Author Elgin (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 204 Pages Illus. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Good Plus condition with moderate cover and edge wear, spine lettering worn off, short notation on title page. Otherwise content is clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Thirty-four black & white photos. Compilation of letters written by students of Mayville High School while abroad on vacation.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very nice clean unmarked copy. Illustrated with photographs , 1952 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. [vii], 227pp Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. B&w illustrations (illustrator).

Paperback. 192p., plus two terminal leaves showcasing modern watchmaking contrasted with that of 200 years ago. Generously illustrated with b&w "historical" views: cave people and Babylon get extensive treatment, and at rear is a multiple-panel fold-out with a very long line of time-conscious humans. Softbound in 8.5x6 inch wraps with gilt panels both sides, front cover in colors. Well-designed softback in good shape, marked only by a previous dealer's lightly penciled notes on first blank. Peculiar? -yes, but the stereotyped POV is all too familiar. Napoleon wore a pedometer watch, self-winding with his steps; the hand in vest possibly (but improbably) making sure it functioned. An Acknowledgment tacked into the Dedication leaf is to the 'directors of the Elgin National Watch Company for their manifold courtesies and assistance in the preparation of this book" - raising questions we could guess at, but will not. Elgin also introduced author Bailey to artists whose nice sketches illustrate this item, providing numerous views of filmy females in their youth and not much else.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Poem written on front fly leaf. Writing on back fly leaf. Some light red highlighting on pages 107 to 119. Spine tips and cover corners are lightly worn. Name on top page edge and on front endpaper.

Cloth Hardback. Condition: VG Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Expected. Original Edition. Shows some medium-light typical wear from an old book. Has a typed carbon-copy of an original poem mounted to the free endpaper and inscribed at the bottom in ink by the author" "A tribute to my Neighbor Dora Conger A.H. Merchant" - an original poem about his neighbor not published in the book. Also the author has signed underneath the introduction in ink excalty and only "Very sincerely A.H. Merchant." There is also a word added to one of the poems in ink by the author's hand. Size: Slim 8vo. Signed by Author Several Times.…

[0-9693007-0-0] 1987. (Hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 204pp. Signed with an inscription by the author. Maps, black & white and color photographs. Locale: ; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Lawyers--Canada, World War 2).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding Very Good. Boards Edgeworn And Marked. Damage And Marking To Heads Of Prelims, Rest Of Contents Very Good. Occasional Pages Unopened. 285P.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. Small 8vo. Pp 214. Original cloth. Binding marked and worn, Some soiling internally.

Publisher's cloth. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Owner's signature on ffep. Weight: 1 Language: English.

16cm. ix[i], 285[1]pp. Original blindstamped green cloth gilt. Exceptionally fine copy. Apparently the author's sole work. DISCOVER: BL, NLS, Aberdeen, Edinburgh U.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. Pp ix, 285. Original blindstamped cloth. A nice copy. Scarce.

Second edition. 118pp incl. 6pp of Notes at end. Original printed paper-covered boards. No inscriptions. Partly unopened. VG. Rare.

First edition. 136pp; illustrated. Soft covers. No inscriptions. Fine.

Illustrated by Sepia tone frontis and 23 plates by Hugh Rankin and Harold DeLay, two photographs, one text illustration and one color fold-out plate "The Pagent of Time" by DeLay. First thus edition. Stitched wraps in yapped card cover, with color paste-on, rear decoration. Inscribed by "To R.S.W. Roberts, Compliments of J.E. McCourt, Treas., May 11, 1923" on title page with 3 impression of blue stamp of New England Watch & Jly. Co (two on title, one on half title). Foolscap 4to. pp. [x], 192, [1] blank, [2] photographs, [2] authorities consulted, [1] blank. Very Good. Some pages have archival tape reinforcement at joints, yapped edges show rubbing, one chip to color paste, sporadic soil internally. Twenty-seven shorts with paintings from the magazine series of the same title. Used as a promotion by Elgin dealers in US. Includes a chronology of watch facts. Scarce. …

8vo, pp. 8, [4], [9]-225, [1] imprint of J. Young, Inverness; a sound copy in contemporary half roan over marbled boards, spine rubbed. First and only edition. Carey (1782-1824) was from Arbroath and moved first to Edinburgh (where he worked for Constable) and then to London, where he found employment writing political journalism. In 1807 he moved back to Scotland, to edit the Inverness Journal, and many of the poems in this volume clearly date from his time in the area: Craig Phadrig is a hill immediately to the west of Inverness: it has been supposed that it was here that St Columba met the pictish King Bridei in 565. Carey's poem is heavily footnoted, at times the notes occupying more of the page than the poem itself. Another poem is addressed to 'L. Macintosh, esq. of Raigmore', who had been in India, where he procured a 'liberal subscription' to the Inverness infirmary and school. Lachlan Macintosh (d. 1845) had returned from Calcutta in 1810, when he built a house (demolished in 1965), which is to the east of the town. This is Macintosh's copy: his name and arms are stencilled onto the upper endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. Small 8vo. Pp 176. Multi-folding map frontis and engraved plates. Original pebbled cloth, soiled, worn with damp staining. Soiling to front endpapers. A sound, complete copy but far from beautful. Seldom seen.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large, tall 8vo. Pp xiv, 754. Plates, illustrations and map - all as called for.Original cloth, beveled edges. Wear to head and foot of spine with some loss to foot. Shaken, with inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Inscription to headof title page and recent bookplate to front paste-down.The text block of this volume was always too heavy for the binding structure. Not a bad copy and quite acceptable. Decidedly scarce. Extra postage may be required.…

Paper covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 25 tightly printed pages. Library ink stamps, donor's inscription. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

12mo, (ii), 160 pp., light staining and soiling, nineteenth-century green half roan, rubbed, ends of spine worn, but sound. First edition; signed "John Strahan" on the endpaper. Dedicated to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. The title poem occupies the first 50 pages. Not in Johnson, Provincial poetry.

First edition. Octavo. ( 220mm. ) Pp. [3] 4 [6] - 225 [1]. Aeg.Uncut. The occasional light finger mark otherwise a generally clean copy. Printed in Inverness by J. Young. Half dark auburn calf over marbled paper backed boards, marbled endpapers. This poem sets out to describe - ' an extensive and highly romantic district ' in the Highlands of Scotland - Johnson 164, David Carey ( 1782 - 1824 ) , journalist, poet and Editor of the Inverness Journal He was a great supporter of the whig government, so much so that after the dissolution of the ministry of ' all the talents ' he penned a satire entitled ' Ins and outs : , or, the State of the Parties, by Chrononhotonthologos, " which met with immediate success and extensive sales. For more details of Carey see ODNB. Jackson, p. 348 Aubin, p. 373.…

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elton R. Shaw, Compliments of the author". Herrick ran for Congress in Illinois for the Prohibition Party. Elton Raymond Shaw was Chairman of the Prohibition State Committee of Ohio. The book, self-published, includes 23 poems on prohibition, charting the evil of alcohol, the heroic nature of the prohibitionist, the villainy of those who betray the cause. Octavo. Half-tone photographic portrait frontispiece. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, slight foxing to title page and toning to contents. A very good copy. …