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1937réf. TB31603New Haven: Yale University Press 1937. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spines Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 1/8 inches. Both are in good unclipped dust jackets with numerous chips and closed tears. Volume I contains 459 pages of text illustrated with a fold-out map and images from black and white photographs. Volume II contains pages 461 to 973 which includes an index to both volumes and is illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. Yale University Press hardcover books
1948réf. 004838New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1948. Book. Illus. by Robert Doremus. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine prior owner name in ink front pastedown hidden by front flap in a Very Good Plus dust jacket front flap price-clipped slight edgewear. A RARE book especially so in dust jacket and collectible condition. Harcourt Brace & Co. Hardcover books
1948réf. D9195New York et al: Samuel French 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth lettered in gilt on upper board and spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 128 1 plus b/w photo-illustrated plates on glossy stock. Spine tips rubbed; small bump at top edge of front board. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and a little dust-smudged; some light chipping and small closed tears along the edges; VG in mylar not price-clipped. A play based on the songs of Stephen Foster. Samuel French hardcover books
réf. 129New York: Mohawk Press 1931. Book. 8vo orig cloth. Pp. 159 illus. with full-page b&w photos. Soiled browned within but a sound copy. New York: Mohawk Press, 1931. hardcover books
1987réf. 339058New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 223 pages. Short oblong 8vo gilt-stamped black cloth with mounted plate d.w. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1987. Fine. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
réf. B306779-1New York 1964. 4pp. =one folding leaf. 1 color plate. Oblong 8vo. Self-wraps. New York, 1964. paperback books
1810réf. 3732018/10/1894. The letter is to Amelia de Laney who had attended the Nightingale Training School in the 1880s Being religious she tells de Laney “God bless you & prosper your work” In the Crimean War Florence Nightingale led a team of nurses to the military hospitals where British soldiers were dying in horrifying conditions - far more from disease and poor sanitation than from battle wounds. She transformed the hospitals dramatically cutting the death rate from around 43% down to just 2%. She became known as ""The Lady with the Lamp"" for walking the wards at night checking on patients. After the war she returned home a national hero but threw herself straight back into work rather than enjoying her fame. She spent the rest of her life campaigning for better sanitation in military and civilian hospitals public health reform and the professionalization of nursing. In 1860 she founded the first professional nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London using money donated by a grateful public. Nurses trained there went on to reform healthcare across the world. Nightingale wrote over 200 works including Notes on Nursing which became a worldwide bestseller and extensive writings on theology public health and hospital reform. By 1894 Florence Nightingale was 74 years old and had been an invalid for decades suffering from what is now believed was chronic brucellosis or ""Crimean fever"" contracted during the Crimean War. This severe bacterial illness caused her debilitating fatigue chronic pain and intermittent fevers severely restricting her mobility. But despite being often confined to her room in South Street London she had by 1894 reached a period where her depression lifted allowing her to occasionally receive visitors. Invitations to visit her at home were however hard to obtain. Even under these trying circumstances she remained an active healthcare pioneer. In 1894 she prepared and submitted a seminal paper titled ""Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing"" for the International Congress of Charities Correction and Philanthropy in Chicago. Amelia de Laney attended the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas's Hospital between 1883 and 1886. In 1894 Florence Nightingale gifted a heavily annotated copy of Gray's Anatomy to de Laney who she regarded highly. The inscription dated Easter 1894 contained her ""love & prayers for her highest success.” Though when de Laney moved in 1894 to a position as matron at the newly founded Epileptic Colony in Chalfont St Peter Nightingale privately expressed her concerns to her friend Henry Bonham Carter commenting that the work was ""entirely new. It is not hospital work at all. It seems to me an immense responsibility.” Autograph letter signed 10 South St. Mayfair London October 18 1894 to de Laney whom she addresses as “Dear Miss de Laney” wishing that her work will