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1827réf. 68286Charlestown Navy Yard January 1 1827. Court Martial for a Rude Sailor A brief letter from Commodore William Montgomery Crane to Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard regarding charges brought against a midshipman by the name of Farnifold Green. The letter reads as follows: "Sir I forward herewith Charges & specifications of charges exhibited by Lieut. John White against midshipman Farnifold Green. I have furnished him with the charges & informed him that application would be made for his trial by Court Martial. He is now under suspension. I know nothing of this Officer personally. Lt. White represents his conduct as excessively outrageous & personally abusive. I forward a copy of his letter to me previous to the exhibition of charges not present." "Excessively outrageous" was an appropriate description for Green's actions in the navy. Despite being a noncommissioned officer the Southerner was a perpetual drunk both on and off duty who did little to hold back his invective for his superiors. In the Court Martial Lieutenant White recounted multiple incidents during which Green "repeated a great deal of abusive language; I could scarcely understand what he did say" and that he declared "My name is Green Farnifold Green of North Carolina and care for no Northern officer." He also "threw himself into an attitude for boxing" exclaiming to White "I'll crush you to hell by God!" He was also accused of dereliction of duty and faking illness to avoid work. Unsurprisingly insubordination and drunkenness were not deemed qualities befitting an officer: Green was found guilty of all charges ejected from the Navy. He then applied to John Quincy Adams a Northerner if there ever was one hoping to be reinstated but does not appear to have been successful. William M. Crane 1784-1846 began his naval career in 1799 aboard the U.S.S. United States. In 1807 he was present on the Chesapeake during its fateful encounter with H.M.S. Leopard. He commanded the schooner Nautilus during the War of 1812 where much like the crew of his former ship he was captured by H.M.S. Shannon. After his release he served under Chauncey on Lake Ontario until the end of the war. While serving as the first chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography he was traumatized by the fatal explosion on board the frigate Princeton in 1844 and eventually committed suicide in his own office in 1846. "Despite an untimely demise…Crane's career personifies the professionalism of the nineteenth-century naval officer corps" – ANB. Old folds minor soiling. Near fine. ANB 5 pp.680-81. unknown books
1943réf. 321115Washington D.C. 1943. unbound. Original poster. Color lithograph. Measures 27.75 x 22". Uncle Sam's image in black and white is used to recruit from a list of mechanic positions for the U.S. Employment Service. This is one of many re-uses of the Flagg's Uncle Sam imagery. James Montgomery Flagg 1877-1960 was a New York based artist and illustrator who contributed widely to periodicals at the time but is best known for his propaganda posters featuring Uncle Sam. unknown
1943réf. 321115Washington D.C. 1943. unbound. Original poster. Color lithograph. Measures 27.75 x 22". Uncle Sam's image in black and white is used to recruit from a list of mechanic positions for the U.S. Employment Service. This is one of many re-uses of the Flagg's Uncle Sam imagery. James Montgomery Flagg 1877-1960 was a New York based artist and illustrator who contributed widely to periodicals at the time but is best known for his propaganda posters featuring Uncle Sam. unknown books
1923réf. 6921Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1923. First Edition 55th Printing. First edition 55th printing from March 1923. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 429 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display. This book is in good condition. Heavy surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior pages are well preserved. "Anne of Green Gables" is the story Anne Shirley an orphan who was mistakenly sent to work as a farmhand at a farmhouse in Green Gables. Although siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had originally sent for a boy to help them run the farm they chose to keep Anne anyway and adopt her. This heartwarming tale chronicles her journey of overcoming and exceeding boundaries. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P2-5. L. C. Page & Company unknown
1912réf. 001622L. C. Page & Company Boston MA 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. True first edition stated "First impression June 1912" and also meeting other identification points as the first printing. Color portrait of Anne Shirley on frontispiece and front cover. Brown boards. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 306 pp. Pages are yellowed but are tight and clean. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Light shelfwear to the cover. Bumped and rubbed. Corners are rounded. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001622. . L. C. Page & Company hardcover
1840réf. 2307812London: Ball Arnold & Co 1840. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. New edition revised seventh edition and fourth edition respectively. Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road with large trees on either side in the foreground and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi 171; 208 12 pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes often quite a bit larger than these and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said these are ably done so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry while it sold well during his lifetime is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. Ball, Arnold, & Co hardcover
1840réf. 2307812London: Ball Arnold & Co 1840. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. New edition revised seventh edition and fourth edition respectively. Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road with large trees on either side in the foreground and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi 171; 208 12 pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes often quite a bit larger than these and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said these are ably done so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry while it sold well during his lifetime is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. Ball, Arnold, & Co hardcover books
