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Condition: Near Fine. In the years following the Land Run of 1889, which opened land in Indian Territory to Euro-American settlement, professional and amateur photographers alike moved to the region. Their motives varied, with some attempting to document the vanishing indigenous culture and others trying to capitalize on the Euro-American demand for photographs of Native Americans in both traditional and western attire. Some studios would use single sets of props for different tribes. Despite these issues, the images from the period do illuminate the period of acculturation and displacement in the history of the Southern Plains Indians tribes, and also provide a record of the motives of the Euro-American photographers behind the camera. William J. Lenny and William L. Sawyers were photographers working out of Purcell in the years immediately following the land rush. They photographed the tribes on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache and Wichita-Caddo reservations. Lenny was a field photographer and likely took most of the photographs, while Sawyer managed the studio. Offered here are a very extensive group of photographs taken by the duo - twenty-seven in total - giving a visual record of the Kiowa and other tribes during this period. Some of these images - though not these copies - were included in the Museum of the Great Plains Exhibition In Citizen's Garb, and we have included their reference numbers where applicable. Overall an uncommonly large group in fine condition, with some fading. From the collection of Forest Fenn, the noted Santa Fe gallerist. 1. Indian Police / Kiowa and Comanches [Supplied Title]. The images shows seven mounted police officers, with the one furthest to the left appearing to be Euro-American. 2. Arko, Captain of the Indian Police (Comanche.) [Supplied Title] Indian police commonly earned $8-$10 per month to work on the reservation, where their duties included expelling intruders, bringing children to the schools, curbing crime and preventing the sale of alcohol. He's dressed traditionally including a single feather worn as a headdress. [In Citizen's Garb 32] 3. Chief Tow-Wac-A-Ny and Wives. Wichitas. [Supplied Title]. A portrait of 'Towacany Jim,' a famous military scout, posed with a Navajo-style blanket along with his two wives. The women are wearing purchased shoes common in this period. He earned $10 per month as leader of the Indian Police and traveled to Washington, D.C. on diplomatic missions. Fine contrast. 4. Big Tree's Boy and Girl. Kiowas. [Supplied Title] A portrait of two children of the chief Big Tree. The pair wear traditional dress. Faded. Big Tree. 5. Kiowa Chief. [Supplied Title] A portrait of A'Do-Ette, or Big Tree, the Kiowa chief. Fine contrast. 6. [Portrait of A'Do-Ette] . He wears the same costume used by the photographers for various other tribal leaders, including a large headdress. Faded. 7. Chief Big Tree's Daughters. (Kiowas.) [Supplied Title] The image shows two girls identified as Alma (left) and Leena (right). Alma wears a dress of dark buckskin. Both girls have beaded bags, known as "Strike-a-Light" bags hanging from belts. 8. Lone Wolf. Kiowa Chief. [Supplied Title] A photograph of Mamay-day-te, or Lone Wolf the Younger, in the same costume used for O'Do-Ette's portrait and others. Some fading. 9. Photograph of Laura Dunmore, or Laura Pedrick. Dunmore was a graduate of Carlisle School and sister of Chief Aptone. She is pictured here with a parasol, tartan cloth and tinkling cone earrings, providing a striking study in fashion during this period. Fine contrast. 10. Photograph of a Camp Scene in Summer on a Reservation. This scene, perhaps a Kiowa-apache camp, contains a tipi made of canvas instead of hides. A man in an expensive set of purchased clothing sits in the foreground. Excellent contrast. [In Citizens Garb 9] 11. Photograph of a Camp Scene in Summer. A variant of our no. 10, showing the same scene from a different angle. Excellent contrast. 12. Chief Wild Horse [Supplied Title] Title writ.

