Deeds Courage, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo; pp. viii, (16), 17-368, (40pp.), section on Roosevelt in England; color frontispiece, an additional color plate, map, plus numerous black and white plates; decorated pictorial, embossed yellow cloth lettered in gilt with oval inset of TR at center of the board, pink patterned endpapers; Among the many categories of books dealing with Theodore Roosevelt is the "Popular Biography" or "Popular Event" genre. These were books that were published to capitalize on an event, like an election or TR's African Trip, or to memorialize him after his death. They tend to be a bit garish in their appearance, often printed on pulpy paper with illustrations gathered from other publications and inserted. The ones that are election oriented appear as entries in William Miles' "The Image Makers", the definitive bibliography on the Campaign Biography. That is a collecting area unto itself. These books when found in good condition are treasures. They are also great fun! Post Presidential treatment of TR's Career with an impetous for him to run for another term of office.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. PUBLISHER: BRIN BROTHERS LTD. LONDON * YEAR: NOT DATED * ISBN/SBN: UNKNOWN * No OF PAGES: 98 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE D/W HAS SOME RUBBING TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS, WITH A RIP RUNNING FROM THE TOP OF ABOUT 4cm AND ALSO FROM THE BOTTOM OF ABOUT 5cm. THE SPINE HASE SOME OF THE TOP AND BOTTOM D/W MISSING. THE ILLUSTRATION ON THE FRONT BOARD IS STILL NICE AND BRIGHT. tHE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE WITH THE ILLUSTRATION STILL BRIGHT. THE BINDING IS REASONABLY FIRM. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF A HARD TO FIND EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Cover has moderate edge wear, light rub marks and fading, inner hinge cracking, minor marks / foxing within. A Civil-War era collection of narratives illustrating heroism among American women on the Western frontier. 348 pages, illustrated with drawings; plus a 22 page list of books published by G. G. Evans. Book.

Leinen. Condition: Sehr gut. (3) 84 S., 31x25cm Zustand: hellbrauner Leineneinband mit dunkelblauem Buchschmuck, unbenutzt [unused] --- Inhalt: englischer Text, umfangreich schwarzweiß illustriert SIL5-3 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Colour & b/w Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Original yellow cloth covered borads, surface rubbed, but black titling clear. No ownership inscription. Ttroop and scout record pages unused and still blank. . Size: 4to.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition of a scarce title. Stories of womens heroism and of Indian captivity. Original cloth with blindstamped design to both covers, gilt stamped spine lettering. Illustrated with steel engravings. 348 pages with frontispiece illustration "Rescue of Miss Boone." General scattered foxing. Cloth with tears and rubbing on spine, corners rubbed, hinges starting but textblock still firm.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eight years before publishing "Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind" -- a full decade before his "Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography" -- David Alan Richards delivered to the Kipling Society Annual Luncheon, May, 1999, a talk on "Collecting Kipling." "Bibliographies are customarily no indicators of rarity," Richards pointed out. "You will not learn from Livingston that 'The Seven Nights of Creation' (1886, Livingston 9, Stewart 2) exists in only three copies (Stewart said two, and one was his!). Other examples of breathtaking rarity abound. Kipling also suppressed The Smith Administration (1891, Livingston 73, Stewart 92), with only 6 known copies surviving out of the original 3,000. . . (The copy bought at the Charles Plumptre Johnson auction in New York in 1927, purchased by legendary bookseller Dr. Abraham Rosenbach for General Electric chief executive Owen D. Young and now in the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, sold for $14,000, the highest price ever paid for the work of a living author, equivalent to about $125,000 today.) But are we downhearted, knowing that these books -- and I could expand the list of 'Kipling impossibles' by literally another two dozen titles -- are almost certainly never to be obtained?" Richards asks. "No! Why? The fascination with chance, the hope -- even the belief -- that in some attic, or scrapbook, or box of discarded volumes, an old Kipling rarity will surface -- or even a new one, unknown to all prior collectors and bibliographers. And I have hard evidence for that belief. Let me describe to you what I have been fortunate enough to find in the five years I have been collecting." Mr. Richards mentions a copy of Lippincott's Magazine for January 1891, containing the first appearance of "The Light That Failed," published December 1890, "which is the deemed to be the earliest printing of all; I know of no other example in any Kipling collection." And then there are "the complete surprises, the Kipling first editions which have been discovered, that no one knew existed. In the words of St. Luke, 'Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost," including "a paperback booklet produced in Boston by the children's magazine publisher Perry Mason Company entitled 'Bravest Deeds,' a compilation of items previously appearing in its monthly numbers, which is the first book edition of the story 'Winning The Victoria Cross,' uncollected by Kipling until 1923; this title may indeed be found in Livingston and Stewart, in a hardback under the date 1902, but my wrappered copy is dated 1901, and appears to be the only remaining copy." Well, not quite. Here's another -- presumably the second reported -- in gray wraps printed in red & black, firmly bound with four staples showing some rust, small damage and stain to rear wrap, also a small tidemark to bottom of title page only, dated 1901 to the title page with no later dates showing. It's 64 pp. with Kipling's "Winning the Victoria Cross" occupying pp.43-52, featuring several period illustrations and including his somewhat droll account of the incident of the regimental chaplain who was honored with the medal for rescuing two British cavalrymen "all mixed up with their horses in a watercourse" from "a knot of Afghans who were hurrying to attend to them." "I do not think he quite cared for the publicity," Kipling observes. Though the chaplain's citation did not mention HOW he discouraged the pursuers, "Afghans do not leave wounded men without the strongest sort of hint," Kipling notes, leading him to conclude the unofficial account (that the chaplain -- though officially a noncombatant -- somehow brought a revolver into play) "seems very possible." 64 pp. Reduced from $2,000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 624pp; pictorial red cloth; gold lettering (dulled). No library stamps; no name; no writing; no bookplate. Contents clean, tight, complete, textually unmarked. 23 cm x 15 cm. B/w illustrations and photographs, several of cowboys and Indian life.