viii, 439, 18, lii pages. Leather and label worn and nibbled; boards stained; light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. 9.75 x 6.4 inches. View More...
xi, 354 pages. Transpapent laminate peeling from covers. Light foxing to endpapers and edges; half-title mildly soiled. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. View More...
6, [4], 41-856 pages. With double-sided frontispiece and 15 double-sided leaves of plates. The Introduction begins on page 41. It appears (to me) that the plates, though bound in throughout the volume, were counted in the pagination between pp 6 and 41. Copyright 1882; no specific date of issue stated. Foxing to textblock edges; binding is sound. View More...
164 pages, plus two leaves of ads at rear. tanned wraps now crispy with fragility: chipping to front and spine; rear cover lacking a chunk. Interior clean, sturdy and not so fragile. Cover: "A true story of the most remarkable prisoner detained in a jail in New Brunswick, as told by Walter Bates, one time Sheriff of Kings County". Subtitle: "Being an authentic account of the numerous arrests, remarkable doings and wonderful escapes of the most noted road agent who ever pestered the authorities of New Brunswick". View More...
xv, 244 pages. Fair condition only, with spine perished and boards all but detached. Foxing to first few and final few leaves, pastedowns grubby. Textblock remains secure. Bookplate of Rev. John Cunningham to front pastedown, with authorial gift inscription to him on verso of front free endpaper. List of subscribers pp xi-xv. An interesting copy of an uncommon work: At time of publication the author was curate of Childwall [Liverpool], in 1845 he was preferred from there to the perpetual curacy of St. Philip's, Stepney - to the library of which he donated this copy [head of title page]. In ear... View More...
80 pages. No date, place, or printer specified [self published 1924, Pictou, NS]. Autobiography of the renowned Peachie Carroll (1860 - 1933). With a likely non-authorial pencil inscription to first leaf: "Compliments of the author P.O. Carrol (sic) June 10/??" Spine scuffed; leaves toned; binding sound. 8.7 x 6 inches. View More...
xcix, [1], 379 pages. Light foxing to jacket (recto and verso), and to textblock edges. Offsetting to free endpapers; jacket is price clipped. No inscriptions; binding is sound. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. View More...
117 pages, and plates. "To which is added A Relation of all the Incidents, Insurrections, and Massacres, connected with their use as a Prison for the Tories during the Revolution, and otherwise; with interesting Sketches of their Surroundings in (now) East Granby. also, An Illustrated Description of the State Prison at Wethersfield." (title page). Boards scuffed; light foxing to firs few and final few leaves; binding is sound. View More...
96 pages; with integral 'first, or proof, edition Errata, Addenda, Notes &c.' at front and the less than encouraging 'Additional Errata' tipped in at rear. By July of 1893 the author would be arrested: "Dr. Rew is a strange character. It is alleged that he has been turning out doctors by the wholesale for ever so long and casting them loose upon Western States to practice and depopulate those commonwealths." [The Evening World, NY, NY, 26 July, 1893]. A good only example of Volume I (of two?), with covers rubbed, and upper hinge a touch slack. 6.9 x 5.25 inches. Two brief 1898 question sheets ... View More...
96 pages, including photographs. Good only, with covers and first three leaves damp-stained; abrasion to spine, and 3 inch closed tear to front panel. Binding is sound. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. View More...