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Best.-Nr. 0030604095-11-1Dryden Pr. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Dryden Pr unknown
1861Best.-Nr. 26230Washington: Daily News Job Office 1861. Broadside printed in two columns with ornamental border on pink paper. 8 3/4" x 13." Light wear trimmed to border Very Good. A bizarre broadside evidently printed in several locales all of them rare. George Washington appears to General McClellan in a vivid dream. The apparition admonishes "There will be no more Bull Run affairs." A great future is predicted for the United States. Not in Bartlett Nevins Eberstadt Decker Sabin NUC. OCLC 36823792 3- LCP Buffalo Pub. Lib. Huntington as of April 2021. Daily News Job Office unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 104733New York: Public Affairs Press 2001. First edition of this essential reading for those who want to know how modern war is fought and won. Octavo original half cloth cartographic endpapers illustrated. Association copy inscribed on the half-title page by the author to Secretary of Defense William Perry "To Secretary Bill Perry Whose brilliant leadership and insightful leadership helped America and NATO stand successfully for democracy and freedom and against ethnic cleansing and tyranny in the Balkans. Thank you for your guidance and support and for showing us what the true measures of statesmanship and vision must be! Wes." Clark was sent to Bosnia by Secretary of Defense William Perry to serve as the military advisor to a diplomatic negotiating team headed by assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke later described Clark's position as "complicated" because it presented him with future possibilities but "might put him into career-endangering conflicts with more senior officers". While the team was driving along a mountain road during the first week the road gave way and one of the vehicles fell over a cliff carrying passengers including Holbrooke's deputy Robert Frasure a deputy assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Kruzel and Air Force Colonel Nelson Drew. Clark and Holbrooke attempted to crawl down the mountain but were driven back by sniper fire. Once the fire ceased Clark rappelled down the mountain to collect the bodies of two dead Americans left by Bosnian forces that had taken the remaining wounded to a nearby hospital. Following funeral services in Washington D.C. the negotiations continued and the team eventually reached the Dayton Agreement at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio and later signed it in Paris on December 14 1995. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional association. In Waging Modern War General Wesley K. Clark recounts his experience leading NATO's forces to a hard-fought and ultimately successful victory in Kosovo in 1999. As the American military machine has swung into action in the months following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon it has become clear that the lessons of Kosovo are directly applicable to the war against terrorism and the nations that sponsor it. The problems posed and overcome in the war in Kosovo-how to fight an air war against unconventional forces in rough terrain and how to coordinate U.S. objectives with those of other nations-are the problems that America increasingly faces in the today's world. As the Los Angeles Times noted in late September of 2001 this book's "lessons are highly relevant now. We need to think about exactly what steps will lessen rather than increase the terrorist threat. And we also need innovative commanders willing to improvise to meet a new kind of threat more determined political leadership a more flexible outlook in the Pentagon. Gen. Clark has performed another service by highlighting these problems at a crucial moment in American history." Public Affairs Press hardcover books
1880Best.-Nr. 40326Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1880. First edition. Original brown cloth ruled in blind gilt titles. About very good extremities worn with some loss of cloth especially at spine ends tape shadow on spine small bookplate to front pastedown marginal tear to one plate at fold otherwise contents and plates quite fine. xxxii 307 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w heliotype plates with tissue guards 1 of which is folding and 4 cross-section plates all folding. 4to. At the head of the title: Department of the Interior U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell in Charge. This copy is the text volume only the Atlas volume is not present. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill with his bookplate. [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover books
1929Best.-Nr. 149227Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1929. Final Continuity script for the 1929 film. Copy belonging to assistant director H. Bruce Humberstone with his holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and several pages mostly regarding sequencing for scenes. The film was released in silent and sound versions and included with the script are ten sets of dialogue intended for use in the sound release housed in a tan card folder. Based on Blair Niles' 1928 novel "Condemned to Devil's Island." A gentleman bank robber is sent to a prison nicknamed Devil's Island where he begins an affair with the wife of the head warden. Actor Ronald Colman's second talking film following "Bulldog Drummond" 1929. Shot on location at Catalina Island California. Red titled wrappers rubber-stamped on the front wrapper as copy No. 11. Distribution page present with receipt removed noted as SOUND VERSION and rubber-stamped copy No. 11. Title page present noted as FINAL CONTINUITY. Credits for screenwriter Sidney Howard and novel credits for Blair Niles integral with the first leaf of text. Approximately 130 leaves without page numbers. