Search Results: Titles starting with S from Cedar Tree Antiques

1894. No Binding. Very Good. Program du concert for the French S.S. La Touraine in 1894. "SS La Touraine was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from the 1890s to the 1920s making a regular run from La Havre to New York. Built in France in 1891, she was primarily employed in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. The liner was scrapped in Dunkirk in October 1923." A prestigious ship. One of the five largest in the world at the time. During this run some of the most exalted musicians in the world gave concerts. They included opera sopranos Nellie Melba, MMe. Emma Calve, opera star tenor Jean De Reszke and others: M. de Lucia, Pol Plancon. M.C. Domenech, M. Coquelin. The program is signed several times by each performer after their performance. These autographs were obtained by a passenger whose identity is listed on the back. Interesting side note to history: "During her many years spent crisscrossing the Atlantic, Touraine, the… Read More

1851. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A SELECTION OF RARE AND CURIOUS FISHES FOUND UPON THE COAST OF CEYLON by John Whitchurch Bennett. Printed for the author in 1851. Bennett was a British army officer and naturalist. He was posted to Ceylon from 1815 to 1827. Contains 30 vibrant color plates. Bears a bookplate of a previous owner on the front endpaper. Spine and edges of boards are rubbed. Lower joint is separated. See images.

Moses Pitt, 1681. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A SHORT VIEW OF THE LATE TROUBLES IN ENGLAND; briefly setting forth, Their Rise, Growth, and Tragical Conclusion. As also, some Parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reign of Henry III and Henry IV, late Kings of that realm. To which is added a Perfect Narrative of the Treaty at Uxbridge in an. 1644 A first edition of this history of the Civil War from the Royalist perspective. Full contemporary leather, blind stamped. This is a clean copy in very good condition with no bookplate or names and no markings in text. Spine is tooled and gilt decorated with six compartments. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles I, title page with a vignette of the Oxford Sheldonian Theater. Pagination is complete but numbering is irregular. Includes Index, Appendix and Catalog of Books. Faint pencil marks to inside cover and… Read More

Crown, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SILVER PIGS - the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco series. Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman 'informer' in 70AD, is standing in the Forum one very hot day, aiming to become a classic gumshoe in the Ancient World genre of mystery fiction. At this early point in his career, he has not only to make his way in the snobbish and dangerous milieu of Vespasian's Rome, but to overcome the prejudice amongst publishers, booksellers and readers who are wary of historical novels and off-beat settings. Our hero takes himself to Britain; there the weather is filthy, the natives are restless, the women are angry, and his mission turns into a nightmare from which he only narrowly escapes alive. Along the way he meets brutes, traitors, his mother, sellers of seedy snacks, a blonde young lady who thinks he's wonderful, the Emperor - and Helena Justina, whom the author had intended to be the… Read More

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. THE STRIKER - An Isaac Bell Adventure - by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known, men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness . . . who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way. CONDITION: Front top corner is bumped. Light toning to bottom edge. Otherwise excellent. Dust jacket is fine,… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A like-new copy of SUITE FRANCAIS. There is no bookplate, markings or writing. The binding is tight. This is a first edition, first printing with the full number line ending in 1. The dust jacket is also like new, and is not price clipped. Dark blue cloth boards, with gilt title on the spine. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith, and published in the UK in 2006. This novel is the first two of a planned five parts. Part 1 (A Storm in June) tells of the exodus from Paris on the approach of the Germans in WWII, and part 2 (Dolce) tells of life in a Nazi occupied French village. The novel is not about events, but is instead about the struggles, kindness, cooperations and treachery of people trying to survive in France during the war. Paul Gray in the New York Times called the book "stunning" and argued that it ranks with '"the greatest, most humane and… Read More

London: Dodsley, 1777. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Six volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 printed in London for Dodsley in 1777. Volumes 3-6 printed in London in 1776 for Strahan, Becket, and Cadell. Volume 1 contains engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Contains 45 sermons. Size: 6.25" tall (16mo). Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt stamped spine with red and green morocco labels. Five volumes contain laid in Art Deco bookplates of Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), British journalist, writer, publisher, and one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) is the author of THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN and A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, as well as his sermons and memoirs. "Mr. Yorick" is a pseudonym of Laurence Sterne. Very Good. Binding tight, joints sound. Rubbed at top and bottom of spines and on corners. Toning to endpapers. There are light… Read More