Editor and Proprietor (49 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Two (2) copies of The Electric Magazine, January to April, 1860, and May to August, 1860. Neither copy has a cover, but both have the two b/w frontis in each book, separated by tissue guard. Several pages are loose and laid in. The first book has pages 439-582, plus ads in the rear. The second book has pages.433-572. Foxing on pages as well as some soiling.…

Condition: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial pink & black wraps. The magazine is disbound with several loose signatures. The head & the lower half of the spine are torn with pieces out and the lower half of each wrap is detached. The wraps are chipped & lightly soiled with creasing & tears to the bottom inside corner of the rear wrap. Pages [97]-144 with ads on the inside wraps. There is occasional staining & soiling & the front edges of a few leaves are chipped. Black-and-white illustrations. The contents are good. The contents of this monthly include fiction, poetry and brief items of interest. Among the illustrations are an illustrated rebus, cartoons accompany a humorous poem and depictions of a girl with her pet thrush and of a peacock with its tail fully spread. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 85pp, 14pp ads. Grey printed wraps. Very light shelfwear to cover, contents very clean. A comprehensive guide to travel in Europe for the year 1888. Suggested routes, itineraries and hotels are featured.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the August 13, 1909 issue of "The Commoner" (Issue No. 447, Vol. 9 No. 31) edited by William J. [Jennings] Bryan and published by Charles W. Bryan out of Lincoln, Nebraska. A large folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 10-3/4" wide by 14-1/2" tall and contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: article "Another Increase" (on the Aldrich Bill); article "Promise and Performance" (on the 1908 Republican Tariff plank); article "The Tariff in Congress" ("President Taft invited a number of senators to lunch with him at the White House - He urged them to get in line for the tariff bill"); compilation "Republican editorials of the Vintage of 1909"; much more. Pages age-yellowed as per usual; narrow diagonal crease and short closed edge tear to last three pages (to margins only); overall in well-preserved condition considering the fragility of the paper stock used. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A collection of 5 issues: Vol XV. Nos. 4 & 5. April -May 1951; Vol XVI. Nos.1 & 12 Jan & Dec. 1952; Vol XX. No 8/ Sept. 1955. Scarce.

Paged as 353-368 in sequence with preceding issues (sixteen pages total). Publication folded in half horizontally. Unfolded dimensions: H 37.75cm x L 28.25cm. Paper toned particularly along edges, top half of cover sheet has light moisture stains at fore-edge with small patch of surface abrasion at top right corner above the masthead from removal of past bookseller's sticker, approximate 8cm tear to all sheets at fore-edge side of horizontal center fold, nearly lengthwise long tears to sheets along spine fold as apparently the publication was once stitch-bound (per presence of binding string remnant perhaps indicative of it once being bound within an annual volume). Three-column text per page. B/w illustrations throughout. Bottom half of front cover has illustration titled "Rail Shooting." Pages 360-361 have more-or-less half page illustrations of the Bangor, Maine courthouse and city hall as well as the city's theological seminary. Full page illustration on page 364 titled "James the First Hunting in Windsor Forest." Plus several other illustrations of a less intriguing nature. Only a fair copy at best but complete. Masthead title of the publication is "Gleason's Pictorial" but the title is provided as "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" at the top margins of the interior pages. Frederick Gleason published the inaugural issue of his namesake weekly periodical on May 3, 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts modeling its format after the "London Illustrated News" and even perhaps "Harper's Monthly" (started June 1850) and taking advantage of new technology that allowed for timely illustrated printing. Gleason's efforts met with great success and most certainly spurred competitors including "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" (first issue published December 15, 1855) and the famous "Harper's Weekly" (first issue published January 3, 1857). Gleason purchased the New York "Illustrated News" in 1853 to expand circulation and national appeal (Gleason's purchase and merger of the publishing operations is mentioned on page 365 of this issue) but sold his stake in the venture to editor Maturin Ballou in 1855 whereupon the weekly's name was changed to "Ballou's Pictorial." It later operated as "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" and, after the Civil War, it become "Ballou's Monthly Magazine" followed by "Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine." The magazine was sold to Boston publisher Elliott, Thomes & Talbot in 1872 and then to George W. Studley in 1886. The publication folded in June 1893. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (12) pages. 5.5 x 3.25", printed card folder, tab and slot. What to/Not to Do, form, style, visits, births, marriages, deaths, parties, gatherings, fair and impartial, no likes, dislikes, free advertising, scandal, gossip, grievance. VG.