prosper but declining to see her because of her pressing workload. “I was so glad to hear from you tho’ as you say there is not much settled yet. But if there is patience you may augur good things. I wish I could see you now as you kindly offer. But doctor has strictly forbidden my seeing anyone. And tho’ i cannot adhere to this because there is so much pressing work I dare not however unwillingly stay to add another just now. I am sure you would not wish it. I have not left my room for above a twelvemonth. And my kind doctor comes now every day. I very much hope to see you later on. God bless you & prosper your work. Yours sincerely F. Nightingale.” It is interesting to note that Nightingale who was religious ends the letter to her old student de Laney “God bless you & prosper your work.” It is also fascinating that Nightingale in her 70s continued to have “much pressing work.” An uncommon letter of Nightingale touching on her encouragement to her protege and on her faith and health. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown books
1987réf. 349587Iowa City: University of Iowa Press 1987. Hardcover. 326p. very good condition in like dj. Letters. University of Iowa Press hardcover books
1892réf. 6622New York: Harper & Brothers 1892. First Edition. Orig. publisher's cloth. A very good copy. 12mo. There are half tone photographs throughout. Part of the Harper's ' Black and White ' series. A charming account of a sojourn through the Lake District of New York State. An early use of half-tone illustration. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1938réf. 18041London: Jonathan Cape 1938 First UK edition. A Boston Houghton Mifflin edition was published in 1937. Red publisher's cloth. Gilt-stamped spine. Top edge stained red. . Octavo. Numerous illustrations throughout. Two black and white plates including frontispiece. Index and bibliographical references. Mild shelfwear to board extremities. With illustrated dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear and soiling predominantly to spine. Dust jacket corners clipped. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. Florence Ayscough 1875 or 1878-1942 was born in Shanghai to American and Canadian parents. As a translator editor poet photographer and librarian she worked diligently to promote and elucidate Chinese language history and culture throughout the West. She co-authored her first book Fir Flower Tablets 1921 with her longtime friend the American poet Amy Lowell. She was the honorary librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai for fifteen years and a permanent lecturer at the University of Chicago at the end of her life. Her birthdate is variously listed as 1875 and 1878. The date on her gravestone is 1875 while OCLC and poets.org list it as 1878. Jonathan Cape, hardcover books
1930réf. 2222753First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth stamped in red. No dust jacket. Very good. 308 pages. Signed and inscribed by Ryerson to Louella Parsons: "…from two of her fans who read ever word she writes… Beverly Hills 1930." Also signed by Colin Clements in full. Not listed in Hagen. Author's second book. Ryerson wrote the screenplay for the Wizard of Oz 1939 film. Her autograph is uncommon. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1966réf. 337961New York: New York Labor News Company 1966. Pamphlet. 43p. 5x7 inch wraps; in very good condition. New York Labor News Company unknown books
1987réf. 2353023Beverly Hills: Royal House 1987. Large Softcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. Spine lightly faded. 1987 Large Softcover. 180 pp. Two hundred low-fat low-cholesterol low-salt sugar-free vegetarian recipes that include entrees soups salads breads and desserts. Royal House paperback books
1984réf. 2349951Geneseo: James Brunner 1984. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. Includes folding map. Jacket lightly toned with a few minor blemishes small sticker remnant on jacket corner. 1984 Hard Cover. xxii 416 45 pp. 1984 reissue of 1838 original incorporating the 1934 index to the work compiled by Florence Fischer Van Slyke which was originally published separately. Navy blue cloth gilt titles engraved frontispiece of Rochester in 1812 46 engravings throughout text including many of religious government and commercial buildings in Rochester and views of the Genesee River. Not in Sabin. Howes O122: "Enlarged from the author's sixteen-page pamphlet of 1835 entitled Rochester in 1835. Correct spelling of his name is said to be O'Rielly. James Brunner hardcover books
1984réf. 2349952Geneseo: James Brunner 1984. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Includes folding map. Jacket lightly toned with a few minor blemishes. 1984 Hard Cover. xxii 416 45 pp. 1984 reissue of 1838 original incorporating the 1934 index to the work compiled by Florence Fischer Van Slyke which was originally published separately. Navy blue cloth gilt titles engraved frontispiece of Rochester in 1812 46 engravings throughout text including many of religious government and commercial buildings in Rochester and views of the Genesee River. Not in Sabin. Howes O122: "Enlarged from the author's sixteen-page pamphlet of 1835 entitled Rochester in 1835. Correct spelling of his name is said to be O'Rielly. James Brunner hardcover books