First edition of this rare and important work of political philosophy, an English inheritor to Grotius and the De cure ac belli et ac paci (first published in English the previous year, 1654), and a more immediate successor to Hobbes's Leviathan and De Cive (both published in English in 1651). The dedication to Oliver Cromwell ("Magno, Magne Britannie Principi &c. Protectori, Patri Patriae, & semper Augusto") is signed "Mich. Hawk", and he is given on the title page as "M.H. Master in Arts, and of the Middle Temple". Little is known of Hawke and it is not clear where he obtained his Master of Arts (apparently not Oxford or Cambridge) nor does his name appear in the Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple. He published two other works: The Grounds of the Lawes of England (1657), also dedicated to Cromwell, and Killing is Murder, and no Murder (1657), a justification of regicide. In his "massively learned, eclectic and avowedly Hobbesian" treatise (Armitage, p. 195), Hawke was arguing for legitimate despotism, citing "Hobbes in favour of very un-Hobbesian position, in support of Grotius that there is an obligatory law of nature in the state of nature and it should be kept. True natural liberty, argues Hawke, can only be found by living in accordance of the state" (Parkin, p. 144). "Hawke's providentialist imperialism may be one of the strangest progeny of Leviathan, but it was unique only in the Hobbesian means by which it appropriated familiar classical and religious languages. Once used in opposition to the Protector, these languages were now the guarantors of Cromwell's imperial identity" (Armitage, p. 196). The book is uncommon institutionally and rare in commerce - ESTC / Library Hub locates eight copies in the United Kingdom, held by the British Library, Bodleian (two copies, the second lacking leaves C4-5), National Library of Scotland, Manchester Central Library, Merton College (listed 3 times though all with the same shelfmark), Society of Antiquaries, with copies listed at the Congregational Library and Dr Williams Library (which share a building) the same copy; copies in North America are held by Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Huntington & Union Theological Seminary. Rare Book Hub and ABPC locate no copies in auction results. Provenance: Ink ownership inscriptions in a secretary hand of Thomas Sudell and William Sudell to both terminal free endpapers, both title pages, errata leaf and some drop-head titles, dated 1678-9 and 1682, one with a cost ("praetium 1s"): "William Sudell booke" (first title), "Tho: Sudell Booke 1682" (second title), "TSudell owes [sic] this Booke Anno Dni 1678/9" (errata), "Hic codex est meus testis est Deus / si quis me querit nomen hic erit TSudell Ano. Dni 1678/9" (p. 6), "Tho. Sudell 1678" (p. 117), "Thomas Sudell Booke Anno Dni 1679" and "TSudell Booke 1682" (first terminal endpaper), "Thomas Sudell Booke Anno Dom 1679 / Pretium 1s / Rich. Bilbey" (second terminal endpaper). William and Thomas Sudell were probably members of the merchant family of Preston, Lancashire (see Alumni Cantabrigienses): a Thomas Sudell was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on 2 May 1656 and a William Sudell, son of Nicholas, draper of Preston, was admitted pensioner (age 17) to St John's College, Cambridge on 17 March 1670-1; B.A. 1674/5, MA 1678; ordained deacon (Ely) 23 Sept. 1679. ESTC R202383. David Armitage, Greater Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in Atlantic History, 2004; Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan, 2010. Small octavo (146 x 95 mm). Contemporary sheep, spine ruled in blind, single fillet borders and initials "TS" (Thomas Suddell, see note) in blind, no pastedowns or front free endpapers with two terminal endpapers. Variant duplicate title-page with conjugate errata leaf bound after the dedication, not called for by ESTC and not present in the British Library copy reproduced on EEBO, terminal blank O4 excised leaving stub. Split at foot of rear joint but holding firm, browning from turn-ins, paper flaw at the head of leaf L8 (p. 147-8) with loss of the top two lines and slight loss to the third line of text, and a small hole M1 affecting one word on recto and two on verso. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tall black soft cover with white lettering, very clean.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Hablot Knight Browne [Phiz] (illustrator). First edition. The first editions in book form of three of Charles Dickens' best known novels. With 'David Copperfield' and 'Dombey and Son' present in early issues, and 'Little Dorrit' in its first issue. The first editions in book form of three works of literature from iconic Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, in attractive half crushed morocco bindings, and with each volume illustrated throughout by 'Phiz', Hablot Knight Browne.The first published volume here is the 1848 first edition in book form of 'Dombey and Son'. An early issue, complying with all but one of the first issue points identified in John C. Eckel's 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'; 'Captain' is correctly spelled as the final word of page 324.Complying with first issue points including: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the illustrated title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14, 10 lines up from the bottom; 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284, 5 lines up from the bottom.Bound without half title and errata, however including plate 35, 'On the Dark Road', facing page 547, which is the first published example of a 'dark plate'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.The second volume present is an early issue of the first edition in book form of 1850's 'David Copperfield'. First issue points present include: the presence of the date to title pages; dark plate facing page 482; chapter XXVII begins on page 282 rather than 283 as listed in the contents, and misspelling 'coroboration' to page 387 line 6 from the bottom.As is frequently the case, however, 'screamed' has been corrected to 'screwed' to page 132, which is a common find. Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.Bound without half title and errata.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.The final work present is the 1857 first edition in book form, first issue, of 'Little Dorrit'. The first issue of this work, with three line errata to page xiv; 'William' for 'Frederick on page 317 line 27;B2 instead of BB2 on page 371,and 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois' on pages 469-73.Bound without the half title.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.An exceptionally smart three volume collection of first edition works from perhaps the most important writer of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens. Rebound in half crushed morocco bindings, and cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Each front hinge reinforced with following frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting and discolouration to plates, most concentrated to plate perimeters. Pages bright, with scattered handling marks, spots and areas of light discolouration throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