46,5 x 32,5 cm ; broschiert. Condition: Akzeptabel. 4 S. ; No. 2704, from Thursday, June 23, to Saturday, June 25, 1796. Großformatige Originalbroschur, 4 Seiten. Mit Faltspuren, angedunkelt, teilweise fleckig und teilweise beschädigt (With Traces of folding, darkened, partially stained and partially damaged). S11o.…

Brown Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Original copy, not a reprint; Lightly foxed or age toned, else textblock is clean and tight. Light wear to edges, mild creases to corners. Pages 241-352, plus a 16-page speech at end by Mr. J.A. Pearce, of Maryland, on the subject of The Coast Survey of the United States. Delivered in the Senate of the U.S. on Saturday, Feb 17, 1849. Other topics include: The British Empire in the East; Debts and Finances of the States of the Union - Chapter IV - Middle States - Pennsylvania; Proposed Railroad Across the Isthmus of Panama; Commercial Cities and Towns in the United States- No. XV - Detroit, Michigan; Distinction Between Jurisprudence in Equity and in Law; The President-Sub-Treasury-Tariff-Slavery: A Letter by Col. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, to the editor of this magazine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advertisements (illustrator). Business Periodical.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. RARE copy of this issue. Includes the first American edition of Thomas De Quincey's "California", which charges that the Gold Rush was a swindle. Also includes the articles Milton, The Duke of Marlborough, John Sterling, Periodicals and Serial Publications for 1852, Dr. Benjamin Disraeli as Leader and Legislator, The Lat Joseph Mallord William Turner, Unsuccessful Great Men, The British Newspaper Press, Fete Days at St. Petersburg, The Poet of Hawthornden, Stephen's History of France, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Clarendon and His Contemporaries, Bulwer as a poet, Robespierre, Pictures of Sweden, and The New Cabinet. Cover has edge wear and soils; interior pages are in very good condition. Magazine.…

Brown Printed Wraps. Condition: Good+. Original copy, not a reprint; Moderately foxed, a few of the pages at end have creased bottom corner, usual age toning and wear, else clean and tight. Creased corners, peeling to the wraps on the spine, usual shelf wear. Pages 129-256. Articles include Depts and Fnances of the States of the Union.The Western States - Michigan; The Union of the Seas: Land Routes to the Pacific by Cora Montgomery; Tea: and the Tea Trade- Part II, by Gideon Nye, Esq., Merchant of Canton; The English Stock Exchange; Culture and Manufacture of Cotton, plus much more. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Business Periodical.…

Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: "Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv[an]t | Charles Reade" Image on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Wraps, of which only the front cover remains. Front cover soiled and chipped, previous owner's name penciled at top. All pages are present. Last leaf is torn, but contents are complete. The last four pages provide a directory of businesses and professionals. 58 + [4] pages. A scarce, though worn, copy of the original 1894 issue of W. C. Elliott's history of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, and vicinity. Many years later, in December 1922, he issued a much revised and expanded edition. This copy appears to have belonged to Alexander Lee Best (1862-1937), a lifelong resident of Winslow Township and scion of the Best family, residents of this vicinity since the 1830s. He was a contemporary of and likely knew the author. The author, Ward Clark Elliott (1863-1929), was the editor of the Reynoldsville Volunteer from 1889 to December 1916. …

