Search Results: Epistolary from The Mortuary Korps

(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of spines, and the binding starting in a couple of places, but are otherwise Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dust jackets have some shelfwear, including tears at tip and heel of spines, and some discolouration/staining, but are otherwise in Very Good. Please see listing images for more detail. Customer may be asked to approve additional shipping costs before order is accepted, due to size and weight (approximately 8.5 x 12 x 4.5 inches, 7 lbs.).In Italiano (di Google Translate): RARO. Quattro volumi tascabili… Read More

139 p.; ill.; 20 cm. 1979 translation.
Well-bound softcover with illustrations throughout, once owned by the Manitoba Genealogical Society. There are the expected library markings and shelfwear, including a small tear to bottom of cover, and a few dogears throughout, but otherwise quite Fine internally.
From the rear:
This diary is, at one and the same time, both a fascinating social history and the self-portrait of a most sensitive man. It was written in Irish between 1827 and 1835 by Humphrey O'Sullivan, while living in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. He followed his father's calling when he became a hedgeschool master but later went on to be-come a prosperous businessman and philanthropist. No aspect of life escaped his attention, from the dire poverty and degradation of the peasantry to the flora and fauna of the region. O'Sullivan's notation of life in Ireland is to be found in manuscripts now in the Royal Irish Academy.

First Edition.189 p.; ill. (frontispiece). Vintage green cloth hardcover with red debossed lettering and blindstamped decorative border shows only minor wear, most notably a slight fading of colour and some edgewear to tip and heel of spine. There is some light foxing of foredges as well as on a number of the pages, the frontispiece has browned the title page (see image) and the binding is cracked but holding at pp. 128/129. The dust jacket is aged with sunning, some edgewear, and chipping, but has been housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. See images. From the dust jacket flap: Mr. Eden Phillpotts' book, The Human Boy, has been a joy to many thousands of readers. A Human Boy's Diary takes the form of a schoolboy's diary kept during his first three terms. He is not at all an ordinary schoolboy, and his comrades—the poet, the wicked boy, and the Jew boy who lends money at interest, and many others—are both witty and shrewd. A book for grown-ups as well as their sons and… Read More

156 p. Illustrated.Dust jacket is unmarked with only mild shelfwear to corners and faint sunning. The book is ex-library with internal stamps, stickers, and pocket remnant, and the covers have minor tape residue to cloth side (from previous jacket sleeve) but otherwise the book is in Fine condition.Edited and with an introduction by Ronald A. Wells. From the dust jacket flap: Letters From a Young Emigrant in Manitoba, first published in 1883 and long out-of-print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life. The letters were written by Edward ffolkes, who left England in 1882 study at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and later to homestead in southern Manitoba. They describe with rare insight the daily struggles and expectations of an "ordinary man" who had the courage to take up a new life on the frontier. Ronald A. Wells has introduced the volume with a wide-ranging essay on the role of popular knowledge about Canada in Britain and the significant shift of British migration from… Read More

[Cover subtitle: The Shocking Story of America's First Kidnapping for Ransom] First Edition, stated. 304 p.; ill.; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304). Smart tan cloth hardcover with blindstamped publisher insignia to cover and gilt lettering to spine with red embellishment, shows very minor shelfwear, including minor bumping to tip of spine, but is internally fine, possibly unread, with lovely patterned endpapers. The dust jacket has some minor shelfwear, including but not limited to creases, rubbing, and scratches. From the dust jacket: On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross was playing outside his home in the fashionable Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when two strange men lifted him into a wagon and carried him away. Three days later on July 4, Christian K. Ross received this letter: July 3 — Mr. Ros — be not uneasy you son charly bruster be al writ we is got him and no powers on earth can deliver out of our hand —You will hay two pay us befor you… Read More