Clark William Compiler (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Original beige-pink paper dust jacket with black lettering on front panel and spine included. Black-and-white photographic illustration of Powell on back flap of dust jacket. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 246 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for small spots of foxing limited to edges of text block. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact except for light age toning and a few faint smudges. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A selection of writings by Lawrence Clark Powell. With an Introduction by William Targ. Designed by Ward Ritchie. From the dust jacket: "This is a collection of essays written by the distinguished retired librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles and dean emeritus of its Library School. Some of these essays are published here for the first time. Most of those that have been previously published are now out of print, making this new volume a particularly timely one.".

First edition (not stated. xiv, 297 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 15.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Green cloth rubbed; light fading to spine. Toning/foxing to text block edges with some soiling and several stains of which the latter also affect some page margins. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown; ink inscription on front free endpaper. Binding is firm. Foreword by William Blackburn who also served as both compiler and editor. Illustrated with wood engravings designed by pupils of Clare Leighton who served as a visiting lecturer in art at Duke University during 1943-1944. This book is most notable for being William Styron's first published book appearance with his two short stories, AUTUMN (pages 36-53) and THE LONG DARK ROAD (pages 266-280). Although no limitation is cited within the book, bibliographer West cites a printing of only 500 copies. These two stories were very much part of Styron's candidacy for a 1947 Rhodes Scholarship.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light soil to page-ends. ; Illus. , Volume II only; 486 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in red gold embossed cloth. Boards complete but water stained. End papers not split small errata slip. Water stain on edge of first 20 pages. No foxing or other marks.

hardcover, Condition: fair. c.1909, 6-1/2 x9-3/4 , gilt cloth, 179pp. photos., sketch map,of Chancellorsville. a couple of pages torn, more marginal tears, scribbling on a couple pages, new endpapers. $.

Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Akron, OH: ***** Self Published *****. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1909). . Cloth. Sm 4to., 179 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, soiled, page toning & foxing .

Condition: Good. Prospectus. 8vo. Folded Sheet [4 pp.], Letterpress on Deckled Wove with Umbria Italia Watermark. VG. Scarce Prospectus.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1862 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 152 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 152 Language: English.

The second American printing of the so-called "Apocrypha edition" of Lewis and Clark, bearing the name of compiler William Fisher on the titlepage. In response to the growing curiosity of the public regarding the findings of Lewis and Clark, and the delay in publication of the "authorized account" of their expedition, this compilation of bits and pieces from already published works appeared (culled from Gass, Clark, Mackenzie, Carver, and Jefferson's Message of 1806), misleading the reader into believing it was the account sanctioned by the government and containing all the information gathered during the journey. Howes calls this the "spurious" edition, while Sabin states it contains material not published in any other edition. The work originally appeared in Philadelphia and London in 1809, followed by German printings in 1811 and 1812. A Baltimore edition also appeared in 1812, but Howes gives precedence to the Philadelphia printing. Howes mentions that some copies of this work contain a second titlepage, as in the present copy. WAGNER-CAMP 8:6. SABIN 24509. RADER 1397. HOWES F153a, "aa." PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1297. 300pp. plus two portraits. Contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt leather label. Corners heavily worn, boards scuffed. Light to moderate toning and soiling throughout. Good.

12mo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches): dual wood-engraved frontispiece portraits of Lewis and Clark (a bit spotted). Bound in library binding (browned and spotted throughout). PROVENANCE: contemporary pen trials to frontispiece. First edition. So-called "apocryphal edition" of Lewis and Clark, bearing the name of compiler William Fisher on the title page. According to Paltsits, "In most copies the second title page is lacking," as here. "Another surreptitious account, allegedly written by William Fisher, Esquire, was published by James Sharan and printed in Philadelphia by James Mawell in 1812. It sold for $1.25. The title, 'New Travels Among the Indians of North America; Being a Compilation, Taken Partly from the Communications Already Published, of Captains Lewis and Clark,' admitted that the book was a compilation and was 'taken partly from other authors.' The contents included the one paragraph 'Recommendation' of Thomas Jefferson and an 'Introduction' that was a paraphrase of that in the surreptitious volumes published in 1809 in Philadelphia and London. Fisher wrote with the same gratuitous but hollow language of Hubbard Lester: 'The advantages, that arise from the discoveries of unknown regions, are too numerous to be mentioned,' he noted. 'They arise one after another in continual succession. Geography, Civilization, Humanity, and the Arts and Sciences, received aid from them.' The 'New Travels' included Clark's letter from Fort Mandan of April 2, 1805; Clark's letter from St. Louis of September 23, 1806; data on the tribes that was identified as taken from the pen of Alexander Mackenzie; the 'Statistical View'; and the irrelevant fillers about Master Neddy and George Washington. The volume was little more than a reprint of the book of Hubbard Lester with a new author and a more honest title.William Fisher and Hubbard Lester were probably the convenient pseudonyms of a wily publisher" (Beckham, pp. 125-126). REFERENCES: Stephen Dow Beckham, "The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays." Wagner-Camp 8:6. Sabin 24509. Howes F153a, "aa." American Imprints 26261.