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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM - A Diary

By: Allingham, H. ; D. Radford

Price: $99.94

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1907

Seller ID: 39758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 404 pages; Former owner's name on ffep and a few lines in pencil quoting Allingham's poem "The Fairies", otherwise clean and tight in original navy blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spine. Upper corners rounded, portrait frontispiece. William Allingham, a writer and poet born in Donegal, Ireland, became sub-editor of Frazer's Magazine in 1870. In early 1874 he assumed the position of editor from Froude, and later that year married Helen Patterson, the watercolour painter. Allingham was a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of his book...
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STUPOR MUNDI The Life and Times of Frederick II, Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, 1194-1250

By: Allshorn, Lionel

Price: $19.94

Publisher: London, Martin Secker: 1912

Seller ID: 42503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

318 pages; Former owner's name neatly on endpaper, otherwise unmarked and secure in original gray cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration at spine; scattered foxing. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard of a medallion with Frederick II's profile; eight additional illustrated plates. Frederick II (1194 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225. His political and cultural ambitions were enormous as he ruled a vast area, beginning with Sicily and stretching through Italy...
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Aaron Benedict: A Memorial

By: Anderson, Joseph

Price: $124.94

Publisher: Waterbury, Connecticut, Press of the American Print. Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 40704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

58 pages; Publisher's brown cloth, with covers divided by rules in black and with the title: "BENEDICT" in black against an industrial-shaped gilt lozenge device, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor toning and spotting to the edges of the covers, a small chip of brown cloth is missing at the foot of the spine, and there is moderate foxing to the title page and engraved frontispiece. The latter is a portrait (with facsimile signature) depicting the subject: Aaron Benedict [1785-1873], an important industrialist and businessman from Waterbury, Connecticut. There are two original a...
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My Short Century - Memoirs of an Accidental Nuclear Historian

By: Arnold, Lorna

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Palo Alto, Cumnor Hill Books: 2012

Seller ID: 42640

ISBN: 098370290X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

xii, (2), 205 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy wrappers. Lorna Arnold, OBE, is a noted British nuclear historian who worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority for nearly 40 years. She has written seminal books on the Windscale accident, nuclear weapons tests in Australia, and Britain's H-Bomb programme. After a childhood of rural poverty in the south of England, she studied at the University of London and at Cambridge. Her work at the War Office and the Foreign Office during World War II led to postings to Berlin and Washington. A decade later, a chance encounter resulted in her joi...
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WITNESS - The Story of a Search

By: Bennett, J. G.

Price: $134.94

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1962

Seller ID: 42272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

379 pages; Clean and secure in orginal binding in very good dustjacket with minor wear at head of spine and extremities. John Godolphin Bennett (1897 1974) was a British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, and author. He is best known for his books on psychology and spirituality, particularly on the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff. Bennett met Gurdjieff in Istanbul in October 1920 and later helped to co-ordinate the work of Gurdjieff in England after the guru had moved to Paris. He also was active in starting the British section of the Subud movement, and co-fo...
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Image for The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

By: Boswell, James

Price: $249.94

Publisher: Bellows Falls, Vt., Printed by Blake, Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington: 1824

Seller ID: 39477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Five Volume Set; 5 vols pages; FIve volumes in full sheepskin, covers in a decorative "tree" pattern, flat spines paneled with pairs of gilt rules, red and black leather labels, lettered in gilt with the titles and volume numbers respectively, in the second and fourth panels. Some wear and rubbing, all covers soundly attached, small pieces missing from the spines of volumes II and IV, other volumes with just trifling losses at the head of the spines. Ink signatures in each volume by J[ohn] H. Edmonds [a leading Utica, NY lawyer], dated March, 1849 -- on the front paste-down endpapers. An in...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poet of His People

By: Brawley, Benjamin ; Paul Laurence Dunbar

Price: $99.94

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina: 1936

Seller ID: 42688

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

xii, (2), 159 pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding in near very good dustjacket, damp mark at base of spine, chipping at head of spine. From the dustjacket: "This is the only biography ever published singly of the young Negro who struggled against the most grinding poverty, who never completed his education as he desired, and who yet became famous when just twenty-four years of age. When he died, only ten years later, Brand Whitlock telegraphed to Dunbar's mother: 'You have lost a son; I have lost a friend; but America has lost more than all else, and that is a po...
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IN MEMORIUM HONORABLE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS Proceedings of the Bar & Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States

By: Burger, Chief Justice Warren E.

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Washington, U.S. Supreme Court: 1980

Seller ID: 39736

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

53 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Issued upon the death of Justice William O. Douglas, this contains the remarks of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Solicitor General McCabe, Judge Fletcher, Professor Countryman, Judge Rifkind, and a lengthy address by Justice Abe Fortas. William Orville Douglas (1898 1980) served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for 36 years and 209 days (193975), the longest term in the history of the Supreme Court. Douglas holds a number of records as a Supreme Court Justice, including the most opinions. Douglas was kno...
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JOURNEY WITH GENIUS Recollections and Reflections Concerning the D.H. Lawrences

By: Bynner, Witter

Price: $24.94

Publisher: New York, John Day: 1951

Seller ID: 42700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

xv, (3), 361 pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth binding in very good dustjacket (mylar covered). Illustrated with many photographs. Interwoven with tales of a long friendship between the two authors is Bynner's brilliant critical study of the highest order. It shows us Lawrence as always the chief character in his own books, as the "mother's boy" who hated his father, as the man of village origin who would ask "What will people think?" and worry because "People will talk." ... what were his "passionate" religious beliefs and his attempt to differentiate between animal and spirit...
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Image for THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO Compiled principally from his correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, SISTER MARIA CELESTE, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of St. Matthew, in Arcetri

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO Compiled principally from his correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, SISTER MARIA CELESTE, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of St. Matthew, in Arcetri

By: Celeste, Sister Maria

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Boston, Nichols and Noyes: 1870

Seller ID: 42125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

300 pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding with faded gilt lettering at spine, cloth chipped at spine ends and lower corners. Original owner's name in pencil on ffep and at top of tp "George T. Custer / May 1870 / Ohio" Faint stain affecting first opposing blank pages. Topics include: Death of Galileo's Father. Family Circumstances. Letter of Madonna Giulia. Of Livia Galilei. Difficulties. His Brother. Letter to his Mother. Michelangelo. Galilei's Behavior. His Sister Virginia, etc. A fascinating look into Galileo's personal life.
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FIELD-MARSHALL EARL HAIG Foreword by John Buchan

By: Charteris, John ; [Brigadier General] ; [Mrs. Hennen Jennings' copy]

Price: $24.94

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1929

Seller ID: 42417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, (2), 407 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Former owner's name on first blank (after map endpapers) -- "M. L. Jennings / from H. H. /May 1929" - Mary L. Coleman Jennings. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (1861 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. Having served in South Africa and India, Haig then commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the First World War, on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, the Third B...
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A. A. LAMBING [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35260

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

A steel engraved portrait of Rev. A. A. Lambing extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place.
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THOS. MELLON [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35263

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Thomas Alexander Mellon extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Thomas Alexander Mellon (1813 1908) was a Scotch-Irish American, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His son Andrew W. Mellon (noted ba...
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ALBERT M. HARPER [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35264

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Albert M. Harper extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Major Albert M. Harper (1843-1871) served with the Pennsylvania 139th Regiment of Volunteers from 1862 until the end of the War. He returned to his education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering i...
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THOMAS LIGGETT [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35265

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Thomas Liggett ( 1779-1854) extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by E.G. Williams and Brothers. Thomas Liggett was born in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1779 and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1791. Having apprenticed as a carpenter, he moved to Pittsburgh in 1802 and set up in building operatio...
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WILLIAM THAW [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Publishing and Engraving: 1889

Seller ID: 35266

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of William Thaw extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. William Thaw, Sr. (1818 1889) was an American businessman who made his fortune in transportation and banking. Thaw endowed science fellowships at Harvard University and Princeton University and also underwrote the building of the Allegheny Observator...
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JOHN THAW [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35267

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of John Thaw extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by Samuel Sartain of Philadelphia. John Thaw came to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia in order to establish a branch of the United States Bank of Philadelphia. He was associated with that institution for the remainder of his life. His son was Willia...
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THOMAS PENNEY [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35271

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Thomas Penney extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by James R. Rice & Sons. Thomas Penney served as a Burgess of McKeesport in 1844. In 1872 the Commercial Banking Company was organized with Thomas Penney as Cashier.
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THOMAS McCLURG [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35280

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Thomas Bartholomew McClurg extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by A. H. Richie. Thomas Bartholomew McClurg was born in Pittsburgh in 1819, the eldest son of Joseph McClurg, thus recipient of all the advantages which family wealth affords. After completing his education he took over managem...
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GRAHAM SCOTT [Steel Engraved Portrait]

By: Cushing, Thomas

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Chicago, A. Warner Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 35282

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Graham Scott extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by F. G. Kernan. Graham Scott was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania and moved to Pittsburgh in 1836. He first engaged in the house and sign painting trade, then took a position with William Dilworth, Jr in the lumber business. He later turned his ...
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