Acme Books

Scarce First Editions English & American Literature and Other Choice out-of-Print Books. Catalogue No. 8

Oakland, Acme Books, 1966. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 64 pp. 8vo. 993 items listed. A very good+ copy.

Kaaterskill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 39787

Catalogue: Books about Books

Keywords: , Books about Books, Bookseller Catalogues,

San Francisco Chronicle

The Chronicle's Readers' Choice First Place Award for Best Bookstore: East Bay, 1999

San Francisco, Calif.: The Chronicle, 1999. Framed certificate, approx. 9 x 12", awarding Cody's Books "Best Bookstore: East Bay," in annual Chronicle's readers' poll. Color lithograph. VG. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 08-1258

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Cody's Books

CHURCHILL Peter

Of their own Choice [with] Duel of Wits [with] The Spirit in the Cage. THE SOE TRILOGY IN FULL MOROCCO; FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1952-3-4]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plate and map; handsomely bound in (respectively) burgundy/navy/dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Captain Peter Churchill's famous trilogy recounts his training, his first mission to France, his three later missions, his friendship and service with Odette, their capture, his solitary confinement in Fresnes, and deportation to Sachsenhausen and Flossenburg before his final liberation as a 'prominenten' in Italy in 1945. ARGUABLY THE FINEST CONTINUOUS MEMOIR OF SERVICE WITH SOE IN WWII. Enser, pp.396, 396, 351 (respectively); Foot, p.456.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 21886

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, espionage, soe, special operations executive, churchill, peter churchill, odette, odette hallowes

COLLECTIF

WINE SPECTATOR - BORDEAUX 2000 FIRST LOOK AT A GREAT VINTAGE ; JAMES SUCKLING RATES MORE THAN 400 WINES ; PLUS A MENU TO MATCH BORDEAUX ; FIFTH ANNUAL READER'S CHOICE AWWARDS

WINE SPECTATOR, 2001. 2001. In-4. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 152 pages illustrées de figures dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 634.8-Viticulture, vin. .

Le-livre.comProfessional seller

Book number: R300014915

Catalogue: Mammifères

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]

PEARL-FISHING. Choice Stories. From Dickens' Household Words. First Series

Auburn: Alden Beardsley & Co, 1854. 1st edition (Edgar & Vail, p. 26; Gimbel D22; Van der Poel B566.1). Original red blindstamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering & spine decoration. Bright yellow eps. 351, [1] pp. Advert last page. Frontis of Dickens, engraved by Buttre after the "Nickleby" portrait. 12mo. VG+ (spine gilt slightly dull/frontis foxed).

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 5415

Catalogue: Dickens

DUSTON, Thomas E.

Recycling Solid Waste: The First Choice for Private and Public Sector Management.

Quorom Books, 1993. Hardcover. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean and bright text). No dust jacket. 204pp. ISBN 089930754X.

The Book FirmProfessional seller

Book number: 72162

Keywords: recycling solid waste private public seector management

Ralph Payne-Gallwey

Letters to Young Shooters First Series: On the Choice and Use of a Gun Second Series: The Production, Preservation, and Killing of Game Third Series: A Short Natural History of British Wildfowl and Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1894-6. First edition. Cloth. A collection of the three volumes completing Ralph Payne-Gallwey's guide to shooting, a miscellany of early editions, the third series is a first. A complete guide to shooting for young sportsmen, in three volumes. Comprising the fourth edition of the first series, published in 1895, which looks at picking the perfect gun and its use; the second edition of the second series published in 1894, focussing on the killing and preserving game, with directions in shooting woodpigeons and breaking in retrievers; the first edition of the third series of 1896 with the history of British game birds and how to shoot them. Illustrated in text throughout, with a frontispiece portrait of the author to the second volume and facsimile signature. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, the upper joint of vol. I slightly cracked but holding firm, minor soiling to the boards. The spine of vol. I has slightly darkened. With William Herbert Peto's bookplate to the front pastedowns of the first two volumes. Annotated in pencil by a previous owner to the half title of volume one. Previous ownership signature to the front blank page of volume three, undated. Some foxing to the first few leaves, light foxing throughout. Illustrated in text by the author, with a frontispiece portrait of the author to vol. II and an illustrated frontispiece to vol. III. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 794A46

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes

Keywords: shooting hunting guides hunting Not Stated

de Grey, Thomas.

