AMES, JOHN EDWARD.

Unwritten Order.

NY: Bantam Books, 1995. 1. Advanced Reader's Copy. 404 pp. 8vo, Ivory paper wrappers. Softcover. . Very good+/No jacket issued. Head, heel and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Spine slightly sunned and concave. Top edge foxed. Else near fine. Clean, tight and bright. 0553567780.

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Book number: 35146

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Keywords: Literature & Fiction, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Uncorrected Proof

COMPTON, RALPH; AMES, JOHN EDWARD

Deadwood Gulch

New York, New York, U.S.A.: N A L, 2006. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN: 0451219864. pb,light wear/soil,crease at spine,chkmark on 1st pg; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 51399

Catalogue: Western

Keywords: 0451219864 Fiction Western History Western

MITCHELL, JOHN AMES (ED.); MARTIN, EDWARD S. (ED.); WHEELWRIGHT, J. T.; LATHROP, G. P.; GODWIN, J. CHEEVER; LANIGAN, G. T.; ALDEN, W. L.; PENN, ARTHUR

Life; Issued Every Thursday. Volume I, Number 1 (January 4, 1883)

New York: Life Offices, 1883. Ephemera. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, age-darkened. Light shelf wear.; Pocket-sized publication. Inaugural issue. Contents: Wheelwright, "What Is Lux?" Lathrop, "The Ballad of a Bore." Goodwin, J. Cheever, "Estranged." Lanigan, "'82 and '83." Alden, "Trees and Stockings." Penn, "The Drama." "Wisdom Let Loose." Advertisements. ; 4.5" tall; 16 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 1410126

Keywords: America United States Literature Literary Ephemera Magazine Periodical All Literature Americana Ephemera Periodicals Periodicals: : Volume 1, Number 1

STEVESON, BRENTON W.; SPICER, JOHN REED; AMES, EDWARD C.

English in Buisness and Engineering

Prentice Hall 1938, Third, Hardcover. . Wear to corner cover edges. Previous owner name in pen front free endpaper. Contents include: Requirements of a Business Letter, Research Article, The Written Report, The Press Release, The Spoken Word, Integration. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 29092

Keywords: TECHINAL BUSINESS ENGINEERING

[DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812 - 1870]. STIRLING, EDWARD [1807 - 1894]. WEBSTER, B[ENJAMIN. 1797 - 1882]. OXENFORD, JOHN [1812 - 1877]. SMITH, JOHN FREDERICK [1804? - 1890]. SELBY, CHARLES [1802? - 1863]. PLANCHE, J[AMES]. R[OBINSON. 1796 - 1880] WATTS

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. A Farce, In Two Acts. As Performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre. Taken from the Popular Work of that Name, by "Boz". Illustrated with an Engraving, by Pierce Egan The Younger. [bound in] The ACTING NATIONAL DRAMA. Volume IV.

London: Chapman & Hall, [n. d.]. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/4". 1st thus (Bolton, NN 1; Gimbel C47; Kitton, DICKENSIANA 464; VanderPoel B144 [for the later Samuel French edition]). Ca 1838. 36 pp for 'Nickleby'. Divers paginations for the remaining 9. NB. The Stirling piece known to have been published in Volume V of Acting National Drama series; the beginning t.p for this volume states "IV", which, coupled with the list of titles not present therein, indicates it was mis-bound. 19th C. green cloth with black leather spine label (cased in the late 1840s)., VG+ (slt lean/usual light foxing/occasional period pos). Frontis to 'Nickleby', 'Swains', 'Dilworth', 'Fritz' & 'Questions' by Pierce Egan the Younger. 'Barrack Room' frontis not signed.
¶ Dickens known to have twice attended this dramatic adaptation by Stirling [produced when NN only a third complete], and though he, on general principle, objected to any adaptation of an unfinished work, for this particular effort, he termed it "admirably done." [cf. Pilgrim Letters I, pp. 463-4]. This scarce piece of Dickensiana the second title in a bound collection of 10 individual pre-1850 C. dramatic works. In addition to the 'Nickleby', there is 'The Swiss Swains' [Webster. London: ca 1837]; 'Doctor Dilworth' [Oxenford. London: ca 1839]; 'The Court of Old Fritz' [Smith. London, ca 1839]; 'Ask No Questions' [Selby. London: ca 1838]; 'The Irish Post' [Planche. London: 1846]; 'The Jacobite' [Planche. London, ca 1847]; 'Which Is The King? [Watts. London: ca 1848]; 'Hop-O'-My-Thumb' [Smith. London: 1846]; & 'The Barrack Room.' [Bayly. NY: 1847].

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Book number: 26509