Ken Sanders Rare Books

Liverpool: Thomas Ward; P. P. Pratt; Orson Hyde; Orson Pratt; F. D. Richards; Samuel W. Richards; Asa Calkin; Amasa Lyman; George Q. Cannon; Daniel H. Wells; A. Carrington; Horace S. Eldredge; Joseph F. Smith; John Henry Smith; George Teasdale; William Budge; D, 1840-1898. First Edition. Octavo [22 cm] Bound in various different bindings, most contemporary, some cloth, some leather. The spines and hinges have had periodic restoration work. The extremities are rubbed to varying degrees. The backstrips have occasional losses and chips. There are cracks to the hinges, joints, and text blocks here and there. The brief markings to the pages are hardly worth mentioning, often only filling in errors in printed pagination (occasionally the pages are misnumbered or bound in out of order). The front board and preliminary pages of the combined volume, containing 1, 3, 4, and 5 are detached, but present. Pp. 269-272 of volume 16, number 17 have been cut out. There are tears to the beginning pages of volume 18. Volume 23 is ex-library (just a stamp on the Preface page). Volumes 1, 4, 11, 26, and 27 are missing the title and/or index and preface pages. Volume 30 has some dark staining, the result...

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London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. Good / good. Item #56646

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. 166pp. Two pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Brown boards. Rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Corners repaired. All edges gilt. The green pastedowns and free endpapers have been washed. Unbroken "D" in Dickens. Half title printed in blue. Title page in red and blue with a color frontispiece. "Stave I" present. Uncorrected text. A previous owner's name at the head of the free endpaper; discreet ink stamp on the title page. Eckel p. 110-115. Very good. Item #56728 With four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by John Leech. A first edition of one of the most famous Christmas stories of modern literature.

More info about A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas

London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. John Tenniel. Second (First Published) Edition. Leather bound. 192pp. Duodecimo [22 cm] rebound in gilt-stamped dark red morocco with raised spine bands. Binding pristine. Includes original pale blue free endpapers, now serving as flyleaves. Calligraphic ink name dated May 1st, 1866 on original front free endpaper, reinforcements to the edges of several leaves, light to moderate foxing throughout. Very good. Item #56650 The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. Williams, Madan, Green 46.

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London: Printed for George Nicol. Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1790. First edition. 88pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Rebound in 3/4 sheep over gray boards with new endpapers. A few tissue repairs to the first fold-out. The pages are quite bright. Folding frontispiece, 3 charts (2 fold-out). Very good. Item #56835 Wiiliam Bligh served under James Cook on Cook's third and final voyage to the South Seas. In 1787, Bligh's Bounty voyage set sail for the purpose of acquiring Tahitian breadfruit for the slaves of Caribbean plant owners. In late April of 1789, Bligh's first mate, along with a number of supporters, mutinied. In "Narrative of the Mutiny," published several months after his return to England, Bligh argues that the hedonistic pleasures of the South Seas brought about the mutiny.

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 91pp. Slim duodecimo [19 cm] Green boards. "First Published May 1945" on copyright page. With a couple of minor chips to the free endsheets along the bottom edge, and a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In a handsome dust jacket, with subtle restoration work to the edges. "An Early List for 1945" is printed on the rear panel, and the "Searchlight Books" theme is printed in blue on the reverse. The price of 6s is on the front flap. Reginald 11040. Bleiler Checklist, p. 152. Negley 114. Tuck, p. 49. Currey, "Into the Unknown" (Catalogue 77), #4295. Very good / very good. Item #56735 A first edition of Orwell's dystopian fable centered on Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 277pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Black cloth over boards, with a slight warping of the boards. In a dust jacket, which has had discreet restoration to the corners. In a first issue dust jacket (Book-of-the-Month Club selection printed on rear inside flap, but not the front; Salinger's head cropped, correct positioning of price). The spine of the jacket is a bit sunned, and there is a slight amount of moisture staining to the reverse of the jacket, which is barely negligible on the front. Lotte Jacobi is credited on the rear panel. Housed in a custom-made clamshell of beige cloth. Very good / very good. Item #56620 Overall a nice copy of this twentieth century classic. Starosciak A30a.

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