George Second, First Edition (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Our first offering in this lot, "Drawing the Line," a trade paperback "First Edition -- 1995," deals with gerrymandering and continental drift, and offers a lengthy discussion of the controversy surrounding Yale's supposedly medieval "Vinland Map."' Symmetrical number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The publishers contend they remove BOTH the numeral 1 and the "First Edition" statement from a second printing -- they're obviously wrong, and we conclude this is a first (trade paperback) printing. Geography. 368 pp. including Index. Reduced from $12. OUR SECOND OFFERING, here, is a "good" 1966 Yale University hardcover in a "good" dust jacket. "The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation" states "Fourth printing April, 1966." (First was 1965.) A "good" quarto with a 5/8-inch rough spot to bottom corner of front board (possible kitten chew) in a "good" price-clipped dust jacket which is chipped to edges. Fold-out maps intact. Though they are later copies of much earlier originals, these maps (circa 1440) are cartographic evidence that distant lands -- including North America -- were known to at least some Europeans far earlier than imagined, the authors conclude. But controversy arose immediately upon publication of this effort -- issued essentially simultaneous with the announcement that alumnus Paul Mellon had purchased the map for a reported $300,000 for donation to the university -- and by 2019 specialists at Yale, where it is still held, declared that the latest scientific and historical research has established the "Vinland Map" to be a modern forgery. 291 pp. including index. The pair of books on related topics now reduced from $24.

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Hardcover Vol II in dust jacket BRAND NEW, no remainder mark, 1st Printing, pristine new copy (dj in mylar); thick 8vo; xiv + 585pp indexed.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Woodburytype half-length portrait carte de visite, captioned to verso, VG. Cranbrook, politician, Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's ministries.

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Volume 1 in dust jacket BRAND NEW, no remainder mark, 1st Printing, pristine new copy (dj in mylar); thick 8vo; lxii + 770pp indexed. Extra shipping charge may be required for overseas delivery of this oversize book.

Presumed first edition (no direct edition/printing statement provided). 194 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket. Dark green cloth rubbed; scuffing/fraying at spine ends and board corners; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Text block edges and endpapers toned; past owner's ink stamp on front pastedown; some scattered light soiling to interior pages which, overall, remain clean. A few stress points to binding but still reasonably firm.

1st Edition. Brown publisher's cloth, lettered in gold. AN EX LIBRARY SET with typical library marks. Fairly clean and tight books but spines sreglued and some wear at hinges. A good working set. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (2025) GB £8. Packed weight 2200g.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Beurling was recognised as Canada's most famous hero of the Second World War, as 'The Falcon of Malta' and the 'Knight of Malta', having been credited with shooting down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days over the besieged Mediterranean island. Before the war ended his official total climbed to 31. Contains (xvi), 257 pp with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £25.00. Unused new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Hardcover 2 Vol set in dust jackets BRAND NEW, both 1st Ed 1st Printings, no remainder marks, pristine new set (djs in mylar) [14206]; thick 8vos; lxii + 770pp & xiv + 586pp indexed. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for priority or overseas delivery of this large heavy set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. vi, 329p. Quarter light brown morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers. WITH SIGNED INSCRIPTION TO HER HUSBAND GEORGE C. RIGGS on the inside front blank dated 1901. Almost entirely unopened. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator, author and composer. Her most famous work Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Light rubbing to the front hinge and a tiny chip in the headband otherwise internally clean. An important novel with a personal inscription by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folding Frontispiece In First Part, Frontispiece In Second Part; No Maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. 228, 192 Pp. Full Calf, Spine Gilt, Marbled Endpapers, Folding Frontispiece Of Easter Island Statues. 13.6 X 8.6 X 2.6 Cm. First Edition Thus. Very Worn, Frayed And Chipped At Corners, Front Joint Broken But Board Held Tenuously By Original Binder's Cords. Per Wikipedia, In 1785 Richard Cadman Etches And Partners, Including Nathaniel Portlock And George Dixon, Formed A Partnership, Commonly Called The King George's Sound Company, To Develop The Fur Trade. Dixon Had Also Served On Resolution In The Pacific Ocean Under Cook. In September 1785 Portlock And Dixon Sailed From England. Portlock Was In Command Of The Larger Vessel, The 320-Ton (Bm) King George, With A Crew Of 59. Dixon's Was In Command Of The 200-Ton (Bm) Queen Charlotte, With A Crew Of 33. Dixon And Portlock Sailed Together For Most Of Their Three-Year Voyage. They Crossed The Atlantic Ocean, Reaching The Falkland Islands In January 1786, And Transited Cape Horn To Enter The Pacific Ocean. They Reached The Hawaiian Islands On 24 May And Anchored In Kealakekua Bay (Where Cook Had Been Killed In 1779), But Did Not Go Ashore. They Took On Fresh Food At Other Hawaiian Islands And Proceeded On To What Is Now Alaska. After Two Years Of Plying The Waters, Portlock And Dixon Departed North America, Reaching Macao In November 1788. On Their Return Portlock And Dixon Published An Account Of The Voyage, Based In Part On Letters Written By William Beresford, The Trader On The Expedition. Portlock Harbor, A Bay On The West Coast Of Alaska's Chichagof Island, Was Named By Portlock In 1789, Following A Visit There In August 1787. Portlock, A Cannery Settlement Active In The Early And Middle 20Th Century, And Portlock Glacier, Both On Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Were Named In His Honor.

