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2000Best.-Nr. 137229Salem Mass: Peabody Essex Museum 2000. Softcover. VG. May have slightly bowed corners. Blue & color illustrated wraps. 197 pp. Many BW & color illustraitons. Series: The Peabody Essex Museum Collections. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition featuring works by American impressionist Frank Weston Benson 1862-1951. With essays by Dan L. Monroe Faith Andrews Bedford Laurene Buckley Dean T. Lahikainen and Jane M. Winchell. A lovely collection. Peabody Essex Museum paperback books
1948Best.-Nr. 96413New York: Samuel French 1948. Paperback. Near Fine. 26p plus 6 unnumbered pages of advertisements for Christmas plays more plays including this one are listed inside front cover and on bother sides of back cover. Softcover. 19 cm. This play was first copyrighted by Vilas in 1920. Samuel French paperback books
1951Best.-Nr. 64690NY: Dell 1951. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Slight spine lean wraps a bit rubbed esle very good. Dell unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 31539New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1960. First Edition stated. Octavo 21cm; 223pp. Illustrated dust jacket; boards in rose pink cloth and gray cloth spine with green title banner and gilt lettering. Price-clipped jacket is crisp with a few tiny tears at folds nudging at spine ends and some general toning and smudging to surface. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the prolific author "With cordial regards" but without dedication on full title. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 588715New York: Dover Publications 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Photographs by William F. Winter. Quarto. 133pp. Owner name on front fly wraps soiled and toned with delamination at corners very good. Dover Publications unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 63581Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1954. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Second Impression. xxviii 947pp indices; numerous folding maps and charts. TEG. Light foxing to endpapers else a very good hardback in price clipped slightly darkened and rubbed jacket that has some minor loss at the extremities. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 63580Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1952. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Second Impression. xxxiii 993pp indices; numerous folding maps and charts. TEG. Light foxing to endpapers else a very good hardback in price clipped slightly darkened and rubbed jacket that has a couple of tiny closed tears at the spine ends. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1956Best.-Nr. 64167Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1956. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Second Impression. xxvii 799pp indices; numerous folding maps and charts. TEG. Small ink name on front free endpaper else a very good hardback in an internally tape repaired jacket that has a closed tear to the front panel and a split up the front joint. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 100150NY:: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with one small chip age toning dust jacket. . Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 563605New York: Oxford University Press 1954. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Designed by John Begg. Illustrated after Shaker drawings by Gloria Granger. 16mo. Stapled wrappers. 32pp. Illustrated. Cover with a small sunned area a bit of spotting an small area of edge loss and a diagonal crease staples oxidized about very good. One of 360 copies printed issued as Typophiles Monograph 42. This copy compliments of Wilmot C. Gordon of the Oxford University Press with the slip laid in light spotting. Oxford University Press unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 534725New York: Moffat Yard and Company 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Rev. Samuel McComb. Octavo. 54pp. Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards. Some spotting and sunning on the boards a sound very good or better copy. Inscribed by the author: "With the compliments of the author Mary G. Heckle alias 'Faith Whitney.' September 1910." Woman's account of regaining her health and curing her nervous anxiety through wholesome outdoor tent living at a Brookline sanitarium. Moffat, Yard and Company hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 6577Chicago: Rand McNally 1926. Single sheet 35.5 cm x 35.5 cm that folds down to pamphlet size 17.5 cm x 9 cm Gentle wear to 'Cover' panel. Otherwise very good. Sheet is divided into eight panels each side and offers useful tips for tourists lodging side trips trails etc. traveling by Santa Fe Railway. Illustrated with maps and photographs. "Scenic Wonder of the World. Grand Canyon National Park is reached by daily trains from Williams a town on the main line of the Santa Fe in Arizona 382 miles west of Albuquerque. This tremendous chasm in its most accessible portion has a length of 217 miles. Its vertical depth is about 6000 feet and its width is 13 miles at the point to which visitors are conducted. A hundred Yosemites might lie almost unperceived in its immense reaches. Rand McNally unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 4222Chicago: Rand McNally 1929. 