Search Results: Titles starting with U from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, [1987] First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Leifer: "For Herb, Until we get to 'Murder on the Halsey' dailies, this book will have todo. Hope you enjoy it--the script & the movie will be even better. Until then I remain your faithful director... Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.

Zurich: bey Drell, Gessner, Füssli und Comp., 1787 First edition. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. . Octavo. Minor rubbing. A fine copy. Very scarce. The first full-fledged German study of Shakespeare. Eschenburg was a prominent critic and literary historian who is particularly remembered for his efforts to familiarize his countrymen with English literature. He published translations of John Brown, Daniel Webb, Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley, and Richard Hurd, but his most notable achievement was the first full translation, in prose, of Shakespeare's plays, published in thirteen volumes from 1775 to 1782. The present very substantial work has long chapters on Shakespeare's life, his contemporaries, the theaters and actors of the period, etc., as well as analysis of individual plays, and the sonnets and other poems.

New York: Issued for Subscribers Only by Boni and Liveright, 1926 One of 1,250 copies, signed by the author. Quarter parchment over blue paper boards. Octavo. Bookplate. Very good+ in dust jacket. Dust jacket partially browned, but otherwise very good.

Buenos Aires: Santiago Rueda - Editor, [1945] First trade edition in the Spanish language, first Argentine, and first South American edition, one of 2200 copies on papel Polar. Original golden brown cloth with spine stamped in black and gilt. Octavo. A little light spotting to covers. A very good copy of a scarce book. In very lightly chipped dust jacket with several short tears.

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud—F. Ferroud, 1913 One of ninety-five copies on Japon vellum, with the plates in two states, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies. . Three-quarters lavendar crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. Top edge gilt. Small octavo. Twenty-two full- and partial-page etchings, in two states in this copy. Hand-colored title-page vignette and historiated initials. Spine a bit fadedformer owner's bookplate. A very good to fine copy Auguste Leroux (1871-1954) studied at the school of Bonnat in Paris and spent much of his career as professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He painted portraits, historical subjects, and nudes, and designed mosaics for the Sacre-Coeur at Montmartre. He achieved much success as a book illustrator, his subjects including Huysmans' A Rebours, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, and Goethe's Werther.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1980] Third printing. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1969 One of 274 copies on Abbey Mills Antique Laid paper out of a total edition of 300 copies. Ecru linen, gilt black morocco spine label. Quarto. A fine copy.

London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some minor fading.

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co 1869 First edition, Blanck's State C, with errors corrected on page 97 and page 224. Bound in is a leaf with a mounted signature of Lowell: "Very truly yours J.R. Lowell. Elmwood, 2nd July, 1872. Early twentieth-century three-quarter burgundy morocco over cloth boards, gilt spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. . Twelvemo. Top corner of back cover bumped, otherwise quite a handsome copy, with original green cloth covers bound in.

[ Isla Vista, CA: ] Turkey Press, 1982 One of 175 copies. Original tan linen. Larg octavo. Title printed in gold and black, with a vignette. Fine in fine photo-illustrated d.j.

London: Frederick Warne, [n.d.] An attractive early reprint. Golden brown pictorial boards with brown board shelfback. Octavo. Color illustrations throughout. Light shelfwear. Very good in like dust jacket. Jacket chipped at head and foot of spine and price-clipped.

London: John Lane, 1913 Second edition. The first edition was published in 1904. Green cloth stamped in gilt, Top edge gilt. . Quarto. Title page printed in black and red. Photogravure frontisportrait. Fifteen black-and-white illustrated plates with tissue guards; title page of Volume I of "The Yellow Book" and frontispiece to "Plays" by John Davidson also included; tailpiece. Binding extremities lightly frayed and some light browning and soiling to the spine. Offsetting from frontisportrait to tissue guard; browning and offsetting from plates to tissue guards. Previous owner's ink signature on the top of front fly leaf. A very good copy of an attractive book.

Cambridge: MIT Press, [1984] Wrappers. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature. A very good copy.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971 Cloth. Octavo. Fine in torn, price-clipped d.j.

LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, [1985] Cloth, in dust jacket. Octavo. Fine in fine d..j.

London: Richard Griffin and Company, Publishers to the University of Glasgow, [1855] First edition. Later marbled boards with printed paper spine label. . Quarto. A very good copy. George Edmonds (1788-1868) was an English teacher, lawyer, and scholar, who lived his entire life in Birmingham. He is remembered principally for the present volume, which enlarges upon John Wilkins' An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668). Edmonds believed that the principle reason Wilkins' system wasn't adopted was that it was too hard to pronounce. Here, he proposes a modified pronunciation system for the language. This work is divided into three parts, an "alphabet, classification of radicals, and grammar of the philosophic language;" parallel texts of excerpts from English works of note (Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, the King James Bible, etc.) alongside their translation into the new language; and a dictionary of the new language

London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859 First edition. This is the second of two books by Emmeline "Emily" Lowe (ca. 1835 – 1897) on the topic of "unprotected" women travelers—that is, women who traveled without the supervision of a man. Lowe had previously recorded her travels in Europe with her mother, Helen E. Lowe (d. 1882), in Unprotected Females in Norway (1857), and returned to the topic for the present work, which narrates the journey they took to Italy in late 1857. . Publisher's purple cloth with gilt spine. Cloth expertly repaired at hinges and head and tail of spine. Pale yellow endpapers. . Octavo. With the bookplate of Larry McMurtry. Foxing to verso of first plate and some toning to leaves. A remarkably bright, near fine copy of an uncommon book. The two women proudly traveled without men, and Lowe remarked in her first book, "ladies alone get on in traveling much better than with gentlemen…men are sure to go into passions and make rows, if things are not right immediately.… Read More

Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1993 One of 130 copies, signed by the author and the artist. . Charcoal handmade paper boards, two paper labels on front cover. Quarto. Fine in publisher's slipcase.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1927 First edition, limited to 535 copies. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Spine lightly faded. A very good, tight copy.

Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1931 First edition of this history of early aviation.. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver. . Octavo. With frontispiece and dozens of illustrations throughout, including many full- and half-page photo reproductions Binding is clean and attractive. A remarkably bright and fine copy, signed by the author ("Jack Stearns Gray"), in the very good original dustjacket. In the foreword, Jack Stearns Gray (1890 – 1961) writes, "My first flight was over a part of the Adirondack Range in 1912; my last flight over Washington, D.C. in 1927. The first was made sitting on the wing—the last in a cockpit." Gray was the first Virginia woman aviator to fly from Virginia soil and, along with her husband George A. Gray, traveled all over the eastern United States as barnstormers in their Wright Model B. Gray knew many of the major aviation pioneers, including Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Glenn Curtis, and the Wright brothers, and she records their… Read More