London: Herbert Jenkins, 1917. Hardcover. 120, [8] p.; 20 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles and double-rule border. Publisher's advertisements on 8 pages following text. No dust jacket. First edition. The author, Patrick MacGill (1889-1963), was an Irish poet, journalist, and novelist who served with...
London: W.H. Allen & Co.1, 1883. Hardcover. xxii, [2], 419, [5] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 unpaginated battle plans (one folded), and 1 folded map of India (in a back pocket); 23 cm. Red cloth, with gilt-stamped spine title between gilt-stamped ornamental top and bottom borders; black-stamped...
New York: Random House, 1943. Hardcover. Second printing. xv, [1], 328 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Grey cloth with red and black spine title and red cover title. No dust jacket. Letters from 95 American men and women about their experiences in branches of the U.S. military since the beginning of...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855. Hardcover. 212, 4 p., 1 double-leaf frontispiece, 2 double-leaf plates, and 6 additional leaves of plates; 19 cm. Original dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cannon illustration; embossed pattern on both boards. Yellow endpapers. Plates were lithographed by Sarony & Co....
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1882. The sheet is 11.5 x 15 inches; the image is 7.25 x 10 inches. The print is a black-and-white image of the painting The Emperor Napoleon III. at Solferino by Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The series The Masterpieces of French Art was issued in the...
Corsham, Eng. 1902. Autograph letter signed, dated Oct. 22, 1902 (on Corsham Court, Wiltshire, stationary) to unknown recipient praising the Burnham Rifle Club, which had been formed in 1899 (either the first or second rifle club formed in England). Methuen concluded: "I should consider it a great honour to be...
Philadelphia, Pa. John B. Perry, 1845. Hard Cover. The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion with an Appendix; Containing: Biographical Notices of Greene, Morgan, Pickens, Sumpter, Washington, Lee, Davie, and Other Distinguished Officers of the Southern Campaign, durning the American Revolution. 210 p. (frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of...
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1917. Hardcover. 31 p.; 16 cm. Red cloth; pastedown with title and waving American flag. Contains the message issued by President Woodrow Wilson when the United States entered World War One, along with an explanation of the symbolism of the flag and the lyrics to...
Hartford, Conn. Oliver D. Cooke, 1821. Hardcover. Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved. 384 p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: portraits, tables; 19 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Life of Com. Perry." Appendix, comprising a....
Washington, D.C. 1824. Pamphlet. 4 p.; 16 cm. "[No. 33.]" - above heading. Dated Washington, May 28th, 1824, and signed: Chs. J. Nourse. Lists promotions and appointments made by the President since the publication of the Register in Jan. 1824. These were in the 1st, 2nd, and 4th regiments of...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Crane Duplicating; Barnstable, Mass. Uncorrected Proof. [12], 384 p.; 21 cm. Green paper covers. This is an uncorrected proof of the book, which does not contain the illustrations contained in the published version. In Near Fine Condition: cover is very slightly creased.
London: Mandrake Press, 1929. Hardcover. 187, [1] p.; 19 cm. Brown cloth with green spine title. No dust jacket. Set in a foxhole during the First World War, this bleak novel was inspired by the author's experience as an Irish Guardsman during that war. Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) was an Irish...
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1835. Hardcover. xvi, 448 p.: frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates (including 1 folded map); 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second spine compartment with gilt-tooled title: Life of Ld. Exmouth. Gilt-tooled decoration in...
Paris: Anselin, Libraire pour l'Art Militaire, 1835. Hardcover. [4], 324, [2] p.: title vignette, tables; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; both gilt-tooled and blind-tooled spine decoration. Pink, blue, and white marbled paper in an unusual tiger pattern over boards. Dark blue and black marbled endpapers in...
Philadelphia: G. Palmer, 1816. Hardcover. v, [1], 354 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. Includes index. Former owner's name stamped on front fixed endpaper: "B. Grimler." Contains two sections: Annals of America and Official Documents. Both relate to events in the War of 1812...
Boston: I.R. Butts, 1846. Paperback. Third Edition. 33, [1] p.; 20 cm. Stitched pamphlet; pages have not been trimmed. Former owner's name inscribed in an old hand at head of title page: Wm. Rutherford. Parker had become minister of the 28th Congregational Church, Boston, in January 1846; his congregation included...
Sheffield, England: J.W. Northend, printer and lithographer, 1911. Hardcover. lxix, [3], 811 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author and 58 leaves of plates from photographs chiefly reproduced by Furniss of Sheffield; 25 cm. Printer's royal blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and illustrations of crown and drum, and gilt-stamped...
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1878. 1 chromolithographed print 34 x 26 cm. signed "Ape," without the biographical text. Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889) was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Archibald Forbes (1838-1900), British war correspondent, began writing for...
Harrisburg: J.M.G. Lescure, printer to the state, 1850. 1 leaf 23 x 16 cm. Printed on one side only, within decorative border. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. The rules specified the payment of pensions and gratuitites to veterans of the Revolutionary and Indian wars or their widows...
Berlin: Schall & Grund, 1895. Hardcover. xi, [1], 690, [4] p.: frontispiece portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm I, 21 additional leaves of illustrations (including 3 folded leaves of maps), many in-text portraits, maps, and other illustrations; 29 cm. Publisher's light grey cloth with black-and-gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; black-, gilt-, and...
Geneva: Éditions Famot, 1973. Hardcover. "Exemplaire Réservé par François Beauval pour ses Amis Bibliophiles." 235, [5] p., 8 leaves of plates; 18 cm. Dark blue leather spine and white leather over boards. Silver stamped spine title and decoration; oval color pastedown illustration on front cover within silver decoration. Blue, white.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. Hardcover. xii, 340, 8 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 16 leaves of plates by Melton Prior; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Publisher's catalog on 8 pages following text. With: small leaflet advertising the publisher's Germany and the Next War by...
Alexandria [Va.]: S. Snowden & J.D. Simms, 1813. 36 p.; 22 cm. Stitched. The author, Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), was a U.S. congressman from 1805 to 1813; he also served as mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1828 and as president of Harvard University from 1829 to 1845. In this speech...
London: Hering & Remington, 1848. 1 hand-colored lithograph 430 x 527 mm. (image is 264 x 372 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23.25 inches). The lithograph was created by Robert Carrick (1820-1905) of Day & Son, after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray (1818-1854) was a lieutenant in the British Bengal...
London: Hering & Remington, 1848. 1 hand-colored lithograph 429 x 533 mm. (image is 275 x 375 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23 inches). The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker (1813 or 1814-1882) of Day & Son, after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray (1818-1854) was a lieutenant in the...
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