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2001Best.-Nr. 1405501Norwalk Cambridge: Easton Press PublicAffairs 2001. Easton Press Edition First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto xii 304 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in dark blue genuine leather with gilt decoration and lettering; spine paneled with gilt titling; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Very light shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show light scuffing and wear. Some mild fraying along the bottom edges of the endpaper and at the end of the ribbon bookmark. Two very small splits in front endpaper along the hinge. Shelved in Room X. This Easton Press Edition bears the typical Easton Press fine binding but uses the text block/contents of the PublicAffairs First Edition First Printing. 1405501. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press [PublicAffairs] hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 611229New York: Abington Press 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 352pp. Ink notations and a stamp on the bottom page edge else near fine in a good dust jacket with tears rubbing and toning. Abington Press hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. 597014ProvidenceRhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Quarto. Perfectbound in glossy illustrated wrappers. Near fine with rubbing to the wrappers. An art and poetry anthology produced by student attending the Rhode Island School of Design. Contributors includes Alan Sondheim Brian Murphy Thurma Litsey Copley Patrick Cauley Alan Steele Beth Cannon Alan Wexler Nancy Tenney Mardge Anderson and others. Rhode Island School of Design unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 592183New Haven: Yale University Press 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 325pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket with some very slight soiling. Yale University Press hardcover books
1880Best.-Nr. 463208Battle Creek Mich: C.S. Cannon & Co 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition Octavo. 355pp. Quarter brown cloth gilt and printed paper over boards. Owner's penciled inscription and rubbed stamp corners a bit bumped small stains on boards very good. C.S. Cannon & Co hardcover books
1865Best.-Nr. 126391865. Photographer unknown Rodman cannon tintype photograph circa 1860s documents one of the most important classes of heavy artillery used by the United States during the Civil War and in nineteenth-century coastal defense. The image supports research into Union ordnance technology military engineering and the visual culture of large-scale artillery deployment. Rodman guns developed under the direction of ordnance officer Thomas J. Rodman marked a major expansion in American heavy weapons design and photographs of these guns preserve direct evidence of how such artillery was presented maintained and understood in relation to the men who worked around it. Half plate tintype photograph image approximately 4.5 x 7 inches showing three men posed on and beside a large Rodman cannon mounted on a wheeled rail-supported carriage. The gun's immense barrel dominates the composition with its pronounced rounded breech and upper vent area clearly visible. The carriage rests on a circular rail track designed to allow the piece to be traversed for aiming a system associated with fortified coastal positions and heavy defensive artillery. One man stands beside the carriage while two others are seated or leaning along its structure their bodies providing a clear sense of the cannon's scale. Their caps and work clothing suggest artillery personnel or laborers engaged with the weapon and its mounting rather than a purely studio portrait setting. Rodman guns were introduced in the 1850s and became central to American heavy ordnance during the Civil War especially in siege and harbor defense contexts where large-caliber smoothbore cannon were required to fire explosive shells against ships and fixed fortifications. This photograph is valuable not only for the weapon itself but for the relationship it establishes between industrial-scale artillery and the human figures tasked with operating it. The image records mid-nineteenth-century military technology in a direct and legible form with the rail carriage and posed attendants making the engineering purpose immediately visible. Minor surface wear and edge rounding consistent with nineteenth-century tintypes; overall good condition. A strong documentary image of Civil War era heavy artillery and the material scale of Union ordnance production. unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 406782New York: Carroll & Graf 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small notation on the front free endpaper else fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Carroll & Graf hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 90404New York: Gramercy 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Large thin quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. Gramercy hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 51910Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner inscription at the top of the front pastedown foxing to the endpapers else fine in very near fine photographically-illustrated dustwrapper with minimal wear. A novel about college football by a Chicago journalist. Reilly & Lee hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 44942New Haven: Yale University Press 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good lightly soiled dustwrapper with some light soiling and a few short tears to the edges of the panels. Yale University Press hardcover books
