J Wheelwright John Wheelwright (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Memorial. Soiled and worn pictorial boards, backstrip mostly missing, edge worn, paper at front bottom corner is missing, paper browning, inner hinge cracking, else internally good. Illustrations and cover by Francis G. Attwood. Foreword by Edward S. Martin. Written by the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and appeared in its columns in 1879-1880.…

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

First Thus. Good condition book. Boards are clean but there is a loss of two inches of paper to spine at top and bottom. [1805]. Francis G. Attwood (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. pp. 277.

Condition: New. pp. 277.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Memorial. Hardcover has pictorial boards, lightly browned covers, very good in price clipped, torn, taped, chipped, tattered jacket--now in protective Brodart cover. Illustrations and cover by Francis G. Attwood. Foreword by Edward S. Martin. Written by the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and appeared in its columns in 1879-1880. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Memorial edition. Externally fair to good, internally good to very good. 1926 facimile of 1895 edition, illustrated with engravings. Color illustrated hardcover, 28 pages. Covers a little age-browned with some chipping to the spine ends and a bit of finger soil, good hinges, sound binding, pages slightly age-yellowed but clean, name and date at top of front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Memorial Edition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Moderately worn and mildly soiled covers, peeling of illustrated paper over boards at spine, cracking at paste-down. Published in 1926, Memorial Edition, 28 pp., another addition to the The Brimstone Stories, being a graduated series of Moral Works, including Rollo in a Billiard Room, Rollo Learning to Smoke, and so forth, one of a series of a dozen tales of child morality. Long protected in a heavy plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 28p. A near fine copy, in a fair to good d.j. which has a quarter-size chip at the top of the front panel and a small chip and a three inch tear at the bottom of the back panel. A parody, first published in the Harvard Lampoon in 1879 and 1880, of Jacob Abbott's Rollo books, a popular children's series begun in 1834. Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall Reprint, First Published in 1879 & 1880. Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 28 pages. With a Foreword by Edward S. Martin. A few little chips and tears to jacket otherwise complete and attractive. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated by Francis G. Attwood (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Pencil name of a noted architect, modest erosion at the spine ends, fresh and very good with remants of the dustwrapper laid in, and in a partially perished glassine sleeve that we believe was probably original. A parody, first published in the Harvard Lampoon in 1879 and 1880, of Jacob Abbott's "Rollo Books.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Stated second edition on title page. Covers soiled, edges worn, some loss to paper over spine, archival repair to ffe. Publisher's list on ffe and front fly. 28 pages, rear endpaper loose.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus of Memorial Edition. Small Quarto. Original illustrated boards and dust jacket, illustrations and cover by Francis G. Attwood, foreward by Edward S. Martin. Very good, dust jacket worn at edges heaviest at top edge, some small chips, few stains and agetoning. …

Condition: sehr gut. Sprache: English Leinen .

First Edition Thus. Illustrated by Francis G. Attwood, Memorial Edition, with foreword by Edward S. Martin. Small quarto, original illustrated boards and dustjacket. Very Good, minor loss at spine ends, in Good dustjacket, chipped at edges and along spine, two square inch chip at top rear spine area.…

Hardback. Condition: Good Used Condition. (FRONT COVER IS STAINED. BINDING IS TIGHT. FRONT HINGE STARTING. INSIDE TIPPED-IN LENDING LIBRARY STATEMENT.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Maroon cloth cover is frayed at corners and caps with light scuffing and sunned spine but clean and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Residue on front paste down from small sticker removal and soiling to end sheets and paste downs. Pages are clean and very good.…

Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-270 [271-280: ads] [281-282: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange and black. First edition. Political intrigue in mid-twentieth century Britain. Advanced weapons; guns firing electrically charged bullets, etc. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 73. Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 227. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 908. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 348. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 94. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 85. Reginald 06240. Wright (III) 2236. Endpapers foxed, a very good, bright copy. (#174192).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Illustrated Books, Humor or Humour, Most Recent Listing; 28 pages; Contents clean and complete in original pictorial boards, color illustration on front board by Francis G. Attwood, general light dust soiling, paper along backstrip chipped away; edges rubbed and worn, lower right corner of front board chipped off; same corner of first several leaves chipped. The illuminated cover is printed in multiple colors and is signed by the Heliotype Printing Co. , Boston. The interior monochrome illustrations are probably also by them. Monochrome illustrations throughout by Attwood, including the famous early baseball scene on page 15 (lacking in later editions) . Two pages of publisher's ads (first leaf) Dedication page reads "To The Labored Wits of The Harvard Lampoon, This Moral Tale is dedicated by the Authors. " OCLC 6480764 This delightful parody of Jacob Abbott's Rollo books series was originally published in issues of the Harvard Lampoon 1879-1880. This first book edition was published in 1880 by A. Williams & Co. The front board also bears the imprint of C. T. Dillingham, New York. "Four college generations, each of four years, have passed away since Rollo first journeyed to Cambridge, so that the little book may interest the antiquarian, and it certainly will aid instructors of the young in conveying the moralities to their charges. " This work was the brain child of F. J. Stimson, John T. Wheelwright, and Francis G. Attwood; all among the original founders of the Harvard Lampoon. Unlike the well behave lad of the Jacob Abbott series, this Rollo is a bit of a wild child ensnared by a seemingly endless pecadillos, involving smoking, pranking, cribbing, teasing and generally larking about. Rollo's uncle gets drunk, his mother gets a divorce, etc. The fifteen year old is readying to take college entrance exams in Cambridge, but is thwarted in his ambition, eventually being tried and found guilty of manslaughter and consequently hung! .…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. An excellent first edition of this uncommon science fiction novel, exploring a dystopian future where England's monarchy has been overthrown. First edition.Uncommon.In the publisher's cloth binding.A strange futuristic tale set in a world ruled by a powerful and wealthy aristocracy called the King's Men, highly stratified with these King's Men at the top and the common people at the bottom. The protagonist of the story is a young man named David Remsen, who belongs to the middle class. He becomes disillusioned with the King's Men and their oppressive rule and joins a secret society that is working to overthrow them.A collaborative work written by four Boston-based authors: Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. of Dale, John T. Wheelwright.With a ten-page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are marginally toned and generally clean, with scattered spots to the endpapers. Small ownership label of John McDonough to the front free endpaper. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First. A very good copy. An uncommon work, a future history novel of sorts. In Bleiler, and quite uncommon.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 480.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1810 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: 486 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: 486 Volume 1 Malcolm, J. P. (James Peller), 1767-1815,Harris, John, (bookplate),Wheelwright (association).…