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1859réf. 26953Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne 1859. 36 pp plus original printed wrappers. Stitched lightly worn Good to Very Good. The recto and verso of the front and rear wrappers advertise with illustrations the pianos of the E.P. Nash Company of Petersburg Virginia. Other advertisements from Nash are printed for the Company's pianos as well as its Martin Guitars. The Almanac also prints the legislative executive and judicial officers of the United States Virginia and North Carolina. Not in Haynes. Sabin 71001 reference. Chas. H. Wynne unknown books
1852réf. 22854Chicago: Published by S.C. Griggs & Co. "Democratic Press" Print Clark Street 1852. Disbound and light scattered foxing. 19 1 blank pp. Good or so. "The sermon is a lamentation on the deaths of Webster and Clay." Byrd. Richardson eulogizes them as men who stood against "fanaticism" in order to "preserve intact the laws and constitution of the country" during the Nullification Crisis of 1832 and the 1848-1850 struggle over the slave status of the Mexican Cession. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 44 3. Byrd 1884 3. OCLC 15993151 6. Published by S.C. Griggs & Co.. "Democratic Press" Print, Clark Street unknown books
2010réf. 628350New Haven: Yale University Press 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by David Brion Davis. Afterword by David W. Blight. Quarto. xxvi 307pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Issued as part of the Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. Yale University Press hardcover books
1979réf. 349861Manchester: Union of Shop Distribute and Allied Workers 1979. xv 388p. paperback; photoillus. in very good condition. Union of Shop, Distribute and Allied Workers unknown books
1930réf. 225867The New Jersey Title and Guarantee and Trust Company 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover first edition with tan cloth boards and green cloth spine. Internally pages71 are clean unmarked and the binding is sound. Modest outer wear particularly on the corners. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. TNOS S.U. The New Jersey Title and Guarantee and Trust Company, hardcover books
1828réf. 27154London: Henry Colburn 1828. Very Good. London: Henry Colburn 1828. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; octavos 21.5cm.; full contemporary blind-ruled calf by J. Mackenzie gilt spines in six compartments red and green spine labels all edges speckled red; xxiv4591; xi14771pp. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at extremities uneven dark spotting to spines moderate foxing to early leaves else a Very Good internally quite fresh set of James Fenimore Cooper's travelogue first composed in 1830 while traveling through the United States. Provenance: Armorial ex libris of Frances Mary Richardson Currer to both front pastedowns. By the age of thirty Currer 1785-1861 the unmarried sole heir to both the Richardson and Currer estates had amassed one of the most celebrated private libraries of her generation. She was considered the first as well as the greatest female bibliophile in Europe with "a heart as big as St Paul's Dome and as warm as Volcanic lava" Dawson Turner cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. As well as collecting in the areas of the natural sciences topography antiquities history classics illustrated and early printed books Currer was also an active and generous patron of many charities and public institutions including the school at Cowan Bridge attended by the Brontë sisters. In fact their lives may have intersected more than once with the imminent bibliophile who is believed to have paid off Patrick Brontë's debts when he was newly widowed. It has also been reasonably surmised that Charlotte Brontë borrowed the name for her pseudonym "Currer Bell." BAL 3841; HOWES C750; SABIN 16486. Henry Colburn unknown books
1879réf. 1428New York: D Appleton 1879. First American Edition. orig. publisher's cloth. A very good copy; old ownership stamps on the endpapers. 8vo. A series of essays on medical statistics alcoholism medical education burial etc. See G-M for the author's other entries. D Appleton hardcover books
1940réf. 2352606Yeovil: Western Gazette Co. Ltd 1940. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First publication in book form. A few spots on front corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1940 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo. Original orange cloth gilt titles. The first publication in book form of the story originally printed serially by West Somerset Free Press. A British animal fable telling the story of Russet the Rover a fox living in West Somerset. By the author of In Red Deer Land Little Tales of Fur and Feather Nature Stories and Ring o' Rabbits. Western Gazette Co. Ltd hardcover books
1999réf. 2339527Tallahassee Florida: Naiad Press Inc 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Minor general wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. 167 pp. Tough smart and definitely not by-the-book Toronto's hotshot Homicide Detective Stevie Houston returns in another edge-of-your-seat thriller from the brilliant author of Over the Line and Last Rites.When a ruthless businessman is found dead from an apparent drug overdose Stevie has no trouble discerning that it's murder -- with all the evidence pointing to the dead man's wife. But the hard-charging detective has difficulty maintaining her professional objectivity after discovering that the chief suspect had passionate affairs with numerous women . including Stevie's own lover forensic pathologist Jade Agawa-Garneau. Naiad Press, Inc paperback books
