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2012Best.-Nr. 9320gcsPensacola Florida: First Methodist Church Pensacola 2012. First Edition. Quarto black & white photo. illus. slick boards hardcover x 753 pp. Good with edgewear. Illustrations throughout. From lower cover: Established in 1821 Florida’s First Methodist Church has a remarkable story. It survived fires thefts wars hurricanes epidemics debts deaths terminations schisms and scandals. Despite the hardships God never abandoned the congregation but guided the church onward. Over 100 ministers served there. For some the appointment was a burden; for others it was a labor of love. They all improved their congregation’s understanding of the Word and provided comfort. Because of talented ministerial and lay leadership the church moved beyond a small rural pastorate and progressively risked larger facilities that would broaden its outreach. Eventually it mothered other churches launched missions elsewhere and became one of the most significant churches in its Conference. Historian Wesley Odom traces the development of this unique Pensacola institution in a masterful way incorporating social economic and political influences detailed analysis and thorough research. He habitually relied upon primary sources and conducted dozens of interviews. His “buttom-up” approach creates an exciting inspirational and fascinating story that reads easily and contains many surprises. Both the casual reader and professional historian can appreciate this epic manuscript. First Methodist Church, Pensacola, (2012). First Edition. hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 439072Boston: David R. Godine 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in glossy wrappers. Poetry. David R. Godine unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 526023San Francisco: D. S. Stanley and Co. / Typographical Union Label 1896. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Broadside. Single sheet measuring 5" by 11" printed in dark blue on recto only. Illustrated with eagle motif engraving at upper margin of recto and typographical union label at lower margin. Two neat folds with a few short edge tears else about fine. California poet Charles Wesley Kyle born in 1853 was the author of Forest Leaves and other Poems published in San Francisco by D. S. Stanley in 1894 and Yosemite The World's Wonderland published in San Francisco in 1915. A pro-union broadside in support of William McKinley for president concluding: 'We'll vote for Protection and McKinley!'. A political song in support of William McKinley free labor and protectionism consisting of five stanzas in thirty-three lines with the refrain: "Hurrah for Protection and McKinley!." The July 81896 issue of the San Francisco Call reports that this song was sung at a Republican event at the Phoenix Club to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia." The report said "It gives promise of becoming a popular campaign ballad. Unrecorded by OCLC. D. S. Stanley and Co. / Typographical Union Label unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 505491New York: Dramatists Play Service 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. First acting edition. Yellow stapled wrappers. Wrappers faintly soiled near fine. A play of a series of interlocking vignettes about life in the inner city. Dramatists Play Service unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 509288New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 506884New York: Avon Books 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. First Avon Books Special Printing as stated on copyright page. Mass market paperback. Wrappers with a few small shallow creases near fine. Avon Books unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 529567Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 199pp. About fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning on the spine and rubbing. A collection of essays about life at Columbia by Columbia alumni with contributions by John Berryman Alfred A. Knopf and Thomas Merton among others. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1911Best.-Nr. 169931911. Photo album compiled by a female student at Wellesley College between 1911 and 1919 documents women's higher education collegiate ritual and professional transition into teaching during the Progressive Era. The album traces the compiler's path from secondary schooling through her collegiate years and into her early career as an educator offering sustained visual evidence of female academic community at a time when women's access to advanced scientific and liberal education was expanding but remained institutionally distinct. Founded in 1870 Wellesley College had by the early twentieth century established itself as a leading center for women's study particularly in the sciences employing more female scientists than any other American institution of higher education. The photographs record campus architecture traditions intellectual life and female peer networks situating the album within the broader history of women's collegiate culture and professionalization in the years immediately preceding and during the First World War. Album contains 143 original silver gelatin print photographs dating from 1911 to 1919 mounted on approximately 100 pages within original black cloth boards measuring 9 x 12 inches; photographs range in size from approximately 2 x 3 inches to 4 x 9.5 inches. Numerous images depict Wellesley College campus scenes including Lake Waban and the chapel student residences labeled "Wellesley 1911-1912" and groups of students identified as "Students." Candid captions document daily academic life: six women bundled in hats and coats captioned "Off for math exam" students reading outdoors communal meals and informal portraits labeled with nicknames such as "Chub" "Selina" "Honey" and "Marion." Five photographs record the May Day 1912 "Senior Hoop Rolling" tradition. Additional academic images include interiors labeled "Drawing Room" "Mr. Wilson's Room" "Assembly Room" "Physics Lab" and "Library" at "M.H.S." as well as a group of sixteen boys wearing "M" shirts with three coaches and a trophy banner reading "OCIAA Relay Race 1912." Other collegiate references include "Harmony Hall" with caption "Inmates of H.H. 1913" and two large group photographs of women in white dresses before a banner reading "ETA Clionian" one