Wrappers. Condition: Very good. First Edition, later impression. A RARE SURVIVING COPY OF THIS VARIANT, LATER, BUT EARLY, IMPRESSION RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL WRAPPERS HOUSING THE FIRST EDITION STATE (perhaps, and we think likely, first printing) OF THE TEXT LEAVES of this Anthony Trollope novel first published in the United States on May 6, 1862 and not published in the UK until November, 1870, making this American Edition the TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS TROLLOPE NOVEL. The tale centers on a Partnership in a haberdashery amoung Brown (a retired Butter dealer), Jones (Brown's son-in-law), and Robinson (a strong advocate of advertising and an aspirant to the hand of Brown's youngest daughter, Maryanne). Due to Brown's timidity, Jones's embezzlement, and Robinson's extravagance, the Firm went bankrupt. This wrappered copy has been bound in brown half-cloth and marbled boards which (like the original wrappers) lack the spine. The front board's recto has a pasted-on title label whereon the novel's title is written and its verso bears a Muncie, Indiana Public Library label with the Library information written thereon. The volume contains its original front and rear wrappers and all of the required leaves. The front wrapper's recto shows "D 92" in pencil as well as a bit of loss to its left portion which losses are now adhered to the front board verso's adjacent margin. The front wrapper's verso shows evidence of a removed label of some sort with evidence of its location and size shown by a darkened area within which some remnants of the label remain. Within, the front free endpaper is torn and a portion of it remains with the front wrapper's verso as shown in the images provided with our proprietary listing. The pages remain in reasonably nice condition with some darkening throughout, varied foxing and scattered spotting, and only slight edge wear and tiny tears to the edge of a some of them. There is minor tearing and some additional margin tearing with loss to the outer margin of the leaf hosting pp 57/58. Copies of this FIRST EDITION text of any variant or issue are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE and are, in consequence, ABSOLUTELY RARE TO THE MARKET. In his Bibliography of Trollope's works published in 1928 (which focused on Trollope's UK editions), Sadleir states with respect to this novel's first American edition: "It is impossible for a collector to ignore Harper's unauthorized edition of Brown, Jones and Robinson, so greatly did it predate the English version." While Sadleir gave some information on the US edition, he further stated: "The above description is necessarily incomplete and, in some places, problematical. I have myself never seen a copy of this pirated - but by eight years 'first book' - edition of Trollope's unhappy excursion into humour. America friends have contributed details of collation, but even they have failed to discover a copy in original shape. Wherefore the allocation of pages, the binding and illustration details have to be surmised." [Sadlier speculated in his attempt at a collation that the American edition probably had a frontispiece, but that speculation turned out to be wrong.] In his Bibliography's Addenda and Corrigenda, published in 1934, Sadlier stated: "A copy in fine untouched state has now been discovered which makes possible the following corrected collation: ." [which Sadlier then gives]. In his excellent Bibliography of Trollope's works published in the United States, Walter Smith notes that the 1862 copy he shows and describes is the ".actual first edition and the first of several works to appear in America before their publication in England. [He further notes, as did Sadlier, that the story was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine from August 1861 - March, 1862 and was not published in novel form in England until 1870.] Smith goes on to state that: "One copy examined (Parrish Collection, Princeton, AT 355) had a title page dated 1875; its front cover was undated and listed the price at 50 cents; the.

