1880 Subject (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 1980 First Edition of "On Mencken", which consists of essays by eight men who worked with or knew the great newspaper columnist, and professional curmudgeon, H. L. Mencken in one way or another. The essayists are William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, the book was edited by John Dorsey, who also wrote the Introduction. From the dust-jacket flap : "In essays celebrating the incomparable H. L. Mencken, on the centenary of his birth, eight distinguished writers and editors consider various aspects of the man and his work - telling of his life, his writings, his prejudices, his passions, and his profound influence on American letters in the first half of the Twentieth Century. --- The result is a book that offers much pleasure and new insights to Mencken's admirers, and that will serve, for anyone not familiar with him, as a fine introduction to one of the most colorful and memorable figures in modern Twentieth Century American letters." TITLE : On Mencken SUBJECT MATTER : H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) EDITOR / INTRODUCTION : John Dorsey AUTHORS : William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf IMPRINT : Alfred A. Knopf PLACE : New York YEAR : 1980 EDITION : First Edition, so stated DETAILS : Trade hardcover; approx. 5.5" x 8.25", brown, cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorative impression on the front board; Contains an Introduction; xx + 313 pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Compression to spine extremities; a shallow surface wrinkle displays near the foot; slight splay to covers at fore-edge; soft bump to top fore-edge corner tip; small dent to bottom edge of front board; color is not faded. Top edge of text-block is somewhat rubbed, else edges clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There is a minute ink spot to the fore-edge of the first three leaves in the book (this is minute and hardly worth mentioning, but it is there); there are also three minute ink specks arranged in a triangular patter near the bottom of the front free end-paper (again minute and of little real effect) - else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET - Small loss to the bottom edge of the front panel; spine panel has a bit of wrinkling to the extremities; front flap top extremity has light wrinkling, corresponding to the bump the corner received; Else the jacket is clean and attractive. It is protected from further wear by a clear mylar sleeve.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Weiss, Konrad, 1880-1940, (subject). Der Dichter Konrad Weiss: 1880-1940. Bearbeitet von Friedhelm Kemp und Karl Neuwirth. Marbach: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1980, Zweite, durchgesehene Auflage, 79pp., white sewn PAPERBACK, near fine, with illustrated dust-jacket, light wear around edges of jacket. Marbacher Magazin 15/1980.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, very good, cover lightly scuffed. erratum slip laid in at rear. SAULCY, FÉLICIEN DE, (subject). . Félix de Saulcy et la Terre Sainte. Paris : Ministère de la culture, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1982, 237pp., . Notes et documents des musées de France ; 5. - Félicien de Saulcy (1807-1880), French archeologist of Palestine and Jerusalem, around 1850. Brought many rare pieces back to the Louvre. Scholarly essays, biography, bibliography, and exhibition catalog from the Musée d'Art et d'Essai, Palais de Tokyo, avril-septembre 1982. 9782711802029 ISBN 2711802027.…

1st edition. 27 pp. 12mo. Gd (darkened along edges of wraps/spine slightly chipped/light foxing throughout). Printed pink wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

1st edition. 27 pp. 12mo. Gd (small soil spot on front cover/spine slightly chipped at top edge/prevfious owner's signature in ink on fep). Printed pink wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. First printing. Octavo, 307 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is cream with black print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear, light toning to spine. Price clipped. Boards quarter bound with brown cloth to spine and orange paper to boards. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has light spotting to edges, endpapers have damp stain to edges. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1391261. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. xv, [1], 222 p.; 14 illus. on 7 halftone pl.; 21 cm. Editor's preface, by Fred D. Wentzel. Foreword, by James E. Wagner. VG orig. gray cloth in edgeworn illus. blue dj.

Saddle-stitched. Octavo, 14 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is staple bound. Cover is grey with black print. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #3. 1394165. FP New Rockville Stock.

