The Love Of Truth Mark The Boy -

New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1917. First Edition. Very good. First English edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 9-90, [8]; blue cloth over boards, illustrated with an intricate wreath in blue, yellow, and black (unsigned, but attributed to Margaret Neilson Armstrong); pictorial DJ; illustrated with three color plates, including the frontispiece; cloth with light wear to tips of spine and corners, else bright and clean; age-toning to endpapers and several minor spots to first few pages; small, ornate, unused bookplate to front board verso; very good to near fine condition. Dust jacket with tiny nicks to edges and small loss of paper to tips of spine and corners - in good to very good condition.By the author of beloved "Heidi," "What Sami Sings..." told the story of a young, orphaned boy, who loved nature and the songs of the birds. First published in German in 1887, it was not translated into English until 1917, by Helen B. Dole, and it has been especially difficult to obtain… Read More

Kobe, Japan: Mitsumura Printing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 11 x 14.25 inches, oblong. String-tied decorative cloth boards. Six pages of text, followed by 16 full-page collotype plates and one double-page folding panorama. Light soiling and wear to boards, final leaf with a repair to the margin (not affecting image). National Association of Cotton Manufacturers bookplate on front pastedown and ink stamp on title page call number at lower right corner of front board, otherwise unmarked and internally quite clean. This edition is undated, and we have not been able to determine whether it is earlier or later than another edition that is dated 1909 and credited to Kobe-based photographer S. Ichida (Ichida Sota, 1843-1896). In 1909, the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company employeed more than 14,000 workers and was the largest cotton spinning company in Japan. The company was uncommonly committed to the welfare of its laborers, providing schooling for both adult workers and their children, and offering them… Read More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Maroon cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. First published in 1986, this edition brings the narrative to 1996. Signed on the front endpapers by 22 chess masters, players and interested people, of which we have deciphered 18: Larry Cristiansen, Robert B Farmer (?), Jennie Franklakh, Esther Epstein, Vladimir (?) Samarov, Sharon Ellen Furtman, Alex Shabalov, Alrick Man, Irina Krush, (Boris) Gulka, Walter Browne, Joel Benjamin, John Fedorowicz, Gabriel Schwartzman, Dimitry Gurevich, Yasser Seirawan, Gregory Kaidonov and Carol Jarecki, .

London: W.C. Such, Printer and Publisher. Very good. Broadside. Undated, ca. 1922. 25 x 19 cm (ca. 9.75" x 7.5"), on newsprint or similar stock. Old folding creased, closed tear with archival repair on verso; very good. Although this song--a lament for England's poor and unemployed--may have been written as early as the 1890s, this edition, with its plea to "Please buy a copy from an unemployed ex-service man," was printed in the aftermath of World War I. Unemployment in England became a significant problem around 1920, as the country's economy slowed, trade decreased, and debts incurred by the war loomed large. Reincorporating the demobilized troops into the civilian workforce and providing sufficient resources for those disabled during the war proved particularly challenging. We locate copies of this song sheet at the British Library, Bodleian (Ballad-Roud # V20673), and the University of Warwick.

New York, 1860. Edge wear. 3 1/2" intact tear at base. "Taped" on board (see image). A 15" x 11" broadside with a fine woodcut of an American eagle at top with a ribbon in it's beak reading "Equalled by None". Imperial Princes' Polish $500 Will be given to anyone who can produce an article to give a brighter lustre on SLIVER or BRITTANIA and PLATED WARE than the Unrivalled Princes'' Polish. Followed by directions for use and where to purchase the produce. Concludes with "Further reccomendation (sic) than one trial is deemed unnecessary". Reverse is blank. No references found for this product; apparently short lived. OCLC - none (Sept 2021).

This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 84x9x127. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in. 1991 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Alexis Klimoff. A collection of essays on various topics by the author of Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

London. Horace Cox. 1895. Hardcover. 4to. 28cm, Large Paper Copy, "Edition de Luxe", limited to 150 numbered and signed by the author, this being #30., on hand-made paper, vi,212p., rubricated title-page, photogravure frontis portrait, 4 plates, 6 tipped-in figures, index, in full dark green crushed morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles, gilt border on the boards, decorated gilt inner dentelles, bevelled boards, french marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the others two edges uncut, (deckled), green silk bookmark bound-in, peeling in 2 place and a few edge wear blemish have been expertly touch up before the regular leather application, a near fine copy of a rare book ~ Halford's scarce treatise on selecting and managing a fishery. With chapters on selection, tenure, management, weeds, poachers, netting, wiring, stocking, the stew, grayling and distribution. A beautifully bound edition with Halford's photogravure portrait as a frontispiece.

Kobe, Japan: Mitsumura Printing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 11 x 14.25 inches, oblong. String-tied decorative cloth boards. Six pages of text, followed by 16 full-page collotype plates and one double-page folding panorama. Light soiling and wear to boards, final leaf with a repair to the margin (not affecting image). National Association of Cotton Manufacturers bookplate on front pastedown and ink stamp on title page call number at lower right corner of front board, otherwise unmarked and internally quite clean. This edition is undated, and we have not been able to determine whether it is earlier or later than another edition that is dated 1909 and credited to Kobe-based photographer S. Ichida (Ichida Sota, 1843-1896). In 1909, the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company employeed more than 14,000 workers and was the largest cotton spinning company in Japan. The company was uncommonly committed to the welfare of its laborers, providing schooling for both adult workers and their children, and offering them… Read More

London: W.C. Such, Printer and Publisher. Very good. Broadside. Undated, ca. 1922. 25 x 19 cm (ca. 9.75" x 7.5"), on newsprint or similar stock. Old folding creased, closed tear with archival repair on verso; very good. Although this song--a lament for England's poor and unemployed--may have been written as early as the 1890s, this edition, with its plea to "Please buy a copy from an unemployed ex-service man," was printed in the aftermath of World War I. Unemployment in England became a significant problem around 1920, as the country's economy slowed, trade decreased, and debts incurred by the war loomed large. Reincorporating the demobilized troops into the civilian workforce and providing sufficient resources for those disabled during the war proved particularly challenging. We locate copies of this song sheet at the British Library, Bodleian (Ballad-Roud # V20673), and the University of Warwick.