History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the bourbons in 1815
by Alison, Archibald
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. Seventh Edition. Illus. 20 vols. 12mo. Bound in full polished brown calf, marbled edges, gilt spine. Booklabel of James C. Waters. Very Good set. Seventh Edition. Illus. 20 vols. 12mo.
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ALS to Goodenough
by Alison, Sir Archibald
Hampshire, 1887. Manuscript in ink. 3 pp on a bifolium with integral black on Government House stationery. 12mo. Traces of previous mounting in a scrap album, otherwise fine. Manuscript in ink. 3 pp on a bifolium with integral black on Government House stationery. 12mo. Alison writes explaining that while he is always "most willing to do what I... Read More
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A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
by Alken, Henry
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. 6 hand-colored aquatint plates, Letterpress title and 14pp. of text. 1 vols. 2° (275 x 380 mm). Original printed wrappers, binding threads lacking with contents loose (remnants of threads at end), scattered minor toning and light offsetting from plates onto facing pages. Red buckram chemise (bookplate removed). First edition. 6 hand-colored aquatint... Read More
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A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
by Alken, Henry
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. 6 hand-colored aquatint plates, Letterpress title and 14 pp. of text. 1 vols. Folio (375 x 265 mm). Original printed wrappers, with new paper spine. Light brown cloth slipcase, leather gilt stamped label on the upper cover, cloth chemise. First edition. 6 hand-colored aquatint plates, Letterpress title and 14 pp. of text.... Read More
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Henry Alken. With an Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook
by (Alken, Henry) Sparrow, Walter Shaw
London: Williams and Norgate, 1927. No. 158 of 250 copies on hand made paper, signed by Sir Theodore on the limitation page. With 8 color plates and 64 in black and white. xxiv, 55 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original white linen, spine darkened, spine and covers a little soiled, internally fine. No. 158 of 250 copies on hand... Read More
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The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions
by Alken, Henry
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Full olive levant gilt by Riviere and Son, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate of William Morley Pegge; Schwerdt bookplate. Some light... Read More
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The Gretna-Green Bolt-A, Or, Young Ladies' Man-Ual
by (Alken, Henry, in the manner of) O'Bradley, Arthur, editor
London: Rudolph Ackermann & Paris: Galignani & Co. 18, rue Vivienne, 1853. First edition. Printed on pink paper; color lithograph from original front wrapper laid down and mounted on front blank, repeating the color lithograph frontispiece. The binding in fine condition, foxing to frontispiece depicting depicts a stage coach, two riders, a footman, and two pairs of horses at... Read More
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The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date …
by (Allen Press) Allen, Dorothy & Lewis
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Title-page by Mallette Dean, numerous deocrations and sample pages throughout. 1 vols. Folio (14 x 9-1/2 inches). Brown cloth. Fine, in original shipping carton. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Title-page by Mallette Dean, numerous deocrations and sample pages throughout. 1 vols. Folio... Read More
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The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date.
by (Allen Press) Allen, Dorothy & Lewis
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Title page by Mallette Dean, numerous decorations and sample pages throughout. 1 vols. 14 x 9 1/2 inches. Brown cloth. Fine, with Prospectus. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Title page by Mallette Dean, numerous decorations and sample pages throughout. 1 vols. 14 x... Read More
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Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War
by Allen, Douglas
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1971. First edition, Number 57 of 150 copies, signed by the Author. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Half brown calf and cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. First edition, Number 57 of 150 copies, signed by the Author. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to.
