Philips Arthur S (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed, A fine, unread copy. Red cloth, bright gold spine and front cover lettering. Printed on light tan paper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION on the limitation page at rear. 31pages. "This is a First Facsimile Abstract Edition". ."Acknowledgment hereby given that all text in this abstract except Publisher's Introduction was previously published in THE PHILLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER, Fascicles I and III, by Arthur S. Phillipls, printed by Dover Press, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1944 and 1946. Photographs by author at time of Borden trial. " . Frontispiece is a b/w photo of Lizzie Borden and there are four b/w photos in the text. Includes a 3-page biography of Arthur S. Phillips, abstracted from Fascicle I of THE PHILLLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER. "Phillilps, a member of Lizzie Borden's team of defense lawyers, still believed Lizzie to be innocent almost fifty years after the crime when all active participants in the trial were dead. This account of the Borden murders and the trial of Lizzie Borden was written by Phillips before he died in 1941. Phillips' narrative has been missed and ignored by other more recent writers on the subject and this account is the first known separate publication of Phillips' work. His account postdates Edmund Pearson, the 'unchallenged' final authority on the subject before his death in 1937. Signed By Publisher. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy. Red cloth, bright gold spine and front cover lettering. Printed on light tan paper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION on the limitation page at rear. 31 pages. "This is a First Facsimile Abstract Edition". ."Acknowledgment hereby given that all text in this abstract except Publisher's Introduction was previously published in THE PHILLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER, Fascicles I and III, by Arthur S. Phillipls, printed by Dover Press, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1944 and 1946. Photographs by author at time of Borden trial. " . Frontispiece is a b/w photo of Lizzie Borden and there are four b/w photos in the text. Includes a 3-page biography of Arthur S. Phillips, abstracted from Fascicle I of THE PHILLLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER. "Phillilps, a member of Lizzie Borden's team of defense lawyers, still believed Lizzie to be innocent almost fifty years after the crime when all active participants in the trial were dead. This account of the Borden murders and the trial of Lizzie Borden was written by Phillips before he died in 1941. Phillips' narrative has been missed and ignored by other more recent writers on the subject and this account is the first known separate publication of Phillips' work. His account postdates Edmund Pearson, the 'unchallenged' final authority on the subject before his death in 1937. Signed By Publisher. Book.…

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A double sheet print, image area approx. 27 x 38 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the periodÃ"ÃÃs architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGEâ" áFROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; PRINTS : Buildings & Places; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years of taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi, 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight, straight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers (mainly in the city of Sheffield), undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship (though not credited herein) of the prominent Fabian Socialist, anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman (1886-1972), who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement (1918). Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: ".One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London.Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith, "Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," in Alana Harris & Timothy Jones (eds), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 (Lon: 2015).…