2010Best.-Nr. 11061Salt Lake City: Signature Books 2010. First Edition. 1/500. 794pp. Octavo 24 cm Gray cloth with a tan cloth wraparound. Near fine. This is the twelfth title published in the Signature Books 'Significant Mormon Diaries' series. This work was limited to 500 numbered copies this copy is number 366. Abraham Hoagland Cannon 1859-1896 lived his life in the shadow of his father the prominent politician businessman and LDS Church First Presidency member George Q. Cannon 1827-1901. Abraham died fairly young and spent his entire Apostolic tenure as the junior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. For these and other reasons he is almost unknown in the LDS Church today. Perhaps the single most important thing he did in his life - after his Apostolic ministry - was to keep a marvelously complete and detailed journal. It is this journal that brings him out of historical obscurity and grants us the precious record of an Apostle who witnessed Church history in the making. Signature Books unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 10586Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company 2000. First Edition 1/55. 23pp. Octavo 23 cm Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 5 of the Kingdom of the West series 'Defending Zion: George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857.' The Western Standard was printed in San Francisco from February 1856 to the fall of 1857 when due to the Mormon War it was summarily discontinued. The articles upward of a hundred embrace a most important group of facts and incidents connected with the pioneer West the plains Utah and California. Outlawry and depredations in the Carson Valley; the Indians; the Vigilance Committee; the Overland Railroad etc. The Kingdom in the West Series subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier' is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that for one reason or another found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents many of them previously unpublished comprise this series' core. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown books
1886Best.-Nr. 10613Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company 1886. First Edition. 19pp. Octavo 21 cm About very good. Lacks wrappers. An open letter by the First Presidency that was sent out to be read at a General Conferences in Provo instead of in person at the Tabernacle due to the Polygamy raids than be conducted by federal marshals throughout the Territory to locate and arrest known bigamists. In this short work Taylor writes of the challenges the Church was facing due to anti-polygamy legislation and the importance of continuing the practice of plural marriage. "The cry of polygamy has made a good battle cry: this has called the fanatical element into line; but underneath and above this question of polygamy and completely enveloping it has been the design to destroy our rights as citizens to take away from us our liberties under the Constitution and the laws and to obtain the political control of our country so that being as voiceless in the affairs of government as the Indians or Chinese we could be taxed and plundered with impunity and be lorded over by a set of political harpies who would revel and fatten at our expense." John Taylor 1808 - 1887 was third president of the LDS Church from 1880 to 1887. He is the first and so far only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside the United States. He was with Joseph Smith when he was murdered at the Carthage Jail and led the Church during the Polygamy raid period. Flake/Draper 1662. [Deseret News Company unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 10167Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company 2002. First Edition. 463pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine. Volume 5 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom in the West' series. In a labor extending over several years Roger Robin Ekins has collected Cannon's writings from the Western Standard and the editorials and articles of the opposition press along with the young missionary's correspondence with Brigham Young John Taylor Wilford Woodruff and Daniel H. Wells. Woven together with explanatory text these documents paint a vivid picture of the heated debate that raged over the new religion as it approached one of its greatest crises the Utah War of 1857-1858. Clark & Brunet 12. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 10359Boise ID: Capital News Job Rooms 1915. First Edition. 171pp. Octavo 24 cm Yapp style brown illustrated wrappers. About very good. Bumping and chipping to extremities of covers. This work covers the pioneer days in the Pacific Northwest and the Cayuse attack on the Whitman Mission at Walla Walla in 1847. The author had access to three survivors of the massacre and with their oral histories as well as the author's considerable research make this one of the more accurate accounts of that tragic event. Graff 575. Soliday 181. Tweney 7. Capital News Job Rooms unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 626507New York: The Olympia Press 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. Creases and rubbing on covers tiny tear at the foot of the spine very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page to Graham Hodges the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. Cannon's first and only novel a filthy coming-of-age story set in New Orleans and one that Ishmael Reed called the precursor to rap. Cannon was a member of the Society of Umbra a collective of Black writers and later founded the art organization A Gathering of Tribes that published literary magazines and provided a performance space at his townhouse in the East Village of Manhattan for many artists such as Sun Ra Billy Bang Ishmael Reed and more. First editions of this novel are very uncommon as are any signed copies. The Olympia Press unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 5150New York: THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. 