1910réf. 2348849Chicago: Rand McNally & Company Publishers 1910. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pohl H.D. Boards rubbed stain to top corner of front board and corresponding faint stain to page margin does not affect illustrations or text. 1910 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Verse and color illustrations progressing through each letter of the alphabet designed to teach young readers about Native American culture. Illustrated by H.D. Pohl. Rand McNally & Company Publishers hardcover books
1899réf. 2344354London: H.S. Nichols Ltd 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii 337 3; vii 1 348; viii 356 pp. 8vo. Translated with an introduction and notes by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay Jean Jacques Rousseau and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay "was a French writer a saloniste and woman of fashion known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot Jean le Rond d'Alembert Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century." - Wikipedia H.S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
1938réf. 2331680Chicago Illinois: Albert Whitman & Co 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Melder-Collier Corina. First edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket rubbed with 1 inch chip a couple closed tears and several creases along top edge a couple light spots to jacket spine ink gift note on front flyleaf. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1938 Hard Cover. 125 pp. Illustrated by Corina Melder-Collier. Contains numerous finger plays including "This Little Pig Went to Market" "Where Is My Baby" "Here is Baby's Tousled Head" "How Many Days Has My Baby to Play" and many more. Albert Whitman & Co hardcover books
1934réf. 2330054Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Former library copy - ink stamps only. Jacket edges rubbed jacket spine head chipped. 1934 Hard Cover. 320 pp. A romance featuring two deaf protagonists Dawn Kinnaird and Kit Frankland who meet at the Heathside School for Deaf Children. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1912réf. 2308180New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Corners lightly rubbed. 1912 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Novel set in Kentucky includes frontispiece of mountain schoolhouse. Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover books
1971réf. 109714NY:: Atheneum. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Near fine in a near fine crease to rear flap dust jacket.; 239 pages . 1971. Atheneum, hardcover books
1915réf. 519630New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1915. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Frontispiece by Robert W. Amick. Octavo. 362pp. Small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown and inked owner signature on front fly. Trifle worn a fine copy in modestly worn and toned about very good dust jacket with some loss at the corners and spine ends and two small internal tape reinforcements. Still a handsome copy of an uncommon title with the decorative cloth bright. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1971réf. 54824New York: The Dial Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first printing of the first edition in Near Fine condition that has some fraying to the cloth boards in an alike dust-jacket that sports some wear to the outer trim; Fritz: the Story of a Political Assassin tells the story of Fritz Springmeier an ex-Nazi turned U.S. government informant who infiltrated the neo-Nazi movement in the early 1980s in order to protect American citizens. His account of the inner workings of the neo-Nazi movement is both riveting and terrifying and his story provides a unique perspective on the history of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany.; 8vo; 337 pages; FSA . The Dial Press hardcover books
1954réf. 70214New York: Exposition Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first printing in Very Good condition with some soiling to the boards and pages in a Good dustjacket with tearing soiling and chipping. SIGNED and inscribed without personalization by author Florence May Varley directly on the front flyleaf; When her mother dies seventeen-year-old Tessa is sent to live with her father in a small town in Michigan. Tessa is welcomed by her father's friends but she is not welcomed by the townspeople. Tessa's father is a defense attorney and the town believes that he is defending the Devil. Tessa must find a way to fit in and make friends in this strange town.; 8vo; 230 pages; Signed by Author . Exposition Press hardcover books
1860réf. 96102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
