(DE COSTA-WILLIS M. - MARTIN R. - BELL R.P.) -

Black Erotica.

Milano, Frassinelli, 1993, 8vo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. XXXIV-257. Ottima copia.

Libreria PianiProfessional seller

Book number: 3-53211

Keywords: (Erotica)

[ WILLIAM & THOMAS HARRISON / GEORGE WILLIS ] .

The Great Jennens Case : Being An Epitome Of The History Of The Jennens Family. Compiled On Behalf Of The Jennens Family By Messrs. Harrison & Willis.

Sheffield : Pawson & Brailsford, High Street And Mulberry St, 1879 . 0. A very good original binding, rebacked at somtime in the past. 8vo. 7.25" x 5" x 0.75" . [4pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.228/[1p. - "corrections"] .Red cloth covered boards, with gilt crest and title to front board. Spine dulled and soiled, with gilt title: "Jennens Estates". Original brown endpapers. Early dedication to verso of the front board: "Edward Jennings from Horace B. Woodward". Inner hinges carefully strengthend at some time in the past. Light sptting throughout. Clear English text. Illustrated with 13 full-page lithographs (including frontis) and one fold-out pediigree. A very good copy of a scarce book. ** William "the Miser" - William the younger became nationally famous as 'the Acton Miser', a role he played so successfully that, at his death, he was the richest man in England, and found to be worth well over two million pounds, the equivalent of about half a billion in today's money. On 19 June 1798, William Jennings (or Jennens) died at Acton Place in County Suffolk, England, aged about 97 years. William was described as a "crusty old bachelor" and a miser, but he had amassed a fortune that some called the largest of any commoner in Britain. And he left no heirs, and no will. His death touched off a feeding frenzy among lawyers on two continents that lasted 135 years. Since William had no children and no brothers, by English common law the estate was to be divided among his first cousins, descendants of William's grandfather, Humphrey Jennings; and so the legacy became known as the Humphrey Jennings estate. By 1821 the succession had been essentially settled, with the family of Lord Curzon (made Earl of Howe that year) gaining the bulk of the real estate. But that didn't stop the lawsuits, which came first from British and Irish claimants, then, beginning in 1849, from America. At various times there were seventeen legal proceedings in operation, the last being filed (and thrown out of court) in 1934 on behalf of a group of American claimants. According to one account, the Bank of England had to employ seven clerks just to handle correspondence related to the claims, in spite of the fact that there was almost nothing left to fight over. The "Great Jennens Case" became such a symbol of legal dissipation and frivolity that Charles Dickens used it as the basis for the "Jarndyce and Jarndyce" case in his 1852 novel Bleak House.

Chilton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 47782

Catalogue: East Anglia

Keywords: 49269 Bleak House Dickens Pawson & Brailsford Sheffield Jennens Jennings Acton Sudbury Long Melford Harrison Willis Miser Udal East Anglia

(Willis, N.P.)

"Professor Wilson and Mr. Willis" in New-York Mirror (September 26, 1835)

New-York Mirror, 1835. First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. Original, complete disbound newspaper in fine condition with minor foxing. This article is largely a defense of N.P. Willis, who had recently undergone a a number of newspaper attacks. Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 017276

WOLLHEIM, DONALD A. & SAHA, ARTHUR W. (EDITORS)(GEORGE R. R. MARTIN; SOMTOW SUCHARITKUL; JOHN VARLEY; ORSON SCOTT CARD; RICHARD WILSON; CONNIE WILLIS; LARRY NIVEN & STEVE BARNES; TANITH LEE; RICHARD COWPER; TED REYNOLDS; JOANNA RUSS)

The 1980 Annual World's Best Sf

NY, DAW. 1980, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover, with dust jacket. [Reprint](#L50). Jacket art by Gary Viskupic. Includes "Introduction"; "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin; "The Thirteenth Utopia" by Somtow Sucharitkul; "Options" by John Varley; "Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card; "The Story Writer" by Richard Wilson; "Daisy, In the Sun" by Connie Willis; "The Locusts" by Larry Niven & Steve Barnes; "The Thaw" by Tanith Lee; "Out There Where the Big Ships Go" by Richard Cowper; "Can These Bones Live?" by Ted Reynolds; "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand" by Joanna Russ. Edge and corner wear; rubs to dj; minor edge tears; minor top end soiling. Very Good+ to Near Fine/Good+ to Very Good-.

