makes unusual and fascinating reading. After joining the army, the author joined his regiment serving in the trenches during the period leading towards the First Battle of the Somme in 1916 and it is this and his time during the battle itself that are the principal subjects in this account.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. ***The complete set of two volumes - Volume I: 1818 and Volume II: 1819 - both first impressions of the first edition. ***Illustrated with one hundred black and white copper engravings to the two volumes including the engraved half-title pages, all present as called for, and also importantly, including to the front of vol. I the two folding engraved maps: County of Essex and Colchester (the map of Colchester to the front of Vol I interestingly is not listed in "Directions to the Binder for Placing the Plates" to the fore of Vol. I.). ***Volume I.: Title-page has "Decriptions" instead of "Descriptions", as called for in the first impression of the first edition. Engraved half-title page with the Arms of Colchester. ***Very good in crimson full leather morocco boards with elaborate gilt decorative spine with five compartments and four raised bands and gilt decorative and floral borders to front and rear boards. All edges of text-block gilt. Dark grey front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. [Owner's name R.S. Chalmers in sepia fountain pen ink to top of front free endpapers of vol I & II and a list in light pencil on recto of front free endpapers of places within the county that are going to be, or have been, visited. On top of this list to Vol I is a pencil price of 8/6 and 8 / - two volumes]. ***Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine slightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Spine tight. Pages clean.***164mm x 106mm. iv-page prelims including two-page preface by the editor dated May 1, 1819, London, and Directions to the Binder for Placing the Plates (some places marked with short tiny light pencil-mark to indicated places to visit or visited) and list of Errata. 224 pages including index to rear. ***Vol II: Frontispiece of Gosfield Place and engraved half-title page with the Arms of Essex and Maldon. Directions to the Binder for Placing the Plates to Vol II to the fore and list of Errata. ***Very good in crimson full leather morocco boards with elaborate gilt decorative spine with five compartments and four raised bands and gilt decorative and floral borders to front and rear boards. Gilt tooling to morocco edges of front and rear paste-downs. All edges of text-block gilt. Dark grey front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine slightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Spine tight. Pages clean. 164mm x 106mm. Three-page prelims and 197 pages including index to rear. ***'The situation of Colchester commands prospects both distant and agreeable. It is so near the sea as to have the advantage of excellent fish, particularly soles and oysters. Though it stands high, it is well supplied with water from many fine springs rising in several places, besides which is conveyed to it by the waterworks. ***The lines of contravallation and vestiges of the forts of the besiegers remain visible round the town in many places. The river Colne, which passes through Colchester, encompasses it on the north and east, and served as a special means of defence in time of war. There are three bridges over it, and it is navigable within three miles of the town for ships of large burthen: up to that part called the Hythe: it is navigable for hoys and small craft close to the houses.' (quotes from page 90, vol I). ***Scarce first impression of the true first edition of the complete two-volume set, especially hard to find in their original leather bindings in nice collectable condition, with all plates and the two folding maps present. Of interest to collectors of antiquarian travel books and scholars and historians researching the history of Essex. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.…

All three letters 12mo: the first of three pages, and the last two one page apiece. Texts clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Letter One: Sir Henry Vansittart Neale will be pleased to allow Grundy 'a look at his pictures' at Bisham Abbey. Gives directions. Discusses Grundy's letter in the Daily Express, complaining about the 'crowding out' of pictures at the Royal Academy. He considers it 'no new thing: there was a very violent outcry of the same kind some forty years ago and about that time several exhibitions were organised of pictures which had been accepted and not hung [.] My quarrel with the present Academy show is not so much that it is too much cut down as that it is very badly selected [.]'. Letter Two: He is pleased that the Bisham Abbey visit has been 'fixed up', and would like 'to have a talk with you on the Academy question'. Letter Three: Explaining why the statement 'from 1768 to 1805 the Royal Academy was the sole exhibiting society of British artists' is 'all wrong'. Concludes: 'So apparently the only period during which the Academy was the sold exhibiting society was between 1791 and 1805, when the R. W. S. began'.…

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, tipped in onto leaf removed from album. After apologising for the late reply to the recipient's note he acknowledges 'the Compliment you make me'. He continues in his customary vainglorious style, appropriating Milton's words to himself: 'I am so deeply occupied in writing works I have been writing the last 20 years, that I have scarce a moment: my audience hitherto have been fit tho few'. See Reade's entry in the Oxford DNB, which describes the negative response to his work, concluding: 'Despite the contempt of the literary world, Reade's works did have an audience, chiefly among the religious.'.…