The Compleat Horse-Man and Expert Ferrier. In Two Books. The First, Shewing the Best Manner of Breeding Good Horses, with Their Choice, Nature, Riding and Dieting, As Well for Running As Hunting, and How the Rider Ought to Behave Himself in the Breaking and Riding of Colts... The Second, Directing the Most Exact and Approved Manner How to Know and Cure All Maladies and Diseases in Horses: A Work Containing the Secrets and Best Skill Belonging Either to Ferrier or Horse-Leach: The Cures Placed Alphabetically; with Hundreds of Medicines Never Before Imprinted in Any Authour. The Third Edition Corrected with Some Additions.

London: printed by J.L. for Humphrey Moseley, 1656. 1656. - Small quarto, 7-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full contemporary brown calf. The leather covers are rubbed & scuffed with pieces chipped from the head & tail of the spine. Pages [i-xxxii], 1-274, 267-424, 427-482, 493-631, and [1-13]. Misnumbered but textually complete, with decorative head pieces & engraved initials and a full-page botanical illustration on page 313. Lacks the frontispiece, which is somewhat common with this book. There is some occasional minor foxing with some occasional staining. The front edges of the first few leaves are darkened & slightly chipped and there is a tiny piece out from the bottom edge of one leaf. The text block is cracking and a few signatures (i.e. group of pages) are lightly pulled. Good.

Third edition. Good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 97811

Catalogue: Horses

Keywords: HORSES; NATURAL HISTORY; NATURE; ANIMALS; THOMAS DE GREY; THE COMPLEAT HORSE-MAN AND EXPERT FERRIER; VETERINARY MEDICINE; HORSE BREEDING; HORSE RIDING; HUNTING; BREAKING COLTS; EQUITATION; EQUINES; MEDICINE; STABLES; FERRIERS; HUMPHREY MOSELEY; DECORATION

Kraus, H. P.

Choice Manuscripts and Books, Bindings and Autographs: Outstanding for Their Beauty, Rarity or Importance: Including Americana, First Editions, Incunabula, Herbals, History of Science, Atlases, Illuminated & Text Manuscripts... Catalogue 75

New York, H. P. Kraus, 1955. First edition. Paper wrappers. 127 pp. Illus. with 5 color plates, 107 halftones, 50 linecuts. 4to. 121 items. Bump to spine else a fine copy in an edgworn glassine wrapper.

Kaaterskill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45283

Catalogue: Books about Books

Keywords: , Books about Books, Bookseller Catalogues, Books on Books, Rare Books, Bookseller Catalogues,

Friends of The Bancroft Library; Wesley B. Tanner (print)

The Friends of the Bancroft Library Invite You to a Reception for the Opening of Collector's Choice, a Selection of Books & Manuscripts Assembled by William P. Barlow Jr. During His First 30 Years As a Book Collector. April 29, 1984

Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, 1984. Card, Letterpress on Laid Light Card Stock, Blue & Red Ink, 4.5 x 6 inches. Very Good with minor smudge, crease. Scarce. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 63-3198

Catalogue: Ephemera

(du Maurier, George). Reade, Charles; Boucicault, Dion.

Foul Play" First American Edition, First Issue of the Novel by Charles Reade As Serialized in "Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading Selected from Foreign Current Literature". Volume 5, Consisting of 26 Issues from January 4 Through June 27, 1868. [Complete with 4 George Du Maurier Plates].

Boston, MA: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. 1868. - Large octavo, 10-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcovers, twenty-six issues each bound in the original pictorial buff wraps, each illustrated with a vignette of a globe beneath the banner title held by 2 cherubs and with an illustration of an "Atlantic and Pacific R.R. Co.", train labeled "For Home & Travel" below. The covers are creased and several are stained with some chipping to the edges of the wrappers. The wrappers on 5 issues are detached. Each issue has a small subscriber's label on the front wrap. Approximately 40 pages per issue, including the covers and pictorial ads and a total of 4 plates by George du Maurier. Each of the issues has light to moderate dampstaining to approximately the top 1/3 of the pages. The overlapping edges of many pages are slightly chipped and there are ink stains on pages 303-304. A complete run of the issues which contained the full text of Charles Reade's novel.