First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm with "delight" for "joy" on page 284. Octavo, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing all advertisements as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and chemise pull-off case. Scarce and desirable. Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers, and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity⦠Dickens told his first biographer, 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor [Martin Chuzzlewit] has done with Selfishness" (Schlicke, 280). The work "has a sense of the numinous, is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things, than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception, so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end, so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it⦠Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" (Ackroyd, 526). The original serials contain the first of Browne's "dark plates" ("On the dark Road," in part 18), created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate, creating heightened contrast (Johannsen, Phiz, 309).

DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 20 parts in 19, original pictorial wrappers. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1846 to April 1848. First edition in the original monthly parts, with many of the advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver(pp. 227-50). Wrappers somewhat soiled; backstrips with chipping and repairs; slightly torn; some plates rather browned; former owners' signatures on several parts, otherwise a very good set in two handsome full morocco solander cases.Parts 1, 4-8, 12-14, 18 have ads per Hatton & Cleaver. Part 2 lacks 2-page slip for "Punch." Part 3 lacks last 2 pages of Chapman and Hall ads; "Punch" slip; "The Atlas" 2 page ad; "Richard's Universal Daily Remembrance," 4 pp. Parts 9 lacks 2 page Dakin ad in back. Part 10 lacks "Gilbert's Dictionary" 8-page ad in back. Part 11 lacks 2 page slip in back. Part 15 lacks Jerrold slip. Part 16 lacks slip after plates. Part 17 lacks ads in back except for 8-page C. Cox catalogue. Parts 19/20 lacks slip after plates.In addition Part 6 ad "Valuable Education Works" is on light green paper unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver. Part 14 is early printing according to Hatton & Cleaver: page 431 lacks page number; Page 426, line 9 lacks first word, "if".

Browne, Hablot K. (illustrator). [a handsome set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in October 1846 and ending in April 1848. The serialization of this novel began upon the end of serialization of OLIVER TWIST (the scarcest of all "Dickens in parts," occurring eight years after its publication in book form); until OLIVER TWIST these monthly parts of Dickens's works were issued by Chapman & Hall, but were now being issued by Bradbury & Evans. Part XVIII of DOMBEY AND SON includes the first so-called "dark plate" (appropriately, "On the dark Road") to appear in a Dickens work -- possible due to a new process; there would be another in DAVID COPPERFIELD, followed by ten in BLEAK HOUSE and eight in LITTLE DORRIT. At the end of serialization, DOMBEY AND SON was published in book form -- the preliminary leaves for which are supplied at the end of the final monthly part. As for issue points (there are three), this set like most is mixed: it reads "Capatin" on p. 324 (the uncommon 1st state), "if" is absent on p. 426 (1st state), and "431" is present on that page (2nd state) -- curious, in that pages 426 and 431 are in the same part. (The word "Delight" on page 284 is a faux issue point, since all copies in parts have that error.) This is a very good-plus set -- fine in appearance, because all the wrappers (front and rear) are unusually clean; six of the front wrappers bear the small ink-stamp of "Webster & Co., 60 Piccadilly". Two of the rear wrappers (I and XVI) are "borrowed" from a different part, and all the delicate (plain) spines are expertly renewed. Notably, this set has ALL the advertisements and slips that are specified in the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography for a complete set. All the plates have varying degrees of darkening or foxing in the margins, but only Part II has plates that are significantly foxed. In all, an absolutely complete, clean set, with allowances for the "renewals." Hatton & Cleaver pp 225-250. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with morocco spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. tall black book with white lettering, very clean copy.

