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2025ref. 4837Portland OR: Microcosm Publishing 2025. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. 41 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. For bakers business owners and budding entrepreneurs this zine gives you a step-by-step guide to small business success. Based on the author's experience starting her own cookie company and giving back to her community this zine is full of sound advice that can be applied to all kinds of small business and start-up situations. Clean crisp copy. Illustrated throughout. Microcosm Publishing paperback books
ref. WALTER-FILM007656Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1941. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin keybook photo. Fine. MGM photographer Eric Carpenter offers his vision of a Ziegfeld girl with Virginia Cruzon and a Spanish motif. Ink stamped on verso "This is a Key Set Print" and "MGM Photo by Eric Carpenter" as well as photo code ink stamp S1165-355. A special print from MGM studios. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer unknown books
1899ref. 30932NY: Scribner's 1899. First Edition. 8vo pp. 345. Peach-colored cloth stamped in black and white and pale green. Cover somewhat soiled o/w VG. Wright III 912. A novel about a businessman moving west. Won $1000 in the story competition sponsored by The New York Herald in 1895. Scribner's unknown books
1879ref. 163401879. Carpenter J. Estlin The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter 1879 preserves the career of Mary Carpenter as a central figure in Victorian educational and penal reform with an inserted autograph letter signed by Carpenter adding manuscript evidence to a biography concerned with women's public authority juvenile justice prison reform abolition and female education. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. First edition. 1 volume. 495 pages. Portrait of Mary Carpenter facing title page. Bound in green leather with marbled boards with autograph letter signed by Mary Carpenter pasted in. The biography traces Carpenter's reform work across education juvenile reformatory practice prison conditions women's public speech and international reform networks placing her among the few nineteenth-century women whose authority extended into penal policy and public institutional criticism. Carpenter's reform career intersected with major mid-nineteenth-century debates over poverty juvenile delinquency women's education abolition and imperial reform. Her work on reformatory schools contributed to broader legislative and philanthropic discussions about whether young offenders should be punished or educated and her later visits to India expanded her reform agenda into female education and prison conditions under British colonial rule. Light foxing to free endpapers and title page with minimal shelfwear; good. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. unknown books
1877ref. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown books
1894ref. 29387Manchester: Labour Press Society 1894. First Edition. 8vo pp. 41. Sewn self wraps a fine copy. Scarce. Carpenter 1844-1929 visited the US in 1877 meeting US writers and later devoted himself to the socialism of Morris and Hyndman. His discussion of sex roles mirrors his understanding of power in contemporary society. Labour Press Society unknown books
1997ref. 31749New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670870897 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with soiled top edge in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; In this story Clark and Marcia explore the meaning of faith in their own lives and in the lives of others. They explore how faith can help us through difficult times.; 8vo; 502 pages . Viking hardcover books
ref. 116984hardcover. illus. 502pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Viking 1997. vg unknown books
1920ref. 289New York: The Macmillan Company 1920. Hardcover. Very good. Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment Food Shelter and Beds Campfires and Stoves Wildlife in Winter etc.The design on the front cover which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1978ref. 37926Newcastle: Blue Oak Press 1978. First trade paperback printing. 105 pp. Two light stains to frontx cover inked notes to recto of last leaf; in all very good in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Everson on the half-title page “For Sylvia Smith / Best wishes / Bill Everson / May 24 79 / Newcastle.” Newcastle: Blue Oak Press paperback books
1995ref. 102500Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1995. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 761 pages. A special issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Fall 1995 Volume 6 Number 3. Includes several essays on the importance of the Widener Library. Paper loss in corner front cover. Covers lightly soiled. Harvard University Library unknown books