Saddle-stitched. Octavo, 32 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is staple bound. Cover is blue with black print. Short tear at top of spine, peripheral toning. Text block has foxing to frontispiece, title page, and final page. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait, one plate (facsimile). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #3. 1394166. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 198 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with tan print. Boards in glossy blue paper; wear to spine caps and corners, glue residue on rear panel from removed label. Illustrated: b&w printed music, facsimiles, photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. 1412209. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st ed ; 128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm. ISBN 9780896594418, 9780896594425, 9780896596061, 9781558592513, 0896594416, 0896594424, 0896596060, 1558592512 ; OCLC 12695612 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: European heritage -- California, New York, Provincetown -- Breakthrough -- The fifties -- The late paintings -- Artist's statements -- Notes on technique ; FINE. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Quarto, 422 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black with white and yellow print. Dust jacket has light edge wear, with taped tear at spine head, light shelf wear, vendor label on rear panel. Boards in orange cloth, gold print. Illustrated: b&w and color photographs. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QA (ND-QA) . 1419067. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. dj. Octavo, xii, 415 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is grey with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear. Price clipped. Boards in blue cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has grey tinted top edge. Illustrated: b&w plates (photographs, facsimiles, maps, etc.) NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K (ND-K). 1415447. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 46 pages. In Fair minus condition. Ex-library with library barcode label on rear pastedown, penciled call number on title page verso. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth, gold print, mitred edges; fraying to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning, blemishes. Text block has gilt edges; cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait. Inscribed in ink by Dr. Gunton on front endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. 1411040. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Heidrich, Ernst, 1880-1914, (subject). Zur Erinnerung an Ernst Heidrich : Geboren zu Makel am 5. Juli 1880. Des Heldentodes gestorben bei Dixumiden am 4. Nov. 1914. Privatdruck: Basel : in der Schweighauserschen Buchdruckerei Benno Schwabe & Co., 1915, 65pp., very good white hardcover, perhaps a fake permament, previous bookstore icon stamp on front endpaper. CONTRIBUTORS: Heinrich Wölfflin, Carl Albrecht Bernoulli, Friedrich Rintelen, Hans Tietze, Julius Petersen, Werner Wilhelm Jäger, Franz Roh.…

Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, 304 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with faded gold print. Boards in brown cloth with gold print. Fraying to spine caps and corners. Text block has cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks, light age-toning to paper. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1390750. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Second trade edition. Quarto; G+; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print; Slipcase in brown paper with illustrated pastedown on front, very slight shelfwear, but clean and strong; Boards in brown cloth with gold print, toning to spine, else clean and strong; Text block has 2-inch tear at top of front hinge, else clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the title page verso; xvii, 424 pages, frontispiece, "illustrated with color and black and white reproductions of original art by Belmore Browne in addition to photographs from the archives of the Browne family". [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.] NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QB (ND-QB). 1344454. FP New Rockville Stock.…

No Binding. Condition: VG. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. The Rochester, NY, wool manufacturer.

Hardcover. Second revised and enlarged edition. Octavo, xv, 372 pages. In Fair condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is brown with black print. Dust jacket has edge wear, damp stains to spine, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners, light warping. Text block has name in ink and owner stamp on front flyleaf, tanning to endpapers, penciled marginal notation through page 55. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1384318. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Condition: Good. Color reproduction mounted on a ledger sheet. Titled in ink. Signed presentation from Beatrice.A similar portrait appeared in Vogue Magazine, Feb. 15, 1914.Beatrice Mai Benjamin, later Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt,1889-1956Marriage:17 November 1909.Spouse:Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt, 1883-1947.Children (2):Cynthia Anne PrattFemale1910-1985.Dr. Dallas Bache PrattMale1914-1994.Brief Life History of Alexander Dallas BacheWhen Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt was born on 9 August 1883, in New York, United States, his father, Dallas Bache Pratt, was 34 and his mother, Mary Gordon Landon, was 25. He married Beatrice Mai Benjamin on 17 November 1909, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1931 and lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1915 and Manhattan, New York.NY Times Nov. 21, 1919: The fact that Mr. and Mrs. William E. Benjamin are irreconcilable over the marriage of their daughter, the former Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt, to Preston Gibson was made known in the Supreme Court yesterday when they filed suit to terminate the trust of $200,000 created by Mrs. Gibson for her children, Cynhia and Dallas Bache Pratt, 2d, under which they are to be maintained until they are of age, and after reaching their majority are to get the full income from the trust. The fund was created Dec. 27 last. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin say that their daughter married Preston Gibson on Oct. 17.Preston Gibson (1880-1937) was a prominent society figure and a playwright. The son of Randall L. Gibson, U.S. Senator and Representative of Louisiana, Gibson was extremely wealthy. Like his father, he attended Yale University, where he was a star athlete. During World War I, he was one of the first Americans to volunteer with the French army. From 1916 to 1918 he fought with the French Ambulance Corps and the American Ambulance Corps, and received the Croix to Guerre for bravery. Upon returning to the United States he enlisted in the Marines and broke records as a recruiting sergeant.Gibson was married and divorced four times: first to Minna Field (niece of Marshall Field and stepdaughter of Thomas Nelson Page), then to Grace McMillan Jarvis (granddaughter of U.S. Senator James McMillan), Beatrice Benjamin Pratt (daughter of the Boston publisher William Everts Benjamin and granddaughter of Henry H. Rogers of the Standard Oil Company), and finally to Evelyn Harris Spaulding. His multiple marriages caused a certain amount of scandal. He had three sons--Henry Field Gibson, James McMillan Gibson, and Henry Spaulding Gibson--and a daughter, Marie Preston Gibson. Gibson died at the age of 57 from heart disease.Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley, daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley (1814 -1877) , on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member, Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.).…

