Chalmers James: First Edition (34 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of the first softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the cover bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($25.00 price intact). Published by Metropolitan Books, 2004. Octavo. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

paperback. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Numerous figures. Lightly wear to bottom corner of back cover, soiling to bottom of page block, mild waterstain through bottom edges of second half pages and back cover, otherwise text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Used.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good (in mylar). Second Edition/Second Impression. Previous owner's bookplate plus date in ink on fep, else immaculate and tight copy. Unclipped dust jacket, lightly edge-worn; 64p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ralph Gumudul, Suzanne Chalmers, Harry Djagamara Nelson, Neville Jabangadi James, Neville Jabangadi Poulson, Jill Dundiwuy Mununggur, David Gentian (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s)Wraps are slightly shelf rubbed and creased.Signed by each of the seven authors.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s)Seven People pool their talents to write this lively mystery with a postscript on the process of collaborative writing and photography. This book is signed by each of the 7 Authors. [TK] The wraps are slightly bumped around the edges. internaly clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The most famous compendium of information on the occult and the first comprehensive work of its kind, this volume originally appeared in 1920 with this being the first paperbound printing in 1974. This copy is in excellent condition with no negative issues. The original owner's name is stamped on the inside cover. The book, measuring 10" X 8" X 1.5" will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated as First Edition on copy right page. Includes fifty poems dealing with things that children know and care about. Interior Pages are clean and bright; binding is tight. There are no tears, creases or writing. Yellow illustrated covered boards are clean and unmarred. White colored back cover is light soiled. Shelf wear along edges of covers. This is NOT an ex-lib or a remainder. DJ is colorful but soiled and shelf wear along edges and folds. DJ is price clipped in bottom but price of $3.95 visible at top. DJ in new mylar jacket. Chalmers, Mary (illustrator).…

Magazine. First edition. Near Fine magazine with light signs of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The July 30, 2000, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine with: a profile of Neil Young by Steve Erickson with a portrait by Dan Winters; an interview with Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, with a portrait by Anton Corbijn; the lives of mice bred to develop diseases by Lawrence Osborne with photographs by Catherine Chalmers; the story of how George Herbert Walker Bush accidentally became Vice-President by Richard V. Allen, Reagan's first national security advisor; a profile of Rick Lazio, "The Anti-Hillary," by James Traub, with portraits by Dana Lixenberg; interviews with subjects of a Gillian Laub photo on what they were thinking when photographed; a round-up of plagues of fauna around the US by Andy Newman; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 68 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 14, [2] p.; 17 cm. Stapled brown wrappers. Wrapper title printed in dark brown within elaborate frame. Pages are unopened. A satire on Boswell's Life of Johnson, reprinted from The Casquet (Glasgow, 1835). Attributed to James Beresford on p. [2], but subsequently attributed to Alexander Chalmers. Apparently intended as advertising for the Marion Press, established in 1896 by Frank E. Hopkins. In place of a title page is a page stating that the booklet is printed in 10-point Old-Style no. 20, "a symmetrical and agreeable letter." First unpaginated page following text contains a list of 11 titles published by the press. Hopkins' A List of Books Printed at the Marion Press (1902) states that 250 copies were produced. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean, bright, and unopened.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Assumed first edition (1886 on the title page, no additional printings on copyright page.)R.T.S. London, 1886. Original green decorated cloth, 192pp, six illustrations, all hinges solid , covers are rubbed at the edges, slight bubbling to rear board and a chip at the top of the spine. A VERY GOOD copy with six illustrations including the frontispiece of Port Morseby when it was only a few homes and illustrations of the " natives". Inscribed by Illustrator(s).…

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good small octavo 229pp., col. frontis., b/w pls., map, Interesting prize inscription on verso of frontispiece o/w a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. 140pp +index. A very good copy in very good dj. Inscribed/signed by Vinson to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Third Print (first published 1933). Hardback copy in tan pictorial cloth boards with blue lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 96pp. Colour frontispiece, 4 b/w photographic plates, b/w illustrations illustrations within text, pictorial endpapers. Not library copy, ink inscription to ffep, small tear to top edge of plate 3, hinges visible between pages 16 and 17. (9/5).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. 192pp, 6 bw engravings. Or decorative brown cloth. Lacks (blank) front free endpaper, front hinge cracking, Sunday School prize label dated 1887 on front pastedown, rear board alittle spotted, spine a little sunned. Hole in p57/58 causing loss of 3 words. Scarce little volume on New Guinea by probably the best known of the Paific missionaries. Size: 12mo.…

