A Family Man at Sea: My Dearest Margaret... Letters Home from a Mediterranean Flagship 1837-1841

The Chaucer Head. Paperback ISBN: 0957637705, Condition: LikeNew.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000267659

The Great Secret, Being the Letters of an Old Man to a Young Woman: A Book for Beginners

London, Watts & Co. 1911. Hardcover. Ex-Library, Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex-library. Ink stamp on reverse of title page. Boards are lightly worn. Spine ends are bumped. Page block and pages are tanned and foxed. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Volume is slightly cocked and binding is slightly visible throughout but remains intact. Text remains clear throughout. HCW. Good/No Dust Jacket.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 459093

Catalogue: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal

[Southey, Robert].

Robert Southey 1774-1843. Poet Laureate, Historian, Man of Letters.

Published by the Fitz Park Trust, 1974. [12] pp, centre page plate, portrait. Printed card wraps, stapled. Wraps slightly soiled, faint marginal age browning to contents.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 30876

Abbott, John Lawrence

John Hawkesworth: Eighteenth-Century Man of Letters

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. 8vo. 241 pp. Very Good, Brown Cloth, Dust Jacket with rubbing, edge wear & minor tears, shelf-wear. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 16-0980

Catalogue: Books

Adcock, F. E.

Caesar As Man of Letters

Cambridge, University Press, 1956. [x] 114 [1]p. original purple cloth, slight foxing on the edges. .

Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILABProfessional seller

Book number: 034768

Keywords: Julius Caesar Classics Rome

The Adorer

The Finest Baby in the World: being Letters from a Man to Himself About His Child

Edinburgh, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1906. 2nd impression. Hardcover. 12mo. feps discoloured, knock to leading pegs. moderate wear to boards small knock to top edges, surface of hinges beginning to split. 1cm loss from top of a backstrip, slight roll to spine.titling on fc rubbed, backstrip faded Good.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 90000994

Catalogue: Non Fiction

Keywords: MALE BIO

Aldington, Richard

Remy de Gourmont _ a Modern Man of Letters

Seattle, University of Washington Book Store, 1928. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps with flaps, 41 pp covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 88355

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Literature

Barker, Elsa, written down by,

War Letters from the Living Dead Man.

NY, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. G. Automatic writings from an American judge and teacher of philosophy known to his intimate friends as "X". Introduction. explains the communication from the other world some days before his death. Owner name on title page.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS047824I

Catalogue: Biography

Barker, Elsa

War Letters from the Living Dead Man

Kennerley, Mitchell,, 1915. hardback. good+ condition in cloth with moderate wear - no dust jacket

Wonderland BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 81924

THE CAXTON CLUB; BRUCE YOUNG AND BRUCE BECK (EDITORS)

Rhm: Robert Hunter Middleton: The Man and His Letters: Eight Essays on His Life and Career

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Case bound with a buckram spine and paper sides over boards, carrying paper labels on front and spine. It includes 112 letterpress pages and 16 offset pages printed on acid-free paper and Smyth-sewn. Title-page printed in black and red. The volume is illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles. Prospectus laid in. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson. This book was created by the Caxton Club in the tradition of Middleton's fine letterpress work. It is composed in Monotype Bembo, printed from metal type at Heritage Printers in Charlotte, NC. The chapter headings and display matter are set in Eusebius (Middlteon's design) and printed from the Ludlow castings. It is illustrated with examples of Middleton's types, and contains a special offset section showing examples of his books and portfolios, wood engravings, glass engraving and paste-papers. There are photos illustrating his method of punch cutting and matrix making, and views of his famous Cherryburn Press. Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985) was an American book designer, painter, and type designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland he came to Chicago in 1908 where he studied at the School of the Art Institute. He joined the design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1923 and served as director of the department of typeface design from 1933–71. In 1944 he began operating a private press, The Cherryburn Press. Middleton was founder of The Typographic Society, a member of the New Bauhaus, and a founder of the Twenty-Seven Designers. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Still in original shipping box. NEW/NEW.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. x, (i), 100, (1) pp. New in New dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 26853

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Books About Books Bibliography Typefaces Printing Book Design Letterpress Caxton Club Limited Edition Biography & Memoir Books About Books Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

Black, J. L.

Essays on Karamzin: Russian man-of-letters, political thinker, historian, 1766-1826.

The Hague / Paris, Mouton, 1975 Paperback. 232 pp.; 24x16 cm. " Slavistic Printings and Reprintings 309 " Text in English. - (spine slightly folded, covers bit discolored) Although very good, see picture . Gewicht/Weight: 360 grs.

Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile KerssemakersProfessional seller

Book number: 77387

BREWER, ROY

Eric Gill the Man Who Loved Letters

TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1973. Hardcover. ISBN: 0584103514. 96pp, illustrated, ex college library, bound in grey cloth with sl wrinkled dustwrapper ; Ars Typographica Library; 9.9212598324 X 7.4015747956 X qu; 96 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 74037

Keywords: 0584103514 9212598324 4015747956

(Brontë). Lock, John and Dixon, Canon W.T.

A MAN OF SORROW. The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë 1777-1861. Foreword by The Archbishop of York.

Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1965. 1st Trade Ed. Large 8vo. [xvi] + 566pp. Port. frontis., 33 plates. Some sporadic spotting, shaken, original gilt lettered cloth with lettering sl. rubbed to spine, in lightly soiled and chipped d/w. browned to spine.

Francis Edwards BooksellersProfessional seller

Book number: 286193

Catalogue: LITERATURE: PRE 1900 LITERATURE

Keywords: LITERATURE; PRE 1900 LITERATURE

BUCKLAND. A. C.

LETTERS ON THE IMPORTANCE, DUTY AND ADVANTAGES OF EARLY RISING. Addresses to Heads of Families, the Man of Business, the Lover of Nature, the Student, and the Christian.

Taylor & Hessey. London. 1819. Second edition. First few leaves are a little foxed but overall a clean copy. Fore and lower edges uncut. Original publisher's brown paper covered boards with printed label to spine. The paper label is complete but the lettering has faded. Joints cracked but holding. Published anonymously, Buckland is listed as the author in Halkett and Laing's dictionary of Anonymous & pseudonymous literature.

Paul Foster BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 5065

Carroll, Andrew, Ed

Behind the Lines; Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--and One Man's Search to Find Them

New York, Etc. Scribner, 2005. [viii] 501p. b/w illus. dj.

Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILABProfessional seller

Book number: 038775

Keywords: Military Americana