Second Paper, Read Before The Bostonian Society, February 9, 1886. (illustrator). Very Good (light chipping to edges with about a one-inch loss at head of spine, contents clean & tight; Russell's small ink name stamp top of title page). 8vo., printed light-blue wraps; 80 pages First Edition. signed presentation from Moore inside the front cover: "Samuel H. Russell, Esq., With the kind regards of Geo. H. Moore. New York: July 31, 1886.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo. 39 pages, [1] page blank. Pamphlet rebound in later gray buckram covers with gilt title on the front cover. Limited edition to 250 copies.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First American Edition of Royal Flash, the second book in the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. (illustrator). First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo, 257pp. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "First American Edition" on copyright page. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $5.95 on front flap, faint sunning to spine, exceptionally bright illustrations. George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008) based the idea of Flashman on the original character created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days, published in 1857. The Flashman character was a fictionalized look at the 19th century British Army, but Fraser was always praised for his historical accuracy in portraying real world events. By the time of his death in 2008, Fraser published twelve Flashman novels, including: Flashman (1969), Royal Flash (1970), Flash for Freedom! (1971), Flashman at the Charge (1973), Flashman in the Great Game (1975), Flashman's Lady (1977), Flashman and the Redskins (1982), Flashman and the Dragon (1985), Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990), Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994), Flashman and the Tiger (1999) and Flashman on the March (2005).

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto, pp. [4], 26. Disbound. Lacks front wrapper, gatherings loose; clean and otherwise complete. First published work by this literary and scholarly politician, who served as a Whig Member of Parliament and later Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original plain brown card wrap covers [soft back], black title lettering to the front cover. 8vo. 10½'' x 7¼''. Contains 92 printed pages of English text with monochrome photographs throughout. Inside the rear cover are six fold-out colour maps, these maps and the photographs are the courtesy of the Chilean State Railways. This copy has the author's indigo stamp to the title page with his name and dated 1962, errata note tipped to the copyright page. Age tanning to the spine and cover edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILE.

Condition: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9'' x 6''. tells the story of Flight Lieutenant Ken Trent DFC*, who flew more than forty missions over Nazi Europe in Lancaster bombers. Contains 288 pp with monochrome archive and colour photographs to the centre pages. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Number 24 of 158 flown cover SIGNED 'Kenneth Trent' to the front cover, 12 October 2004 Hyde Park, London stamp, reverse signed by Stephen J. Hill, one cachet insert, 2018 newspaper obituary. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Condition: Fine. First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Magennis was part of several operations involving X-Craft midget submarines in attacks on Axis ships. In July 1945, Magennis was serving on HMS XE3 during Operation Struggle. During an attack on the Japanese cruiser Takao in Singapore, Magennis showed extraordinary valour and bravery by leaving the submarine for a second time in order to free some explosive charges that had got caught, he is only person in naval history to exit a submarine in a diving suit, perform a military operation and return to the same submarine. His commanding officer, Lieutenant Ian Edward Fraser, was also awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the operation. Contains 224 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, supplied in archive acetate film protection. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Chris Maccabe C.B. (Associate Political Director) with compliments from George Fleming' + souvenir 130th Anniversary of the Institution of the Victoria Cross cover DOUBLE SIGNED 'Ian Fraser V.C.' and James J. Magennis V.C.' to the front cover, 29th January 1986 post marked stamp. Housed in Fine condition paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.

1 vols. 12mo. Later edition. First edition was 1672. Later edition. First edition was 1672. 1 vols. 12mo. ESTC T168627 Bound in full brown mottled calf, gilt spine. Fine.