Search Results: Titles starting with A from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

London: T. Hookham, 1831. First Edition. About very good with edges worn, modern rebacking, occasional minor foxing and soiling in a custom cloth clamshell box.. First edition in the scarce publisher's blue-grey drab boards. A satirical gothic novel wherein, as with his earlier novel Headlong Hall, Peacock assembles an eccentric cast of characters whose banter and obsessions satirize Regency society. This work includes a character which unlike other works, is largely based on Peacock himself. 8vo. [10-page publisher's catalogue (lacking first leaf)], [ad leaf], [6], 300pp. Page 154 misnumbered 54. Carter, Binding Variants, pg. 146 (this copy is flat backed and unglazed, thus not a remainder). Sadleir 1957j. Scarce in boards.

Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Very good in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in leather, corners worn, ink note to ffep of volume 1, without half titles or advert.. First Edition, first issue. Scott's sequel to The Monastery (also 1820), which featured that escape of Mary, Queen of Scots, from Lochleven Castle, defeat at the Battle of Langside, and leaving Scotland. 3 vols. 12mo. [2], iv, [1], 348pp.; [2], 351pp.; [2], 367pp., [1]. Todd & Bowden 146Aa. Sterling 731. Worthington 10.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. First Edition. Good plus in publisher's red clothing binding with gilt spine. Chipping to cloth and wear to spine, contents generally clean with some foxing, more heavily in the front and rear. First edition of a scarce work. Worldcat reflects only a handful of nstitutional holdings of the first edition. 12mo. [viii], 424pp.

Boston: Published at the Christian Register Office, 1827. Good in printed wrappers with wear and tears with loss to spine, contents clean. Scarce.. Moralistic juvenile chapbook featuring five woodcuts. 34pp. Shoemaker 27787.

Boston (128 Washington Street): Munroe and Francis, 1837. First American Edition. Good in publisher's red leather backed paper boards with hinges starting and wear to edges and some dampstaining; contents generally clean with some toning and foxing and light pencil notation to front free endpaper.. First American Edition, and apparently only American edition of this work by the prolific English author. A presentable copy of a scarce American imprint. 16mo. viii; [9]-192pp. Matches Yale Shirley 1076. Publication date based on the publisher operating at address between 1824 and 1840; Inscription of Miami (Ohio) copy dated 1837; Wood engraved vignette on t.p. by JVN Throop; errors in pagination: 166 as 16.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First Edition. About very good in uniform full contemporary calf, wear to boards, both volumes rebacked and corners repaired, scattered spotting and foxing, contemporary ownership signature on both title pages and front free endpaper.. First edition. Henry wasn't the only talented writer in the family, as his sister demonstrates in David Simple. This edition precedes those later editions which were substantially revised by Henry. Sabor, ed., The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last (1998, pgs. x-xii). "Sarah Fielding's David Simple is the story of a young man's quest for a 'real friend' in a society characterised by avarice and injustice. . . For Sarah Fielding, some people are good-natured whilst most are not." Hall, The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order (1993, pg. 54). 2 vols. 12mo. x, 378pp.; [2], 322pp. ESTC T57804. Grolier, History of English Prose Fiction 54.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall-Street, 1816. Ex-library with stamps and ink inscription to verso of title and modern library cloth, toning and soiling to pages, tape to title of volume 1, contemporary owner inscription on flyleaf.. First Edition. A scarce copy in commerce of a work of fiction from the famous/infamous Minerva Press. 24mo. [iii, half title, engraved frontispiece, title], [1]-140pp.; [iii, half title, engraved frontispiece, title], [1]-134pp., [4, ads]. MacLeod, pg. 390; Blakey, pg. 252; Opie A 557.

London: William Pickering, 1851. Very good in the original wavy-grain textured green cloth without no spine label and a small patch of fading at the head of the upper cover.. First Edition. Based on the author's research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem "The Dying Druid" by R.A. Davenport: ". . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a periodical work." A relatively obscure then, as now, Ainsworth's Magazine's reviewer writes "the versification is melodious, and the thoughts with which the poem abounds are full of grace and purity." Small 8vo. xi, [1]-156pp. Black, Druids and Druidism, pg. 10. Hutton, Blood & Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.

Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First Edition. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine (recased, with new endpapers and fly-leaves; original front endpaper bound in). Good plus with some wear to cloth with rubbing to extremities; scattered stains and foxing.. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the original endpaper to "Rev. Charles Hammond, / with the respects of / T. Bulfinch." Below that in ink is written twice, apparently by Hammond's son, "Charlie A. Hammond.". 8vo. viii, [1], 414pp., [2]; with frontispiece and five plates. Peter Parley to Penrod, pages 14-15 (state A).

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1867. Later edition. Very good with some foxing and prior owner signature to front pastedown.. A scarce printing, which appears to be unrecorded on Worldcat. Part of Sheldon's "Good Boy's Library" as indicated on the spine and which were apparently previously part of Sheldon's "Sunday School Books" library. In publisher's green cloth with gilt stamp decorated spine.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, 1870. Staining, one page with tear not affecting the text, and wear to wraps, otherwise very good.. Well-illustrated chapbook with a woodcut on each page. 32mo. [2], 3-8pp. In yellow publisher's wraps.

London: J. Sewell, R. Faulder, J. Simco, [et al.], 1800. First Edition. Very good in early nineteenth century red straight-grained morocco framed in gilt and with blindstamped foliage borders, raised bands, gilt scrollwork and lettering in compartments, all edges gilt, dentelle turn ins, some wear and bumping to edges and scuffs to leather, some spotting and foxing near margins.. First Edition of Smith's, who served as Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, collection of plates depicting architectural views and monuments in London. Despite the book's title, Smith takes a rather broad view of "antiquity," even including an engraving of Hogarth's tomb, who died only decades prior to publication of the book. Large 4to. Engraved titlepage, 96 engraved plates (3 with borders and accents tinted in reddish-brown). ESTC T100005.

Boston: West & Richardson, 1814. Tenth Edition. Very good in contemporary sheep over wooden boards, covered in blue paper. There is loss to the blue paper covering, joints cracked but firm, pages browned. The book is housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.. Originally published in 1800, this edition of Staniford's perennial schoolbook is in scarce condition, being largely unmarked and in the original scaleboards. In Michael V. Belok's 1968 essay "Forming the American Character: Essayists and Schoolbooks" Social Science Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan. 1968), he uses Staniford's work to characterize the essence of post-revolution education (and which differs in many ways from our present system of education) which emphasizes religion and virtue, from which Staniford selected various Biblical stories but also soliloquies from Shakespeare, passages from Paradise Lost, and Lee's funeral oratory for George Washington. See also Sensabaugh, Milton in Early American Schools, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 19,… Read More

London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Very good with some wear to edges and minor loss to dust jacket.. Graham Greene's copy with his signature on the flyleaf.

Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2005. Near fine with cloth spine over paste-paper boards.. One of 27 copies of the leaf book with 2 tipped-in hand-colored lithographic plates from the octavo edition of James Audubon's The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Printed at Hawley's private press on laid paper, bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis, and utilizing hand-decorated paste paper by Carol Blinn at the Warwick Press. The Contre Coup Press is the embodiment of a private press, as Hawley "produces extremely limited editions - often fewer than 30 copies - using his vintage Vandercook SP20 printing press." U. of Louisville, Local Small Press Printer Timothy Hawley Celebrated in Exhibit, 2015. Folio. [6], 29pp., [1].

[n.p.], [n.d.]. Appears to be only the final portion of a longer letter, with chipping and loss.. Partial autograph letter signed by Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), the prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adult and children's literature. 6.75" x 4.25". [2].

London: A. Wilson, 1831. Good in publisher's black blindstamped cloth boards which are heavily fraying at the spine with some loss, hinges starting, some dampstaining and foxing to pages.. Revised edition to include history through the end of the reign of George IV who died a year prior to publication, amassing an fifteen additional pages. Includes hand colored "chronological chart of the history of England executed purposely for this work." While Goldsmith's work is ubiquitous, this edition is evidently scarce with only two copies located on Worldcat, both outside of the USA.

London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills, 1728. Disbound but complete, with some smudges to the general title page, minor foxing near gutter, open tear to a page not affecting text, LC perfin stamp, otherwise very good, protected in 19th century paper folder with manuscript title.. There was no parties, shindigs, soirees, or the like during 1728 - that is unless King George II got his cut of the action. From the first year of the reign of George II. Folio. [2], 3-30pp. ESTC N50861. A rather scarce printing, with Worldcat reflecting only one copy at UNC.