125, [45 (adverts)] pp. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 7-3/4" x 4-1/2" Modest binding wear. Age-toning to paper. A respectable VG copy, and uncommon thus. Publisher's original brown cloth binding with printed paper title label to front board (professionally recased). Advert eps 1st edition (Ellison 962 [recording 208 pp (?)]; Spear, p. 197).

First Edition. Tall octavo; 172pp. Original stiff card stock with illustrated dust jacket titled 'Oriental Art Treasures from the Chinese Imperial Palace' in red with gold. Empress's Crown Ornament embellished with pearls to front cover. Faint soiling, rubbing to spine with minor loss, else a Near Fine and complete copy in original publisher's binding. A listing of 326 lots to be sold in this landmark sale in two afternoon sessions on Friday, January 26 (194 lots) and Saturday, January 27, 191 (132 lots).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 20 parts in 19. The "Dombey & Son Advertiser" in all parts except Part 17 and other inserted advertisements. Issue points: Part 11, p. 324, first issue with "Capatin" misprint"; Part 14, and with earliest issue point on p. 426 (lacking "if"); Part 5 has the 12 line errata slip; Part 9, page 284, 5th and 6th line up "Delight"; Part 19-20 adverts dated "April, 1848." Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 227-50. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. Softcovers, bound in original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, housed in a cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. Chipping to backstrip extremities, wrappers partly split on a few numbers, minor soiling; plates with intermittent tanning and spotting, heaviest to margins.

First Edition. 12mo, pp.[22], 189, [3], with a terminal blank but wanting the initial blank A1; a very good copy in early nineteenth-century polished calf, worn; authorial presentation inscription to title verso (cropped at foot).First edition, very rare, of a charming work of marriage guidance, inscribed by the author 'To my welbeloved sonn Mr Obadiah Bourne daily prayinge to Gode for a blessing uppon him and upon the people under his charge with mine and Deare mothers Blessinge I give this little book for a Remembrancer '.The writer and controversialist Immanuel Bourne (15901672) had published his first work, a sermon, in 1617. It was as chaplain to Sir Samuel Tryon that he met his wife, Jemima Beckingham, and that he received the living of Ashover in Derbyshire in 1621, which he later passed on to his son Obadiah (1634?1710). Bourne's last work, A Golden Chain of Directions was addressed to the children of his later patron the Earl of Rutland, most pointedly to John Manners, the 1st Duke (16381711), who had been granted a legal separation from his first wife, Anne Pierrepont, on the grounds of her adultery, and then obtained private acts bastardising his children and getting permission to remarry in 1667. Among the twenty links in Bourne's 'chain of love' for a successful marriage are: agreement in religion, proximity in age (or at least not extreme difference), mutual affection, parental consent, 'free Communication of mutual kindness, and conjugal engagements to and with one another', love of soul as well as body, fidelity, respect, increase of estate, mutual care for the children, cohabitation, compromise, and the spiritual wisdom to be able discuss faults with equanimity. Though he is conventional on a wife's subordination to her husband, there is as much here on a husband's responsibilities to his partner: 'a husband must not be like unto a Crab, Orange, or Lemon; fair on the outside to the shew, and soure and bitter within; pleasing, with sugared words abroad, Sweet-heart before Company, and of a froward and perverse Disposition at home'.Wing B3853 (Bodley and CUL only). Language: English.

1st edition, 1st issue in book form with Cuttle's book in his left hand in the title page vignette, and no page entry for the frontis. and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party," p. xv; "aint" has no apostrophe, p. 26, 10 lines up; "fidgetty," p. 26, line 11; "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show," p. 40, lines 16-17; "Delight" instead of "Joy," p. 284, 5th and 6th lines from bottom; "Capatin" instead of "Captain," p. 324; and with the errata sheet. Illustrated with 38 plates, vignette title page, and engraved frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne. Near-Fine, spine a bit faded, in a matching blue slip case. Literature.

