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1961réf. 46082New York: Columbia University Press 1961. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Columbia University Press 1961. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavos 24cm; publisher's cloth in matching price-clipped pictorial dust jackets; xvii5627; xi5710pp.; seven leaves of plates. Dust jacket quite rubbed and worn top half of Vol. I rear flap fold split old faint rubber-stamp price to front free endpapers; a Very Good internally clean and sound set of the first two of twenty-six volumes. Columbia University Press unknown books
1890réf. 6184821890. Unbound. Very Good. Sepia-toned gelatin silver boudoir photograph. Image approximately 7.5" x 4.5". on a slightly larger card mount. Light fading at the upper extremities very good or better. Contemporary ink caption on verso noting "Headquarters of the Beekmanites 6 miles from Rockford Ill." with a few later and erasable pencil notes. The Beekmanites were and still are to some degree an obscure religious cult. In the 1880s Dorinda Beekman declared herself Jesus and began her own religion on Weldon Farms in Winnebago Illinois outside of Rockford and declared the farm as Heaven. When Beekman suddenly died and didn't return from the dead three days later one of her disciples a red-headed man named George Jacob Schweinfurth declared that her spirit had taken over his body and he continued the religion and where he lived in luxury enjoying the company of the female "Angels" who worshipped him and who soon began to give birth to red-headed children causing the patriarch to be driven from the property and move to Chicago where he took up Christian Science. His story attracted some attention including a visit by and published article in The New York Times. A nice artifact of an obscure byway in American home-cooked religions. unknown books
1913réf. 621773Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated ninth edition. 16mo. 176pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in black and red and orange endpapers. Illustrated in black and white with full-color plates. Boards and spine worn hinges starting very good or better. An instructional book that'll teach you not to count your chickens before they hatch and how to take care of them once they do. Wilmer Atkinson Co hardcover books
1908réf. 621777Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated second edition. 16mo. 144pp. Illustrated in black and white with full-color plates. Boards and spine worn and a wrinkle to the cloth on the front board very good. Wilmer Atkinson Co hardcover books
1948réf. 011083Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1948 Pictorial boards with light shelf wear and occasional soil to pages lacks dust jacket. The story of a sailor who steals a rainbow and the little boy who fights to get it back with the help of fairy-like creatures. An uncommon Slobodkin title. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Louis Slobodkin. Square 4to. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1949réf. 34097New York: Schocken Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for a small stain on front board in very good only dust jacket with tears and chips. Her first biography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pp . Schocken Books hardcover books
1965réf. 29701New York: Random House 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House 1965. First Edition stated First Printing. Signed by Farmer on title page dated 1966. Additional gift inscription from Lorna D. Smith to a W.T. Keys at title page. Octavo. 197 pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.95 price intact. Light and dark blue boards stamped in silver and blue. Red topstain. Newspaper clippings concerning Farmer from the early 1970s glued down to front and rear endpapers. Jacket rubbed with a few shallow closed tears along edges. Boards rubbed with a touch of fading to edges. A couple brief instances of underlining else interior unmarked. binding is sound. As the initiator of the first Freedom Ride and co-founder of CORE Farmer was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Random House unknown books
1992réf. 223442Dover 1992-03-23. Paperback. Very Good. 9x0x12. 1992 Dover Publications Inc. Soft wrappers are clean crisp and glossy- display minimal wear correlating to age of book. Spine is secure and uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some pages display fold creases on bottom right corner. Internal prints are crisp and vibrant. Profession packaging and prompt shipping. JB. Dover paperback books
1915réf. 586478London: John Murray 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 52pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Gift inscription to a noted American photographer who was close to Rupert Brooke: "Sherril Schell from his friend R.G.W.S. April 25 1916" and a slightly later owner name: "M. Audrey Anderson 1917" spine a bit toned corners a little worn a sound about very good copy. Poetry. John Murray hardcover books
1937réf. 593192New York: Vanguard Press 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 266pp. Toning and spotting on endpapers binding cocked spine darkened with tears and fraying at the ends very good lacking the dust jacket Inscribed by the author on the front fly: "For Tex Wickie with sincerest affection - May 27 - 4th yr. Jake." Baker was chairman of the President's commission of inquiry on cooperative enterprise in Europe and attempts to answer in this book what the place of cooperative enterprise in the modern world is and what its place will be in the future. Vanguard Press hardcover books
1997réf. 010195Seattle WA: University of Washington Press 1997 Hard cover in dust jacket. Originally published in 1970 an edition published in 1997 with additional artwork by Lawrence. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Jacob Lawrence. 4to. University of Washington Press hardcover books
1963réf. 557771New Haven: Yale University Press 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volume four of nine only. Quarto. xxii 495pp. Black cloth with red and gilt stamped spine. Page edges lightly foxed spine title lightly rubbed edges lightly bumped very good. Yale University Press hardcover books
1959réf. 557769New Haven: Yale University Press 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volume three of nine only. Quarto. xxi 482pp. Black cloth with red and gilt stamped spine. Page edges lightly age-toned with a couple of small stains spine title lightly rubbed corners lightly bumped very good. Yale University Press hardcover books
1957réf. 557766New Haven: Yale University Press 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volume two of nine only. Quarto. xix 534pp. Black cloth with red and gilt stamped spine. Page edges lightly age-toned pencil marginalia on a few pages spine title lightly rubbed corners lightly bumped very good. Yale University Press hardcover books