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The letter begins: 'It would afford me very great pleasure to help you in the matter of "The Scientific Roll" This is not a Literary or Scientific locality! and we have given up our Booksellers' Shop'. If Ramsay will send 'a copy of the numbers printed', he will 'give a notice in the "Hertfordshire Mercury" and perhaps that will make it known and induce people to take it.' The Austin family continued to run the Hertfordshire Mercury until the 1980s. Their printing firm, founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century, still operates, with a royal warrant.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Title pages and contents pages (with accurate contents) say that these are volumes 24 and 25; however, the individual issues are numbered as vols. 25 & 26. I can't explain this. A good plus copy in a fine new binding by Milagro of Corrales, of green cloth with beautiful marbled endpapers. Some foxing on plates, very little elsewhere. Contributions to this remarkable magazine include: The Lady's Yes, Pain in Pleasure and Loved Once by Elizabeth B. Barrett (Elizabeth Barrett Browning); Terpsichore by Oliver Wendell Holmes; John Shaw and 2 Sketches of Naval Men: John Barry and John Templer Shubrick by James Fenimore Cooper; New York Fountains and Astor Baths by Catharine M. Sedgwick; Review of Orion, Our Contributors: Robert T. Conrad (unattributed) and the poem Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe, plus several other unattributed reviews (Poe no longer was editor in this year but still an important contributor); Childhood, Nuremberg, Annie of Tharaw and The Arsenal at Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Earth's Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Mystical Ballad and New Year's Eve, 1844 by James Russell Lowell; The Waning Moon and The Paradise of Tears by William Cullen Bryant. In the later volume would probably have been the 1st appearance of 'The Raven' if the editors had not foolishly turned it down. (It was published by Nathaniel Parker Willis in his New York Mirror in 1845.) Includes also "Our Contributors nos. 10-16 (Joseph C. Neal, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Robert T. Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph R. Chandler, Ann S. Stephens, and Walter Colton), with an engraved portrait of each author, and a number of the famous 'fashion plates', 2 of which are hand-colored. There is also an extraordinary hand-colored plate of a peacock at the end.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 6.5" x 10", 256 pp, illustrated, in original green cloth boards. A fair copy only. Text is complete and clean, but pages are tanned and book was water-damaged at some time. Boards are stained and slightly warped, there is some staining to the endpapers and a piece of clear tape over part of the front pastedown, and text block has minor rippling. Not pretty, but a serviceable reference copy of the first edition. Above the title is "Part I," but as far as we can tell there were never any additional volumes. A very informative work providing detailed information on hundreds of Brooklyn businessmen and their businesses, as well as a general history of industry in the city.…

1p, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with minuting and broken seal in red wax, 'To / John Sainsbury Esqre / 35 Red Lion Square'. Reads: 'Dear Sir, / It occurs to me that I left my black cane at your house when I was with you yesterday. If so, would you give it to the bearer of this note / Yr's thankfully / A Egerton Brydges'. …

3pp., 8vo. Autograph postscript of nine lines on otherwise-blank reverse of second leaf. On aged and worn paper, with holing to one corner from stud which attached the leaves together. He was pleased to hear from Mansel, and understands from his letter that 'notwithstanding your disabilities you manage to put in a deal of work'. He continues: 'I shall be particularly interested in your plays, which are more in my line than music. He quotes Mansel's 'notes on the print of my hand', which he finds 'particularly interesting, in view of the fact that they were made more than 11 years ago'. The notes predict 'great misfortune, danger between the ages of 40-45, perhaps illness connected with the heart'. He recalls that in 1898, when 'crossing from New York to Liverpool, two or three American ladies, who affected a knowledge of palmistry, regarding which I was a pronounced sceptic, made practically the same prediction of a great trouble, "worse than death," one of them said, which would probably overtake me before I reached 50 years of age'. He 'reached 50 years without serious trouble or illness of any account, had heart trouble in 1914, which was practically cured by a sea voyage. | In 1917, I suffered the great nervous collapse, which for months, made life a blank to me.' On the question of 'the other notes', he feels that 'when lines are read by a friend, there is a predisposition to flatter'. He would like to spend a weekend with Mansel, but his diary is full in the period preceding a planned 'holiday to St. Malo'. The postscript concerns the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.…