1905ref. 011173Chicago: A C McClurg 1905 10.75 x 14 inches 27 x 36 cm Rose patterned cloth with white cloth spine pastedown title label some darkening and soil to covers corners worn and frayed occasional dust soil inside with tiny chips from last three pages not affecting text or images. A book of songs intended for little boys by composer John Alden Carpenter best known for being one of the first classical composers to incorporate jazz into his compositions. Illustrated by his wife Luritia "Rue" Winterbotham Carpenter. The musical notation and illustration layout is reminiscent of the song books of M B de Monvel. . 3rd Printing. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rue Carpenter. Oblong Folio. A C McClurg hardcover books
1911ref. 392916No place: Fannie Rouse Carpenter 1911. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Small broadside. Approximately 5½ x 8½. Old library stamp and release note else just about fine. Fannie Hallock Rouse Carpenter was a prominent New York City attorney as well as the president of the New York State Federation of Woman's Clubs. A 1906 newspaper article about successful women attorneys in New York lists her name first. OCLC locates a single copy at the California State Library. Fannie Rouse Carpenter unknown books
1987ref. 196751London: Weidenfeld 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nice clean copy. Weidenfeld hardcover books
1911ref. RLINWES00efWestern Monthly 1911. Good. Lincoln Robert Page. Western Monthly July 1911. Volume 12 Number 7. Plane Jack; Sears Jack; Carpenter editor George E. Salt Lake City: Western Monthly 1911. 98pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. Book condition: Good with creased and lightly soiled covers bumped and lightly chipped edges and a couple of short closed tears. A few page bumped and slightly creased in foot. Contains ""First Glimpse of Salt Lake Valley"" from a painting by H. L. A. Culmer ""Earthquakes Swift or Slow"" ""Bits of Western Scenery"" and more. Western Monthly paperback books
1962ref. 2307101Simon & Schuster 1962. first. hardcover. fine/near fine. SIGNED first printing as stated on copyright page. Signed by Carpenter Schirra Shepard and Cooper. Book fine. Dust jacket near fine indent along spine some tape residue along edges of vertical part of flaps. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1997ref. 2210106Easton Press 1997. signed limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition #2307 of 3000. Signed by three astronauts. Comes with 3 certificates of authenticity printed by and from Easton Press. Book fine. Easton Press unknown books
ref. 2205045Easton Press 1997. limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition leather bound. 1/3000 signed by Carpenter Cooper and Glenn. Book fine. Still in original shrinkwrap. Easton Press unknown books
ref. 2201032Easton Press 1997. signed limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition leather bound. 1/3000 this being number 983 signed by Carpenter Cooper and Glenn. Laid-in are two certificates of authenticity from Easton Press signed by Glenn and Cooper. Book fine. Comes in custom-made cloth slipcase. Easton Press unknown books
1997ref. 2403304Easton Press 1997. limited. hardcover. fine. Signed leather-bound collector's edition 1/3000. This being number 722. Signed by Carpenter Cooper and Glenn. Book fine. Certificates of authenticity from Easton Press enclosed for Carpenter and Cooper but missing for Glenn. Easton Press unknown books
1962ref. 3683New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Fine. SIGNED BY ASTRONAUT SCOTT CARPENTER on the half-title. A handsome copy to boot of the 1962 stated 1st printing. Clean tightly-bound and VG in a bright price-intact Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 352 pgs. Tasteful former owner bookplate to front blank endpaper. Signed by Author. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1924ref. 241202New York: Macmillan 1924. hardcover. very good. 175pp. Short & slim 8vo gilt-lettered black cloth. New York: Macmillan 1924. Slightly edge-worn and scratched still a very good copy. Macmillan unknown books
1988ref. 69565Carlisle Mass.: Arsdalen Bosch & Co. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Signed by Carpenter on the dedication page. 492 pages pictorial paperback Very Good. . Arsdalen, Bosch & Co. paperback books
1981ref. 11732Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on half-title from Carpenter to Oliver Sacks. Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 biography. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Chipping and toning to upper/inner flap dj closed tears to dj scuffing to edges else tight bright and unmarred. Black cloth with gilt titling. 8vo. 495pp. Illus. b/w plates. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1983ref. 70732Turnhout: Time-Life Books 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 607p. 21cm. Bookplate. No Jacket. French text. Reprint of the Paris edition of 1799. Time-Life Books hardcover books