281 pages. 21 x 15 cm. An influential mid-century convenience-food cookbook - Cannon describes the can opener as a "magic wand" for women "engaged in frying as well as bringing home the bacon" - therefore this cookbook addresses the working woman who wants both a career and an attractive domestic life rather than treating paid work as incompatible with good housekeeping. Previous owner's presentation is both mysterious and amusing: To Augusta Girlie For more appreciation of Canned Foods as a result of the 125 HOURS - Ice Storm January 8th-13th-1953 John. Turns out there was a massive ice storm that struck parts of Connecticut Westchester County NY and northern New Jersey. what fun and thank the culinary gods for the handy dandy CAN OPENER! Interior clean boards clean dust wrapper heavily rubbed with some loss at the head. Covered in protective mylar. THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 19854Boston: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket bumped at base of spine very slight wear to front joint front cover lettering just a touch rubbed; otherwise a nice-looking and exceptionally clean book. Novel set in a small New Hampshire mill town in which the native New Englanders are dying out the principal characters are a young couple who find themselves unwillingly childless and being supplanted by Polish immigrants. Perhaps they've forgotten that they themselves came of immigrant stock; well isn't that pretty much how it generally goes Per Wikipedia the author "was a progressive thinker and an advocate for women's rights birth control and public education" whose writings in addition to her eight novels of which this was the second included "numerous essays on controversial topics such as women's rights birth control and immigration policy." She was also alas a believer in eugenics. Well to quote Joe E. Brown nobody's perfect. . Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1941Best.-Nr. 22101New York: H.W. Wilson 1941. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 391; fine in original terra-cotta cloth spine lettered in gilt. H.W. Wilson unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 2998561934. Eight stapled softcover medical pamphlets reprinting articles and lectures by Dr. Walter B. Cannon a professor of Physiology at Harvard in the early 20th centur. Dr. Cannon coined the term "fight or flight" in his research about the connection between stress and the nervous system.~~Titles include: ~The Case System in Medicine 1900~The Shattuck Lecture: The Physiological Factors Concerned in Surgical Shock 1917~Some Problems of Readjustment in Medical Practice 1921~The Value of Animal Experimentation to the Physician in His Daily Work 1923~The Dog's Gift to the Relief of Human Suffering 1926~Again the James-Lange and the Thalamic Theories of Emotion 1927~Reasons for Optimism in the Care of the Sick 1928~President Eliot's Relations to Medicine 1934~~Pencil inscription on top front cover of all but one reads "Wilbur K. Smith". All very good. unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 72158Salt Lake City UT: Juvenile Instructor Office 1888. First edition. Leather bound. Fair. 512pp. Octavo 22.5 cm Black leather with decorative gilt and blind stamping to the boards and backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers rear free endpaper absent. Mild slant to spine. Hinges reinforced. Heavy dampstaining to the frontispiece portraits. Light dampstaining to the fore-edge and bottom margins of the pages. Lengthy notations in pencil on rear flyleaf. Steel engraving portraits of Joseph and his brother Hyrum are present. Biography of the founder of Mormonism by LDS Church elder and publisher George Q. Cannon George Q. Cannon and Sons would later be known as Deseret Book. Flake/Draper 1161. Juvenile Instructor Office unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 18075New York: The Venceremos Brigade 1978. Pamphlet. 48p. stapled wraps 5.25x8.5 inches illus. wraps lightly worn and yellowed else very good condition. The authors both Brigade members were a New Left activist Cannon and a founder of the movement to establish Black Studies at the university level during the 1960s Cole. The Venceremos Brigade unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 39893New York: Rinehart & Company 1956. Hardcover. 309p. first edition very good condition in a price-clipped and edgeworn dj. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 17272New York: Simon & Schuster 1991. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The first edition of President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon signed by First Lady Nancy Reagan. Octavo 948pp. Blue hardcover title in gilt on spine. The first edition with a full number line on the copyright page. Solid text block a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket $24.95 retail price on front flap bright illustrations a touch of shelf wear wear at head of spine a near fine example. This copy is signed opposite the title page by Nancy Reagan. Includes a promotional flyer from a book signing held by Nancy Reagan at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Signing was held on November 25th 1997. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 42815New York: Pioneer Publishers 1947. Pamphlet. 48p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches wraps lightly worn small stain on front wrap paper browned a few pages creased else good condition. Pioneer Publishers unknown books
