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1908réf. 221767Girard KS: J.A. Wayland Publisher 1908. Magazine. 16p. stapled wraps 5.25x7.5 inches wraps slightly browned old pen markings on front wrap else good condition. Contents: A conversation with you by J.A. Wayland short poem "Omar for Teddy" by May Beals and Will socialism break up the family by H.E. England. J.A. Wayland, Publisher unknown books
réf. 291857West Bromwich: Eld & Blackham. hardcover. very good. Many illustrations including black-and-white photographs and full page color lithographic plates. viii 648 pages thick 4to gilt-stamped and decorated red cloth a.e.g; front flyleaf lacking spine ends mended few spots of soiling to cover. West Bromwich: Eld & Blackham ca. 1885. A very good copy. Eld & Blackham unknown books
1767réf. 12502London: Printed by Mark Baskett Printer to the King. and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. 1 title pp 859-860 as issued disbound. Tanned scattered light stains about Good. Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King.... and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett unknown books
1739réf. 16501London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King. 1739. pp. 551-556 plus title as issued folio disbound. Lightly tanned Very Good. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
1770réf. 12506London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan Printers to the King. 1770. 1 title 315-316 pp as issued disbound. Two small tears no text loss stains Good. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King... unknown books
1967réf. 009938New York: Avalon Books 1967. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 189pp.Beautiful First Edition of this abridgment of a five volume serial published in 1914 Currey. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $3.25 is fresh and bright with no creases chipping tears and none of the common fading to the spine whatsoever. A stunning collectable copy and quite uncommon in such condition. Avalon Books unknown books
1980réf. 15592Malta: M. R. S. M. Ltd. Near Fine. 1980. Paperback. First edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . M. R. S. M. Ltd. paperback books
1975réf. 89685London: Published for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society 1975. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations xix 373p. plus 39 plates printed on one side on plain paper. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Fading on backstrip and adjacent ares of front cover. Consists almost entirely of communications/papers each restricted to 6 pages of typescript in English French German and Spanish. Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 61. Published for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society paperback books
1853réf. 183142Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1853. Hardcover. G/G- covers show normal wear. Corners bumped and worn - starting to split. Spine has is torn at center and chipped but intact could be repaired. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 388 pp illustrations salmon wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society.Spine has been damaged but could repaired. Has shelf appeal especially if repaired. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1849réf. 183078Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1849. Hardcover. G/G- covers show normal wear. Corners bumped and worn. Spine has been tape repaired original gilt spine is gone. . Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 417 pp illustrations salmon wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. This one has a tight bind but unfortunately has lost it's original spine lessening it's shelf appeal. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1859réf. 183159Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1859. Hardcover. G covers show heavier wear. Spine has tears and frayed and is missing sections at top and in middle. Corners bumped and worn. Ex-library label inside front cover. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Some pages have toning and warping. Title page is torn at bottom right corner - does not affect text. Some back pages have chipping and tears on edge. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 388 pp illustrations original wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The price decrease reflects the condition of the covers and spine - but is a candidate for re-bind. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1852réf. 183143Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1852. Hardcover. G/G- covers show normal wear. Corners bumped and worn - starting to split at hinges. Spine and covers are detached from text blocks but could be repaired. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 402 pp illustrations salmon wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society.Spine has been damaged but could repaired. Has shelf appeal especially if repaired. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1908réf. 329480Girard KS: J.A. Wayland Publisher 1908. Magazine. 16p. stapled wraps 5.25x7.5 inches wraps slightly browned very good condition. Contents: A conversation with you by J.A. Wayland short poem "Omar for Teddy" by May Beals and Will socialism break up the family by H.E. England. J.A. Wayland, Publisher unknown books