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soil to the front wrapper side stapled with two staples. The Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 641G1672USA: Thompson & Thomas 1907. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Revised and Enlarged 1906 Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 601 pages. Index at front. Occasional black and white illustrations. "An invaluable collection of practical recipes for merchants grocers saloon keepers physicians druggists tanners shoemakers and harness makers painters jewelers blacksmiths miners gunsmiths furriers barbers bakers dyers renovators farmers and families generally to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy inflammation of the lungs and other inflammatory diseases and also for general female weakness and irregularities. with many additions to many departments by the Publishers." - subtitle. .Above-average wear. Hinges open. Front free endpaper and frontispiece loose but present. Many openings along backstrip. External lettering and decoration rubbed but still legible/visible. A worthy reading copy of this stupendous and now antiquarian reference. Thompson & Thomas Hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 40326Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1880. First edition. Original brown cloth ruled in blind gilt titles. About very good extremities worn with some loss of cloth especially at spine ends tape shadow on spine small bookplate to front pastedown marginal tear to one plate at fold otherwise contents and plates quite fine. xxxii 307 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w heliotype plates with tissue guards 1 of which is folding and 4 cross-section plates all folding. 4to. At the head of the title: Department of the Interior U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell in Charge. This copy is the text volume only the Atlas volume is not present. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill with his bookplate. [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 75410Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 316p. Original maroon cloth. 20cm. Front endpaper split along hinge and reinforced with the front cover flattened causing the front cover to protrude along fore-edge. Backstrip reinforced at ends with chipped original cloth glued down. Loss of cloth at cover corners which appaear to have been stiffened by regluing. Cover scuffing and spotting. Internally sound with scattered foxing and spotting. No Jacket. Rare early novel by an African American lawyer from Nashville. Among the main African American characters in the book are three young men who becaome a doctor a lawyer and a minister. The doctor is lynched for his emergeny treatment of an injured white woman. The lawyer ends up happily married and thriving professionally within the segregated society. We' are not sure what happens to the minister. National Baptist Publishing Board hardcover
Best.-Nr. 391704Unbound. Very Good. Four page letter dated July 7 1868 from "On the Cars between Clinton Iowa & Omaha Neb." with original envelope postmark "Aug. 26 Nevada C.T." Old folds some smudging but nice and very good. Easily readable although occasionally a little shaky: "I can not write so you can read it while the cars are going but Mother can." To his 10-year-old son Horace written by Dr. Wing during John Wesley Powell's second expedition to explore Colorado and the West. Wing is mentioned in Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. The letter to his son describes the plains of Nebraska with fairly detailed descriptions of fields plants birds and towns. He mentions that Powell has left ahead of him and referring to the telegraph: "When I got to Chicago Prof. Powell was gone hundreds of miles. What could I do Why I could send lightning a telegram to tell him to wait for me and I did. I sent to Denver you must look for it on the map and the lightning said he was not there. Then I sent to Cheyenne called Shyan and he was there & he told the lightning to tell me how to get passes on the R.R. and to come on." He then suggests that his young son make his own telegraph and give some instructions on how to begin. Accompanied by a nice gravure portrait of Horace Wing Jr. taken by the photographer Pratz of Los Angeles and also with some later newspapers with biographical information on Wing who became a prominent owner of orange groves around Los Angeles. A nice letter connected to an important exploration. unknown
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781850759492Sheffield Academic Press. Hardback. New. 200 pages Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781850759492Sheffield Academic Press. Hardback. New. 200 pages Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780567040817T&T Clark. Hardback. New. 160 pages T&T Clark hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780567040817T&T Clark. Hardback. New. 160 pages T&T Clark hardcover
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1996Best.-Nr. BoxedG260319009yBaker Books 1996-02-01. hardcover. Very Good. 9x9x11. Complete 7 vol set. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Covers have minor shelf rubbings. Bindings are tight. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Baker Books hardcover