1933réf. 2308204London: Seeley Service & Co 1933. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Faint circular stain on front board hinges broken. 1933 Hard Cover. 592 pp. Front endpapers illustrated with the standing running rigging of a cruising yawl. Rear endpapers illustrated with some cruising rigs the names of sails and the parts of sails. A collection of ship terminology with over 500 illustrations. Seeley Service & Co hardcover books
1903réf. 13122Evanston WY 1903. Lithographed map 18 x 32 inches. Old folds a few small bumps to edges. Very good plus. A rare and early Wyoming oil field map showing the activity of the Standard Reserve Oil Company and other oil and gas wells in Uinta County at the turn of the 20th century. Standard's lands are represented by hachures while oil wells are identified with small illustrations scattered across the map's surface area. A former owner has filled in three small plots of land in Range 117 West with blue "X" marks. To the right of the map is a large illustration of a cross-section showing the "Approximate Log of the Union Pacific Oil Well Near Spring Valley." This illustration shows the well at almost 1200 feet having drilled through shale stone clay dark amber oil oil sand and dark green oil. A fascinating and early western oil map with only five copies in OCLC at Stanford Yale SMU and the universities of Utah and Wyoming. unknown books
1978réf. 56473New York: Octagon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 0374968020 . A Fine Reprint Edition ; This book tells the story of early American magazines from their beginnings in the early 1700s to the first decades of the 1800s. The book covers such topics as the origins of magazine publishing the development of magazine content and the impact of magazines on American culture.; 8vo; 414 pages; Price . Octagon Books hardcover books
1986réf. 58130New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0688054013 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in a Fine dust-jacket that has some creasing and light wear to the upper edge near the spine; Wallace Stevens was born in 1879 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he became friends with Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Stevens wrote his first poems while at Penn and he published his first book of poems in 1907. Stevens moved to New York in 1913 and published many more books of poems during the next decade. He died in 1923.; 8vo; 591 pages . Beech Tree Books/William Morrow hardcover books
2007réf. 55275Cambridge MA And London England: MIT Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0262182602 . A Nearly Fine first printing of the first edition that has some minor soiling to the boards in a Fine dust-jacket; Evolutionary psychology is a new paradigm that focuses on the role of natural selection in shaping human behavior. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the field and it provides an accessible overview of the key ideas and findings of evolutionary psychology.; 8vo; 213 pages . MIT Press hardcover books
1984réf. 52886New York: Congdon & Weed Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0865531056 . A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with minimal shelfwear in alike dust-jacket with similar wear; Monte Cassino is a topography of blood and bone. The landscape is pitted with craters gouged by shells and bombs scarred by land mines and machine-gun fire. But even more than the physical damage Monte Cassino has taken on a psychological weight. For many it is the site of the greatest slaughter of World War II--the Battle of Monte Cassino which claimed over 15000 Allied lives.For Hapgood and Richardson the tragedy of Monte Cassino was also a subject of fascination. They traveled to the mountain and recorded their impressions in this book. From the shattered monastery to the blasted towns below the authors evoke the emotional power of the place. They tell the story of the battle the heroism of the men who fought there and the cost of victory.Monte Cassino is a gripping account of one of the great conflicts of the twentieth century and a testament to the human spirit.; 8vo; 269 pages . Congdon & Weed, Inc. hardcover books
1996réf. 53031Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Cloth. 1570031363 . A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with some minor shelfwear in a scuffed alike dust-jacket. Blind stamp on front of dust-jacket and title page; Herod is known for his many accomplishments both as king of Judea and as a friend of the Roman Empire. Peter Richardson tells Herod's story in a fascinating and entertaining way highlighting both the good and the bad of this controversial figure.; 8vo; 360 pages . University of South Carolina Press hardcover books
