San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Limited Edition of 518 copies
4to, 58, [4] pp, with an original leaf tipped in on page 11, orig. brown paper bds, printed label on spine, plain cream d/wrapper with slight stain to rear, 4-page prospectus laid in loose.
Publication number 175 of The Book Club of California.
London. 1969. Printed for private circulation?
Roy. 8vo, 38, [2] pp, printed paper wrappers, very small faint stain to front cover, inscribed on front free endpaper “With best wishes, Theodore Stephanides. Chelsea 1970”
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd Ruskin House Museum Street [1955]. First Edition
Small 8vo, 172, [4] pp, publisher’s cloth, dust jacket very slightly frayed at top edge and a little dusty,preserved in a detachable mylar sleeve, Tom Driberg’s copy sent for review ( Publication date “September 8th”) with a typed post-card addressed to Driberg and signed “Yrs Naomi” postmarked “Campbelltown 12 April 1955” laid in loose.
London: Printed for J. Lowndes, 36, Bow Street, Covent-Garden. (1842?). 8vo, title-page, 44, [2]pp, stab-stitched in original printed wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened, wrappers somewhat ragged, the front one with an internal tear not affecting legibility, some dustsoiling at edges, preserved in a cloth folder and 1/4 morocco slip-case.
At the end is added “ Jemmy Green’s Tour, A Comic Song, (Written by D.W.Jerrold,) Sung by Mr. Wilkinson” on 2 pages. The attribution to Macfarren is taken from the microform copy at Cambridge; the suggested date from the BL catalogue.
Reference: COPAC locates BL only
Paris: Au Bureau de l’Abonnement Littéraire... Chez Durand... Chez Bastien... 1778. 12mo, a6, A-K12, L6, xii, 249, [3] pp, cont. mottled calf, sound.
The “Lettre” to which this is an answer seems to have been Antoine François Prost de Royer’s “Lettre à monsieur l’archevêque de Lyon.....” n.p. 1770, [Kress 6749], but we find no record of the present work in either, Kress, Goldsmiths’, BMC or Brunet.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1866. First Edition in book form.
8vo., original scarlet cloth, title blocked in gold on front cover, gilt line at head and foot of spine, t.e. uncut, spine faded otherwise a fine copy. Bookseller’s ticket of Edward Baker of Birmingham.
As with the other two collections of Trollope’s Pall Mall articles, Travelling Sketches was bound up over a period of years. The publisher’s catalogue dated 1. February 1866, bound in the earliest copies, is not included in the present one.
Reference: Sadleir Trollope no23
London: Clive Holloway Books. [1983]. First Edition
Large 4to, 216pp, profusely illustrated throughout the text in colour and black-and-white, original publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper.First Edition
Folio, 160pp, 16 coloured and numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text, original publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper, a fine copy.
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane. 1706. First Edition
Small 4to, [-]2, A-I4; [xii], 64pp, (with hf-title) sig. I2 shaved at foot not affecting legibility, browned throughout, modern 1/4 red morocco, marbled bds.
Reference: ESTC T55545
London : Burns, Oates & Co.... 1868. First Edition
Cr. 8vo, [A]8, B-Z8, Aa8, cont. half morocco, marbled bds, t.e.g. others uncut, spine worn.
The author’s first published collection of verse; it includes his best known poem, The Dream of Gerontius”
Reference: Hayward 281
Bordeaux : Chez Jaques L’Aveugle. 1710 [ but not before 1742]. [4th edition] 12mo, eng. portrait of Jacques Masse, 3 leaves, 508 pps, title-page vignette of a nude woman, old mottled calf, marbled endpapers, recently rebacked and corners renewed, spine fully gilt, red edges, a few ms. marginalia in pencil in the early pages, early signature of “Edward Scudamore M.D., St. George’s Place, C....ty”on verso of front end-paper and of “G.S. Morley” on front fly-leaf, a good sound copy. According to Rosenberg this is the fourth (his ‘edition D’) of four editions all dated 1710, the earliest of which was probably issued in The Hague c. 1714-1717. It has all the issue points that he mentions; the…
Bordeaux : Chez Jaques L’Aveugle. 1710 [ but not before 1742]. [4th edition]
12mo, eng. portrait of Jacques Masse, 3 leaves, 508 pps, title-page vignette of a nude woman, old mottled calf, marbled endpapers, recently rebacked and corners renewed, spine fully gilt, red edges, a few ms. marginalia in pencil in the early pages, early signature of “Edward Scudamore M.D., St. George’s Place, C....ty”on verso of front end-paper and of “G.S. Morley” on front fly-leaf, a good sound copy.
According to Rosenberg this is the fourth (his ‘edition D’) of four editions all dated 1710, the earliest of which was probably issued in The Hague c. 1714-1717. It has all the issue points that he mentions; the nude woman vignette, the imprint spelt “Bordeaux”, *1 missigned *2, A6 missigned H6, and P3 unsigned, and from the watermark he dates it ‘not before 1742’.
Tyssot de Patot, a firebrand Huguenot free-thinker, sets his imaginary voyag (or as P.D. Gove argues, rather an ‘extraordinary’ voyage; making the distinction between narratives which the authors admit to being fantasy and those which are passed off as genuine voyages), as had Vairesse before him, in Australia drawing for his description of the country on the accounts of real travellers such as Dellon and Lahontan. Here his hero discovers a well-organised Utopia and makes the very prescient observation of the importance of mining and irrigation in that country.
Reference: Cioranescu 18me 62587 Gove : Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction. p.217
[Rosenberg: Tyssot de Patot & His Work... pps 86-90]
Hamburg : Gebrüder Enoch Verlag, 1926. First Edition, 2nd issue (6-10 Tausend) Large 4to, 216, xx pp, 242 photo-illustrations and diagrams in text and 126 photographic sequences, a total of some 1100 images on 42 sheets in a pocket at the rear, publisher’s original decorated blue cloth printed in black, fine copy. Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), Der weisse Rausch (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers including…
Hamburg : Gebrüder Enoch Verlag, 1926. First Edition, 2nd issue (6-10 Tausend)
Large 4to, 216, xx pp, 242 photo-illustrations and diagrams in text and 126 photographic sequences, a total of some 1100 images on 42 sheets in a pocket at the rear, publisher’s original decorated blue cloth printed in black, fine copy.
Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), Der weisse Rausch (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers including Leni Riefenstahl and cinematographer Sepp Allgeier.
Johann "Hannes" Schneider was an Austrian Ski instructor from the Arlberg. He developed the Arlberg technique and appeared in Dr. Arnold Fanck's ski film. Der weiße Rausch, filmed in the Arlberg in the winter of 1930/1931, which helped make skiing popular.
He moved to New Hampshire in 1939 and during the Second World War helped train the 10th Mountain Division of the U. S. Army in which his son Herbert served. Hannes became a member of the US Ski Hall of Fame in 1958.