1797Best.-Nr. 061052London: G. Whitfield 1797. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. LONDON : 1797. New Edition. First published in 1780. A nice early edition; eighteenth century editions are hard-to-find. Hardback. Original calf-leather; gilt decoration to full spine not lettered; neatly professionally restored with original spine laid-down to matching calf; hidden. Original end-papers. Tight bright and clean. Minor wear only. Neat owner name; Edith Forest 1798. No internal markings. Tight bright and clean. Nice and attractive copy with minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. 522 xvii pages. Indexes. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog T124130. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: G. Whitfield. 18th Century Editions are SCARCE. G. Whitfield hardcover
2016Best.-Nr. __111851971XBlackwell Pub 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1448 pages. 10.90x8.10x5.20 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780323480116ELSEVIER MEDICAL 2018. HB. New. ELSEVIER MEDICAL hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780323480116ELSEVIER MEDICAL 2018. HB. New. ELSEVIER MEDICAL hardcover
1866Best.-Nr. 53723Houston TX 1866. 4to 3 pages on integral leaves; approx. 9.75" x 7.75" legibly written with full typescript transcription provided some staining without affecting legibility minor insect damage on edges very good. Includes stamped cover with a Houston postmark. An interesting letter from the early Reconstruction period in the Southwest. J. W. Eckles John Wesley Eckles: 1839-1891 was born in Delaware. At the time of this letter he was a 1st Lieutenant serving in Houston a few months after a proclamation of peace with Texas was issued by President Andrew Johnson in August of 1866. He appears to have remained in Texas thereafter as a rancher until he was shot in a neighborhood dispute. Eckles writes to Major Lofland: "I am truly glad to know you came out number one in your late collision with Col. Mason. Although I never felt any doubt about the matter. I would think the Snub he got from Gen'l Sheridan with charges returned would put him out of the nature of preferring charges against anybody else particularly the Pay Dept. He told Maj. Lathrop that he never forwarded the charges I showed Lathrop a copy of Gen'l S's letter returning them you ought to have seen him laugh." General Philip Sheridan was appointed to supervise federal Reconstruction 1865-77 efforts in Louisiana and Texas; he rapidly earned a reputation as a harsh leader. The reference to "Col. Mason" probably refers to Bvt. Lieut. Col. Julius Wilmot Mason 1835-1882 from Pennsylvania. He participated in the 1863 Battle of Brandy Station where he earned a brevet to major for gallant and meritorious services. Mason served with Grant until August 12 1866 and commanded General Grant's escort until he was inaugurated as President in January of 1868. Mason then served in the same position for Gen. William T. Sherman until March 31 1870 when he was transferred to frontier service. We do not know exactly what the "charges" or the "late collision" with Major Lofland were that Col. Mason brought since they were returned by Sheridan but since they concerned the pay department they might have been related to issues involving the dispensing of soldier pay. Major James Rush Lofland was the recipient of this letter in New Orleans where he was engaged until 1867 in paying off the troops of Mississippi Louisiana and Texas. Lofland 1823-1894 was a Delaware College graduate and a lawyer. Eckles also refers to "about 1000 troops here arrived in Galveston during the last week. Gen'l Heinzleman has made his HdQtrs at Galveston & assumed command of this district . My opinion of the majority of those fellows at Galveston is.that it requires nine of them to make a man. They are all very honorable gentlemen & the d-l for taking up each others' quarrels." He recounts an attempt of "two youngsters" to waylay Lofland at a wharf over a perceived slight that was thwarted by cowardice. unknown books
2009Best.-Nr. __0754628302Ashgate Pub Co 2009. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 560 pages. 9.72x6.97x1.61 inches. Ashgate Pub Co hardcover
1911Best.-Nr. 13663The Publishers Press. Softcover in Very Good condition gift inscription from pastor's wife includes original gift box paper is tanning with age leather bound great shape for an older book . Very Good. Soft cover. 1911. The Publishers Press paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 167519Los Angeles: Douglas/Reuther Productions 1996. Final Draft script for the 1997 film. A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile the terrorist who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 17 1996 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary and revisions by Wesley Strick. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir: The Complete List #154. Spicer Neo-Noir. Douglas/Reuther Productions unknown
1946Best.-Nr. 1404624Detroit Michigan: Chrysler Corporation 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 75 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in full maroon cloth no text to spine. Boards are slightly cocked have light plus sunning to front board bumping to spine ends and fore corners chipping to extremities and a small dent to the rear top edge. Textblock has light smudge marks to some pages throughout foxing to the front end pages and top edges and mild wear. Inscribed "To- my friend Maurice Freeman" signed by Harry S. Truman and dated "8/1/46" on the front free end page. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. The story of the ammunition produced at Chrysler's Evensville Indiana plant during World War II. 1404624. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Chrysler Corporation hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6499949Clarendon Press . Hardback. New. pp. 584 Clarendon Press hardcover