RARE in serial form.

The contents are as follows: Volume 5, No. 105. Consisting of pages (1-4), 1-32, & (5-8) containing the text to "Foul Play" Part 1; Volume 5, No. 106. Pages (1-4), 33-64, & (5-8). The wrappers are detached. "Foul Play" Part 2; Volume 5, No. 107. (1-4), 65-96, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 3; Volume 5, No. 108. (1-4), 97-128, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 4; Volume 5, No. 109. (1-4), 129-160, (5-8) pages. The wrappers are detached, "Foul Play" Part 5. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold: "Anarchy and Authority", Richard A. Proctor: "Colored Suns", Algernon Charles Swinburne "Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire" and Tennyson "On a Spiteful Letter". Volume 5, No. 110. (1-4), 161-192, (5-8) pages. This issue does not publish a chapter of "Foul Play". However, laid into this issue is du Maurier's plate "The Arrest". The edges of the plate are chipped with staining in the margins. Volume 5, No. 111. (1-4), 193-224, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 6. Also in this issue: Tennyson "Wages" from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 112. (1-4), 225-256, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 7. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Shipboard". The right half of the plate is dampstained. Also in this issue: Fanny Kemble "Lady Macbeth" from Advance Sheets, Robert Buchanan "A London Lyric" from Advance Sheets and Tennyson "1865-1866" from Advance Sheets. Volume 5, No. 113. (1-4), 257-288, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 8. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold "Anarchy and Authority" (Second Paper) and Arminius Vambery "Days and Nights in Persia". Volume 5, No. 114. (1-4), 289-320, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 9; Volume 5, No. 115. (1-4), 321-352, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 10. Also in this issue: "Some Curious Facts About Playing-Cards" translated from the French. Volume 5, No. 116. (1-4), 353-384, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 11. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Board the Cutter". There is light dampstaining to the plate. Volume 5, No. 117. (1-4), 385-416, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 12. There is a long tear to the front wrapper, without loss, and the wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 118. (1-4), 417-448, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 13. Also in this issue is "Diary in Libby Prison" by Lieutenant-Colonel Szabad. Volume 5, No. 119. (1-4), 449-480, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 14. Also in this issue "A Liberal Education and Where to Find It" by Professor Huxley. Volume 5, No. 120. (1-4), 481-512, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 15. There is a textual illustration of stones, the outline of which "resembled a great fish wanting the tail". Also in this issue: "Billiards and Billiard Players" from Advance Sheets of London Society and "Memorial Literature of the American War" by G.O. Trevelyan from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 121. (1-4), 513-544, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 16. The wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 122. (1-4), 545-576, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 17. There is a half-page textual diagram, a circle illustrating a "Round Robin". Also in this issue: Tennyson "Lucretius" from Advance Sheets. Volume 5, No. 123. (1-4), 577-608, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 18. There is a textual diagram featuring 2 arrows indicating courses of a ship. Volume 5, No. 124. (1-4), 609-640, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 19. Also in this issue: Christina G. Rossetti "Two Poems" and "A Mahomedan Version of Bible History". Volume 5, No. 125. (1-4), 641-672, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 20. Also in this issue: James Greenwood "The Soul Trap". Volume 5, No. 126. (1-4), 673-704, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 21. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "Helen Rolleston and Arthur Wardlaw". The plate has a corner crease. Volume 5, No. 127. (1-4), 705-736, (5-8) pages. "Foul Play" Part 22. Also in this issue George Eliot "Lyrics from 'The Spanish Gypsy'". Volume 5, No. 128. (1-4), 737-768, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 23. Volume 5, No. 129. (1-4), 769-800, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Concluded. Also in this issue "The White Camellia: A London Story". Volume 5, No. 130. (1-4), 801-828, (5-8) pages. The wrappers are detached. Bound into this issue is the overall title page and the table of contents for Volume 5, January-June, 1868. Also in this issue is Matthew Arnold "Anarchy and Authority" (Third Paper) and Charles Dickens "A Debt of Honor" from All the Year Round.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE as serialized in "Every Saturday".

