Barnes Rev William (4 results)

First edition. 24 leaves, 48pp. With a pasted-in photographic portrait frontispiece of the author and engraved title page. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with spotting to wrappers, heavy loss to spine, Heavy spotting to initial leaves, scattered spotting to text. The sole edition of a collection of poems in 'national English' by Dorset philologist, mathematician, writer and artist William Barnes (1801-1886). Barnes was best known for his Dorset dialect poetry, first published in periodicals, and later in several collections, including, Hwomely Rhymes (1858). These unpublished verses were printed at the school in Winterborne Monkton over which Barnes had previously presided as schoolmaster and founder; the front wrapper and title bear engravings of the church at Winterborne-Came, of which he had then become rector. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd edition. 12mo. vi + 78pp. Publisher's green blind stamped cloth covers, gilt lettering on front. Original yellow eps. Ink dedication on fep with date " 12th March 1947 ". Covers : slight rubs top/bottom of spine + corners, a few very slight fade spots on front else very clean. Contents : few slight fox spots else very clean & tight. Clean tight attractive copy. VG.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 12mo. vi + 78 + (12)pp. Publisher's plain green cloth covers, original paper label stuck down on front with black lettering " Price 2s 6d ", another label on spine. Original yellow eps. Covers : chipped, slight edge chips to front label, rubs top/bottom of spine + corners else clean. Contents : front inner hinge cracked at fep, and again at rear, slight foxing to rear of fep else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy with cracked inside hinges. VG. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing, With Revisions. Charles A. Lindbergh's copy, signed and inscribed to him by his fellow seeker of peace, justice and historical truth, Harry Elmer Barnes [1889-1968], whom Murray Rothbard eulogized as "the last of the truly erudite historians." A truly magnificent provenance for this work which "shows how the extension of military operations to civilian populations and property, and the increasingly destructive nature of total warfare, menace the very future of humanity and Western civilization. [This work] makes it clear how the [Nuremberg] war-crimes trials, far from curbing the barbarism of present-day warfare, will make it absolutely certain that every known form of destructiveness and mass-murder, however fiendish and devastating, will surely be brought forth in the desperate effort to avoid a defeat which, in all future wars, will mean the summary liquidation of the political leaders and top military officers of the vanquished countries." - dust jacket. Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, among others, would probably concur. As the most prominent spokesman for the America First Committee which sought to keep America out of WWII, Lindbergh most likely endorsed the conclusions of this book, first issued in England in 1948 under a nom de plume by Veale, "a lawyer and student of history with a lifelong interest in the cause of peace and international justice." - xi. On page vii Veale refers specifically to Barnes by stating "in accordance with what Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes has called 'The Historical Blackout,' the bulk of the British press, newspaper and periodical alike, rigidly ignored the [first edition of this book]. Not one London newspaper with a nation-wide circulation reviewed it." Eventually, this work was issued in 18 editions and three languages. pp. xvii, [1], 305. Index. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of photos. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Narrow openings along each hinge bear narrow remnants of earlier tape repairs. Small erasure patch atop front free endpaper. Tanning to photo endpapers. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Housed in new custom acid-free slipcase. An extraordinary memento from the collection of Charles Lindbergh [1902-1974], the legendary American aviator who rose to global prominence in 1927 by being the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Stimely p.61, Select Bibliography of Revisionist Books p.21.; 8vo; Signed by Notable Personage, Related.…