1903réf. 180101903. Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1903 and 1905 records the geographic extent of secondary schooling available to girls in Britain during the early twentieth-century expansion of women's education. Founded in 1874 by Frances Mary Buss and other headmistresses of endowed and proprietary schools the Association developed from efforts to improve the standards and institutional position of girls' secondary education. These two successive lists arrange schools by county providing contemporary evidence of where public secondary education for girls was available and allowing comparison across localities and between the two publication years. Their dates follow three decades in which girls gained broader access to academically oriented schools and universities although educational equality remained contested; in 1897 Cambridge rejected a proposal granting women the titles of degrees followed by riotous celebrations by male undergraduates. Women were not admitted to full membership of Cambridge until 1948. Two pamphlets issued by the Association of Head Mistresses dated 1903 and 1905 each measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Soft blue covers are printed "One Shilling Published by the Educational Supply Association 42 Holborn Viaduct E.C." Entries within each pamphlet are organized by county and identify public secondary schools open to girls at the time of publication. The format turns the changing institutional landscape of girls' education into a contemporary directory recording individual schools by place rather than describing educational reform retrospectively. Both front covers bear stamps reading "Board of Education Library" and "Supplied Public Service" each incorporating the royal crown; the back covers retain red "Board of Education Reference Library" stickers. These official library markings document their presence within a government educational reference collection. 1 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1903. Arranged geographically by county the pamphlet enumerates secondary schools then available to girls and provides a contemporary reference point for the distribution of female secondary education at the beginning of the Edwardian period. Its Board of Education Library markings also preserve evidence of institutional reference use. 2 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1905. Issued two years after the first pamphlet this updated county-by-county listing permits direct comparison of the provision of girls' secondary schools between 1903 and 1905. The directory appeared during the continuing expansion of educational opportunities that connected secondary schooling with women's increasing access to higher education; the University of London had begun awarding degrees to women on equal terms with men in 1878 while access elsewhere remained uneven. Textblocks tight bright and clean. Both pamphlets overall very good condition. The consecutive editions preserve a measurable record of girls' secondary education by county at a time when women educators and school leaders were establishing institutions capable of preparing girls for examinations professional training and higher education. unknown books
1935réf. 03475MARVEL TALES Fantasy Publications 1935 first edition Volume 1 #4 small price stamp affixed to the front cover some light dust-soil to the covers top 1/2 inch of spine chipped as well as the upper left corner tip of several pages never entering near the text else a near vg copy in color pictorial wraps with the art of Clay Ferguson Jr. on the front cover and frontis of this very fragile pamphlet. Illustrated with original contributions by Clifford Simak THE CREATOR H. P. Lovecraft THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH as well as other offerings by John Wyndham George Allen England P. Schuyler Miller et.al. Most certainly a must for the Simak collector as THE CREATOR was later published separately and became the authors first book. Fantasy Publications paperback books
1680réf. 131051680. POPISH PLOT. England. Parliament. A True Copy of the Journal-Book of the Last Parliament . Wherein is Comprised a Fuller and Further Discovery of the Popish Plot.London: Printed in the year 1680. 8vo. 6 104 97-105 108-203 "194" 177-316 p. Text complete despite erratic pagination front and rear blanks wanting. Modern utilitarian cloth covers warped. Text very browned and margins very brittle. Complete but good at best. The Popish Plot. Wing E2748. unknown books
1841réf. 164511841. Catholic Girls' School Ugbrooke. Regulations for the Catholic Girls' School at Ugbrook 1841 a formal rule book documenting the provision and governance of Catholic education for girls from working and dependent families associated with the Ugbrooke estate in Devon. Founded in 1824 by Lady Clifford the school was principally financed by Lord Clifford with teachers reporting directly to him; surviving research indicates that tuition was effectively free for families unable to contribute and that Lord Clifford also provided medical attention and clothing for pupils. The 1841 regulations define this educational system more precisely stating that the school was intended "solely for the education of the female children" of present or former tenants servants and laborers of the Clifford family as well as tradesmen employed by the family. As such the pamphlet provides primary-source evidence for the study of girls' education Catholic schooling estate paternalism class and the institutional regulation of female childhood in early Victorian England. Catholic Girls' School Ugbrooke. Regulations for the Catholic Girls' School at Ugbrook. Chudleigh: J. E. Searle 1841. First edition. 8 2 pages. 8vo. The regulations were approved by the Right Reverend Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England for the Catholic Girls' School at Ugbrooke Devon which was placed under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph; the rules are dated March 25 1841. The pamphlet establishes who qualified for admission and records the formal ecclesiastical and estate framework governing the school demonstrating how educational access for girls was organized through relationships among the Catholic Church the Clifford household estate employees and their families. Ugbrooke itself had a particularly longstanding Catholic identity: the Clifford family's chapel was rededicated for Catholic worship in 1673 and Mass continued there through the period in which the girls' school operated. The regulations appeared well before universal elementary education in Britain and document a localized model in which girls from tenant servant laboring and tradesmen's families received schooling through the patronage of a Catholic landed family. The school's adoption of Joseph Lancaster's teaching system further places it within contemporary experiments in economical mass elementary instruction while its governance remained distinctly tied to the Clifford estate and Catholic religious authority. Earlier bibliographic cataloging located only two institutional copies at Emory University and the National Library of Australia although institutional holdings can change and this should not be treated as a definitive current census. No specific physical defects are supplied; overall very good. A focused primary source showing how class gender religion and estate patronage shaped access to formal education for girls in early Victorian Devon. unknown books
