Field Temple (6 results)

See the entries for the two men in the Oxford DNB, as well as that of the subject of the letter, Sir Richard Temple's eldest son Captain Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), the future second baronet. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged, with the gutter repaired with archival tape, and the reverse of the second leaf adhering to part of its mount. Headed 'Private' and addressed to 'Dear Sir Richard'. His telegram of 16 May reached Roberts in Kashmir, and he 'at once communicated its contents to the Foreign Secretary, but with no result, as I was sorry to find when the Gazette with the Queen's Birthday Honors appeared'. He will however have 'another opportunity of bringing your son's name to the notice of government, for in Sir George White's report on giving up the Command in Burma, Captain Temple's good services are specially alluded to'. (See the Oxford DNB: 'The outbreak in 1885 of the Third Anglo-Burmese War brought Temple once more on active service, and led in 1887 to his being placed in charge of King Thibaw's capital on Thibaw's deposition.') Roberts will be pleased to 'endorse the General's favorable opinion'.

Yellow Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition / First Printing. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, shelf worn, spine is slightly faded and rolled, some red pencil on the ffep, missing the half-title page and rfep, front hinge is weark and the rear hinge is cracked, overall a fair and collectible rare first edition! Extremely scarce title! Yellow cloth with red stamped lettering on the front board and spine. Deckle page edges. 270 unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Very very rare and out-of-print! "There was a shrill, fading wail of the airport siren as Gary Greer hung up the receiver, and moved from the hangar telephone booth toward the nearest window, one that faced the runway angled surface of the South Side Airport. His face was white; his lips were set in a grim, narrow line. The cigarette held between the fingers of his right hand was burning the skin ---- slowly he spread the fingers, let the stub drop to the concrete floor of the hangar. Mechanically he crushed the glowing tobacco with a heel." ---- from Chapter One (On the Spot). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. First Edition, Spine canted, foxed throughout with a price sticker remnant on front endpaper. Boards spotted with some wear to the corners, else a serviceable of this uncommon hard-boiled mystery. " A violent tough guy novel of murder and revenge on the mean streets of New York City. Published in Black Mask in six parts.' Hubin, page 282.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1916 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 39 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. 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: 39.

In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The poem (24 lines in six stanzas) is written out on the letterhead 'Leam, | Leamington'. 1p., 12mo, with the blank second leaf of the bifolium tipped-in onto an 8vo leaf. An excellent translation of the well-known German drinking song, beginning: 'In the Black Whale of Ascalon |rank day by day, | Till straight as any broom handle | Upon the floor he lay.' The last stanza reads: 'In the Black Whale of Ascalon | No prophet hath renown, | And he who there would drink in peace | Must pay the money down.' Laid down above this item, on the same 8vo leaf, is the dedication, on a piece of 8 x 14 cm paper. With bright red initials in the style of a mediaeval manuscript it reads: 'Written for Miss Field | Easter Sunday | 1871 | Charles G. Leland.' 'Miss Field' was a relation (probably the niece) of Leland's college friend Leonard Field, for whom see Field's 'Memoirs': 'In April [1871] we went to Leamington to pay a visit to a Mr. Field, where we also met his brother, my old friend Leonard Field, whom I had known in Paris in 1848.' For more on Field, see his obituary in The Times, 25 April 1903. The present translation would appear in Leland's 'Gaudeamus!' (1872).

First Edition. G. Hartmann dustjacket art. Rare mystery novel of "gun-fire and airships, of love and revenge," involving a pilot who sets out to avenge his father's death by finding the five men responsible. Very Scarce first edition by this pseudonym of Raoul Whitfield, especially so in dustjacket. Near Fine but for signs of dampstain at fore-edge of front cover, in dustjacket with stain to right quarter of front panel, few small edge chips.