Emerson's novels have undergone a re-evaluation in recent years. The first six were republished by Quartet Books as 'Rediscovered Classics' in 2017, and in 2021 by Quadrant Books. 'Books and Bookmen' was one of a stable of seven London arts magazines owned by Philip Dosse (1925-1980) of Hansom Books. Emerson, who was the editor of the magazine at the time of Dosse's suicide, has published an account of her time there: 'Death of a Bookman', Standpoint, October 2018. The present three items date from an earlier period, when Emerson was working as an assistant in the interim period between school and college. The three items are in good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage, and all signed 'Sally C. Emerson'. ONE: ALS, 22 January [1975]. 2pp, landscape 12mo. She gives a list of four books, with full and half price, which she has kept for herself, and asks to be paid for reviews, minus the total. She discusses the 'system of my receiving and returning the books', which she feels works well. She is finding the writing of reviews 'less difficult to do, but must admit I'd find it a strain to do more than two pages a month'. The letter carries calculations by Dosse. TWO: TLS, 11 May 1975. 1p, 4to. 'I quite understand about having to cut b&b it's a wonder it's remained so fat for so long in these lean times. I was of course disappointed to hear of the exodus of books noticed but not heartbroken because it was an enormous amount of work to do on top of a full-time job. Now perhaps I shall have the time to do an occasional interview for b & b as well as reviews.' After discussing a move 'to a flat in Canonbury' and a reference to 'Tony' she writes: 'I have very much enjoyed doing books noticed. It's taught me much about reviewing as well as educating me in a motley collection of subjects.' THREE: TLS, 21 August 1975. 1p, 4to. She is writing, at the instigation of 'Cis', regarding money owed for reviews, and discusses this matter, including an autograph note on books 'from the plain children's book reviews'. 'I see Bron Waugh is advertising b&b as ardently as ever in his diary in Private Eye with every justification for b&b is plump with interest if not with pages.' She ends with the news that she is 'still working at The Illustrated London News, and enjoying it, but Hansom books has only to beckon. . .'.…

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He begins: 'You would see that we found room for an extract from the Camden Society report in last week's Chronicle'. He asks Nichol to 'find space for the enclosed letter in the Gentleman's Magazine'. He is 'acquainted with the pedigree in question', but does not think that 'Sir Bernard Burke's statements are in all cases to bee relied upon'. The letter continues: 'I do not know whether you are in Mr Potter's secrets. His first volume, so long looked for, seems no nearer publication now than it was when first announced.' Thompson has 'received applications to undertake the republication' of Nichols's 'grandfather's work' [John Nichols (1745-1826)], but has 'several times declined to do so'. He concludes: 'It would be well if Mr Potter brought out a volume or part, if he wishes to retain the good wishes of his subscribers'.…

The front and back covers of the newspaper are present, forming a bifolium. A frail and scarce survival. Heavily-aged newsprint, chipped and worn, with the top and bottom halves of the front page separated along a horizontal fold line. The article on Synge's play covers the first two of the six columns on the front page, with a further quarter-column on the back page. The headlines indicate the tone: 'NEW YORK'S PROTEST AGAINST A VILE PLAY | Hostile Demonstration Unparalleled In The History Of The City Greets "The Playboy" - Actors Hooted Off The Stage In First Act, The Police Reserves Called Out And More Than A Hundred Citizens Ejected - Supporters Were Largely English - Barefooted Women Act Like Prostitutes in Dublin Slums Capturing Drunken Soldiers And Sailors - Disgraceful And Disgusting Spectacle. To the right of the article at the centre of the front page is a caricature of W. B. Yeats ('Willie') and Lady Gregory, captioned 'The "Playboy" and his Protectors', and subtitled 'The Latest Emanation of "The Mind of Ireland."' Beneath the cartoon, taking up the remains of the third column and a small part of the fourth is a similarly-hysterical article on G. B. Shaw's play 'The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet', under the headline: 'SHAW RELIEVES HIS MIND. | Angry at American Criticism of His Grotesque Play, He Hurls Gross Abuse at the American People, Accuses the Clan-na-Gael of Being the Ally of Dublin Castle and the Editor of "The Gaelic American"'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leatherbound collection of 25 issues from 1888, Vol XX No 2-14 and Vol XXI no 1-13, some tick marks have been made in pencil, previous owner's name appears at top of each issue title page, front enpapers with vertical crease, spine fraying at ends, corners worn through, spine a little loose at front hinge, spotting throughout, marbled fore-edges. …

Cloth/ Marble. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cloth Spine Marbled Boards Show Normal Wear. Contents (3) Masthead States Established 1868. Articles, Engravings, Advertisements, 284 Pgs. January No. 1 Thru December No. 12. Interesting Articles, Essays, Poetry, News, Ect Rare Oclc Finds 0 Copies.

