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1873réf. 11054Washington DC: U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains 1873. Albumen stereoview 11 cm x 15.5 cm on a yellow Jackson/Hayden mount 11.5 cm x 17.5 cm with a printed Powell survey paper label on the reverse. Nice contrasts. Gentle wear to extremities. View of three Uinta Indians standing in front of a teepee. This is 'Number 75' from the 'Indians of the Colorado Valley. U-in-tats. Jack Hillers 1840-1882 was working as a teamster in Salt Lake City when he met John Wesley Powell the following year 1871 he was hired by Powell as a boatman for his second expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. He slowly replaced Clements Powell John's cousin as the assistant to the photographer first E.O. Beaman then James Fennemore. Hillers worked hard and was likable and he picked up the art of photography quickly soon he was the main photographer on Powell's trips and would go on to work for the B.A.E. for years. U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains unknown books
2005réf. 3672First Edition First Printing with the complete number line. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket SIGNED by the author on the title page. This clean tight and bright book is in unread condition. Not remaindered not price clipped and not ex-library. In archival protection shipped carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Little, Brown And Company hardcover books
2001réf. 57400Salem: Schmul Publishing 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 96pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. Schmul Publishing paperback books
1927réf. 109737New York: The John Day Company 1927. Hardcover. xvii 297p. second printing corners bumped previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper else very good condition. No dj. The John Day Company hardcover books
réf. 12657TOWNER Wesley. THE ELEGANT AUCTIONEERS. New York: Hill & Wang 1970. 8vo. Black cloth spine red cloth sides dust jacket. viii 632 pages. First edition. A readable survey of English and American auction houses. Completed by Stephen Varble. Fine. unknown books
réf. 35893KOCH Theodore Wesley. THE FLORENTINE BOOK FAIR. Evanston: 1926. 12mo. Publisher's wrappers. 121 2 pages plates. First edition. A double presentation copy signed twice by Koch. Very good. unknown books
1945réf. 140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. 131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown books
1927réf. 140942599New York: Longmans Green and Co 1927. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Amos Alonzo Stagg on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original maroon ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light mottling and wear to cloth small puncture to rear board small abrasion to front paste down and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket perhaps supplied as trimmed slightly shorter than the book with chipping and wear. Stagg was the first to be inducted into the Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. Longmans, Green and Co unknown books
1986réf. 80487Cincinnati Ohio: Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. Very Good. 1986. Spiral bound. 2 volumes spiral bound - bright xeroxed pages - some illustrations - 11 x 9 inches. Volume I 292 pages and Volume II 168 pages. . Cincinnati Museum of Natural History unknown books
1842réf. List3738Ship Saluda Bound for Monrovia 1842. Two autograph letters signed approximately seven manuscript pages total. 1839 letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches foxed with small tears at folds very good; 1842 letter measuring 8 x 10 inches tears at folds with larger tear to top right some text missing very good minus. Overall very good. A pair of letters documenting the work of Dr. Wesley Johnson 1813-1844 physician educator and colonial official associated with Bassa Cove during Liberia's formative decades. Written three years apart the letters preserve Johnson's involvement in medicine colonial administration anti-slave trade efforts agricultural reform and the establishment of one of Liberia's earliest advanced educational institutions. Born in Hillsdale New York Johnson studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia under Dr. Jacob Green receiving his degree in 1837 before departing almost immediately for West Africa.1 He entered service at Bassa Cove a settlement approximately seventy miles south of Monrovia supported jointly by the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies. Established as part of the larger Liberian colonization project Bassa Cove existed under difficult conditions: high mortality limited resources dependence upon outside support and periodic violence associated both with local conflict and the wider Atlantic slave trade. Johnson's responsibilities expanded rapidly after his arrival. He worked closely with Governor Thomas Buchanan and within a year had served in command of local militia forces and assumed administrative authority at Bassa Cove. Following conflict involving Theodore Canot a trader in enslaved people and violence affecting nearby settlements Johnson was reportedly injured; he shifted increasingly toward educational work becoming central to the establishment of the Ladies Liberia High School at Factory Island an ambitious project intended to educate future leadership within the colony. The earlier letter written aboard the ship Saluda on October 2 1839 finds Johnson struggling with declining health; a "bilious attack" that "was succeeded by an enlargement of the spleen" and he travelled along the coast towards Sierra Leone and Cape Mount "for my health." Even while discussing illness however Johnson remained focused on institutional work and future responsibilities: "When I return to Bassa I shall take charge of a high school about to be established there and carried on by the Ladies of Philad'a." That brief reference points toward one of the more ambitious educational efforts connected to early Liberia. Organized in Philadelphia in 1832 the Ladies' Liberia School Association sought to support educational development in Liberia through funding schools teachers and educational infrastructure.2 By the late 1830s the organization had developed a broad network of support and had undertaken plans for a secondary school at Factory Island near Bassa Cove. Johnson would become central to its implementation. He writes: "As long as I have serviceable health it is doubtless my duty to remain here for why should new persons come here continually at the risk of their lives & unacquainted with the colony or country. It seems hardly credible that I have been here more than two years already. "10th. I have been today drawing a plan of the buildings for the high school on Factory Island but this evening the vessel rolls and I cannot make straight marks & will go on with my letter. My health is better & better. I drink wine occasionally & we have five courses at dinner. I stopped at Monrovia several days as we came along and found high life at the Govt. house. When we get back to Bassa a school will give my employment & as my agency for the Col. Soc. will be exchanged for that of the Ladies Soc. of Phil. for African Education. Of this change I am glad. It will relieve me of care trouble and vexation and business which I have no means of accomplishing to my mind. "The Colony was never more prospered. Gov. Buchanan drives hard at the Slavers and they cannot stand it. You will see by the . something of what has been going on here. O that I was worth a million. I would make a great jam in Liberia. As it is I take it extempore make the best moves that I can for the time." Three years later writing from Factory Island on July 14 1842 Johnson reports that the educational institution envisioned in the earlier letter had become reality. He writes: "We have at length taken possession of this place so long under the dominion of his Satanic Majesty and have commenced the Ladies Liberia High School. Multitudes have been doomed from our door-yard to chains & death and it is consoling to think that we are affording to a few the means of making life and liberty blessings. We have a noble stone building not however finished inside and it is sufficient in every department for boarding and teaching forty or fifty scholars within its walls. Also a farm of fifteen acres partly under cultivation which will supply the school with provisions. Although at present the colonists are suffering a season of scarcity we go on comfortably. My health has been excellent since my return paper loss indeed it received an important improvement immediately after my arrival. My objects are to get the School thoroughly established an improved system of agriculture in operation and some other person properly introduced to my place & then to return to America. I should not add the last item so readily at present not knowing what circumstances may indicate of my duty but I made a general promise to my friends to return in two years. We are introducing the improved and labor saving plans and means of farming which are from five to ten times as efficient as those in common use here and as novel to the colonists as theirs would be in the good state of New York. We are in want of funds for these purposes all having been exhausted which were appropriated to them by the Ladies and I am obliged to furnish means from my own funds. We have a kind of manual labour system - the pupils work from 6 to 8 & from 4 to 6 & study from 9 to 12 2 to 4 & 7 to 8. My mode of teaching is much improved on what it was in Cin. by invention reflection & teaching others to teach and no other employment is so agreeable to me. I am father mother preceptor & religious teacher to my scholars & universal agent & factotum to the School and would to Heaven that I were better prepared for the work and could show an influential example of the power of living holiness." The physical cost of such work proved severe. Tropical illness permanently damaged Johnson's health. By the time of the present letters he was already recording prolonged illness and enlargement of the spleen. He ultimately returned to Hillsdale in 1844 and died shortly afterward at only thirty-one years old. Contemporary memorials praised both his educational work and personal sacrifice describing Liberia as having lost "a devoted friend and martyr." Taken together the letters preserve the work of an unusually capable participant operating at multiple levels of early Liberian development-physician educator administrator agricultural reformer and institution builder-while documenting educational work colonial administration medicine anti-slave trade activity and daily life through firsthand observation during Liberia's formative decades. An important Liberia grouping. 1 Otteson Ron. Ron Otteson "Dr. Wesley Johnson of Hillsdale: A Gentleman of Talent and Liberal Education" Roeliff Jansen Historical Society accessed May 22 2026 https://www.roeliffjansenhs.org/about-6. 2 Karen Fisher Younger "Philadelphia's Ladies' Liberia School Association and the Rise and Decline of Northern Female Colonization Support" Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134 no. 3 2010: 235-260. books