1840réf. 72753Athens: Printed at the Whig Office 1840. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 33pp. Stictched signatures. Withdrawn stamp on front foxed throughout else an about very good example. The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences established in 1801 is the oldest and largest college of the University of Georgia in Athens. Named for Benjamin Franklin it comprises 30 departments across five divisions: fine arts social sciences biological sciences physical and mathematical sciences and humanities. Printed at the Whig Office paperback books
1975réf. 755701975. UK/Commonwealth. The Weekly Law Reports. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. 11 volumes: 1971 vol. 3 1972 vol. 1-3 1973 vol. 1-3 1974 vol. 1-3 1975 vol. 1. Tan buckram with black spine lettering. Ex-library with stamps else very good. Together 11 books. $100. This series offers comprehensive coverage with headnotes and full text reports of the judgments. They are printed weekly in 44 parts and then bound in three volumes per year. The first volume of each year reports on cases not thought of sufficient importance to warrant inclusion in the Law Reports. Those which will be included are found in volumes two and three. unknown books
réf. 20870Sampson Henry. Two stereoviews of Liverpool circa 1860s document the civic architecture commemorative landscape and street activity of a major Victorian port city. One view records St. George's Hall Liverpool's monumental neoclassical complex of law courts and concert spaces while the second shows the equestrian monument to King George III on London Road. Together the images capture public buildings and monuments as active parts of the urban environment providing visual evidence for the study of Victorian Liverpool architectural photography civic commemoration transportation and the nineteenth-century stereograph trade. National Museums Liverpool dates Sampson's view of the London Road monument to approximately the 1860s and identifies him as a photographer working from Southport. Two sepia-toned albumen stereographs mounted on cards each measuring approximately 6 by 3 inches. The St. George's Hall view presents the building's long classical façade and columned portico beyond a broad street occupied by pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles. The second card titled "The Monument London-road" depicts the fenced equestrian statue of King George III on its elevated stone pedestal with surrounding buildings establishing its original urban setting. The paired exposures on each card were intended to produce a three-dimensional image when examined through a stereoscope. Sampson's surviving Liverpool stereographs include views dated approximately 1865 to 1870 supporting a mid-nineteenth-century attribution for the group. These views preserve Liverpool's built environment during a period of commercial expansion and civic investment using stereoscopic photography to make the city's architectural landmarks available to viewers beyond Liverpool itself. Both cards retain clear photographic detail and even sepia tonality; no tears significant fading or losses are reported. Near fine condition. A complementary pair of early urban views joining monumental architecture public sculpture and observable Victorian street life. unknown books
1847réf. 275261Cincinnati: Derby Bradley & Co. Publishers 1847. First Edtion. Very Good binding. Two rather florid speeches before the Society of the Cincinnati in which the Baptist pastor Elias Magoon addresses the great oratorical lights of the Revolutionary era -- James Otis Samuel Adams John Adams Patrick Henry Alexander Hamilton and other. 91 pp.; 93-96 advertisments. In the publisher’s green cloth with titling in gold to the front board. With foxing throughout. Very Good binding. Derby, Bradley & Co. Publishers unknown books
1920réf. 51044NY: The New England Society in the City of New York 1920. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. lxii 470pp; xii 471-719pp indices. Ink name and date on each front free endpaper Extremities lightly worn with some superficial damage to the spine of volume one else a very good set in publisher's blue cloth. The New England Society in the City of New York hardcover books
1826réf. 68233Baltimore: F. Lucas Jun'r. Very Good. 1826. Wrappers. England John. The Substance of a Discourse preached in the Hall of the Congress of the United States in the City of Washington on Sunday January 8 1826. Baltimore F Lucas Jun'r 1826. Am. Imp. #24436. Disbound. Library stamps margins of first leaves strengthened with library tape spotting. . F. Lucas, Jun'r unknown books
1916réf. 03426THE GOLDEN BLIGHT H.K. Fly 1916 first edition rear inner hinge starting some soiling to the binding else a near very good copy. Illustrated. Gold no longer the standard. H.K. Fly unknown books
1980réf. RENGBRO00fpBookcraft 1980. Very Good. England Eugene. Brother Brigham. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft 1980. 1st edition. 256pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and both ends of spine bumped. Large gift card with letter affixed on front free end sheet. Signed by author on title page. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Price clipped. Edges rubbed and chipped with several short closed tears and some faint creasing along back top edge. Bookcraft hardcover books