2pp., on both sides of the lower half of a 4to leaf. The recto is numbered by Reade '2', indicating that the two pages constitute the second leaf of a letter. The text reads: '[.] therefore you will consent to do me a bare act of justice viz not to let that gentleman be my public critic in "the World." Of course I should be still more pleased if you would do me the honor to see the play yourself and pronounce upon it. However half a loaf is better than no bread. - If you will secure me the silence of that unfair detractor of mine in your columns I will be content: because in that case I shall have a chance of fair play. | Yrs vy trly | Charles Reade'.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item was enclosed in a letter from Serjeant Shee (the future Sir William Shee), offered separately, sent from the House of Commons on 17 February 1854, in which he writes: 'I enclose Mr. Cobdens own handwriting to send to the Papers -'. Attached to a corner at the head of the first page of the present item is a cutting from the Morning Herald newspaper, 18 February 1854, reproducing the details in the manuscript. That circumstance, taken with certain references in the Shee letter, suggest that the recipient of both was either James Johnstone, proprietor of the Morning Herald, or his editor Robert Knox. 2pp, 12mo. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with a few pin holes at top inner corner, and slight damage at the foot of the gutter, unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. In pencil in contemporary hand on front page, 'Cobdens writing / see accompg letter'. Text reads: 'Pet[ition]s Mr Cobden / Cropton Yorkshire. / for the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge / Wm. Woods Mitchell of Arundel, printer & publisher of the "West Sussex Advertiser", for the repeal of the compulsory stamp on newspapers. - / Passengers in Emigrant ship Maidstone proceeding to the Colony of New South Wales for Ocean penny postage / Mechanics Institution Kingley Yorkshire for Decimal Coinage'.…

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter begins: 'Dear George, | The idea contained in your letter is very interesting, and I am honoured to be thought of in connection with it. I am now reading Stevenson's letters, (admirable they are,) and I know from his dealings with American magazines and publishers that the terms offered by the Review are extremely handsome. But I am very late in the day, - in my day, - to be a writing a history; [i.e. his history of the American War of Independence, which appeared in six volumes between 1899 and 1914] and all my time and thought must be given to it, if I am to have any hope of completing it.' He concludes by stating that this will be his answer not only to Harvey's 'kind letter', but to 'all proposals, - political and literary - that are made'.…

8vo: 4 pp. Good. Difficult handwriting. He wants him to keep the cheque, which he considers 'only a compromise between our different expectations'. 'I know that you deserve the larger sum that you spoke of - but it is a tight squeeze to make the & expenses for the year of the New Englander come out even, and I do the best I can.' With seven-line postscript.…

1p., 12mo. 21 lines. On aged paper, with remains of grey paper mount adhering to the reverse, and short closed tears to top and bottom right-hand corners, the latter through the signature. Nichols writes that he 'forgot the Principal Thing' he meant to say on putting 'the hasty Letter [.] in Mr Parcel', which is to thank him 'for the Offer of Mr Carte's Letters'. He will 'certainly make an opportunity of introducing from them any Extracts' that his recipient will 'point out', or, if he will lend him the volume, it will be 'carefully returned'. The number of pages the extracts may take up, 'more or less, is of no Consquence'. He ends by asking him to 'Pardon this Postscript to my former Letter'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Dust Jacket. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. 9 Volumes. Gold lettering on black skiver on the spines. 4 raised cords on the spines. All volumes have a 'H. Horne Binder - Ottawa' sticker on the inside front cover. Volume 40 - January to April, 1857 - inner hinges are cracked, some foxing to the paper, top of the spine is broken for the first inch, missing 1/2 inch at the tail of the spine. Volume 41 - May to August, 1857, back hinge cracked. Volume 43 - January to April, 1858. Volume 44 - May to August, 1858. Volume 45 - September to December, 1858 . Volume 46 - January to April, 1859. Volume 47 - May to August, 1859 . Volume 48 - September to December, 1859 - front inner hinge loose (attached by 2 cords. Volume 49 - January to April, 1860 - lower 2 inches of the spine are loose. All volumes have wear to the edges of the covers. Previous owner's name in pencil and a very faint stamp on the free endpapers. A very good copy of these scarce magazines. Please note that additional shipping charges may apply for this heavy set.…

12mo, 1 p. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed in pencil on reverse 'R. A. Bennett re T. P. O'Connor'. He is enclosing 'the promised note to "T. P". I see that he is ailing and going to the Riviera at an early date, so you had better try and catch him at once.' Bennett had to get the recipient's address from his publishers, as O'Connor left without passing it on. …