Conquest Gold, Signed (6 results)

Original Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust. Signed with dedication on title page. With plates. Slight wear to spine, covers, corners & dustjacket. ; Octavo; 416 pages; Signed by Author First American Edition; First Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. inscribed by Mark Cocker to previous owners. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation Copy Inscribed by the Author. Number 246 on 600 copies. Written after WWI, this book addresses the history and present state of banks with a focus on the Bank of England. Largely a reaction to the financial crisis after WWI, the author boldly states: "Events of recent years have emphasized the urgent need of a new financial technique specially adapted to new economic conditions. A great deal of past economic disorder was caused by the inherent weaknesses in the old structure. This volume will destroy the economic fallacies universally current, and for the first time throw enlightenment on the subject, presenting at the same time a practical and comprehensive solution to the problem in which the future of every country in the world is involved" (introduction). Includes chapters on the origin of the bank of England Act, psychology of fixed income owners, meaning of a bank balance, Ostrers's gold and paper standards, relationship between currencies, illogical taxation, and more. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Slight fading to spine. Inscription to front free end page dated August 1932. Light foxing to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Untrimmed page edges. 142 pages. English History. ENGHIST02/0530. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s)The boards are a bit marked and worn. Minor foxing. Soundly bound. No. 245 of 600. Inscribed to the South African author Sarah Gertrude Millin. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. Second "Pictorial Edition!!!" New York: Published by Nafis & Cornish. St. Louis, Mo.: Nafis, Cornish & Co.; 1850. Quarto (8 15/16" x 5 9/16", 227mm x 141mm). [Full collation available.] With a wood-engraved frontispiece, title-page and 51 wood-engraved plates; included in the foliation but not in the pagination. Bound by L.S. Ballou (signed blind at the lower edge of the front cover) in black morocco (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down). On the boards elaborate scrollwork panels blind. Spine gilt, title and ornament. All edges of the text-block marbled. Marbled end-papers. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. Damp-stain about three-quarters depth from the fore-edge toward the spine. Occasional moderate foxing. Fore-corners bumped. Scuffs to the extremities. Bookplate of James Strohn Copley to the front paste-down. Pencil signature of Melvin G Beardsley to the verso of the first free end-paper. Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1804-1848) was a New Englander who heard the call of the West. He joined a mission to Oregon and became the captain of the Oregon Dragoons, the militarized embodiment of the Peoria Party that set out in 1839 to drive out the English fur-traders and to colonize Oregon territory (from the present Oregon/California border nearly to Alaska along the Pacific coast) for the United States. They blazed the Oregon Trail and were eventually instrumental (Farnham in particular) in the annexation of the territory. From 1842 he published accounts of the West that electrified America and Britain. In 1844 he published his Travels in California, which form the kernel of the present item. Farnham died in 1848 but his work continued undimmed; as the treble-exclamation announcing the pictorial edition indicates, there was great demand for visual accounts of the Wild West. The illustrated edition (first published 1849) was the first to contain an account of the gold-producing parts of California, capitalizing on the gold rush. No map is called for, but some copies of the Pictorial Edition have Wheat Transmississippi 609/Gold Region 85.2 ("Map of the Gold Regions of California" [Ensigns & Thayer, 1849]) inserted. James Strohn Copley (1916-1973) was the consummate twentieth-century Californian. He published the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune (merged into the Union-Tribune in 1992), and was a longtime friend and confidant of Goldwater and Nixon. He began in the Northeast, managing the school newspaper at Phillips Andover and the humor magazine at Yale. Eventually the Copley Press came to own a great many papers in Illinois and, principally, California. Bradford 1630, Braislin 718, Cowan II p. 203, Garret Mexican-American War 147, Howes F49, Sabin 23868, Wagner-Camp-Becker 107:6.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unbroken run of 22 "Kydd" Series First Printings, 13 Signed: Kydd 2001; Artemis 02; Seaflower 03; Mutiny 04 (Signed); Quarterdeck 05; Tenacious 05 (S); Command 06 (S); The Admiral's Daughter 07; Treachery 08; Invasion 09; Victory 10; Conquest 11; Betrayal 12 (S); 12; Caribbee 13 (S); Pasha 14 (S); Tyger 15 (S); Inferno 16 (S); Persephone 17 (S); The Baltic Prize 17 (S); The Iberian Flame 18 (S); A Sea of Gold 18 (S); To The Eastern Seas 19 (S) Stockwin, Julian Hodder & Stoughton London 2001 Hardcover: Condition: Fine: first editions, first impressions with full number line including 1 where called for; very clean and bright spines with hard tips and boards with sharp corners; no previous owner's marks or gift dedications; signed by the author to the title pages without dedications; very clean and tight end papers and text blocks with no spotting. Dust jackets condition: Fine: very clean and bright; no tears, nicks or creases; not price clipped. This heavy set of 22 books will need additional postage, especially overseas, which will be requested after an order has been received. Signed by Author(s).