Ca mid-1880s. Verso blank. Image: 4-7/8" x 3-7/8". Mount: 12" x 10-1/16" "In 1827, Alexander moved to Boston where he soon became one of the city's leading portraitists, achieving honorary member status in the National Academy of Design in 1840. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston in 1842 to commence his five-month tour of the U.S., Alexander was honored to be the first to paint his portrait." [MMFA website]. The painting of Dickens by Alexander currently resides in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Photograph with excellent detail, VG+. Mount shows modest edgewear [lacking lower left corner], light soiling & age-toning, overall, Very Good. Mount with penciled note in lower right corner: "From painting by Alexander, Boston 1842". Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Octavo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, tan with gold print; Mylar cover has edgewear with tear at top of spine; Boards in pink cloth with gold print, fraying to spine caps, fraying to bumped fore corners, toning to spine, toning overall front and rear; Text block has tanned endpapers, foxing on tissue guard over frontispiece, else clean and tight; Gift message slip tipped in at title page; Errata slip tipped-in at p. 6; "From Mrs. Addie J. Loyd . Dec. 1913" penciled on front flyleaf; 471 pages, frontispiece (port.), illustrated (b&w chess diagrams). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. 1360697. FP New Rockville Stock.…

23, [1 (blank)] pp. Binder's blanks at front & rear. 10-7/8" x 7-1/4" The volume contains a small collection of poems by Walter Harley, possibly self-published around 1879. Poems are individually dated from 1869-1878. The first poem is a memorial poem to Charles Dickens from 1870 [the year of his death] -- "In Memoriam: Charles Dickens" -- There are two Christmas poems: "Christmas Chimes" and "The Lament of Christmas." There is also an extended ode to "The Girls of England [After Mrs. Felicia Hemans]." -- Felicia Hemans was a [then] well regarded 19th C. English poet -- and a long poem, "The Country Church," lamenting the state of the world at the time, and exhorting humans to love one another. "The Elixir ofLlife" pays tribute to Whelpton's Vegetable Purifying Pills, manufactured in England from 1835 through the early 20th century. 3 other poems complete the collection: Sorrow, Lines Written on the Sea-Shore at Sunset & The Storm. Scarce volume, OCLC records only one institutional holding: UCLA Slight splay to boards, which have some minor extremity wear. Occasional foxing. A VG copy. Full red leather binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Gilt perimeter rules. AEG Ca 1879 - 1880. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, dated July 16, 1880.…

Condition: Good. Large folio. 51 x 40 cm. Original qtr. roan and percaline, restored.16pp. and 45 color lithograph plates. most lightly foxed and a few more heavily foxed. Provenance: Collector's mark of Gaston Courtois, Costumier, Paris. His collection sold at auction in Paris Décembre 1894.OCLC Number: 457516951.…