Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - 2 Vol. - 1st Edition Published in 1885 and 1886 by Webster and Co. and written by Ulysse S. Grant this book is considered among the greatest of military memoirs. This is a two volumes set. With the help of his publisher, Mark Twain, Grant wrote to the last month of his life. After the war Grant had lost all his fortune. He left a legacy for his family with the proceeds of his book.

The books are in fine condition, no dust jacket as published, nice bright gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, green original cloth binding.
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
Edition: 1  

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant published by Charles L. Webster & Co. Two volume set of the first edition of the "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" published by Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1885.

The volumes are bound in 3/4 brown leather over brown cloth. Marbled endpapers and edges.

Five raised bands on the spines decorated with gilt ornaments (four-star General's shoulder boards, U.S. shield).

Front and rear boards of each volume have gilt stamped reproduction of the Congressional Medal issued on December 17, 1863 after the Mississippi Campaign.

These volumes look as though they have been frozen in time in PRISTINE condition and are profusely illustrated with the engravings and maps, and a fold out facsimile of one of Grant's letters.

Every included document is still bound to the original volume.

NO tears, NO stains, NO marks inside the volumes.

Grant did not live to sign any copies of the books, but all have his facsimile signature.



Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Webster  

PHYSIOGNOMICAL SKETCHES BY LAVATER Engraved from the Original Drawings PHYSIOGNOMICAL SKETCHES BY LAVATER Engraved from the Original Drawings By John Luffman.

London, R. H. Westley published in 1802, brown hardcover, measurements are 15 inches wide x 23 inches tall. Brown boards (probably rebound) no title. 49 plates. Plates have title in French and english. Pages are turning yellow,foxing throughout the book. The boards have stain and scuffing.
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: R. H. Westley  

Italian Villas and their Gardens by Edith Wharton / Maxfield Parrish New York Century 1904 first edition with beautiful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Green hard back, 270 pages, 7 inches x 10 inches x 1.25 inch. The book is in excellent condition with minor foxing at the beginning (see pictures). Nice clean gilt on cover. Small book plate inside cover at the beginning of the book.
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: The Century Company  

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek - 1st Edition, 2nd Printing Published by University Press. Second impression printed in October 1944. Nice clean cloth blue board. A very nice copy with no dust cover. Gilt printing on spine a bit faded. Minor surface scratches to the boards.
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press  

The Mutt and Jeff Cartoons - Book 2 Boston, MA 1911 HardCover Good/no dust jacket. Front hinge detached, but binding still held to stapled paper text-block by rear hinge, paper yellowing badly, but still readable. boards chipping and soiled. Book is dedicated "To Marguerite from Papa - Xmas 1915.
Publisher: Ball Publishing  

The Mutt & Jeff Cartoons by Bud Fisher - Book 3 Oblong book 5.5 inches x 15.5 inches. Pictorial paper over boards have shelf wear. The back boards is half missing. Binding is cracked. Name of previous owner written inside. Water mark & stains on front board. Bookseller Inventory # 600e
 

The Life of Lord Curzon Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Original dark olive cloth with gilt stamped lettering and blind stamped decoration on spine. All three volumes are in good condition. Ex-libris bookplate inside. Lord Curzon was a graduate of Eton College, and then went on to Oxford. After 13 years in the British Parliament, Curzon was appointed Viceroy of India in 1899, a position he held until his resignation in 1905 after a disagreement with Lord Kitchener. During his tenure in India, he undertook the restoration of the Taj Mahal. Curzon had many accomplishments as British Foreign Secretary from 1919-1924. He submitted a proposal that resulted in the creation of the Curzon Line, the boundary between Poland and Russia. Curzon negotiated Egyptian independence, resolved an insurrection in Iraq (where is he now?), and created the Kingdom of Jordan by dividing the British Mandate of Palestine. Curzon was largely responsible for the first Armistice Day celebration on November 11, 1919. Curzon's personal life included marriages to two American women (one a department store heiress), and a long affair with romance novelist, Elinor Glyn. Volume 1: 318 pgs. Volume 2: 424 pages. Volume 3: 457 pages.
Type: Hardcover
 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1st Edition / 1st Printing 1st edition, 1st printing with all BAL points. Blue cloth with gold gilt on front board. Profusely illustrated by Edward Kemble. Fine binding and minor stains/spotting throughout the book.



Copyright notice dated 1884 / Leaf tipped in
p.9, Chapt. 6 heading : "decided", corrected in later copies to "s".
p.13, " Him...." listed at p.88, in error.
p.57 (11 up) "was" for "saw".
p.143 : "l" missing from "COL." / "b" in "body" broken.
p.155 : final "5" present in wrong font.
p.161 without signature mark.
p.283 : fly redone / leaf tipped in.
Frontis : "Heliotype Printing Co." / Cloth not visible under bust.

 

Italian Villas and their Gardens - by Edith Wharton - 1904 1st Edition 1904 1st edition in excellent condition with illustrations from Maxfield Parrish. The book is primarily a learned survey of garden architecture and ornamentation rather than a study of the villas. We may imagine Wharton visiting the gardens in 1903 with a scholar's eye, detecting, beneath the palimpsest of eighteenth-century horticulturists bent on transforming every garden into an English park, the original garden outlines and plantings. She sketches the history of the villas, most of which were built during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Her mission is to evoke, for the reader, the original tripartite relationship between villa, garden, and surrounding landscape. Wharton was disappointed that the Century Company refused to include detailed plans of each garden, a defect noted by early reviewers, which would have undoubtedly clarified much of the text. The book contains descriptions of more than 75 villas and their gardens; Wharton is careful to point out that "villa," in Italian, connotes both house and pleasure-grounds rather than the house alone (IV 54). The volume has a bibliography of reference works in four languages, capsule biographies of 55 architects and landscape gardeners of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and a detailed index. As was the case with most of Wharton's travel books, serial publication preceded compilation of the book. In addition to the introduction and four chapters discussed below, there are chapters on Sienese villas, Genoese villas, and Roman villas.

 

Knickerbocker's History of New York - 1st Edition - 1900 FIRST EDITION - ORIGINAL FEBRUARY 3, 1900 EDITION of KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK by WASHINGTON IRVING, and ILLUSTRATED BY THE INCOMPARABLE ILLUSTRATOR and ARTIST MAXFIELD PARRISH! Publishers's page notes, "Copyright, 1900, by R. H. Russell.binding is tight, interior pages clean and bright, minor forxing inside, owner's name inside the cover, some cover edge wear, water stain on the back board 1 inch x 4 inch (pictures available), 300 PAGES, size is 9 inches x 13 inches.