Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the Third Session of the Forty-Second Congress of the United States, December 2, 1872 by Knox, John Jay - 1872

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Kvindernes Underkuelse. Paa Dansk ved G.Brandes. Kjøbenhavn, Forlagt af den Gyldendalske Boghandel 1869
Octavo, contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine lettered gilt, hinges cracked, (2), ix, (1)blank, 186 bookplate, a fine copy.
First edition in Danish. Georg Brandes [1842-1927] was a well-known Danish critic and scholar. Very rare [no copy in copac]

Norris, Frank: The Pit, Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc. Stated First Printing Thus. Published February,1903. Used. Very Good-/ No Dust Jacket included. 421 pages. Red boards with gilt titling and wheat motif ornamentation. All gilting is still in nice shape. pages. HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT. STOCK MARKET. An attractive used copy.

Foreward to the second edition London, January 1963. Laid in is an erata slip and a couple of pamphlets for other books and an envelope for Omni Pub. in CA. Main portion of the dw in Near Fine condition, some rubbing along the foredge. Dust Jacket is very worn and faded on the spine with small tears and small pieces missing. Corners are rubbed/worn. Book in VG with Near Fine condition. Top and bottom edges of the spine are bent under, corners bumped/rubbed. This is the revised January 1963 HC edition. Ships with delivery confirmation.

Bruxelles: J. P. Meline, 1834. A very good hardcover copy with stains on pages (soiling & humidly) edge wearied cover, title worn of from spine has on image. 319p. 22.5X14,3cm. 550gr.

The first six Volumes of this magazine, which followed after Rand's publication The Objectivist ceased publication. All copies are Fine to Near Fine in maroon, stapled wraps that are all 5 ½ inches wide but that were trimmed in heights that range 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. The shades of maroon range from medium to dark. Some issues have slight edge wear, color loss along the spines, with touch of age toning along edges of the white, back cover. All issues are free of address labels. Each Volume is complete with six bi-monthly issues, EXCEPT that Vol. 6 has two copies of issue 2 and is missing issue 3. Total set is made up of 36 issues of the Forum. The set of six volumes is housed in a matching, maroon vinyl magazine file.

London / Birmingham: Longman And Co, Paternoster Row / J Drake, New Street, Birmingham, ND. First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. pp. 80, + fold-out table, Expenditure of a Working Man. Disbound slim pamphlet in very good condition, some fraying around spine, some turning to a few page corners at bottom, but a clean, firm copy with sound binding. The TP lists Frederick Hill as the author, not Frederic as he was baptised. Hill was one of the most notable Victorian prison reformers and politically involved throughout his career, including working towards the Reform Bill of 1832. The pamphlet would have been written just prior to Hill joining the Birmingham Political Union, which campaigned for the extension of the vote. His brother Rowland, inventor of the postage stamp, had an equally illustrious career. To tp, in a Victorian hand, in pencil, 'First Composition in print by Frederic Hill' and in ink, the date 1828. The date is notable, as there is no date to the TP and the BL - and other holdings -… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, first printing. 8vo., xvi+262pp. Fine, as new in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.