1970réf. 20684Montgomery of Alamein 1970. Measures 46cm x 37cm framed and mounted. The letter on personalised headed notepaper reads 'Dear Headmaster/I will be ready for the / invasion at 3.30pm on Friday next/June 12. I am glad your lady wife/ is coming to help keep order and discipline/ - and with the tea./ Yrs. sincerely/Montgomery of Alamein. The letter is framed opposite a rather fetching photo of Monty. Montgomery of Alamein unknown
réf. DADAX0771061730Brand: McClelland n Stewart Inc 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: McClelland n Stewart Inc hardcover
2006réf. G0962645478I4N00Don Montgomery 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Don Montgomery hardcover
1926réf. 1811557Frederick A. Stokes. Collectible - Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1926. First US Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. F446 spine lean . Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1927réf. 132635New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1927. Hardcover. near fine. 1st American Edition. 310pp. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine; illustrated panel to front board. Unclipped jacket some small chips and closed tears to edges and folds of spine/jacket flaps. Slight fading and old dampstaining to jacket spine. Early gift inscription to ffep. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Textblock clean and tight; with particularly bright boards and illustrated panel. near fine The American first released simultaneously with the McClelland & Stewart edition in Canada. Printed from the same publisher's imprint the only difference being the title page which bears Stokes' device. Scarce in jacket. Lechowick P 90. Russell 492. 1927 Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
1925réf. 511019Nitecki. GOOD- Reading Copy/No Dust Wrapper. 1925. Polish Language/loose Binding. Hard Cover. Nitecki hardcover
1972réf. feb784941972: First Korean Edition of Anne of Green Gables 빨간 머리 앤 Used. For more details please contact me Daeil
1918réf. feb974181918: First Danish Edition of Anne of Green Gables Anna fra Grønnebrink Used. For more details please contact me Aschehoug hardcover
1998réf. 1696London: Macmillan & Sons 1998. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE LANDMARK DISCOVERY OF RNA INTERFERENCE RNAi A FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM OF GENE REGULATION. RNAi became both a major research tool and a new class of therapeutics. In terms of impact on biology medicine and biotechnology this paper is considered a foundational discovery not just an incremental advance. Fire and Mello won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine IN 2006 just eight years after publication unusually fast recognition for how transformative it was. Prior to Fire and Mello's paper researchers knew that injecting antisense RNA into C. elegans could sometimes silence genes but the effect was often weak inconsistent and poorly understood. Fire and Mello showed that the actual trigger was double-stranded RNA dsRNA not single-stranded antisense RNA as had been assumed. They found that dsRNA was far more potent than either sense or antisense strands alone effective at just a few molecules per cell that it could silence genes with striking specificity that the effect could spread between cells and even to offspring and that it worked catalytically rather than stoichiometrically - implying an amplification mechanism. The discovery that RNAi is a natural evolutionarily conserved gene-regulation and antiviral defense mechanism found across plants animals and fungi. The rapid development of RNAi as a laboratory tool for knocking down specific genes to study their function - now a standard technique in virtually every molecular biology lab. CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan & Co. Nature Volume 391 No. 6669. Original Wraps. 10 x 7 inches; 250 x 175mm. Original paper wraps. Bearing the mail sticker of Robert R. Rofen the American ichthyologist. Bright and clean inside and out. Fine condition in every way. Macmillan & Sons paperback
1920réf. 7231Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1920. First Edition Fiftieth Impression. First edition fiftieth printing - with "Fiftieth Impression June 1920" stated on the copyright page. This book measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 429 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Front hinge is badly cracked but still holding. Minor scattered foxing and soiling throughout the textblock. A well read and well loved copy. "Anne of Green Gables" is the story Anne Shirley an orphan who was mistakenly sent to work as a farmhand at a farmhouse in Green Gables. Although siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had originally sent for a boy to help them run the farm they chose to keep Anne anyway and adopt her. This heartwarming tale chronicles her journey of overcoming and exceeding boundaries. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P10-34. L. C. Page & Company unknown
1996réf. SONG0553566210Brand: Skylark 1996-12-01. paperback. Used: Good. 4.25x0.50x7.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Skylark paperback
réf. 144366Toronto: Ryerson 1942 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover Very good no dust jacket. 396pp. Blue cloth with yellow titles. Light wear at the tips of the corners the back hinge and the top / bottom of the spine a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper a few faint marks on the bottom edges and the untrimmed fore-edges show wear but are clean. In a mylar jacket. Fiction Canadian Juvenile. Ryerson Hardcover
1961réf. 22614London: Collins 1961. A first edition first printing published by Collins in 1961. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a fine unclipped wrapper - small red pencil mark to the rear. SIGNED and dated to the front free endpaper 'Inscribed for the Ackroyd/family by/Montgomery of Alamein F M/November 1965'. Collins unknown
1904réf. MH003London: John Murray 1904. Limited/Numbered edition . Hardcover. Fine. 4to. xxv map 328pp. 48 full-page colour plate illustrations each with a captioned tissue-guard and 18 text illustrations. Limited hand-numbered edition No 2 of 150 copies only. Original quarter vellum spine gilt titles and decoration with grey boards. George Eve designed bookplate for Alexander Deneke. Printed on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper. John Murray hardcover
2009réf. 1-0670063916Penguin Group Canada 2009. Hardcover. New. 7.90x5.50x1.70 inches. Penguin Group Canada hardcover
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