1909réf. 560374New York: The Macmillan Company 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by W.T. Benda. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black. Gutters cracked one-inch tear on foredges of last couple pages edges rubbed else a very good copy. Uncommon in this brown cloth. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1971réf. 52083London: Science Fiction Book Club 1971. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Pages tanned else a very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket. Science Fiction Book Club hardcover books
1944réf. 125511New York: Harper 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good hardcover with good dustwrapper. 4th edition. Signed by the author on front endpaper. Text clean. Spine ends lightly bumped. Tape on edges and crease of dustwrapper on inner side. Light water stain on dustwrapper. Chipping on edges to the dustwrapper. Harper hardcover books
1926réf. 195706New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Volume two only. Blue cloth stamped in orange. Authorized translation by Ludwig Lewisohn. Owner's bookplate and date inked on front pastedown gutter cracked spine darkened and ends nicked still a very good copy. The European Library. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1955réf. 17545New York: Vantage Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1955. First Edition. Hardcover. a bit of wear and light bumping at spine ends top front corner also very slightly bumped; jacket age-toned with a bit of wear at extremities small tears with slight paper loss at top of spine small stain at bottom edge of rear panel. A "strange and fascinating novel about an illegitimate child who becomes a modern Jezebel. Through the clever use of her angelic innocent-seeming beauty Edna Mae conquers then destroys all who cross her path. In Farmdale town of her birth she becomes notorious as the cause of a triple tragedy: the deaths of the doctor's son of her youthful lover and of his father -- all in one night." The Chicago-born author's idea of authentic down-home Farmdale dialogue appears to have been primarily the substitution of "ya" for "you" at every opportunity; I suspect he'd never been much farther south than Garfield Blvd. . Vantage Press hardcover books
1937réf. 164009New York: Macmillan 1937. hardcover. very good. xi 284 pages 8vo green cloth; spine sunned. New York: Macmillan 1937. A very good copy. Macmillan unknown books
1939réf. 11996New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good- in Fair dj. 1939. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . price-clipped ex-lending library book worn but intact markings confined to pocket on front pastedown and remnants of label on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn moderately soiled top 1-1/2" of spine missing but not affecting spine text torn and ragged along top edge more so to rear panel; see note about wrap-around cover. "The author of the famous novels of Jewish life the Claudia and Gollantz books has this time written the story of a man who was not a Jew but who pretended to be one because he felt it would be an asset in business." NOTE that this copy has an interesting "bonus" feature namely a printed wrap-around paper cover sort of a dust jacket under the actual dust jacket that bears the name of the lending library Ramona Rental Library Los Angeles along with ads for a number of local businesses. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1974réf. 71762New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1974. First edition limited. Hardcover. SIGNED. Duodecimo 18 cm Gray cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Black endpapers. Both volumes are fine and bright in their original decorative dust jackets. Housed in a bluish-gray cloth covered slipcase 23 cm with scuffing and sporadic fraying to the cloth along the edges. Also present in the slipcase is a cloth folding box containing a suite of 27 black and white plates. Box has a little fading to the edges. Plates are fine. Slipcase and box about very good. Contents fine. Signed by Maurice Sendak and Lore Segal on the limitation page of volume 1. First edition deluxe issue being limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Sendak and Segal. This is copy number 472. A magnificent collection of 27 of the most compelling fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm carefully chosen from both the well-known and less familiar of their works with complete and authentic translations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1685réf. 73513Lugduni i.e. Lyon: sumptibus autoris; vaeneunt apud T. Amaulry 1685. First edition folio leaf 37.7 cm pp. 8 376 4; title page printed in red and black engraved vignette laid down on title as issued nearly 60 engravings and woodcuts in the text some quite large numerous Greek and Latin inscriptions some within ruled borders mimicking tablets woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf blindstamped spine in 7 compartments maroon morocco label in 1; front joint cracked cords holding and rebacked the spine laid down chips at the extremities corners bumped; the binding is quite sound and internally the book is fresh and clean. Bookplate of Percy Algernon 4th Duke of Northumberland and the title and author noted in an early unidentified hand on the front free flyleaf. A delightful excursion into the antiquities of Rome and Greece including coins and medals iconography ancient structures dieties etc. Jacob Spon 1647-1685 was "a French Calvinist physician and archaeologist from Lyon. In 1675-1676 together with the British clergyman Sir George Wheeler 1650-1723 he undertook a trip to Greece Constantinople and the Levant to visit the ruins of the ancient world" albanianhistory.net and they were among "the first knowledgeable Western European antiquaries to see the antiquities of Greece at first hand . In the preface to Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis . he offered one of the earliest definitions of "archaeologia" to describe the study of antiquities in which he was engaged" Wikipedia. sumptibus autoris; vaeneunt apud T. Amaulry unknown books
1632réf. 1417859The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn 1632. Loose folio. Two portfolios containing 127 loose half-page engraved emblems excised from Jacob Cats' 17th century emblem book. Condition of pages is Very Good Minus. Pages show mild age toning to body and mild-to-moderate toning to edges. Occasional light foxing or minor stain to page edge. Spot of mold to p.196. Shelved at Rockville Room C. 1417859. Special Collections - Upstairs. Isaac Burchoorn unknown books
1800réf. 70754Halle: bey Johann Jacob Gebauen 1800. 8vo pp. viii 236; contemporary marbled boards green morocco label on spine; with 2 added shelf labels and 2 old rubberstamps on the title page; very good sound and clean. First edition of this translation of the first and second books of the Satires. Not in Mills College Check List; Riedel-Horatiana O-4. OCLC locates 12 copies only Northwestern in the U.S. bey Johann Jacob Gebauen unknown books
