The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth, Frederick - (1971)

Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 3 through April 3, 1981 at Colorado State University and then traveled to ten other locations for additional dates. Foreword by Peter A. Jacobs. Essay by Ron G. Williams. Includes some color and black and white illustrations with two illustrated translucent sheets. A very good plus copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear and a tiny sticker shadow to the verso of the front cover. An attractive and uncommon catalog.

N.P.: n.p., 1883. broadside (13 by 20 inches). Drawing of a grounded ship. In upper right corner is the name "G. Willême" and the dates December 22, 1883 and January 22, 1883.

[London]: Beaverbrook Newspapers / Daily Express. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. [1954]. First Edition. Hardcover. No splitting to spine. Previous owner's name. Previous owner's inscription in red marker pen. Painting contest partly coloured in, neatly. A few light wrinkles and creases to some leaves.; 124 pages including free endpapers. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 245 x 176mm. Contents includes the stories "Rupert and the Friendly Sea-Lion"; "Rupert and the Sketch Book"; "Rupert and the Castaway"; "Rupert and the Back Room Boy"; "Rupert and the Dragon Pills". .

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing and creasing and spots of foxing to wrappers. Some foxing. Corners of some leaves rubbed and a little dog-eared.; Scarce. 82 pages. Printed green wrappers. Front wrapper has same letterpress as on the title page. Page dimensions: 206 x 139mm. Contents ("Analysis"): The Case against the Colony; Technical Responsibility for Native Government - Theory of Separate Administration; Practice of Administration in Native Affairs; Moral Responsibility for the War; The Minor Charges against the Colonists; Imperial Policy towards the Colony; Future Prospects; Financial Questions; Conclusion; Note; Appendix. [Reference: Bagnall 5862 - "A defence of New Zealand's part in the differences with the British Government on the management of Maori affairs."] .

S.l., 1910. Good. 168 x 115 mm, photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely, romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach, holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river, her expression seemingly wistful. We have been unable to identify the subject of this remarkable vintage photograph. From the Dorothy Sloan collection of Women in the West.

N.P.: n.p., 1822. broadside (14 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches). Etching of a rural landscape, artist unknown, but date June 3 1822, on front corner. Edges chipped and tanned.

Albany, NY, 1902. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Staple-bound pamphlet. 9"x5 3/4". 8 pp. No wraps as issued. Small chip to upper right corner of first page. Light toning to edges and margins. 1" closed tear at bottom of crease. This is a report read at a New York State conference on penal reform in 1902. It was prepared and presented by committe chariman and progressive reformer Eugene Ambrose Philbin, cowritten by 8 other noted activist leaders, including Josephine Shaw Lowell and William Church Osborn. The report admonishes the presence of politics and profiteering in the administration of prisons and charitable organizations, the first seeds of corruption that have now blossomed into America's billion dollar prison industrial complex. The pamphlet reads today as an early warning and somewhat naive call to action, concluding with the hope that if earnest workers were to make a "black-list, which would contain the names of all politicians who sought to use the alms of the poor for their… Read More

[London]: Beaverbrook Newspapers / Daily Express. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. [1954]. First Edition. Hardcover. No splitting to spine. Previous owner's name. Previous owner's inscription in red marker pen. Painting contest partly coloured in, neatly. A few light wrinkles and creases to some leaves.; 124 pages including free endpapers. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 245 x 176mm. Contents includes the stories "Rupert and the Friendly Sea-Lion"; "Rupert and the Sketch Book"; "Rupert and the Castaway"; "Rupert and the Back Room Boy"; "Rupert and the Dragon Pills". .

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing and creasing and spots of foxing to wrappers. Some foxing. Corners of some leaves rubbed and a little dog-eared.; Scarce. 82 pages. Printed green wrappers. Front wrapper has same letterpress as on the title page. Page dimensions: 206 x 139mm. Contents ("Analysis"): The Case against the Colony; Technical Responsibility for Native Government - Theory of Separate Administration; Practice of Administration in Native Affairs; Moral Responsibility for the War; The Minor Charges against the Colonists; Imperial Policy towards the Colony; Future Prospects; Financial Questions; Conclusion; Note; Appendix. [Reference: Bagnall 5862 - "A defence of New Zealand's part in the differences with the British Government on the management of Maori affairs."] .

S.l., 1910. Good. 168 x 115 mm, photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely, romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach, holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river, her expression seemingly wistful. We have been unable to identify the subject of this remarkable vintage photograph. From the Dorothy Sloan collection of Women in the West.