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A Narrative of the Captivity of Col. Ethan Allen. Written by Himself
by Allen, Ethan
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. 120pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original quarter cloth and board with printed label, front hinge started. Bookplate of Frank Deering. In half blue morocco slipcase. Fourth edition. 120pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Howes A136
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George Hern. A Novel. By Henry Glemham. in Three Volumes
by [Allen, Harry Read]
London: Samuel Tinsley, 1878. First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth blocked in black and gilt. Early inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine. First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. According to Wolff, who derived the author's name from an inscription and ephemera in his copy, the author was the town clerk of Southold, Sussex. Lovely copy... Read More
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Anthony Adverse
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1933. First Edition, earlier state of the text on pages 352 and 1086 and the word "found" duplicated on page 397 line 22. Decorations by Allan McNab. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Some light rubbing. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. Very good plus in worn dust jacket (back flap perished).... Read More
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Anthony Adverse
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1933. First Edition, earlier state of the text on pages 352 and 1086 and the word "found" duplicated on page 397 line 22. Decorations by Allan McNab. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Some light rubbing, browning of endpapers from tape on glassine wrapper, else a good copy of this adventure. First... Read More
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Anthony Adverse
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1933. First edition, first issue with publisher's monogram design on verso of title and other points. Decorations by Allan McNab. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original blue cloth, dust jacket. Spine spotted, jacket toned and chipped at head of spine with some loss to title. First edition, first issue with publisher's monogram design on... Read More
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The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond
by (Allen Press) Duchow, John Charles
[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. One of 200 copies. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 1 vols. 4to. Gray and blue patterned boards, backed in cloth. Fine, in dust jacket. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 1 vols. 4to. Allen Press Bibliography 21 ... Read More
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Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them
by Allen, Mariette Pathy
New York: Dutton, 1989. First edition, first printing. Illustrated. Folio. Pink paper and cloth boards. Fine in price clipped dust jacket, otherwise fine. First edition, first printing. Illustrated. Folio. Inscribed to "Teriyaki the Great / Thanks for your friendship over the years. Much love, Mariette." In 1978 Allen first met a trans woman, Vicky West, who invited... Read More
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Christopher Columbus
by (Allen Press) Kazantzakis, Nikos
Kentfield, Calif: The Allen Press, 1972. One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. 1 vols. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Printed on all rag paper, bound in yellow all rag Fabriano from Italy. Fine copy in the original blue clamshell box with printed paper label on upper cover. One of 140 copies... Read More
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The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody
by (Allen Press) Stendahl, [pseud. of Marie-Henri Beyle]
Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. One of 175 copies. The typeface is Romanée, set by hand: the paper is Crown & Sceptre, hand-made in England. Printed on an Acorn Press. Wood engravings by Mallette Dean. 146 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in a Fortuny print from Venice over boards. Fine in black dust jacket. Dean, Malette.... Read More
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La Porte de Malétroit
by (Allen Press) Stevenson, Robert Louis
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: Printed for the Book Club of California by The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in cream wrappers with slipcase and chemise. Fine. One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.... Read More
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La Porte de Malétroit
by (Allen Press) Stevenson, Robert Louis
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in cream wrappers with slipcase and chemise. Fine. One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 1 vols. 8vo. Allen Press Bibliography 11
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![The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private Devotions](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/362/754/248754362.0.m.1.jpg)
The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private Devotions
by Allestree, Richard
London: R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1667. First edition. Engraved title vignette of a burning ship and 4 engraved plates. [20], 452, [24], 166 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary English black goatskin, tooled in gilt with a triple fillet outer border enclosing a double fillet border and a floral roll tool, floral hand tools at corners, spine in six... Read More
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The Gentleman's Calling
by [Allestree, Richard]
London: Printed by R. Norton, for George Pawlet at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet, 1687. Later edition, first published in 1660. Engraved title-page. [24], 165, [3] pp., including 2 pp. of ads listing a catalogue of books sold by George Pawlet. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled sheep. Wear to joints and spine ends. Signed Jon... Read More
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The Ladies Calling In Two Parts [AND] The Art of Contentment [AND] The Government of the Tongue
by [Allestree, Richard]
Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. The eighth impression of “The Ladies Calling;”; early impression of “The Art of Contentment;” the sixth impression of “The Government of the Tongue”. Each with engraved frontispiece. [xxiv], 270, (2); [viii], 214, (2); [xvi], 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary paneled calf. Binding broken, internally fine. The eighth impression of “The Ladies... Read More
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The Art of Patience under all Afflictions. An Appendix to the Art of Contentment
by [Allestree, Richard]
London: printed for W. Cademan, in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange, in the Strand, 1684. First Edition. Frontispiece. [10], 203, [3] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Old . Very Good. First Edition. Frontispiece. [10], 203, [3] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. ESTC: The author of "The whole duty of man" and "The art of contentment" is Richard Allestree, to whom... Read More
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