Editore: M. S. Russel, 1965
Da: Barbers Book Store Online, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 2nd Edition. A fine, fresh, hardcover copy with a clean, well-bound interior. Housed in a fine dust jacket with no apparent or obvious signs of use. Surrounded by a makeshift plastic sheath for additional protection. 5.75"x8.75", vi+142 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author on the inside cover. A collection of letters made out to various cousins, written by the author, reflecting his simple philosophy on how to get the most satisfaction from life. Each letter is accompanied by a full page, black and white cartoon. To access more Texas folk books or signed books, go to Abebooks.com and search using our unique keywords SIGNEDBX or TXCOHST or visit our shop in Fort Worth. Language: eng. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: M. Russel, 1980
ISBN 10: 0859550761 ISBN 13: 9780859550765
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Ulteriori offerte da altri venditori AbeBooks
Nuovo - A partire da EUR 234,60
Usato - A partire da EUR 22,83
Scopri anche Rilegato Prima edizione
Editore: Published by M. Smith. Printed by Russel Canfield, Hartford Ct, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1827
Da: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Leather bound. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 12mo. [4], 13-292 pages, [1]. Dark brown calf leather binding with gilt title stamped on red leather spine label. Moderate to heavy damp stains to the text. Old, faint pencil inscriptions from a previous owner in Albany, New York written on the end sheets. A few of the early pages have pencil doodles. Contents cover Demonolgy, Hellology, and 'Another State'. A fair copy only.
Editore: R. Bentley and M. Magnes in Russel Street in Covent Garden, London, 1681
Prima edizione
Disbound. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Disbound, published in 1681, this is the First Edition of this scarce biography of Francis de Lorraine II, Prince of Joinville, a small slim format lacking its original covers (8) 136pp, marking to title page, mild marking and browning within, a few creased corners, old ink annotations and minor loss to lower margin of final page else in good general condition.
Editore: London: printed for and sold by J. Fuller in Ave-Maria-Lane; J. Barnes at the Gazette near Charing-Cross; W. Russel at HoraceÆs-Head without Temple-Bar; and M. Sheepy under the Royal-Exchange: and to be had at most booksellers in town and country; and by the men who carry the news papers, 1751
Da: WestField Books, York, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 600p. Page 599 mis-numbered 590. Modern plain cloth binding. Comprising issues 1 - 25 of this important weekly newsletter, which ran from 1751 to 1753. Includes: essays on the constitution, the monarchy, the established church, and on theology; essays on literature include new books, especially on religious topics; with weekly chronology of current events, marriages, deaths, bankrupts and ecclesiastical preferments. Scarce.
Editore: Newcastle; Newcastle; London; D. Akenhead and Sons; M. A. Richardson; J. Russel Smith; 1796; 1849., 1849
Da: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, Regno Unito
Hard Cover. Two works bound in one. Octavo, pp. [2], viii, 216 and pp. 108. Gardiner's Grievance: second edition; complete with the engraved folding plan of the river and 20 engraved plates. The Conservatorship of the River Tyne is the first (and only) printing and one of 150 copies only, complete with folding genealogical table. Bound in later brown diced full morocco, gilt fillet frames to boards, 5 gilt tooled raised spine bands, red morocco spine label with gilt titles, marbled text-block edges, combed marbled endpapers. Board edges lightly rubbed, gilt bright. Small neat ownership inscription "William Bramble of Benwell Hall, 1900", the now demolished Northumberland mansion, to title-page. With some marginalia in soft pencil throughout. Light offsetting to some plates. Folding map and plates free from nicks or tears. A sturdy near fine copy. One of the earliest books relating to the English coal trade and an important treatise originally published to interest Cromwell and his fellow parliamentarians in the troubles of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Gardner's diatribe against the Newcastle Corporation's draconian control of trade on the River Tyne (Gardner was himself imprisoned without charge for five months for brewing beer and ship repair in Chirton and North Shields, before dramatically escaping) accuses the Corporation of misuse of its royal charter and rampant corruption. The preservation of the navigability of the River Tyne for the more economic transportation of coal is requested along with protection for the inhabitants of the town; the benefits resulting from improved living conditions for the inhabitants are also pointed out. Bound with a "rebut[tal] to the malevolent accusations of Gardiner" here reprinted from the original manuscript account of the defence made by the corporation against Gardiner's charges in 1653 (preface). This is the first time the manuscript appeared in print, and with a very limited print run of only 150 copies, the work is rare. The Printer, Moses Aaron Richardson, made a name for himself in Newcastle for his series of reprints of rare historical tracts, each mostly limited to 100 copies.