Originalleinen. 18cm. Condition: Gut. ERSTAUSGABE. 295 Seiten. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Sonst sehr gutes Exemplar der ERSTAUSGABE. (Wir bieten zahlreiche Titel auf diesem Sachgebiet an.) Aufgrund der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen Handels-Erschwernisse (die neue europäische Verpackungsverordnung mit extremen Gebühren für Händler) kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND erfolgen: Bulgarien, Dänemark, Estland, Finnland, Griechenland, Irland, Kroatien, Lettland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Slowenien, Ungarn, Zypern. Falls Sie eine Rechnungs- und Lieferadresse in DEUTSCHLAND ermöglichen, kann an diese deutsche Adresse OHNE PROBLEME geliefert werden. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Three works bound together in marbled end-papers but is missing covers and spine. Binding of the text-block is sound and pages are clean. The works consist of: "A Translation of the Passages From Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Writers, Quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature, a Poem in Four Dialogues, To Which is Prefixed a Prefatory Epistle Intened as a General Vindication of the Pursuits of Literature, fromvarious Remarks which have been made upon that Work" The Third Edition printed for T Becket, Pall Mall, London in 1798. ; "Chalmeriana or a Collection of Papers Literary and Political, Entitled, Letters, Verses &c. Occasioned by Reading a Late Heavy Supplemental Apology for the Believers in Shaekespeare Papers, Reprinted from the Morning Chronicle in which They First Appeared - Collection the First - " includes in foreword abridged "The Fable of the Bee and the Spider" from Swift's Battle of the books and No. I dated Sept 4 1799 through to No, XI and No. XII dated Nov. 29 1799, Printed for T Becket, Pall Mall London by D Jacques, Lower Soane Street, Chelsea in 1800. "Prose on Various Occasions, Literary and Political, Collected from the News-Papers", Printed for T Hurst, Paternoster-Row, London by Jacques and Vo. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea and consisting of: Three Letters of the Pursuits of Literature for the Morning Herald May and June 1799; An Account of the Literary Opera called Semiramide in Londra, as it was performed Under the Direction of Sir Joseph Banks in Soho Square; An Account of the Sale of a Literary Vessell Extraordinary, named the Rvenge, at aLloyd's Coffee House (Morning Chronicle); The Order of the Procession observed in the Literary Funeral of the late George Chalmers; The Apologist and the Sovereign or Words of Comfort, in a Letter from Barbador; The Apparition of the Ghost of the late George Chalmers; The Letters, Political and Literary, of Laurentius Musambertius occasioned by the Appearanceof the Poem called The Soverereign by Charles Small Pybus; The Orgies of Thespis or the Mysteries of Parnassus and Castle Howar in a letter from Petronius on the Earl of Carlisle's Tragedy of The Step-Mother; Barbadoro's Third Letter to William Pitt; An Account of the Imperial Concert at the Great Room at the Opera House on April 23 1800; Some Account of an Unpublished State-Work in MS in Prose and Verse, entitled "The Imperial Metamorphosis" in 1801. Printed for T Hurst, Paternoster-Row, London by Jacques and Co. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea in 1801 Third edition of first work and first edition of second and third works. lxxv, 104, viii, 94, viii, 112. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05221101064. All our books are sent by tracked mail. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL GREEN PICTORIAL CLOTH FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE, FRESH COPY.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Slight wear to spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: R.T.S. library. Physical description: 192p. : ill., ports. ; 15cm. Subjects: Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Like new. First edition. Quarto (13.25 x 10.25 inches), original green cloth with color pictorial inset on front cover, paper spine label, slipcase; xiv, 144 pp., profusely illustrated with 80 color reproductions from the original paintings, drawings, etc. Publisher's prospectus laid in. As new in faintly worn slipcase Explores the works of 28 individual French artists and their artistic impressions of California over the span of more than 100 years. Designed by the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, edition of 450 copies. Color reproductions are superb.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Slight wear to spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: R.T.S. library. Physical description: 192p. : ill., ports. ; 15cm. Subjects: Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ix, 255pp, map, 43 bw ills. Or blue-green cloth with gilt title and vignette to front and spine. Light toning to endpapers, slight fading at edges. A very nice copy. Includes encounters with cannibals and travel on the Fly River. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. No Jacket. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth, (256)pp. Illustrated. Lacking the front free e/paper o/w a very good copy. This volumes contains sketches of Chalmers travels and missionary activity in New Guinea during the years stated; with the bulk of the volume made up from extracts from his journal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good copy of a scarce title. 550 glossy B&W and (45) color illustrations, all in fine condition. Considerable foxing to edges, front matter, and back matter.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Firestone ad inside front cover features photo of Harvey S. Firestone addressing 25th annual stockholders' meeting in Akron, OH; A Sailorman Poet - John Masefield; What has become of our Parties? - Coolidge puts last Democrat doctrine into Republican creed; Is the Pulpit a Bulletin Board? - is the preacher a prophet or propagandist?; An English View of American Installment Buying; A Scientist Urges Farmers to Utilize Waste Products - paper can easily be made from wheat straw; Mental Tests Make Us Seem Foolish - because quacks rush in where true psychologists fear to tread; Henry Ford's Page - the dangers of debt; Editorials - U.S. surplus of housing, Abraham Rothfeld is ordered to not reapply for U.S. citizenship for 10 years; Senator Borah speaks like a statesman, P.R. battle over French debt to the U.S., Dictators are increasing in number in Europe, Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Company has given the negro 'the only racial monopoly in the world', namely the Pullman porter, sea travel in steerage becomes fashionable; Life Among the Wild American Humorists, as described by Thomas L. Masson; Islam Aims at World Domination - Consolidation of Moslemism inspires Conference at Mecca; A Negro Views His Own Race - the thoughts of Charles Plummer; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 8) - Wreck of the Santiago; Chats with Office Callers - William Lyon Phelps writes article claiming New York stage plays attack Protestants but not Catholics because they are afraid to attack them; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 4) - tales of the time when people traveled for days to see teh circus, and slave-traders followed the show; China's Use of Proverbs; The Stories the Windmills Tell - Joy, grief, trouble or celebration all are indicated by the huge sails which serve as 'Town Criers' for the countryside; A Fighting Quaker of '76 - Joseph Hewes - who led the North Carolina Men in Declaring for Independence; A Dance a Week - Seventeenth Century Minuet, with piano sheet music; I Read in the Papers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Van Der Heyden, Gerald (cover); Fitzgerald, W.O.; Clarke, W.W.; Legge, Russell; Honore, Paul; Harper, George (illustrator).…

