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Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq by ALKEN, Henry; APPERLEY, C.J.

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Title: Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq
Author: ALKEN, Henry; APPERLEY, C.J.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Rudolph Ackermann , 1835. More Rare, Valued Higher" With Three Plates Only Found Here (Tooley) [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. APPERLEY, C.J. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop & Merioneth, and Major in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by Alken. Reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in; 210 x 136 mm.). iv, [2, Preface], [1]-110 pp. Twelve hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispiece) all with tissue guards. Publisher's original blind stamped pebble-grain brown cloth with title in gilt within ornamental gilt frame. Smooth spine, publisher's gray endpapers with engraved bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell on front paste-down.Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down, slight splitting to free endpapers. The hand colored plates are bright and fresh. An excellent copy, housed in a later fleece-lined, green cloth fold-over case, spine lettered in gilt (front hinge slightly split but quite sound). "Though containing only 12 plates, this first edition is more rare, and valued higher than the second edition which contains 18 plates. Three plates of this first edition, namely 2 [Mytton shooting in Winter], 8 [Blood on the Bull Dog], and 9 [Mytton masters the savage dog], did not appear in the second edition. A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie, pp. 185/186). Bobins III, 1174; Podeschi 147; Schwerdt I, p. 38; Siltzer p.73; Tooley 66.

HOTHOUSE by Aldiss, Brian

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Title: HOTHOUSE
Author: Aldiss, Brian
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: HOTHOUSE, Faber, 1962, first edition, very fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. HUGO winner. Signed by the author. A gorgeous copy.

[SPECIAL PRESS] A GATHERING OF SEVEN BOOKS.~ODE TO A GRECIAN URN; TRUE CHARITY, AN EXAMPLE [4 VARIANT ISSUES]; THE SECOND CHAPTER OF SAINT MATTHEW; THE COURT OF THE PRINTERS’ GUILD by Valenti Angelo

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Title: [SPECIAL PRESS] A GATHERING OF SEVEN BOOKS.~ODE TO A GRECIAN URN; TRUE CHARITY, AN EXAMPLE [4 VARIANT ISSUES]; THE SECOND CHAPTER OF SAINT MATTHEW; THE COURT OF THE PRINTERS’ GUILD
Author: Valenti Angelo
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Bronxville, New York | San Francisco, 1979. A gathering of 7 books printed by Valenti Angelo housed in a custom clamshell box in blue cloth with a burgundy morocco spine label.~Keats. Ode to a Grecian Urn (1952); 8vo. in blue flexible paper-covered boards with an urn device stamped in gilt to the cover; title page printed in green and terra-cotta; one of one hundred copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo in December 1952 and signed by Mr. Angelo with presentation to Wayne Hartnell~There are four copies of True Charity, by San Bernardion of Siena in four variant bindings: 1. In grey sewn wrappers with titling printed in red to the cover; one of fifty copies; not signed by Mr. Angelo; with hand-colored initial; (1960) 2. In pale blue wrappers with titling printed in red on a pastedown label; with hand-colored initial; one of fifty copies printed on a small hand-press; (1979); 3. In blue wrappers with pale blue-grey pastedown with decorations in blue and gilt; printed in blue; one of 50 copies signed by Mr.Angelo; 4. In pale grey wrappers printed in blue; with hand-colored initial; signed by Mr. Angelo on the colophon which has an error: “One of fiftty copies...”~The Second Chapter of Saint Matthew (1960?). in cream colored wrappers titled in blue to the spine; one of one-hundred copies with vertical titling to the spine.~The Court of the Printers’ Guild (1975). in blue paper-covered boards with title label printed in red to the spine; in an edition limited to 65 copies, text hand set, printed and hand illuminated by Valenti Angelo, and signed by Mr. Angelo on the colophon.

Typographic Variations - designed by Hermann Zapf on themes in contemporary book design and typography in 78 book- and title-pages by ZAPF, Hermann; Paul Standard, Charles Peignot and Georg Kurt Schauer (introd)

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Title: Typographic Variations - designed by Hermann Zapf on themes in contemporary book design and typography in 78 book- and title-pages
Author: ZAPF, Hermann; Paul Standard, Charles Peignot and Georg Kurt Schauer (introd)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New Rochelle: Myriade Press, 1977. First Myriade Press printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed card wrappers; [176]pp; illus. Mild external wear, principally to wrapper edges and corner extremities; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. Reissue, in slightly smaller format, of the 1963 edition (which was limited to 725 copies). Review copy, with publisher's press release and review slip laid in.

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Tales of Arabel's Raven (Jackanory Stories). by AIKEN, Joan.

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Title: Tales of Arabel's Raven (Jackanory Stories).
Author: AIKEN, Joan.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780563126904
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: London:: BBC / Jonathan Cape,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0563126906 . Containing ARABEL'S RAVEN, THE ESCAPED BLACK MAMBA, and THE BREAD BIN. Second impression thus. Fine in a near fine (age toning), price clipped dust jacket. .

Pioneer Settlement; Cooperataive Studies By Twenty-six Authors

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Title: Pioneer Settlement; Cooperataive Studies By Twenty-six Authors
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: American Geographical Society, 1932. vi, 473p., maps, original grey cloth (American Geographical Scoeity special publication, 14).

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