Biddle Clement, First Edition (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket shows edge wear and overall scuffing from shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. (First Edition, First Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Light shelfwear to jacket extremities. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Paperback. first PB. U6129, very good -fine, , reading crease (RIBALD HUMOR NOVEL), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. McGraw Hill, 1966. Stated First Edition. Near FIne/Very Good+. First Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Clean green boards with brown cloth spine, green and white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Clean black endpapers. 246 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with three very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.

Paperback. first PB. U6129, almost near fine, (RIBALD HUMOR NOVEL), paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Ballantine #U6129. Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Bottom Edge Of Spine. One Of The Personal Copies Of Ian Ballantine Of Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Etc., Marked "S1364 / Prod" On Label On Spine, And With A Loose Card Indicating It Is From His Library.

First Printing. Ballantine U6129. Very Good to Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. Moderate wear. Tape marks on boards. Light edge wear to DJ. Text is clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by author on half title page, no inscription. First edition, stated. Boards clean with light wear from handling. Spine with some lean; head & heel gently bumped. Binding sound, weakening at pp. 200, 201. Text block toned. Contents clean, unmarked. DJ price clipped, toned with edges gently rubbed. Spine head with closed tears, tape repair at verso of head. Photographs available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper has slight shelf rub.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Sp Tear, Bumps, Browning/VG,PC,Large Tear,Wear,Browning. 1st UK Edition. Tragicomic war drama. Author's first novel. Jacket by Milton Glaser. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. Bookplate.

Softcover. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof, laid into publisher's dustjacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy in very near fine dust jacket. A novel, the jacket copy states: "Cherry blossom time in Hiroshima, the April after the Unpleasantness. Lt. Andrew Oxblood, a Philadelphian, a Quaker, a blueblood. becomes involved in the billeting problems of a visiting trio of Negro U.S.O. entertainers.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket by Milton Glaser (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some yellowing to white parts of jacket and spine, however, front jacket extensively smeared and rubbed, it looks as though some one has tried to wipe off two large coffee cup rings and smeared the black ink of the printed design all over front jacket. Not price clipped (21s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a good copy in a sadly disfigured jacket. 207pp. American author and script writer Clement Biddle Wood (1925-1994), was known principally for writing Barbarella. This funny, serious first novel, which spends a few days in Hiroshima in 1946 with Andrew Delancey Oxblood. He's a nineteen year old Quaker from Philadelphia, Liberal from Harvard, poet and parfit knight. It was was made into a film in 1971.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Advance copy. Unbound loosely sewn signatures. Slight foxing on page edges, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Jacket states: "Cherry blossom time in Hiroshima, the April after the Unpleasantness. Lt. Andrew Oxblood, a Philadelphian, a Quaker, a blueblood. becomes involved in the billeting problems of a visiting trio of Negro U.S.O. entertainers." Publisher's complimentary slip laid in.

Boards. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First UK Edition. 207 pp., spine ends lightly bumped, bumping to top rear corner, very light foxing on top edge, dust jacket is price clipped with light edge wear along the top & some soiling, small price labels on rear fold-in, also general rubbing to dj. {01}.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback, folded and gathered sheets Very Good- in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: g. First edition. Folio. 496, [4], 476, [2]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. A two-volume monograph on the art and life of Mihail Chemiakin through 1985. Volume 1 describes the artist's early years in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), his artistic theories and early drawings, still lifes, illustrations and portraits along with photographs of the "happenings" in Chemiakin's studio and on the streets of Leningrad; his forced departure for France and his life and work there. Volume 2 is dedicated to Chemiakin's series of "Transformations" - reinterpretations of existing art works or artifacts; and to his first five years in the United States, where he continued to experiment with new techniques and themes, creating series of works in pastel on black paper and large textured paintings. Throughout the two volumes Chemiakin comments extensively on his own work and on the work of his contemporaries, both Russian and European. This set is profusely illustrated with 980 color and 405 b/w illustrations. Dust-jackets creased, with sporadic closed tears along edges. Shelf wear. DJ in overall fair to good, bindings and interior in good+ condition.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. L.H. Reed (illustrator). First Edition. The uncommon 1874 1st edition of this collection of metaphysical verse by Clement Biddle. A solid, very well-preserved copy. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-titling and decorative blindstamping along the panels. Very light age-spotting to a number of the pages, very mild dusting to the rear endpaper and pastedown. Wonderful pasted-on frontispiece of a spectral, serpent-like creature descending from the skies. Thin octavo, several engraved illustrations within "Eugene and the Ostrich".