Couverture rigide. - Bradbury and Evans, London 1848, In-8 (14x22cm), 624pp., relié. - Edition originale, rare, de première émission avec les 8 lignes d'errata sur un feuillet. L'illustration, exécutée selon les indications très précises de l'auteur comprend un frontispice, un titre gravé avec une vignette et 38 planches par Hablot Knigt Browne dont une à la manière noire : On the dark road. Texte sur vélin teinté. Reliure en demi chagrin rouge d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Auteur et titre dorés. Tête dorée. Marges du frontispice, du titre gravé et des gravures brunies, comme c'est habituellement le cas dans les éditions anglaises de Dickens. Texte propre, exempt de rousseurs. Traces de frottements. Bel exemplaire. Roman écrit dans une veine nettement plus sombre mettant en scène l'orgueil démesuré d'un père tyrannique animé par l'ambition face à l'amour indéfectible de sa fille qu'il ignore totalement. On y retrouve, comme toujours chez Dickens une perception fine des tensions sociales de l'époque. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] 624pp.

complete set of 20 numbered parts in 19 as issued, continue pagination of pages 1-624, plus the 'Dombey & Son Advertiser' in each part, 40 plates through the 20 parts (2 in each part), plus slip in adverts throughout including The Music Book and Rowland Bradshaw coloured ads in parts 1 & 2, small Punch add in parts 2 & 3, Richard's Daily Rememberance advert [4] with red text in part 3, small Man in the Moon advert in part 4, Cheap Editions of the works of Charles Dickens [4] in parts 6 & 7, Dankin and Company advert [2] with blue text in part 9, Maps, Guides, and Charts small advert in part 10, advert for Lett's Diary's in part 15 (with 12 of 18 parts), 2 small catalogues in part 17 etc. Parts 19 & 20 contain the title page and prelims at the rear [xvi] which would be used if binding all the parts together First Edition , Parts 1 & 2 with no rear cover, part 4 with no covers, part 11 with loss to one of the adverts at the front, cover lightly creased and some with small tears otherwise a nice clean set, books in good condition , Original blue paper wraps Octavo, 22.5 x 14 cm Paperback ISBN:

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 278+ pages. Rebound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-Library, though with minimal markings. Slight residue of sticker on spine, with no other external library markings. Small "Kansas Coll." stamp at top of title page, as well as various penciled markings on title page. Marked out stamp at foot of verso advertising page. Penciled library number in bottom margin of last page. Corners of pages 277/78 are chipped. A few small chips to edges of first and last few leaves. Otherwise very clean.

First edition. With forty plate illustrations by H. K. Browne, including frontispiece and title page vignette. 8vo., in a fine green morocco binding, with gilt borders to front and back boards, spine with five single raised bands outlined in gilt, the second and third panels lettered in gilt, the rest elaborately tooled in gilt. London, Bradbury and Evans. Originally published in monthly parts from 1846 to 1848 this being its first appearance in one volume. A very fine copy, with a little offsetting to free endpapers, and a small mark to front board, otherwise clean and bright. Podeschi A103.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Author! STATED First Edition, FIRST PRINTING! RARE FIRST STATE! Number-line to # 1 (Doubleday, March, 1991) **APPEARS UNREAD** Signed by Mr. Grisham on the Half-Title page, His name only, no dedication. Black 1/3 cloth over Olive Green Boards are Fine, Sharp Corners. There is a light fade to the upper and lower edges, though difficult to see in the photo. A very common issue, but this copy MUCH better than most (NOTE: This is the First Printing, First State. The First State is an Olive Green color and is very much prone to fading, some call it "gray" but that is the faded color, THIS BOOK EXIIBITS VERRYYY MINOR FADE ONLY at the very edges, RARE IN THIS RESPECT. (The second state is Black 1/3 cloth over black paper boards.) Spine is Very Fine, very smooth. Bright gold lettering is beautifully complete. Pages are clean, crisp with no writing, no folding. Page edges are very clean. Dust Jacket is Fine, NO de-lamination. that is found in this title over 99% of the time, very well preserved (EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS RESPECT)! This is the FIRST STATE dust jacket, with price of $19.95 intact. Protected in a clear, removable archival cover. Extremely difficult to find a better copy! **Please Note: Extra insurance charges will apply.** ** I am a Professional Bookseller, but before that, a Collector. I know all too well the disappointment of receiving a book that is "Not as Described". This does not happen here. Period. You will receive the book as described or better. I always ship in a very well-padded box with free tracking and insurance, smoke and odor free.**. Signed by Author(s).

