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Pamphlet. Condition: Good, removed. The pulpit, v. 33, no. 842, p. 393-408 in double columns; 20.5 cm.

Condition: Very Good. 14 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: National Library of Wales Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition (not stated). 1-452, [2], 453-600, i-iv, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 13.25cm. Contemporary full leather; boards well rubbed with some staining and edges worn particularly at corners; long surface scratch to rear board; spine worn at ends with shallow losses/splitting at upper joints; spine's title label well abraded and its gilt lettering difficult to discern; spine's black volume label scuffed as well but with gilt lettering mostly unaffected. Text block edges darkened/stained; surface scuffs to fore-edge. Antiquarian ink inscription on front pastedown dated 1829 with different surnames cited in six-line ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; toning/foxing prevalent throughout; moisture stains to early and later leaves; occasional page corners creased. Binding is still firm. Formal title/copyright leaf with Lexington-Norwood imprint as pages 1-2; February 1828 (Number 1) issue as pages 9-152; May 1828 (Number 2) issue as pages 153-303; August 1828 (Number 3) issue as pages 305-452, [2]; November 1828 (Number 4) issue as pages 453-600; rear "Index to Volume I" as pages i-iv; concluding Errata as unpaged recto opposite Index page iv.…

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding at pp.90/91. Moderate rubbing and toning to boards. Very good. The first appearance in print of the poet Christopher Murray Grieve, leader of the Scottish Literary Renaissance who would later publish under the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid. This first issue of Northern Numbers, containing strong contributions from the likes of John Buchan, Violet Jacob, and Neil Munro, was very favourably reviewed, with particular praise directed towards the editor Grieve who, according the Glasgow Herald, "possesses more talent and latent power than any other contributor to this book.".…

Softcover. 118,27(Syriac) + 131 + 179 + 112 p.; 22 cm. (Texts and studies: contributions to biblical and patristic literature ; v. I, 1-4) Fair slate binder's cloth - crown and upper joint chipped.

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Condition: Fine. Hampstead Heath, London, March 26, 1917 & June 30, 1897., 1897. Fine. - Over 15 words typed on the novelist's 9 inch high by 7 inch wide "Heath Brow, Hampstead Heath" stationery, enclosing a cheque to the famous book binders Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Signed "Hall Caine". Folded for mailing, else fine. Together with an Autograph Letter Signed by the novelist's wife Mary Alice Caine consisting of over 90 words penned on 2 facing sides of 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide "Greeba Castle, Isle of Man" stationery with an integral attached leaf. In her letter addressed to the wife of impresario Major James Pond, Mary Alice Caine invites the Ponds to visit the Caines at Greeba Castle from July 12th to the 15th [1897] the day they plan "to sail for America". Signed "Mary Hall Caine". The letter is folded for mailing, else fine with the original postmarked envelope stamped "JU30 / 97". In his book "Eccentricities of Genius" Major Pond writes of the visit. "I had been in correspondence with [Hall Caine] for a number of years with the view of making him a star lyceum attraction. I never could get his consent, although I had very encouraging symptoms. We became great friends. While in Europe, Mrs. Pond and I visited him at Greba [sic] Castle on the Isle of Man, and declared it the most interesting part of our English journey that summer." Hall Caine [1853-1931 was a Manx author best known as a novelist and playwright. In his day he was extremely popular and his novels outsold those of his contemporaries. His works were mainly romances but also addressed some of the more serious political and social issues of his time. Mary Alice Caine (1863-1932), born Mary Chandler, is considered the archivist of 19th Century literature of the period. According to David Wilson's controversial article "A Brief Biography of Hall Caine" published in "The Victorian Web", "During his time in London, Caine shared rooms with an academic friend Eric Robertson, and in the evenings they had meals sent over from a nearby coffee shop. The food was delivered by two of the girls who worked there. One of them was called Mary Chandler who adored Caine. Some months later Mary's step-father, and the father of the other girl, confronted Caine and Robertson and, looking to off-load the girls, claimed that they had been 'ruined'. Caine refused to marry, as according to his biographer Vivian Allen, nothing more than a bit of mild flirting had taken place. Legally, there was nothing to stop them from marrying, the age of consent at that time being 13, but instead Caine agreed to keep her and educate her." Other controversial and contested details provided by Tine Hreno in her blog "Writers in London in the 1890s", "Caine had a sister Chandler's age, who attended a boarding school called Sevenoaks. Caine swore his sister, Lily, to secrecy and sent Chandler to live with her there. Secrecy mattered because he was embarrassed by Chandler's age and didn't want his devoutly religious parents to find out he had been having sex with her." "Chandler attended Sevenoaks for just six months before she became pregnant with Caine's first child. Caine delayed for a month in registering the birth, then perjured himself by describing Chandler as "Mary Alice Caine, formerly Chandler." They didn't legally marry until 1886 in Edinburgh, where Caine could avoid bad publicity.…

A substantial letter, 3pp., foolscap 8vo. 100 lines of text. Bifolium. In very good condition, on aged paper, with one closed along crease line neatly repaired with archival tape. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with Chatham postmark, frank, and black wax seal, to 'Viscount Ingestrie M:P. | 2 Wilton Crescent | Belgrave Square | London'. An interesting document, in which a distinguished Victorian naval architect makes detailed criticisms of an innovation in his field. (HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines (in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft), built by Seaward and Company, were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864.) Read begins his letter: 'My Lord | Nothing could exceed my astonishment at the reply or rather which Sir C. Adam gave in citing the Gorgon as a specimen of the success of the personal conductor of our Naval Construction. | In a lithographic account privately circulated but which the Hampshire Telegraph published; it was stated for what purposes this bad & wretched failure was designed. - She was to be able to carry 10 long 32 Pr. between decks - 4 32 Prs. and 2 10 inch Bomb Cannon on the weather deck - She was to take or be able to take a regiment on board with all its equipage for a colonial voyage across the Atlantic.' He proceeds to describe the 'falling off' from these specifications, commenting that 'her constructor had so little knowledge of what he was about, that he was deficient in displacement at least 400 tons corresponding to a too great immersion of 3 feet about [.] When she left Plymouth for her first trip to St. Sebastian she drew 17 ft 3 in aft instead of her intended draft 15.6 and the Ports abaft the Paddle Boxes were only from 3 ft 3 in to 3 ft 6 in above the water!! Of course the Ports were still caulked in.' At the end of this criticism he describes the Gorgon as 'a failure'. He proceeds to 'shew how experiments are got up', concluding, 'is this the way that an experiment involving a cost of 40000£ should be conducted? - The engines alone of the Gorgon cost 20000£.' He continues 'Would Sir C. Adam produce the lithographic circulars of which the Gorgon was intended for and would he venture to place in contrast with it the actual performance of the ship?' He gives more specifications, before stating: 'The Constructor of the Gorgon ought to be called upon to explain if he can the early discrepancy between his intentions & performances. He ends by apologising for 'this rough document'.…

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