Books from the cryptProfessional seller

Book number: UIA356

Catalogue: Science Fiction Hardcovers

Keywords: Science Fiction Anthologies Science Fiction Anthology

WILLIS H. A.

Bad Blood, the story of Stanley Graham

Auckland, Fontana. 1981, First Thus. (ISBN: 0003649250) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. The true account of the West Coast murderer / fugitive Stanley Grahame, non-fiction in depth historical account, VG paperback copy, 224pp well illustrated. Very Good/No Jacket.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 008171

Catalogue: New Zealand Non-Fiction

Keywords: New Zealand History Crime True Story Biography West Coast South Island Manhunt Stanley Graham Outlaw 0003649250

ABBOT, Willis J.

Aircraft and submarines: the story of the invention, development, and present-day uses of war's newest weapons

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth 1st ed.. Internally near VG, with light damp-stain on first 32 pages; binding tight; damp-stain to red cloth on front board; spine faded; gilt on spine & front board oxydised. Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS184106I

Abbot, Willis John

Blue Jackets of '61: A History of the Navy in the War of Secession

New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1892. Hardcover. 318p. illus. Ill.: W. C. Jackson et al. Good condition; spine worn, in light blue decorated cloth .

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 011754

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Navy - U.S. ; ; Us CIVIL War W.C. Jackson Et Al Americana CIVIL War Nautical U.S. Navy

Abbot, Willis J.,

Panama and the Canal in picture and prose: a complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its....

NY, Syndicate Pub Co, 1913. Fair.world-famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Over 600 photos. Colored illustrations, map of Panama Canal and Canal Zone facing title page; plus Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica; Old French Canal at Mount Hope; The River and Village of Chagres; The Culebra Cut; Avenue B, Panama City; Panama Bay, Old Landing at Taboga, Santa Ana Plaza, Panama; plus others. Paste down pictorial cover on red binding, gilt lettering. Heavy edge wear on extremities, frontis mended.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS051473I

Catalogue: Travel

Abbot, Willis J.

The Panama Canal in Picture and Prose; a Complete Story of Panama, As Well As the History, Purpose, and Promise of Its World-Famous Canal - the Most Gigantic Engineering Undertaking Since the Dawn of Time

London, New York, etc. Syndicate Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 412, (ii), ad leaf; Profusely illustrated, many black and white photographs, color plates from watercolors by E. J. Read and Gordon Grant and a folding color map; full black pebbled leather covered paper boards lettered in gilt, marbled end papers. A good or better copy. Wear to extremities, leather separating but still intact. Internally very good. Building the Panama Canal was the greatest engineering feat of all time. From the first French efforts through the American completion, an amazing story. Theodore Roosevelt considered the Canal his greatest achievement. Good + .

Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 13858

Keywords: Canal Zone; Panama; Panama Canal; Theodore Roosevelt

Willis J. Abbot

Watching the World Go by

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Life and times of a leading American journalist at the turn of the 20th century. All in good order internally, though block slightly grubby. Dark red boards, spine very faded, marks to front and some wear to edges. Scarce. Good/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 000135

Catalogue: Journalism

Keywords: Journalism Newspapers USA

ABORIGINAL (KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH; PATRICIA ANTHONY; DEAN WHITLOCK; CHARLES L. GRANT; JOHN F. MOORE; CONNIE WILLIS; PEG LIBERTUS; SANDY DEAN)

