william garret (20 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, very light shelfwear. Book.

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

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

Zustand: New. pp. 57.

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

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

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Green Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Dustjacket. Full Page B/W Plates (illustrator). First Edition, Later Binding. One of 500 hardbound copies. First edition, later binding of rough green cloth; front endpaper wrinkled near hinge, due to a binding flaw; page edges are browning, due to cheap paper that was used. Blue, white, and silver DJ, with very small chips at edges but without significant loss and with no loss of lettering or design. Contains the first hardcover printing of the 1949 Ray Bradbury story.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 49 pages. No date, but probably 1940s or early 1950s (mention of Truman as current President). Paper wrappers mildly use-darkened but very good; contents unmarked. 70 grams.

Zustand: New. In.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Magazine. Illustrated by Crozetti--Cover Design. Paper wraps. Rubbed with bumping to the corners, tanned pages and slight chipping at the page ends, good or better. This science fiction magazine often changed size with each new issue and some individual issues were released in two different formats and covers while retaining the same content. This copy features stories from A.E. van Vogt ("The Great Judge"), Andrew North [Andre Norton] ("Gifts of Asti"), Terry Thor ("Secret Weapon"), E. Everett Evans ("Blurb"), H. S. W. Chibbett ("Turnabout"), and Festus Pragnell ("The Machine-God Laughs").

408 p 23,5 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b Verses on the Death of . Princess Charlotte Augusta . Collected by W. G., etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Verses on the Death of . Princess Charlotte Augusta . Collected by W. G., etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Garret, William; br/b/b 1818.br/b/b 8º.br/b/b 11642.bbb.43.br/.

Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Worn condition. Soiling and chipping to covers. Major loss to spine. Inner hinge cracking; binding weak. Previous owner inscription to rear inner cover. Missing half-title. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 47pp. To which is Added, an Account of the Irruption of Solway Moss. Card cover with cream cloth spine.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Arnold and Lorraine Walter (illustrator). First edition. This uncommon limited first edition of an illustrated science fiction anthology compiled by William L. Crawford with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work, which according to the dust wrapper's flyleaf was originally published in a limited run of one thousand copies. Some stories included in this collection were first published in popular science fiction magazines such as Weird Tales andThrilling Wonder Stories.With several delightful monochrome plate illustrations by Arnold and Lorraine Walter accompanying the text.Uncommon.This is a peculiar and exciting collection of short science fiction compiled by William L. Crawford, pseudonymously known as 'Garret Ford'. Crawford was an important editor and publisher of science fiction, founding the Fantasy Publishing Company which was one of the central fan presses of the era and with which Science and Sorcery was published. This collection contains works by major science fiction authors such as 'The Naming of Names' by Ray Bradbury, 'The Little Man on the Subway' by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh, 'Scanners Live in Vain' by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, or Cordwainer Smith, and 'The Lost Cord' by Sam Moskowitz'. In the original publisher's full red cloth binding. Externally, very excellent with just a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Wrapper is generally smart with light age toning, minor handling marks, and edgewear, including some fractional closed tears and chips, with an archival tape repair to the top edge of its reverse. Internally, firmly bound with pages that are somewhat age toned, however clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). A very scarce copy containing the history of the Battle of Floddon Field. A very scarce volume detailing the exciting history of the Battle of Floddon Field.A reprint of the edition published in c1513, as noted on Jisc.The Battle of Floddon Field was fought in 1513 between Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, commander in chief of the English forces, and James 4th, King of Scots, with an inferior army of fifteen thousand men.Illustrated to the title page with an engraving attributed to Thomas Bewick, noted wood engraver. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, rubbed with edge wear and shelfwear and well as rubbing to the extremities. Severe loss of spine. J. W. Mackie to the front pastedown. Internally, binding is loose but firm throughout, with only the front blank pages are almost disbound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Illustrated with an engraving attributed to Thomas Bewick to the title page. Fair. book.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Small 4to. 44 pp. Original printed wrappers (chipped, spine partially defective). The complex and protracted litigation over the San Francisco estate of one of the richest men in America, mining tycoon James Graham Fair, dragged on for many years after his death in 1894. Born in Ireland in 1831, Fair and his impoverished father came to the U.S. in 1843. James went to California in 1850 to labor as a lowly prospector; he soon turned his attention to Nevada. After working as a superintendent and engineer at various mining sites, he formed a partnership with three men, two of whom were born in Ireland and one was the son of Irish immigrants. Together they made millions in silver mining in the Comstock Lode, one of the largest silver deposits ever found; indeed, in just six years the Comstock Lode produced more than $100 million worth of silver bullion ($3.5 billion in today's currency). By 1875 the four "Silver Kings" had become fantastically wealthy. Fair invested shrewdly in the South Pacific Coast Railroad and in real estate. But money led to a dissolute life of affairs and alcohol. In 1883 his wife filed for divorce which was uncontested; she received the family mansion and nearly $5,000,000 in cash (at that time the divorce settlement on record), while also gaining custody of their two daughters from whom Fair had become estranged. His two sons also caused him much unhappiness. He campaigned successfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1881, but following his defeat in 1886 he lived the rest of his life alone in a hotel. At his death Fair's wealth was estimated at $50,000,000 -- an almost unbelievable sum in those days. Our volume is S.F. 2871 (March 19, 1902) and concerns the famous litigation of the $18,000,000 worth of real property in Fair's trust and estate. Here the appellants in the case are the counsel of said trust, which was created by Fair's will for his children during their lives, followed upon their death by a trust to others. The trustees were empowered "to sell any property," real or personal, and to invest the proceeds, and to purchase other property, or to apply the proceeds of sales to the improvement of other property, and for any other of the purposes declared in the will, and to pay to the children mouthly "the net income." The court declared void the entire trust scheme as to the realty. An interesting aspect of the case involves the forensic accounting undertaken by one of the appellant's laywers, George E. Crothers, who had personal charge of the forgery branch of the litigation; Crothers won a notable victory in the proof of a forgery by original mathematical lines of deduction based upon consecutively numbered checks. (SOURCE: L.F. Byington, History of San Francisco, 1931, vol. 2, pp. 64-76). The full text of Fair's Last Will and Testament, dated 1894, appears at end. Scarce: two copies in OCLC FirstSearch (Berkeley and California Historical). Not in the Library of Congress. Not in Rare Book Hub.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. Three very scarce works about Newcastle, including an account of flooding in the region, a reprint of a seventeenth century work about a siege of the city, and a French language discussion of the local railway. Three very scarce works, bound together.The first of these works is an 1818 first edition titled 'An Account of the Great Floods of the Rivers Tyne, Tees, Wear, Eden, &c. in 1771 and 1815', by William Garret. Including an account of the eruption of soilway moss.With the title page present in facsimile.The second work is a very scarce 1820 facsimile of a 1645 narrative of 'That Famous and Renowned Siege of Newcastle [.] Together with a Succinct Commentarie upon The Battell of Bowden Hill, and that Victorious Battell of York or Marston Moore'.This narrative is credited to William Lithgow.The third and final work present is the very scarce 1818 French language work 'Des Chemins de fer en Angleterre, Notamment a Newcastle, dans le Northumberland' by M. de Gallois, describing the railways of England, with a focus on those of Newcastle and Northumberland.Rebound in half cloth, with endpapers renewed. Rebound in quarter cloth, with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. First title page in facsimile. Pages of first two works generally clean and bright, with pages of final work age toned due to paper type. Very Good Indeed. book.