dated 1914 associated with the teachers' college at New Paltz. Geographic excursions are documented through images labeled Frontenac Point Minnewaska Mohonk Yankee Lake in upstate New York and Digby Nova Scotia. Later photographs depict the compiler's transition into teaching with groups of children labeled "Primary" and "Intermediates" a staged school production featuring children in Pilgrim costumes and a building identified as "Quassaick Hall." Spanning the years 1911 to 1919 the album bridges the final prewar era of Progressive reform and the wartime transformation of American educational institutions. The visual record emphasizes female intellectual labor in mathematics and science campus ritual sororal association and the socially sanctioned pathway from collegiate training to professional teaching. Wellesley's prominence in scientific instruction for women situates the album within broader developments in women's access to laboratory education and academic employment. The inclusion of regional travel and teacher-training imagery further contextualizes the educational mobility of middle-class women in the northeastern United States. One page detached but present; minor handling wear to boards; photographs generally clear with strong contrast; overall very good condition. A cohesive and expansive visual archive documenting women's higher education peer culture and professional formation in the early twentieth century. unknown books
1943Best.-Nr. 460470New York: Willey Book Co 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the front fly a touch of soiling on the boards else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears. An attractive copy. Willey Book Co hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 451110New York: Hill & Wang 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small owner's label on the front fly and signature on the half-title else fine in near fine dust jacket with a little rubbing. Hill & Wang hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 441974New York: G. Howard Watt 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Contemporary owner's name else fine in attractive very good dustwrapper with a few modest chips. Man in black rides in to town trying to avoid attention young woman notices suspects he's an outlaw. Scarce. G. Howard Watt hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 432413San Francisco: no publisher 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Legal brief. 14 Mimeographed folio leaves printed rectos only stapled at the top and folded in thirds. A little age-toning and small chips in a couple of margins final leaf detached but present sound and very good. Long brief by Charles R. Garry. Wesley Robert Wells was an African-American man convicted of minor crimes of theft and imprisoned but because of an altercation with a guard who was unhurt was given the death penalty. The attorney Charles R. Garry worked tirelessly to have the sentence commuted and after 40 years Wells was released from prison little more than a year before he died of a heart attack. Garry who eventually was central to the defense schemes of various Black Panthers referred to Wells as "The First Black Panther." This was obviously issued as part of some sort of public relations effort by Garry. Rare. OCLC locates a single copy. no publisher] unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good. The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances." Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 412843State College Pa.: The Penn State Thespians 1925. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 46pp. Illustrated wrappers. Modest soiling on the wrappers very good or better. Full music and lyrics. OCLC locates no copies. The Penn State Thespians unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 412844State College Pa.: The Penn State Thespians 1925. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 46pp. Illustrated wrappers. Modest soiling and a few pencil strokes on the front wrapper very good or better. Full music and lyrics. OCLC locates no copies. The Penn State Thespians unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 270910NY/London: Macmillan 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected. Proof. Very good in wrappers. Book has minor staining on front cover uncorrected proof. Macmillan unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 397608Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 328pp. 4pp. advertisements in rear. Blind embossed brown cloth gilt-stamped spine. Bookplate and owner's name on front endpapers stained front fly loose and laid in spine ends and corners nicked still a very good copy. New England life. Crocker & Brewster hardcover books
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 books
1966Best.-Nr. 389113Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. 232pp. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears and toning. Included is a 10" 33 1/2 RPM vinyl record. University of Illinois Press hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 383920New York: Avon Books 1999. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Advance reading copy. Wrappers. Creasing and edgewear else very good. Avon Books unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 368027New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Bowed with spotting on the boards else very good in an about near fine dust jacket with internal spotting and edgewear. Signed by the author. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 363210New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edges lightly bumped else fine in a fine dustwrapper. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 352356New York: Promontory Press 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Folio. 168pp. Photographs and Epilogue by Eliot Porter. Foreword and Notes by Don D. Fowler. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with light wear. Promontory Press hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 279346Garden City New York: Doubleday 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine age-toned dustwrapper. A collection of essays about life at Columbia by prominent Columbia alumni. Doubleday hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 103812Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Smithsonian Institution Press hardcover books
