Two Documents, First Edition (229 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. x, 371pp., (iii). Ex-library. Bound in original soft covers. Volume admits to several minor bumps to extremities and light wear to covers, as well as light soiling to edges of pages. Text clean. Binding sound Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxx, 486 pp. Edited with translations by Paul M. Kendall and Vincent Ilardi. First Edition, 1971. "Volume II reveals how the enemyof France, Sforza, and the enemy of Charles VII, his son the Dauphin Louis, a refugee in the Low Countries under the protection of the Duke of Burgundy, linked themselves in the Treaty of Genappe and, until Louis became King, July 22, 1461, fostered an understanding among Milan, Burgundy, and Yorkist England with the object of countering French designs in Italy and a French trhreat to make war on the Duke of Burgundy." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Small chips along top and bottom edge spine dj with 1 1/4" closed tear to bottom edge spine and lightly rubbed panels. Owner's ex libris plate on ffep with only the slightest age-toning, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with red cloth backstrip, gilt emblem on front board, and gilt lettering to spine. Size: Small 4to. Book.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Name in ink. No jacket.

Condition: Good. 1967. First Edition. 139 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Light reading crease at the front spine fold. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Corners lightly rubbed, else fine, signed on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pp.: x,31. Titles to sp. and frt. wrapper. Grey paper wraps. Wrapper fr.t edges chipped. Interior leave ae clean and tight. Sales cataloge from "The Close of the Revolution toThe Middle of "The Nineteenth Century." Includes introduction and offering descriptions. . A good sampling of American ephemera. Usual handling wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. First Edition. softcover, 179 pages, some highlighting, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Part I includes papers relating to Foreign Affairs, when the Honorable William H. Seward was the Secretary of State. 729 pages. Book.

Paperback. xv, 159p., foxing and much thumb-soil to edges, external grime, worn trade paperback in once-white wraps. Soundly-bound, a reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Green boards are in very good condition. Title in gilt on spine. Light shelf wear. Binding tight, interior clean. One of 300 copies. Volume Two only. "This two volume calendar of documents in the Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, is a descriptive account, in chronological order, of the correspondence to and from the Most Reverend J. Francis A. McIntyre (1948-1953) and James Francis Cardinal McIntyre (1953-1970). ; 11" x 6.75"; 265 pp.

First Edition. Fine cloth copies both in equally fine dws. Particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp cornered. Of obvious and considerable reference value. ; 607 pages; Description: 2 v. (xxviii, 607 p. ) . 24 cm. Illustrated with an arry of explanatory charts, figures and tables. Subjects: Labor unions--Great Britain--History--Sources. Notes: Includes index. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Name in ink. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Edgewear to dust jacket. Name of previous owner on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Boards have shelf wear, Bumps and separation at Spine Top, Front hinge is weakening, but otherwise tight, No Markings But some Soiling, Toning to pages, Clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. xiii 582, 16pp in publisher's gilt decorated black cloth gilt, backstrip splitting at edges, ex-cathedral library with usual stamps and labels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Part II includes papers relating to Foreign Affairs, when the Honorable William H. Seward was the Secretary of State. 829 pages. Minor wear/ marks. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copies both in equally fine dws. Particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp cornered. Of obvious and considerable reference value. ; 607 pages; Description: 2 v. (xxviii, 607 p. ) . 24 cm. Illustrated with an arry of explanatory charts, figures and tables. Subjects: Labor unions--Great Britain--History--Sources. Notes: Includes index. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 151 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Catholic Church Liturgy ; Papal documents. Catholic Church Liturgy. Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) Documents. Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965) Studies. Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965). Vatican Council (2nd) 1962-1965 Documents. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 50 pages portraits 23 cm. Introduction by Theodore Blegen, the two documents which follow are: Reminiscences of the last years of President Lincoln's life and President Lincoln's mail bag both by Edward D. Neill, who was for a time Lincoln's Secretary. Rare and interesting.