68pp. Square octavo 23 cm x 20 cm Black and white illustrated wrappers with vertical fold at the center as issued. Very good. Promotional work from the Santa Fe Railroad for the prospective tourist to the southwest that includes descriptions altitude population industries points of interest historical tidbits etc. of all the towns and stops along the Santa Fe line from Chicago to San Francisco. Illustrated with black and white views and maps. "The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System traverses the heart of romantic America - the land of the conquistadores and padres the pathfinders traders and pioneers. Some of the most remarkable scenery in the world is found on its lines and in the vast frontier hinterland to north and south. Santa Fe tracks tap the most fertile farming sections of the United States and regions rich in mineral wealth." - p.3. Rand McNally unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 3847Chicago: Rand McNally 1947. Single sheet 28 cm x 64 cm folded twice and printed on both sides. Near fine. Promotional piece for the prospective tourist from the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that offers information on transportation accommodations with rates and activities at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Illustrated with photographs and a map. "Few places in the world are so varied and interesting the year 'round and few scenic attractions so completely arranged for visitors as Grand Canyon. You are carried right to the South Rim in Santa Fe sleeping cars. Upon arrival you can spend your time walking along rim paths or take longer rim tours by motor coach. At observation points you can relax and spend hours viewing the many wonders of the Canyon you will marvel at its ever-changing beauty from sunup to sunset. Rand McNally unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 69298Quezon City: Katha Publishing Co 1978. Copy no. 228 of an unspecified edition 4to pp. 2 iv 450; printed from typescript; original printed cream wrappers; text toned title page soiled else very good and sound. "Authorized copies bear the signature of any one of the authors." This copy unsigned. Includes poetry plays and prose primarily in English but also Filipino Tagalog and Spanish often with tranalations and chronologically arranged "from pre-Hispanic times to the present." Not found in OCLC. Katha Publishing Co unknown books
1853Best.-Nr. 61519Lyon: chez l'editeur des Annales 1853. 41 volumes 8vo containing 247 numbers spanning the years 1822-1869; contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; sone wear and rubbing and the occasional cracking of the cloth but on the whole a good set with sound bindings. This appears to be the first printing of this edition with additional material on the early missions that did not appear in the earlier editions. This edition not found in Streit. This trove of research material contains the Jesuit reports on their world-wide missionary activities in Asia China India Malabar Siam etc. Africa Abyssinia Algiers etc. the Middle East Aleppo Bagdad Constantinople Isfahan Smyrna etc. Oceania Gambier Marquise Tonga etc. including the American missions in Louisiana Texas Kentucky. Ohio Michigan Florida Alabama Missouri Tennessee Oregon California the Rocky Mountain regions and Hawaii. These relations cover the Native Americans the lives and privations of the missionaries themselves their hunting their travels etc. in hundreds of letters by missionaries bishops and priests. chez l'editeur des Annales unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 51298New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with Il Papiro 1987. First American edition oblong 4to pp. 168; illustrated in color throughout; original gray cloth lettered in silver on spine unclipped pictorial dust jacket; fine. Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with Il Papiro unknown books
1864Best.-Nr. 10923London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate 1864. First edition thin 8vo pp. 4 72; recent green cloth gilt preserving the original printed green wrappers the upper with tape repairs at gutter edge where it was once detached title page torn at the gutter edge on its way to detaching; all else sturdy and bright. Also published in Spanish in Lima in 1864. Palau 51767; Sabin 11710. Williams and Norgate unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 13216London: Oxford University Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. The Orokaiva consist of several tribes that reside in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. The Orokaiva have a history of European contact as Papua New Guinea was annexed by the British government in 1888 and subsequently became an Australian territory in 1905. The Orokaiva religion is concerned primarily with spirits of the dead. A Taro Cult was established in the early 1900's and was originally directed toward supplicating taro spirits. This quickly shifted towards the placation of spirits of ancestors and departed relatives who are said to control taro growth. The Orokaiva Taro Cult is both a fertility cult and cult of the dead. Religious practitioners called taro men act as medicine men sorcerers and weather magicians.