FOUL PLAY is a novel concerned with the issue of unseaworthy ships. In this instance, these were ships that were overloaded and heavily insured by their owners, many of whom were members of Parliament. The novel and the stage play that derived from it aspired to create public support for safety measures such as those proposed by Samuel Plimsoll in the 1870's. Public pressure eventually swayed Parliament to pass The Merchant Shipping Act of 1876.

The novelist and dramatist Charles Reade (1814-1884) is best known for his novel "The Cloister and the Hearth". Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) was an Irish born American actor and playwright. Good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 97273

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; GEORGE DU MAURIER; FOUL PLAY; CHARLES READE; NOVEL; SERIALIZATION; SERIALIZED; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1ST ISSUE; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION; FICTION; EVERY SATURDAY; A JOURNAL OF CHOICE READING SELECTED FROM FOREIGN CURRENT LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATION

PEYTON, NIGEL.

Dual Role Ministry. First Choice or Mixed Blessings? (Grove Pastoral. 73).

Cambridge: Grove Books, 1998. 1851743685. 1st ed. Contents Include:- The Advent of Dual Role Ministries: Making Dual Role Appointments: Sustaining Dual Role Ministries: A Theology for Role Complexity in Ministry. Pp.24. Pbk. VG.

Chilton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 25742

Catalogue: Grove: : Pastoral

Keywords: Peyton Dual Role Ministry Blessings Grove Pastoral First Choice 22713 Grove: : Pastoral

[Rathbone, Hannah Mary. 1798 - 1878]. Cooper, Susan Augusta Fenimore [1813 - 1894] - Inscribed to

SO MUCH Of The DIARY Of LADY WILLOUGHBY, As Relates to Her Domestic History, and to the Eventful Period of the Reigh of Charles the First. Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading No. V.

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. 1st US edition. Original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers. [4], iv, 100, xii, [8] pp. Adverts conclude volume. 12mo. 7-7/16" x 5-1/16". Edge chipping to wrappers, with spine paper loss to top 1 cm & bottom 1-1/4". Slight cock. Dime size spot to front wrapper. An About VG copy. Fictitous account of the period. Presentation inscription to S. A. Fenimore Cooper on the ffep, from an indecipherable "affectionate friend.".

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 36189

Catalogue: Literature

Rondberg, Terry A.,

Chiropractic First: the fastest health care choice before drugs or surgery.

np, Chiropractic Journal, (1998). VG PB.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS013306I

Catalogue: Health

[California Regional Benefit Cookery Book]. Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore; Taft, Mrs Wm. H.; Sherman, Mrs. J. S. - Contributors

CHOICE EATABLES. Containing Original Autograph Recipes Written Espressly for this Book by the First Ladies of the Land : : : : Compiled by the Christian Endeavor Society of the First Congregational Church of San Jose, California

San Jose, California: San Jose Printing Company, 1908. 1st printing. Not in Axford, Brown, Cook, Glozier nor Wheaton & Kelly. Original publisher's brown stiff-stock printed paper wrappers. 112, [2] pp. Recipes signed in type. Inserted blank leaves [for notes]. Local business adverts throughout. Facsimiles of the letters sent by the first ladies. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Wrappers show some wear, soiling & chipping. Front wrapper beginning to detach top 3". Paper chipping at spine ends. Prior owner pencil marginalia. A Good copy. Your typical benefit cookery book, with recipes for the usual: bread, vegetables, salads, eggs, cookies, cake, etc, etc. though with the decidely atypical submissons by Roosevelt, Taft & Sherman, who, respectively, provided recipes for spice cake, stuffed eggs, and peanut cookies. Quite scarce, with, at the time of cataloguing, OCLC recording just two institutional holdings [SJSU & UCLA].

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 40642

Catalogue: Americana