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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. TITLE: ARTIC SUNBEAMS: OR FROM BROADWAY TO THE BOSPHORUS BY WAY OF THE NORTH CAPE By SAMUEL S. COX (signed) 1882 with Engravings possibly never seen in 3 Vols. AUTHOR: SAMUEL S. COX PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NY 1882 EDITION: First Edition ISBN: NONE CATEGORY: Adventure, Signed, Photographs, Super Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardbacks without dust jackets COLOR: Marble with leather tips SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 1-115, 116-243, 244-347 pages. CONDITION: There are 3 vols present. Vol. 3 is missing the back board. All the other boards have some cracking to the leather and there are hints of light glue, all boards may be detached at time of shipping (very weak). The back endpapers of volume 3 has some chips along the edge. There are really minor splits to the very edge of the back endpapers in volume 2. There is a stray signature in a couple of places written in ink from 1891 (Edith Pruser). A couple of the engravings have slight notations of the place they were done (possibly from Cox). Books are without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Books may have been rebound with the extra illustrations inserted personally.Overall even with the missing board of volume 3, books are: Good/None dust jacket as issued. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: There is a cabinet portrait done in Stockholm of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Cox (frontispiece) : assume this is their writing beneath ( see photo) and across from the cabinet portrait affixed to the gutter is a card containing the 'Compliments of Mr. & Mrs. S. S. Cox - New York - April 1882'. 1-Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Wikipedia). Engravings throughout that have possibly never been seen, and there is also a color photo in volume 2 (can't make out writing on bottom). There are extra illustrations added and listed throughout the book. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 006388. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. vi, 429pp, with an additional illustrated title page, frontispiece & five plates by the author. Original green embossed patterned cloth, with pictorial gilt & titles. Firm binding, spine is slightly rubbed. Internally, plates & illustrations are slightly age spotted, pages have occasional margin spotting, but generally clean. The rear inner joint has a tape reinforcement repair. A scarce early edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition copy of Edwin Coolidge Kimball's travel work, detailing his voyage across Northern Europe. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece.List of subscribers and eight pages of adverts to the rear.'Midnight Sunbeams' is a travel work comprising of sketches of the author's journey in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. A vivid description of Northern Europe during the Victorian era, from the point of view of an American traveller.The author's journey starts at Copenhagen, then going on through Sweden by the Gotha Canal, subsequently visiting Stockholm, Trondheim, Tromso, Bergen, and more.Including a useful chapter detailing the author's expenses during the trip and practical hints.Written by Edwin Coolidge Kimball.Faded ink inscription to the head of the title page, 'George A. Coburn, September 8, 1888'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spine is a little faded. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Faded ink inscription to the title page. Very Good. book.

Brisbane : printed by Rogers & Harley, 1870. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated green cloth (marked) with binder's ticket of O'Hagen, Brisbane, yellow endpapers, pp. xi; [i]; 204, occasional foxing. The first published book of poetry by a Queensland born writer. Vowles was born in Ipswich in 1844.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 279pp, [1], xii List of Subscribers, [8, Publisher's advertising] printed on laid paper, bound in maroon cloth, gilt still bright, top edges gilt, hinges tight, previous owners name "Mary H. Wood, Haverhill" on the front free endpaper. Includes *Copenhagen and Environs *Across Sweden by the Gotha Canal *In and About Stockholm *Railway Journey to Throndhjem *The Norwegian Nordland *From Tromso to the North Cape *The Voyage Back to Throndhjem *Molde and the Romsdal *A Mountain Walk *Across Country Drive *On and About Sognefjord *The Hardanger Fjord *Bergen *Expenses and Practical Hints. Pages slightly age darkened.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 31x25cm, stapled spine, centre 2 pages have come free of staples, very slight discolouration around edges of cover, couple of small light spots, very good internally, colours very bright inside and out, slight crease bottom corner, neat inscription first page. (in John).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Very good inside and out, colours very bright, no inscriptions etc. 31x25cm. stapled spine (in John).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 31x25cm, colours very good and bright inside and out, no inscriptions etc, tear on second page which has old sticky tape on it (neatly done), small light crease bottom corner of couple pages (in John).

