Temperance Tales, or, Six Nights with the Washingtonians by Arthur, T. S. [Timothy Shay] 1809-1885. George Cruikshank, 1792-1878 - 1381848

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. fine in Very Good DJ; dj protected by new mylar wrap.. 8 vo; red tweed paper boards with black spine covering & silver spine lettering; 277 pages. illust. dj. author's first novel after publishing a volume of poetry;

Private Printing. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; All edges gilded. Signed by author. ; Color Illustrations; 196 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young. 1953. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 261 pages .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; Signed by author; 320 pages; Signed by Author .

New York NY: G. W. Dillingham Company. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. Previous owner's name ; 122 pages .

London: George Routledge & Sons. Ltd., 1880. Some minor wear to the spine ends and corners of red cloth-covered boards, but gilt titles on spine and front board are still bright, as are black illustrations of groups of sporting equipment. No publication date given, but ''New edition'' on title page, probably around 1880s or so. Some foxing to page edges and to outer pages, 1 page torn to top corner where an uncut page had been opened, the torn-away corner still being attached to opposite page. Some other small tears to a couple of pages,1 page with piece missing. Couple of tissue guards a little creased and torn. Tears to a couple on pages on outer edge. 291pp plus 1p adverts, 16 full-page colour drawings, all with tissue-guards.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alken, Henry. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Didot l'Ainé, 1792. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes of 3: vol. 1: xvi, 236 p.; vol. 3: 240 p.; 13 cm. Half polished black calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather gilt-tooled spine labels; gilt-tooled spine ornamentation. All page edges speckled red. Terra cotta endpapers. Front fixed endpapers bear engraved armorial book plate of George Paget with the Paget family motto "Per il suo Contrario." This was presumably Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget (1818-1880), who served in the Crimean War as a senior officer of the Light Cavalry brigade under Lord Cardigan and was present at the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade; he was later made Inspector General of Cavalry. In Good+ Condition: edges and boards are somewhat rubbed; leather corners are scraped, with most of leather lacking from upper corners of vol. 1; part of leather spine label lacking from vol. 3; pages are clean and tight. An attractive if incomplete set of this romantic retelling of Gonzalo… Read More

Praha, Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury Hudby A Umeni, 1957, hardcover. First Edition 1957 as a group, of the classic Czech author's Prague novels and stories, originally published 1871 through 1889. Includes also critical essay and notes on the author and these works, plus 12 plates at rear (author portraits, street scenes, artifacts). Text in CZECH. -- Attractive hardcover, ecru cloth with stamped design, pretty endsheets. Condition: very good minus (corners bumped) with good dust jacket (edgeworn; spine tanned else bright).

Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1900. Limited Edition. Morocco & Boards. Very Good. 371pp; color-vignette on half-title, frontispiece etching in 3 states, 8 plates of engravings--all with tissue guards. Bound in 3/4 dark-red morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and art nouveau floral design from head to tail, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 9.5" x 7.25" This is #17 of 250 copies, Large-paper Japan Edition, printed for subscribers.