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1987rif. 45422Boston: Little Brown 1987. First American edn. Square 8vo pp. not numbered. Comprised of 197 black-and-white photographs most taken by the author with short comments. The subjects are her family and friends among whom were Virginia Woolf Keynes Toynbee Forster Huxley and other notables. A nice copy in little scuffed and soiled dj. Little, Brown unknown books
1963rif. 21588London: Andre Deutsch 1963. 8vo pp. 119. Fine in slightly soiled dj. Partridge tells how he became a lexicographer and discusses some of the problems of producing dictionaries. Andre Deutsch unknown books
1961rif. 36631NY: Oxford University 1961. 8vo pp. 70. Index. VG. Oxford University unknown books
1994rif. 36328Washington DC: Smithsonian 1994. 4to pp. 168. Lange's photographs and essays by Linda A. Morris Clark Kerr Roger Daniels Sally Stein Ansel Adams and Daniel Dixon. Some commentary by Lange herself. Paper wraps. Cover little scuffed o/w a nice tight copy. Smithsonian unknown books
1984rif. 39573Totowa NJ: Barnes & Noble 1984. First American edn. 8vo pp. 380. Bibliography index. Near fine. Barnes & Noble unknown books
1959rif. 41340NY: Macmillan 1959. Second edn. Large 8vo pp. xix 970. Red cloth. Cover little scuffed at corners and ends of spine o/w a VG tight copy. Macmillan unknown books
1938rif. 465373New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 361pp. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Light wear offsetting in the gutters a little bit of pencil erasure in the text very good or better. Prentice-Hall, Inc hardcover books
1987rif. 585730Boston: Little Brown and Company 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Small quarto. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1983rif. 536267Boston: Little Brown and Company 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 308pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with rubbing slight creasing and edgewear. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1928rif. 525930London: The Scholartis Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus with a new 14-page introduction by Eric Partridge. Light wear and just a bit of faint offsetting on the endleaves very near fine in a toned very good just jacket with shallow loss at the folds and spine ends and a very short split at the crown. Review copy with the partially printed slip laid in addressed by hand to the editor of The Sunday Times. Printed in an edition of 315 copies in two editions this review copy is unnumbered. Issued as Nineteenth-Century Highways and Byways No. II; the poems by Clive were first published in 1840. The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1954rif. 261262Philadelphia: Westminster 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth lettered in red. Very good or better without dust jacket. Westminster hardcover books
1985rif. 280736Boston: Little Brown and Company 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight crease and soiling to back cover. Advance Review Copy with promotional materials and slip laid in. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1939rif. 439622New York: McGraw-Hill 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing. Light spotting on the boards else near fine in attractive very good or better dustwrapper with small chips and tears. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1983rif. 281157Bosont: Little Brown and Company 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1993rif. 340965Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. Fine in wrappers. 579 pages. MIT Press unknown books
1996rif. 307045London: The Society for Nautical Research 1996. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 42pp. Fine. The Society for Nautical Research unknown books
rif. 615976New York: Bonanza Books no date. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint of the third edition revised. Octavo. Spine ends bumped else fine in near fine dust jacket toned on the spine and a few small tears and creases to the crown and top of the rear panel. Bonanza Books hardcover books
1961rif. 615970New York: The Macmillian Company 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Fifth edition newly revised and enlarged. Two volumes in one The Dictionary and The Supplement. Quarto. 1362pp. Some bumping at the spine ends else fine in very good lightly toned dust jacket that is sunned on the spine chip to the crown and wear to the corners. The Macmillian Company hardcover books
1984rif. 115553Amsterdam: Rodopi 1984. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x 98 16 pages. Costerus New Series Volume 42. A study of "minor fiction" produced in the United States between the two 20th century world wars. Introduction notes and references select bibliography and index. Listing of other Costerus publications. Library stamp indicates this is a Library of Congress duplicate. Rodopi unknown books
1981rif. 613836Boston: Little Brown and Company 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 244pp. Soiling to the upper spine and small spot at the top of the front panel a few splash marks to the text block and moderate rubbing to the top of the front panel very good lacking the dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and author photo laid in. Inscribed by the author to fine press publisher George Bixby. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1963rif. 1404449New York: Barnes & Noble 1963. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo ix 396 pages. In Good minus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is black with pink print. Dust jacket lacks spine front and rear panels laid in edge wear toning. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and pink paper to boards; wear to spine caps and corners tattering to spine head. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404449. FP New Rockville Stock. Barnes & Noble hardcover books
1987rif. 609351Boston: Little Brown and Company 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Small quarto. Profusely illustrated from black and white photographs. A few tiny soil spots at the foredge margin of one page else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a thin dampstain at the foot of the spine. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1834rif. 378New York: Published by the Author 1834. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. viii 9-179 pp. Original cloth boards rebacked with cloth remnants of original spine laid down. Light foxing throughout. With faults a good sound copy. Second edition originally published in New York by H. Wallis in 1823 which included information on British practices. In the self-published edition of 1834 Partridge remove much of this material and focused more on the extraction of colors from wood the chemistry of scouring and dyeing and color preparation. The first 40 pages of the book describe in detail the methods and materials used in scouring raw wool and cotton to ensure that all oils and natural elements are removed and cleansed out. The next 100 pages are devoted to dyes. Partridge discusses in detail the which natural materials produce colors pigments how to make the extractions and finally how to mix the extracts with solvents and oils to create a color that will fix when applied to textile material. The final part of the book has to do with preparing silks and cotton and some variations on the techniques for producing and fixing colors. A notice on the verso of the title-page reads "The author informs Manufacturers and Dyers that he is at all times willing and desirous to give any information and recipes that may be in his power respecting the manufacture of woollens and dying free of cost." In addition to writing and publishing his Practical Treatise William Partridge was a textile dyer and seller who also built a business in NYC that imported and extracted pigments from wood sources which was to become one of the largest of its kind on the East Coast before the Civil War. American Imprints 26133. Rink 1864 for the 1823 edition. See C. R. Delaney "The Real American Dyestuff Industry" Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Chemical Publishing Co. Easton PA Volume XIV 1919. 378. Published by the Author unknown books
1923rif. 61453London: Bemrose & Sons 1923. Limited printing. Hardcover. Very good. 210 pp. Quarto. 28 cm. Blue cloth over boards with gilt title and illustration stamped on front board. Gilt title stamped on spine. Corners bumped and spine rubbed. Previous owner's pencil markings on front free endpaper. Front cover cocked. Black and white plates and descriptions of Frank Patridge's extensive collection of Ralph Wood pottery. Number 213. Bemrose & Sons hardcover books
1978rif. 51692Salt Lake City UT: George Carson/ Ann Hough Family Organization 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. 30pp. Octavo 21.5 cm in bright green saddle-stitched wraps. Faint smudge to front wrap. A selection of quotes from the minutes of "various auxiliary organizations of the Church in Fairfield Utah" followed by transcriptions of patriarchal blessings. Elvira Egbert Carson Emma Melvina Partridge Carson and their husband John Carson were all the children of early converts. They had fifteen to twenty children between them. "At one meeting of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association Sister A. Young read the revelations on celestial marriage to the young ladies. Then "'Sister Elvira Carson spoke to the sisters and bore her testimony to what had been read and told the young sisters that when they got married to be sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise and by those who have a right to seal for if they did not when we were dead no one could do it for them when they had the chance to do it for themselves and gave them other good advice."'. George Carson/ Ann Hough Family Organization paperback books