1975réf. 24796New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0690009097 . A Near Fine first printing of the first edition pages lightly tanned in Fine dust-jacket; Skarra is a novel set in the fictional Viking world of Jarlshof. The story follows the parallel lives of two young women Jorunn and Hild as they navigate the challenges of adolescence. Jorunn is the daughter of the jarl of Jarlshof a powerful man in the Viking world. Hild is the daughter of a peasant farmer and she is just starting to learn about the challenges of life in a rural society. Through their interactions the two girls learn about the importance of family friendship and heritage. Skarra is a story about the power of love the strength of character and the determination to make a difference in the world.; 8vo; vi 410 4 pages . Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover books
1903réf. 24814Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1903. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first edition in Very Good condition boards a little rubbed in the rare only lightly chipped and edge-worn dust-jacket; Comprising the greatest speeches of "The Defender of the Constitution" selected and arranged for the youth of the United States to which are added the Declaration of Independence the Constitution of the United States and Washington's Farewell Address. With an introduction and notes by Charles F. Richardson Professor of English in Dartmouth College and an Essay on Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin P. Whipple; B & W Illustrations; 8vo; cii 351 7 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1939réf. 40885New York Toronto ET AL: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A Good first printing of the first edition that is aged edgeworn with the binding not as tight as it once was; Early American Wags and Eccentrics From Colonial Times to the Civil War; 8vo; 358 pages . J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1991réf. 17871New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312064667 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; The novel tells the story of George and Kathy who are newlyweds in the small town of Sandpoint Idaho. George is a detective with the local police department and Kathy is a stay-at-home mom. The community is shaken when Kathy's young son John is found dead in his home. The police are quick to rule the death a suicide but Kathy is not convinced. She starts to look for answers and soon discovers that there may be more to John's death than meets the eye.; 8vo; FSA . St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1992réf. 17877New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312082320 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; In Robert Richardsons The Lazarus Tree a young woman returns to her home town after a long absence only to find that it has been destroyed in a fire. She finds her old friends and family have all moved on but she is not alone in her grief. The town is haunted by the ghosts of the people who died in the fire. The young woman is determined to find out who set the fire and to bring those responsible to justice. Richardsons atmospheric novel is full of compelling characters and a haunting plot.; 8vo; FSA . St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1990réf. 17875New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312043082 . A handsome first US edition/first printing unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; In the future the sun has died and the earth is a frozen wasteland. The last remaining humans live in a city built on the ruins of a once great civilization. The city is ruled by a council of elders who rule by the light of a dying sun. The council is threatened by the rise of a new generation of leaders who believe that the city should abandon the faith that has kept them alive for centuries.; 8vo . St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1989réf. 17874New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312028776 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; The Book of the Dead is a fascinating collection of ancient Egyptian texts that detail the process of mummification and the afterlife. The texts are filled with beautiful art and provide a unique perspective on ancient Egyptian beliefs.; 8vo . St. Martin's Press hardcover books
2003réf. 11776London: Little Brown. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316860956 . A very beautiful first printing of the first edition in As New condition in alike dust jacket; Paul Richardson satisfies a lifelong craving by traveling the world to find out the history of this most popular of foods from the Italian sanguinaccio to chocolate milk to Hershey's chocolate massages Richardson samples the delicacies within the historic evolution of chocolate; 8vo . Little, Brown hardcover books
2005réf. 13862New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. As New in As New dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399153241 . This As New unread first edition/first printing in alike dust jacket is signed by the author on the title page; The charismatic Democratic governor of New Mexico tells the fascinating story of how his multicultural heritage American father and Mexican mother and his political education have shaped his dreams for America and given him vital lessons in the art of successful negotiating; 8vo ; Signed by Author . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books