1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Near Fine octavo x + 343pp., illusts., fldg. maps, index, Cloth a little spotted o/w nice tight copy, largely unopened.

Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 1st ed octavo, original cloth boards, gilt title and rule to spine, b&w plates, pp vii, 238. N.d. (1926). Previous owner's inscription (signature and date: 1927) and blindstamp front free endpaper. All 16 plates (including frontis) are present but appear to have been excised and professionally re-attached. Loosely inserted (annotated) page from 'The World before the Deluge' (by L. Figuier & H.W. Bristow). Previous owner's plentiful underlinings and annotations some in colour pencil, including on the plates. Contents and boards clean and in very good condition. Good copy of scarce title. A study proposing the existence and history of Atlantis by the folklorist and occult scholar Lewis Spence. Spence describes the book as "a general outline of what is known concerning Atlantean civilisation [.] upon a scientific basis". It includes chapters on Atlantean historical souces such as Plato, and the geography, religion, and culture of Atlantis.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First British edition, bound with: "Extract from the second letter to the people of Pennsylvania; being that part of it which relates to independency. By a writer under the signature of Cato" (pseud of Rev. William Smith). (4), 44, [45]-47, (1) pp. Hardcover, bound in modern polished calf over marbled boards. Modest toning to the text block. "The most famous answer to Paine's advocacy for independence in 'Common Sense'" [Howes, S696]. …

First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.