192 pp. Hardcover in original cloth binding. Exceptional original printing! Housed in a beautiful custom slip case. LOTS of great early information on Nashville, Tennessee.

First edition. 8vo. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt borders to covers and titles to spine. Gilt cartouche depicting Dickens in an oval frame to the upper cover and his signature embossed in gilt to the lower cover. Marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A very good copy with minor marginal repair to page 238 not affecting text. A very bright and clean copy. Thirty-nine full page steel engravings by H. K. Browne.

First English Edition. First English Edition. With 4 plates. iv, 254 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The true first edition is the rare 1862 New York Harper's pirated edition. Sadleir 15a Original brown cloth, corners slightly bumped, spine with some fading. Very good copy, with bookseller's label T.W. Arthur, Carlisle With 4 plates. iv, 254 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Half Calf and Boards. Condition: Good+. Browne, H.K. (Phiz) (illustrator). First Edition. xvi, [2], 624pp, plates. Later half-calf and marbled paper over boards from the parts, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel, contrasting author label to third, remaining panels gilt with volute corner pieces, flower head centre piece with small roundels to top, bottom, left and right, marbled endpapers. Spine faded, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally the plates often have the usual browning to edges, but generally fairly bright and clean. Bound from the original parts, several of the plates (twenty) are bound in twice, several covers from the parts are bound in at the rear, with a couple of the Dombey Advertisers. Extra-illustrated with both sets of the portraits (twelve portraits) of the characters, again illustrated by Phiz, with the original wrappers bound in to rear. Bound by Palmer Howe and Co. of Manchester. See Smith, pages 70-73 Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 22 full page engraved plates. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 1843. A trade catalogue. Plates have a water stain to the bottom third and heavy foxing in places. One plate is folding. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards. Top of spine split and chipped and some splitting to edges, marbled boards heavily rubbed and marked. Endpapers dusty and marked. A very interesting and early trade catalogue of ironwork. The business was started around 1835 and went into bankruptcy in 1848. A large concern as they built steam engines for railroads one of which is depicted, other items include Carts and coaches, balconies, Gates, Fencing and many other items. Only one copy located in the British Library. Rare. 6 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, later issue, in a Riviere & Son binding. Thick octavo; size of binding: 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ x 1 7/8 (thick); engraved frontispiece + vignette title page, printed title page, dedication leaf; Preface, Contents, List of Plates; 11 line errata slip. xvi, (1)-624 pp. With forty engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the first example of the dark plate: "On the Dark Road." Later issue with an eleven-line errata slip & the word "Captain" corrected at the last line of p. 324. Bound in full, brown polished calf by Riviere & Son, London; with their bookbinder s stamp in the upper left edge of the back of the front, marbled endpaper. The spine features five raised bands, with red & dark green leather title labels & compartments richly gilt with a characteristic design; covers are outlined in a double-line gilt border with floral tools in the corners, gilt tooling to the cover edges, inner dentelles; sewn headbands, all edges gilt. Marbled paper endpapers & added flyleaves. The scan shows the spine & front cover. This binding, which was produced in the ca. 1900-20 period is in remarkably fine condition (without nicks, scratches, or rubbing). The pages & plates also, are quite clean, with only occasional, light tan spotting to plate margins, or edges of the pages. This book has been carefully preserved in a cabinet for many years, keeping it in such exceptional condition. Weight: 2 ½ lbs. Eckel, pp. 71-76.