First Edition. First Edition. Fair condition. Appears to be in the original binding. Green cloth with gold lettering. Foxing, some mildew. "Abridgement".

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. b/w Drawing, Colored (illustrator). 1st. Plate#7: 12" x 9.25" print, an architectural study by Richard Schmidt, garden scene and country duplex ; 1 page, suitable for framing Size: 12" x 9.25". Print.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Volume 2 (only). Publishers cloth hardbound, rust spine cover/brown boards, gilt title/design stamped/embossed, illustrated text with maps and black/white plates. Dimensions: 10.25in. x 7.5in. x 1.75in. Condition: Near fine; slightly sunned board edges, otherwise fine. Dust jacket condition: Very good; wear at edges (minor frayed/chipped areas at spine crown/heel area, rubbed at some perimeter areas. A nice copy Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Bison Edition. Near-fine condition two volume set, Bison Books, 1990. Light reading/handling wear only.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. 398pp, index, bibliography, appendix, notes, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Very small rub to front otherwise near new. Size: 8vo.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 359 pp, colour ills. 232 lots. From the preface: ".this auction may constitute one of the last opportunities for collectors of America's historic figures to metaphorically stand upon the shoulders of one of the most colorful and discerning of great American collectors. Christie's is honored to have been selected to handle this historic dispersal for the Forbes family. As in Part One, the present catalogue has been arranged chronologically, beginning with colonial and Revolutionary War manuscripts, followed by presidential letters and documents, in order of their administrations. Wartime letters of Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are placed chronologically within the sequence of letters of the sitting presidents when the letters were written (Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt). Letters of historical figures who never served as President have been placed in the appropriate sequence in the presidential chronology. An alphabetical index has been provided as a convenience. " Indexed. Near Fine.

Auction Catalogue. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 46 pp, 2plates. 205 lots. Small piece of paper adhered to front wrapper, otherwise Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown cloth with gilt lettering/design to fronts and spines. This copy is VG. Exteriors modestly/moderately rubbed around edges with spine gilt barely legible, but front gilts much better. Insides Have PO stamps of James Marchand, noted Linguist and Professor at the University of Illinois to FEPs, along with copious pencil notes of his in both volumes. Introductions in English. Transcriptions/Facsimiles in Yiddish. About 175 pp.in each volume.

Printed wrappers, small 4to, 25 cm, [215] - 404 pp, facs, Lots 253-525. . Catalogue for the second day of a two-day sale. Among the highlights noted for the second day were the following: "the papers of George Frederic Watts "England's Michelangelo"; the papers of Enid Bagnold, author of National Velvet; an autograph letter by Andrew Marvell; documents signed by Sir Walter Ralegh; autograph poems by Jane Austen, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, William Cowper and William Wordsworth ("The solitary reaper"); the autograph manuscript of an unrecorded story by Swinburne entitled "A nine days' wonder"; important series of letters by Churchill, Dickens, Dodgson, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, T.E. Lawrence, W.M. Thackeray and Edward FitzGerald, John Ruskin and P.G. Wodehouse (to Guy Bolton); a letter written by Coleridge sixteen days before his death and a cheque signed by Charles Dickens made out for the day after his death." Neatly but unfortunately colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine, otherwise Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 359 pp, colour ills. 232 lots. From the preface: ".this auction may constitute one of the last opportunities for collectors of America's historic figures to metaphorically stand upon the shoulders of one of the most colorful and discerning of great American collectors. Christie's is honored to have been selected to handle this historic dispersal for the Forbes family. As in Part One, the present catalogue has been arranged chronologically, beginning with colonial and Revolutionary War manuscripts, followed by presidential letters and documents, in order of their administrations. Wartime letters of Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are placed chronologically within the sequence of letters of the sitting presidents when the letters were written (Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt). Letters of historical figures who never served as President have been placed in the appropriate sequence in the presidential chronology. An alphabetical index has been provided as a convenience. " Indexed. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine. Wrappers slightly faded and a little marked,several lots with prices marked, otherwise Near Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.