1998réf. 347653New York: Playgirl 1998. Magazine. 104p. 8x10.75 inches nude males fiction interviews magazine in good condition. Playgirl unknown books
1949réf. ZZ1756Boston:: John W. Luce 1949. 1949. 8vo. 168 pp. Light green cloth dark blue stamped spine title dust-jacket. Fine. Clarke patented a lantern for identifying stars and constellations and wrote a pamphlet to accompany it. John W. Luce, (1949). hardcover books
1992réf. DL1181New York:: Haworth Press 1992. 1992. 8vo. xiii 196 pp. Index. Green cloth. Ownership ink signature of David C. Lindberg. ISBN: 1560242248 / 1-56024-224-8 Haworth Press, (1992). hardcover books
1945réf. 08768THE RED PONY Viking 1945 first illustrated and first complete edition fine without dust-wrapper as issued in worn and reglued slip-case with many unfortunate tape stains. Illustrated in color by Wesley Dennis. Laid into this volume is a large 4 page one sheet folded to make four essay by Bernadine Kielty and Illustrated in color by Wesley Dennis entitled THE RED PONY -AN APPRECIATION. Viking Press unknown books
1989réf. 00488STRAINED RELATIONS EUGUENE WRITERS SERIES ONE Hypatia Press 1989 first edition fine in white decorated leather without dust-wrapper as issued with original contributions by Lynn S. Adams Joyce A. Cowan Nina Kiriki Hoffman Kristine Kathryn Rusch Dean Wesley Smith D. T. Steiner and Ray Vukcevich. Of an unknown number of copies produced this copy is SIGNED by all the authors above and noted as a Deluxe Edition with initials. Edited by Alan Bard Newcomer. Hypatia Press hardcover books
1954réf. 07514ANIMAL STORY BOOK Platt & Munk 1954 first edition near fine in g/vg dust-wrapper with some tears chipping and soiling. Replete with full color illustratons on every page. Platt & Munk 1954 unknown books
1945réf. 08769THE RED PONY Viking 1945 first illustrated and first complete edition a vg copy. Illustrated in color by Wesley Dennis. Viking Press unknown books
1991réf. 10549THE GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing Inc. 1991 first edition as new in like pictorial dust-wrapper. Of 900 copies published this is 1/300 copies bound in cloth and SIGNED by the author as well as the author of the introduction Dean Wesley Smith. Along with THE GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing Inc. 1991 first edition as new in pictorial wraps. 1/525 copies SIGNED by the author as well as the author of the introduction Dean Wesley Smith. The authors first book. Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing, Inc. paperback books
1991réf. 10581THE GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing Inc. 1991 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/10 copies bound in full leather and SIGNED by the author as well as the author of the introduction Dean Wesley Smith. The "Red Staff" edition of the authors first book never offered for sale. Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing, Inc. hardcover books
1994réf. 337140Blue Ridge Summit: McGraw-Hill 1994. First. hardcover. fine/fine. xxii 378 pages. 8vo blue cloth d.w. Blue Ridge Summit: McGraw-Hill 1994. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. McGraw-Hill unknown books
1946réf. 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 books
1998réf. 343869San Francisco: J. Paul Leonard Library San Francisco State University 1998. Paperback. 61p. wraps with a black library tape along the spine as issued 8.5x11 inches. one corner bumped otherwise very good condition. Issued to mark the 30th anniversary of the major student strike at SF State with illustrations from an exhibit at the library. J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University paperback books
1969réf. 1412054New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto 168 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black with white print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight soiling to edge of rear flap. Price unclipped: "$25.00". Boards in orange cloth; slight soiling to top and bottom edges of front panel. Text block has light spotting to top edge. Illustrated: color. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in quarto column. 1412054. FP New Rockville Stock. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
2004réf. 71414Seattle WA & Pasadena CA: Frye Art Museum & Pasadena Museum of California Art 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Mark Ryden on the title page. 32pp. Square octavo 23 cm; perfect-bound gray illustrated wrappers with gold embossed title on the front cover. Smallest bit of shelfwear at edges and corners. Clean and bright. An exhibition catalog produced for shows at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in 2004 and for the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2005. Nice reproductions of the Pop/Surrealist master's paintings. "This visual debris from contemporary pop culture contains the specific archetypes that formed my consciousness while living in this particular period in history. I often find archetypes in old children's books and toys so these things make up a large part of my collection. I am attracted to things that evoke memories from childhood." - Mark Ryden. Frye Art Museum & Pasadena Museum of California Art paperback books
1991réf. 164866MI: Baker 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper rubbed with minor tearing sticker. Baker hardcover books