First edition, with the earliest state of the hook on the left hand on the vignette title-page. With engraved Illustrations by H.K. Browne throughout. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt bands, one compartment with brown morocco label lettered in gilt. xiv, 624 pp. A very handsome copy in a proper period binding, sturdy and attractive and unusually clean and bright throughout. FIRST EDITION. This is quite a desirable copy of the Dickens novel that introduced the world to the memorable Mr. Dombey and his transactions, business and personal, and that creates a "clear picture of society in [Dickens'] time." Dickens wrote it while in residence in a number of different areas, beginning the work in Lausanne, Switzerland, continuing in Paris, and finishing in Brighton, Broadstairs, and London, making the text "a true cosmopolite in the manner of its writing." The publication of this book marked a turning point for Dickens; his proceeds were a fine increase over MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, and with these earnings "his financial worriment ceased, prosperity began, and a period of money-saving was at hand." This is the first publication of the text in its entirety after its serialization from October 1846 to April 1848. Copies this early are becoming scarce. An excellent piece of classic Dickensiana.

Oblong 4to. 12 x 8.5 in. 1 printed leaf on thick green-tinted paper. With 18 original linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, sized 8 x 10 in., all numbered w/in negative at lower fore-edge keyed to the printed title leaf. Flexible mottled simulated black calf string post-binder, hidden flaps punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ brown braid, green lettering stamped on front cover, (minor rubbing, shelfwear), still NF copy. First edition of this exceedingly rare salesman sample photo album for post-World War II G.I. Bill homes, featuring a time lapse photo series, and image of the prefabricated small home invented, designed, & marketed Willisway Systems in Chicago, IL. Prefabricated homes became a necessity in post-World War II America, to provide a faster and more cost effective way to build housing for the rapidly expanding households of Mid-Century America, and Home-Ola was developed by two brothers who owned and operated C.W. Plywood in Chicago, IL. These were of light construction, aimed at the $ 3000 market, and attractive to newly created G.I. families who could purchase with not money down. The time lapse photo series begins at 9:00 AM with the prepared foundation, and steel framework which had begun to be constructed at 8:00 AM. These are followed by photos subsequent photos at increments, with the insulated floor panels laid by 9:20; three-quarters of the walls laid by 10:10, stairway installed by 11:20; truss installation began at 1:10, and by 3:10, roofing, and windows were in place. The final three photos show the finished Home-Ola models which were about 700 square feet, featuring a 12 x 20 foot living room, kitchen, dinette & bathroom on opposite wall, steel stairway, and stressed-skin Douglas Fir plywood panels, resin-glued and pre-cut in the Tacoma factory. There are few records of how many Home-Ola homes were erected, and sold, but unfortunately within less than a decade both brothers, Jacques (1889-1948), and Robert Jacques (1916-1955) had passed away, and the CW Plywood Co. sold to outside investors who continued to produce Home-Ola homes until after 1960. Steel production facilities had been vastly expanded in the North American market during World War II, and as the War drew to a close, manufacturers, and steel mills raced to find solutions to keep production rolling, and workers employed, including producing steel frames for housing, steel kitchen cabinets, and more. Home-Ola was amongst an entire class of prefabricated Wood Frame Houses popular in the first couple decades after World War II because of reasonable cost, as well as speed of construction. No copies in Worldcat; See: Looking at Outstanding Prefabs, Popular Science, August, 1956, pp. 71-73; Catalogue of House Building Construction Systems (1960) -- for both U.S. and Canadian Markets.

First edition. Finely bound by Bumpus in half red morocco over marbled boards, with gilt titles and decoration and raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. A handsome, near fine copy, with slight browning to the edge of some plates Thirty nine full page steel engravings by H. K. Browne.

First Edition. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xvi, 624pp. 40 plates including engraved frontispiece, title page and vignette. Two line errata page. In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is on his left arm; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324 last line "Capatin" instead of "Captain" p.429, "if" is missing from line 9; p.582, the last line has no full stop. The first example of a 'dark plate' is to be seen on p.547. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Plates foxed Green hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Hardcover. H.K. Browne (illustrator). First edition. 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with following points -- two line errata leaf, no half title, vignette title with Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284), page number 431 present. "Capatin" for "Captain" in last line p. 234, and "if" missing in line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. ECKEL pp.74-76. SMITH 1:8. YALE/GIMBEL A103. Text clean, plates also bright and fresh with a few slightly toned at margins. Frontispiece and title page with light margin toning. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine.