Wartime Lies by Begley, Louis - 1991

1887. 1887 Stevenson, Robert Louis THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER TALES AND FABLES London: Chatto & Windus, 1887 296pp, 32pp publisher's catalogue dated "September 1886" Dec blue cloth, stamped in silver and black, gilt on spine Publisher's device stamped on rear cover Floral patter on epages printed in olive green 8vo Cloth rubbed at spine ends, corners, spine slightly dardened, gilt bright, hinges tight; overall a near fine hardcover copy.

London, Collins, 1979.. 1st edition, first printing. The sixth Jack Aubrey novel. Fine condition, unmarked, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Philadelphia, Pa: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes ([3], viii-xii, [2], 14-252 p.; 276 p.); 18 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments. Gilt-tooled red and black morocco spine labels; gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. Originally bound as part of a set of Cooper novels; the spine label for vol. 2 indicates it was also no. 12 of a larger series of volumes. Archival repair of hinges and reproduction of vol. 1 spine labels. Front fixed endpapers inscribed: McLanahan. Copyright notice is dated 1827, but the title pages are dated 1829. The paste-down revision of the copyright notice described by BAL is not present in either of these volumes. BAL, 3836; Shoemaker, 28599; Wright, I, 688. The Prairie, Cooper's eighth novel, was the third of a trilogy in which he had considered the United States' present (in The Pioneers, 1823), its past (in The Last of the Mohicans, 1826), and its future. Basing his description of the prairie on… Read More

London: Harrison and Co, 1779 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Full leather, but very very worn. Interesting book plate to front pastedown initials WS and crest of hand holding a pistol, above this printed name William Clarke. Contains a) Nath. Lee, Theodosius; or the force of love. 15p. Ink owner's name to title. b) Sir John Vanbrugh. The city wives confederacy. 24p, repair to title. c) Solomon an oratorio. 4p. d) Mr Havard, King Charles I.14p. e) Mr Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, being the sequel of the trip to the jubilee. 19p. f) Saul, an oratorio. 6p. Small hole to inner margin of last page. g) Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Philaster. 16p. h) Ben Johnson [Jonson] Every man in his humour. 23p. i) Shakespeare. Coriolanus. 22p. j) Beaumont and Fletcher. The chances. 1780. 21p. k) Jephtha, a sacred drama. 4p. l) Esther an oratorio. 4p. m) W Whitehead, The roman fathers. 14p. n) Mr Moore, The foundling. 18p. o) Colley Cibber, The school-boy; or, comical revival. 8p. p) Theobald, Electra. 14p. q)… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More

1887. 1887 Stevenson, Robert Louis THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER TALES AND FABLES London: Chatto & Windus, 1887 296pp, 32pp publisher's catalogue dated "September 1886" Dec blue cloth, stamped in silver and black, gilt on spine Publisher's device stamped on rear cover Floral patter on epages printed in olive green 8vo Cloth rubbed at spine ends, corners, spine slightly dardened, gilt bright, hinges tight; overall a near fine hardcover copy.

London, Collins, 1979.. 1st edition, first printing. The sixth Jack Aubrey novel. Fine condition, unmarked, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Philadelphia, Pa: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes ([3], viii-xii, [2], 14-252 p.; 276 p.); 18 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments. Gilt-tooled red and black morocco spine labels; gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. Originally bound as part of a set of Cooper novels; the spine label for vol. 2 indicates it was also no. 12 of a larger series of volumes. Archival repair of hinges and reproduction of vol. 1 spine labels. Front fixed endpapers inscribed: McLanahan. Copyright notice is dated 1827, but the title pages are dated 1829. The paste-down revision of the copyright notice described by BAL is not present in either of these volumes. BAL, 3836; Shoemaker, 28599; Wright, I, 688. The Prairie, Cooper's eighth novel, was the third of a trilogy in which he had considered the United States' present (in The Pioneers, 1823), its past (in The Last of the Mohicans, 1826), and its future. Basing his description of the prairie on… Read More

London: Harrison and Co, 1779 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Full leather, but very very worn. Interesting book plate to front pastedown initials WS and crest of hand holding a pistol, above this printed name William Clarke. Contains a) Nath. Lee, Theodosius; or the force of love. 15p. Ink owner's name to title. b) Sir John Vanbrugh. The city wives confederacy. 24p, repair to title. c) Solomon an oratorio. 4p. d) Mr Havard, King Charles I.14p. e) Mr Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, being the sequel of the trip to the jubilee. 19p. f) Saul, an oratorio. 6p. Small hole to inner margin of last page. g) Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Philaster. 16p. h) Ben Johnson [Jonson] Every man in his humour. 23p. i) Shakespeare. Coriolanus. 22p. j) Beaumont and Fletcher. The chances. 1780. 21p. k) Jephtha, a sacred drama. 4p. l) Esther an oratorio. 4p. m) W Whitehead, The roman fathers. 14p. n) Mr Moore, The foundling. 18p. o) Colley Cibber, The school-boy; or, comical revival. 8p. p) Theobald, Electra. 14p. q)… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More