ORD, George (4 Mar. 1781-24 Jan. 1866). Sketch of the Life of Alexander Wilson, author of the American Ornithology. Philadelphia: Published by Harrison Hall, 1828. 8vo., (9 6/8 x 6 inches). (Some occasional spotting). Original muslin backed drab paper boards, printed paper label on the spine, uncut (lower cover nearly detached, covers spotted, early newspaper clippings laid down on the front endpapers). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the title-page "To Col. C.C. Biddle with the respects of the Author". FIRST EDITION AND PRESENTATION COPY. As a young man Ord became a protege of Alexander Wilson, creator of the celebrated "American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States". "After Wilson's death in 1813, Ord completed the eighth volume of the Ornithology. In 1814 he published the ninth and final volume from Wilson's notes and added a biography of his friend, which he later expanded into the book Sketch of the Life of Alexander Wilson (1828; repr. 1871).Despite his many personal accomplishments, Ord is best remembered for his animosity toward Wilson's most famous ornithological rival, John James Audubon. As Wilson's close friend, biographer, and executor, Ord may have felt threatened by Audubon's considerable talent when he burst onto the ornithological scene a decade after Wilson's death. After their first meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1824, Ord aggressively campaigned against Audubon, using his significant influence to try to prevent Audubon from realizing success in scientific circles in the United States and abroad. Famed for his sharp tongue in defaming others, Ord made many assertions about Audubon's morals, intelligence, and integrity that today would almost certainly be considered libelous. In letters to friends and associates, he called the younger naturalist a "charlatan," an "impudent pretender," and a "contemptible imposter." To Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the influential ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon, Ord declared Audubon's Ornithological Biography "the biggest hodgepodge of stupidity and lies that I have ever seen." Though his campaign was unsuccessful in the end, it caused Audubon great distress and slowed his acceptance by some members of the scientific community" (Robert McCracken Peck for DNB). In 1859 Ord contributed chapters on eminent Philadelphians Clement Cornell Biddle, and his father Colonel Clement Biddle in "Eminent Philadelphians now Deceased. Collected from Original and Authentic Sources", 1859. The younger Biddle, to whom this example of Ord's biography of Wilson was presented, was born in, 1784, went to sea in 1800, then studied to became a lawyer before "the attack upon the Chesapeake frigate occurring about this time, the whole nation was aroused to an assertion of its rights against the pretensions of Great Britain; and, having a predilection for a military life, he accepted a commission, as Captain of dragoons, from President Jefferson, and was stationed with his regiment at New Orleans. The excitement was. however, temporarily lulled, and Mr. Biddle resigned his commission. But when war was declared against Great Britain, in 1812, he originated, in his native city, the company of volunteers known as the State Fencibles, of which company he was elected Captain, in July, 1812. Although just married, and in circumstances by no means opulent, he gave his whole time and abilities, during the continuance of the war, to the service of his country. On the organization of the First Regiment of Volunteer Light Infantry, of the Pennsylvania line, he was elected Colonel. In the autumn of 1814 his regiment was stationed at Camp Dupont, in the State of Delaware; but, owing to the retreat of the enemy from Baltimore, it was never actively engaged. Upon the restoration of peace, Mr. Biddle returned to Philadelphia, and was appointed by the Governor a Notary Public, which office he exercised for several years.Upon the assembling of the Free Trade C.