Aboriginal Sf: February, Feb. - March, Mar. 1987

Woburn, MA, Aboriginal SF. 1987. SingleIssueMagazine. Association, Vol. 1, No. 3. Cover art by Bob Eggleton for "Sing" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Includes "Our Alien Publisher"; "Editor's Notes" by Charles C. Ryan; "Boomerangs"; "Aborigines" by Laurel Lucas; "The Reel Stuff" by Jesse Horsting; "Books" by Darrell Schweitzer; "Blood Brothers" by Patricia Anthony; "Containment" by Dean Whitlock; "One Spring in Wyoming" by Charles L. Grant; "Trackdown" by John F. Moore; "Circus Story" by Connie Willis; "A Lunar Cycle" by Peg Libertus; "Cartoons" by Sandy Dean. Illustrated by Bob Eggleton, Cortney Skinner, Charles Lang, Val Lakey Lindahn, Wendy Snow-Lang, and N. Taylor Blanchard. Label remains on front (SF historian and critic Thomas D. Clareson's address label); wear through at spine fold; creasing; mild tanning; bumps and dings. Very Good-.

Books from the cryptProfessional seller

Book number: PQ1052

Catalogue: Magazines

Keywords: Science Fiction Periodicals Science Fiction Magazines Association Copies

ADDINGTON WILLIS E. - OLIVER David T. -

Roman Law. Examination Guide for Bar and University.

London, Butterworth & Co, 1904, 8vo (cm. 20 x 13) legatura originale tutta tela, pp. VIII-306-(14) . Sottolineature e note a margine a matita ed a biro.

Libreria PianiProfessional seller

Book number: 2-88289

Catalogue: Giurisprudenza

Keywords: (Giurisprudenza - Diritto romano)

Aesop; Willis L. Parker

The Fables of Aesop

New York, Illustrated Editions Company, 1931. Leather. A uniquely bound collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated by Charles H. Bennett and hand-coloured by the binder Eric Sweet, who beautifully bound this work in quarter morocco with a watercolour cover and a cloth clamshell casing. The first American edition of Bennett's illustrated edition of the Fables of Aesop. First published in the UK in 1857. Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, a noted Victorian illustrator, with a frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated, complete. The plates are hand-coloured by Eric Sweet to replicate Bennett's scarce hand-coloured edition. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. Beautifully bound in crushed quarter morocco with watercolour paper boards, endpapers renewed, blanks and half title retained, with a cloth clamshell box. Eric Sweet's binder's label can be found inside the clamshell. The volume also includes two draft copies of the watercolour paintings he produced for the cover.A binder's note from Sweet can be found to the front of the work, discussing the watercolour covers and his hand-colouring of the plates. Bound in crushed quarter morocco with paper to the boards, endpapers renewed, blanks and half title retained, with a cloth clamshell box. Externally lovely. Bookplate of Eric Sweet to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with clean and lightly age toned pages. The clamshell box is lovely with a binder's label internally. Fine . Ill.: Charles H. Bennett. Fine .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 962Z11

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Eric Sweet Illustrated Hand-coloured Morocco Illustrated Charles H. Bennett Charles H. Bennett

AGARD, [F. B. ] WILLIS [Raymond S], & PARATORE [Angela] (llus. Rand)

The Express Course in Basic Conversational Spanish: Record Plus Manual: Speaking and Writing Spanish. [Cover Illustration by Rand]

London, Daily Express, n.d. Colour illustrated boxed set (31 x 31 x4.5 cm) comprising hardback in original dust-wrapper, b/w plates, 165+lvi pp. in inner compartment, and two vinyl 33 1/3 RPM records in original sleeves. A very nice bright box and records. Very light signs of use. Clean and tight. Book showing some some signs of age and wear. Dust-wrapper torn. "To enable you to get so much more out of your travels whether on pleasure or business.".

Marijana Dworski BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37755

Catalogue: Vintage Language Records

Keywords: Spanish|Romance Language|Record|Vinyl|Linguistics |Featured|Book-Cover-Design

AIREY, WILLIS

A Learner in China. A Life of Rewi Alley

Christchurch, Caxton Press. 1970, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 291 pages, b/w illustrations, ex-library copy, lacks front fly leaf, slightly slanting. Good/Good.

Tinakori BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 2077

Catalogue: New Zealand

Keywords: Rewi Alley, China, New Zealand