--db of Religious History. Orokaiva Magic is a psychological interpretation of the reasoning behind the practice of magic among the Orokaiva. Descriptions of Orokaiva folkways are often interspersed with witticisms. The predominant theme that permeates all phases of native life seems to be the effect of the newly introduced Taro cult upon the Orokaiva. Since Williams was writing this monograph primarily for the use of the Papuan Government a great deal of emphasis is placed on how Orokaiva society could be improved by introducing new educational policies. Francis Edgar Williams 9 February 1893 - 12 May 1943 was an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government of the Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1942. While in the field Williams did many of the standard tasks of anthropologists at the time he differed from his peers by revisiting field sites many times over years. This frequent exposure to the Papuan culture led his work to be far more realistic than the often romanticized fieldwork and subjects of his contemporaries."The three parts of this book were presented as Anthropological reports nos. 6 7 and 8 to the Papuan government." Lightly bumped corners/head and tail light toning uncut pages else tight bright and unmarred. Presentation copy from author to W.F. Armstrong. Dark blue cloth with gilt decorative device. 8vo. 225pp. Illus. b/w folding map frontis. Lacking DJ. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 191211The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1926. Hardcover. Good shelfwear overall to portfolios pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear missing plates 49-66. Oversized portfolio 3/4 yellow cloth and black paper boards with yellow lettering; VII 39 pp plates I-XLVIII with number 38 unnumbered color and mounted. The Appendix by F. Lessing p. 35-39 includes the translation of the two songs reproduced on plates LXV and LXVI with extracts from the various commentaries. Those plates are missing as are all plates from 49-66. 17x13x1.5" Martinus Nijhoff hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 363London: Frederick Muller 1975. cloth dust jacket. Baskerville John. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. xiv 181 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. A biography of the printer; color frontispiece. Part of the Ars Typographica series. Frederick Muller unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 5563Austin TX: Van Boeckmann Schutze & Co 1899. First Edition/Rebound. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Fine. No DJ. First Edition/Rebound. Hardcover. Appears to be mid-20th century rebinding conserving spine and front of original cloth. "Composed in the man of recorded conversations long after the war with an army doctor the text is rambling flippant and strong suspect" renowned book dealer F. O'Brien. Inscription reads "Chas. Jackson - Presented to me by the Author - Austin TX - Apr. 10 1900". Noted flaws notwithstanding a handsome copy of an increasingly scarce volume. Rebound ownership inscription on ffep two light pencil sketches at rear blanks else tight bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards original red cloth onlays gilt lettering black ink decorative elements. 8vo. 264pp plus 4pp ads. Eratta sheet tipped in at Table of Contents. Van Boeckmann, Schutze & Co hardcover books
1888Best.-Nr. 4035Philadelphia PA: J. B. Lippincott Co 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Poetry related to the history and life in and around central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River valley. Lovely plates by Darley and Lummis. Light shelf/edge wear light toning at spine small soil mark at front board light dust staining at top of text block else tight bright and unmarred. Grey cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements grey ink decorative elements decorative endpages frontispiece tissueguards. 12mo. 197pp. Illus. b/w plates. J. B. Lippincott Co hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 96414n.p. 1940. Paperback. Near Fine. 8 25 5 unnumbered pages 26-33p Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Vilas "For Charles and Margaret with love November 2nd 1940 Faith Vilas". An inked note on the Permissions page indicates that the stated permissions were "not yet obtained." Pages 26-32 have notes by Vilas indicating that the poems and quotations on those pages were to be spread over pages 29-40 presumably in a final edition which does not seem to have been published. OCLC locates one copy of this book of poetry Brown University. paperback books
1926Best.-Nr. 96344New York: Readers Editors Inc 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xvi 95 1p Original gray boards with title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. Ttitle label on backstrip has some chipping and wear. A couple of brown spots on half-title. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on front free endpaper To my son Charles H. Vilas -- who has always been a help and inspiration --- and to his dear ten fingers the willingly played the ccompaniments for many of these little songs -- this book is lovingly inscribed by his Mother Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas "Southover" Bethesda Maryland 1941. Poetry. Laid in a publisher's promotional leaflet for this book. Also laid in a leaflet separately printing the title poem copyrighting it in 1925 -- a year prior to the publication of this book. Faith has added an "N. B." note inside front cover asking that it be remembered that she wrote this before 1926 and any found inversions or cliches would not happen now 1940. Readers Editors Inc hardcover books