4to. [8 pp (unpaginated)]. Colour plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art image of Cleveland County Courthouse lit by Crouse-Hinds floodlights at night, (minor dustsoiling, slight shelfwear), still NF copy. First edition of this rare lighting catalogue from the famed Syracuse, NY lighting firm, best remembered for their Traffic Signals, Traffic Lights, Airport and Runway lighting equipment. This catalogue features striking Art Deco artwork of includes well-illustrated Tudor Revival service station, Art Deco skyscrapers, statue of President Lincoln, construction sites, fountains, and an airport hanger. The Crouse-Hinds Electric Company was established in 1897 in Syracuse, NY, by Huntington Beard Crouse (1872-1943), and Jesse Hinds (1845-1928) to produce changeable headlights for trolley cars. By the early 1920s the company specialized in the manufacture of traffic signals, controllers, headlights, and accessories, as well as floodlights. The Crouse-Hinds is now owned by Houston-Based Eaton Industries. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Columbia, the Centre Canadien d'Architecture is digital version).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4to Limited edition. Hardcover. Number 699 of 2500. Quarto size gold cardboard box 29 by 23 cms. Individual illustrated sheets laid into an embossed gold paper-over-boards portfolio, profusely illustrated in monochrome and gold duotone. Some gold reliefs inc an Origami angelfish Warhol, Azzedine Alaia, Cesar, Linda Evangelista, Isaac Mizrahi etc., Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Visionaire says: "For some time we had imagined a gilded issue-heavily embellished, incredibly ornate. "Gold" gave us the perfect opportunity to go for baroque. The cover of the issue was hologrammed, embossed, and foil stamped, all on an already solid-gold background. Up until this point, it was one of the most extravagant and delirious issues we had ever created. There were seven pages of Philip Taaffe's gold stars foil stamped onto vellum, which ran an average of a dollar per page - a slight extravagance considering we had at least another fifty pages to fill. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's fashion photographs featured gold-foil stamping on top of four-color prints - crazy in theory but even more so in practice, when sometimes the only foil-stamped element was the stud earring in the model's ear! Cecilia tracked down OrigamiUSA, who folded a gold-paper goldfish for each issue, and Todd Oldham contributed actual gilded-metal halos. Such frivolities came thanks to this issue's sponsor, the Japanese department store Beams". Inevitable faint creasing to rear of booc but handsome about fine example.

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. None (illustrator). A fascinating book of social guidance for the Scottish working classes. Third edition. By Margaret Maria Brewster, daughter and biographer of Sir David Brewster, the Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal. With a list of recipes to the appendix, including fish pudding, cheap cottage soup and a good breakfast for young people. The second part of the appendix includes instructions for starching shirts and washing shawls. A publisher's catalogue to the rear advertises works by Sir David Brewster as well as further works by Margaret Maria Brewster. In a cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with wear to extremities, especially head and tail of spine. Slight straining to front hinge. Internally, both free endpapers missing. Otherwise, generally firmly bound and generally bright. Children's pencil marks to both pastedowns, as well as slight ink marks. Occasional marks throughout. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pillar of Fire Zarephath, NJ 1941 Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: new.

paperback. Condition: New. NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Twelvemo. Hardcover. Gilt patterned covers. 144, [1] pages frontispiece 19 cm. Ed. of 50 copies./ "Privately printed" t.p. G. Toning to boards and spine. Boards have heavy wear around edges, Interior has foxing. Inscribed by Adams with her Edwin D. French bookplate inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. One year run of this illustrated childrenÕs religious magazine, run by the Sunbeam Mission (headquarters in Weston -Super-Mare.) Each issue about 16 pages on hand made style uncut paper heavily illustrated with woodcuts in black and red. Among the artists contributing were Charles Robinson with many signed or initialled contributions, including the covers--also his younger brothers William Heath Robinson and T.H. Robinson. Simon Houfe notes that Charles RobinsonÕs earliest work was for the Sunday School Union in 1894 so, presumably this work came out of that connection. Other artists used were George Soper and Percy J. Billingshurst. Highly attractive and scarce item. December 1896-November 1897. 12 issues stoutly bound in red unlettered cloth, slight wear; vg. Signedes.

Pas de couverture. Condition: bon. RO50013994: 1856. In-4. En feuillets. Bon état, Tâchée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 5 pages. Guirlande gauffrée sur la couverture. Quelques écritures à l'encre. . . . Classification Dewey : 780.26-Partitions.

Sydney: Suns Newspaper Limited, 1927. 4to. Orig. illust. wrappers stapled as issued (slightly foxed). Illust. with col. comic strips, b/w illust. and 2 col. illusts. Lightly foxed on back endpapers, otherwise fine.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first UK edition of Edwin Coolidge Kimball's travelogue of Scandinavia. The first UK edition of this work. A very scarce copy in all editions, albeit the true first US edition is seen more commonly in commerce. Dated via Jisc, first and sole edition published in the UK.Containing a narrative of Edwin Coolidge Kimball's travels through Scandinavia. Starting in Copenhagen, Kimball travels across Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, recording impressions and observations as well practical hints and notes on his expenses. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened with a minor closed tear, bards lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontis, 7 x 5", maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, 279pp + subscriber's list and ads. Covers have offsetting, staining and wrinkling, spine sunned and tips have tiny tears, front inner hinge cracked, ffep and frontis becoming detached else good. Binding tight. Some of the chapters: "Across Sweden By The Gotha Canal", "Railway Journey To Throndhjem", "The Hardanger Fyord". SCARCE. FIRST EDITION.

The annual Ginger Meggs adventure book that became an Australian institution. "Some magic human touch endears The name of Ginger Meggs He bears us backwards down the years On sturdy freckled legs: Against adversity we find Him always fighting fair. Men love him for the honest mind Beneath the tousled hair." [Poem from the frontispiece of this edition] The comic strip was created by James C. Bancks and first appeared in 1921 in the Australian newspaper 'The Sun'. The main character, Ginger Meggs, is a mischievous and adventurous young boy with a distinctive shock of red hair who promoted the idea of the bold Australian larrikin. Quarto, original colour illustrated card covers, printed in colour throughout, 310 x 247 mm, 28 pp. some wear to spine with partially detached cover, internally very good, still a very good copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, Charles & Robinson, T.H. & Robinson, W. Heath & Farmiloe, Edith & et al., (illustrator). 1900. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Includes 2 years from January 1899 to December 1900. Yellow cloth with gilt borders and gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Spine professionally rebacked. New endpapers. Cloth a bit grubby. Page edge browning else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, Charles & Robinson, T.H. & Soper, George & et al., (illustrator). 1897. Very good condition with no wrapper. December 1896 (no. 1) to Novemeber 1897 (no. 12). Blue pictorial cloth with gilt title to front cover. 192 pages. Packed full of b/w illustrations, including some early work by Charles Robinson. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly rubbed and grubby. Prize plate (name blotted out) to front pastedown. Front joint starting to crack. Contents are well browned but otherwise are clean. Endpapers are slightly grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Baroness Helga Von Gramm (illustrator). A portfolio of 8 loose coloured plates from a collection of 12 by the artist Baroness Helga Von Gramm entitled Sunbeams From The Alpine Heights. Published by E. Kauffmann. Undated but presumed to be late 19th Century. With an inked inscription inside the portfolio that reads 'Helga Von Cramm begs Mr R. Brocklebank's kind acceptance of this little work'. Size: 26.5 x 21 cms or 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Condition: Very Good. The cover is quite worn and grubby. It would appear to have once been held together by ribbons that are no longer present. Plates number 1, 4, 10 and 11 are missing. Those that remain are, but for occasional marks on the surround, clean. The edges of the plates are somewhat soft, a few are creased at the corner, one has been repaired. Ideal prints for framing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustration by Harrison Cady. Miniature book (2" x 2.75"). [8]pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine.

First Edition. First edition, ex-library. Measuring approximately 7.25" x 5" with 279 numbered pages. This book is in poor condition. Heavy chipping and leather rot to spine and all edges of book. Library markings on top and bottom edges of textblock and both pastedowns. Front endpaper and title pages are loose from binding. Interior pages are clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (O8-15).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presumed first edition. 32mo. 92, [4]pp. Illustrated in black-and-white. Blue cloth-covered boards, embossed and stamped in gilt and blind. Previous owner's inscription on recto (mostly erased) and verso of first free leaf, and names in pencil on front and rear paste-downs and on p.47, some wear along edges, and some foxing, an about very good copy. Uncommon and charming little volume that presents better than described.

Original decorated cloth, slightly out of square but fine, neatly pencilled translations of individual words into Swedish throughout, pp. 16/17 dicolored by a newpaper clipping, "Sir Almroth Wright död". Bookplate of Arvid Jansson. London, James Nisbet & Co., 1890. 8vo. viii + 136 pp. (incl. adverisements at end) + 8 plates (Stockholm, The Bosphorus, Old Rectory, Middleton-on-Tees, Dresden, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Belfast, Uppsala). With a section at end about H.R.H. Princess Eugenie. Only published in English and therefore not listed in Leijonhufvud & Brithelli, Kvinnan inom svenska litteraturen intill år 1893 (1893, facs. ed. 1978). The authoress was daughter of Nils Wilhelm Almroth (1797-1852), Director of the Royal Mint, and she grew up in Stockholm.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sydney, Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1944. Quarto, [32] pages with a full-page colour illustration and 31 pages of colour comic strips. Saddle-stapled colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and marked; paper lightly tanned; an excellent copy.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!