Editore: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden, London, 1680
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Bound by Riviere & Sons in greenish brown levant with brown spine, 5 spine bands & gilt lettering. Wide ornamental gilt frames over plain endpapers. All edges gilt. Margins trimmed not affecting text. Hinges & text tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. Uniform light toning. [8], 65, [2] pages, with prologue leaf bound at end. A few scuff marks along spine. The work was written by John Dryden in 1677 & first performed on 11 March 1678. 'The Kind Keeper' closed after only three performances. Dryden later removed 'objectionable material' from his original satire of aristocratic sexual behavior before submitting the manuscript for publication: thus the date of 1680. Theater, Drama. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 65 pages.
Editore: Printed for J. Whiston. R. Dodsley. and W. Russel. / W. Innys, and C. Hitch. and C. Davis. / W. Innys, C. Davis, C. Hitch, W. Bowyer. / M. Cooper 1750 [et al, see below], London, 1750
Da: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Contemporary calf, handsomely rebacked, with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label in second compartment (5 raised bands); four works bound together in one volume, 8vo; TIME, 1750 First Edition, pp. xxvii, [1], 130, [2] (ads); SIRIS, 1747 London reprint of the Dublin edition, pp. 174, [1] (contents); QUERIST, 1750 First Edition, pp. [4], 83, [1]; MORALS, 1751 First Edition, pp. 30. Boards scratched and scuffed. Contemporary handwritten notes on FFEP, listing the volume's contents; contermporary ownership signature on title-page of TIME and QUERIST; contemporary marginalia in QUERIST. Otherwise an excellent, clean copy, nice and tight, text block just a bit tanned and brittle along the edges (more pronounced on first and last few leaves).
Editore: Russel M. White, Texas, 1947
Condizione: Very good. 8 7/8" x 3 7/8", folded; opens to 17¾" x 23½"; printed both sides. Very good: light edge wear with a few tiny chips, a few minuscule separations at folds, light dust soiling, and small holes at each intersection. This map/guide to the lower Rio Grande valley is a sensory overload of business, city, street and highway names splashed across 15 separate inset maps in bold explosions of vivid blue and orange. The largest map, which stretches across the entire sheet, shows the region generally along state highways 77, 83 and 281. Each town name is printed in blue inside an orange box. That map is surrounded by inset maps where each town has its name printed in thick orange letters outlined in blue, with the other inset maps on the leaf's other side. The cities and towns represented are: McAllen, Raymondville, Harlingen, Rio Grande City, San Benito, Mission, San Juan, Donna, Weslaco, Mercedes, Edinburg, Pharr, Brownsville, Reynosa, and Matamoros. Several hundred businesses are shown including everything from restaurants and nightlife to car dealers, fruit growers, pharmacies, libraries, churches and many others. There are also several advertisements for things like Grapette soda, TexSun Citrus Exchange, the Nehi Bottling Company and several hotels and transportation services. Rare, with OCLC finding one copy only, at the University of Houston. A rich resource--literally a visual business directory--of the early postwar Rio Grande Valley.
Editore: Printed for R. Bently, at the Post-House in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; T. GT. Goodwin, at the Queen's Head, and M. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet Street; and S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornwall, London, 1695
Da: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Presumed First. (24) 344, (30) 8 plates. Maxmillan Misson (1650 - 1722) traveled thru Holland , Germany and Italy in 1691 and recorded his observations in a series of letters. Volume 1 of two. Bound in brown calf with gold stamping on spine. Some splitting along spine hinges Contemporary inscription on flyleaf. Pictures on request. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: London: printed for Richard Bentley and M. Magnes in Russel Street near Covent-Garden, 1681., 1681
Da: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Quarto. [10], 60, [1]pp. A4; a2; B4-H4; I2. First edition. Half green morocco over cloth. J. P. Kemble's copy. Wing (2nd ed.), S741; Macdonald, H. Dryden, 116; Pforzheimer 854; Woodward & McManaway, 1007; ESTC R17093.