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New York: Random House, 1992. "...will forever alter our fundamental view of television and what it has brought to and stolen from our lives." 261 pages with index. Cream paper hard cover with red cloth spine. Very light wear to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent. DJ in VG+ condition with slight wear to edges, corners and spine ends, small scuff on front of jacket. Uncut page edges. Interior pages are crisp, clean, easily legible. Book in VG+ to NF condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Television.

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Dimension Books, 1965. Translation was made by Noel Lindsay. Author facsimilie signature on dedication page. 125 pp. Black cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Gold slipcase in VG+ condition with dirt smudges to corners and edges. Book in NF condition.. Cloth. Near Fine/Slipcase. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Philosophy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 329 pp. Stated first edition. Gift inscription by author on front free endpaper to fellow author and friend Katherine Newlin Burt (Western novelist), which reads "To Mrs. Struthers Burt, in good faith, not with the expectation of rereading, but to commemorate a really good time on shipbound. Steward Edward White". Black cloth covers with faded gilt title lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, scuffing and soiling to cover faces, white marks on back cover, wear to joints, spine is faded from sun exposure, spine ends are bent and fraying. Yellow top page edge. Front hinge is broken, back hinge loose. Endpapers browning. Stains from gift inscription on back of front free endpaper. Title page and acknowledgements are separated and removed from book. Foxing spots and some small chips to page edges, rest of interior is clean. Book in Good condition.. Gift Inscription By… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. One from The Pleasures of Life Series. Frontispiece color portrait of the author. 81 pp. Book is Very Good. Interior stamped with previous owner's name on title page and on one page's lower margin-not near text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Dust Jacket intact with chips/tears and some missing pieces around the edges. Spine label illegible. Missing strip at spine's bottom edge. DJ is Good- to Fair.. Hard Cover. Size: Approx. 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Essay.

London: John Sharpe Volume I: Books I. II. Ancient and Classical. 288 pp. Authors include Cicero, Pliny. Volume III: Pope and His Friends. Books V. VI. Modern of Late Date. 288 pp. Authors include Pope, Berkley, Blount, Atterbury, Swift, Prior, Duchess of Ormond, Arbuthnot, Bollingbroke, Gay, Bathurst. Volume IV: Books VII. VIII. Miscellaneous, of Modern and Late Date. 288 pp (misprint on last page to read page 222). Authors include Lady Betty Germain, Steele, Lady M. W. Montague, Hoadly, Lyttleton, Secker, Rundle, Herring, Duchess of Somerset. Volume V: Books IX. X. Middle of the Last Century. 288 pp. Authors include Mrs. Montagu, Chesterfield, Richardson, Lady Bradshaigh, Shenstone, Gray, Sterne, Sancho. Volume VI: Books XI. XII. Recent. 287 pp. Authors include Johnson, Cowper, Beattie, Warburton, Jones, Hume, Dunning, Gibbon, Seward, Fox. Pink/white marbled boards with tan leather spine and tips, faded gilt lettering and design on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, some to… Read More

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1971. "This concise handbook on human relations is from ancient China and may be the oldest book in the world." 63 pp. Red paper hard cover with image of gold dragon on front. DJ in Good- to Good condition with chipping/creasing to edges and corners, fading to spine and back top cover edge, ink spots/marks, top spine end is torn and missing. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, wear to spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. Front hinge loose. Interior is clean, tight. Book in VG- condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good. Illus. by Marian Morton. Size: Approx. 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". China.

New York: George Munro's Sons, 1895. Munro's Library of Popular Novels. No. 42. A collection of humorous essays. The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes: ON BEING IDLE. ON BEING IN LOVE. ON BEING IN THE BLUES. ON BEING HARD UP. ON VANITY AND VANITIES. ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD. ON THE WEATHER. ON CATS AND DOGS. ON BEING SHY. ON BABIES. ON EATING AND DRINKING. ON FURNISHED APARTMENTS. ON DRESS AND DEPORTMENT.and ON MEMORY. 102 pp.This was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. Paper wraps. Soiling to covers. ex-lib. stamped twice on cover and twice in margins of pages. Front cover and first few pages of the bottom corner tips missing. Overall Good. Triangular "library pocket" on back endpaper with words:"Subject to library rules". Last line of text on a few pages slightly blurred. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 -June 14, 1927) was an… Read More

London: John Murray, 1843. The volumes cover: Literature of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1700; History of Theological Literature in Europe from 1520 to 1700; History of Speculative, Moral, and Political Philosophy, and of Jurisprudence, in Europe, from 1520 to 1700; History of the Literature of Taste in Europe from 1520 to 1550; Scientific and Miscellaneous Literature of Europe from 1520 to 1550; History of Poetry from 1550 to 1700; History of Dramatic Literature from 1550 to 1700; History of Polite Literature in Prose from 1550 to 1700; History of Physical and Miscellaneous Literature from 1500 to 1700; History of Mathematical and Physical Science from 1600 to 1650. and History of some other Provinces of Literature from 1600 to 1650. VOLUME I: 568 pp. VOLUME II: 586 pp. VOLUME III: 648 pp. including Index. Volumes covers are brown paper? over boards. Spines reinforced with black tape. Paper labels on spine with typed letters. Covers rubbed, some stains. Corners bumped. Spine ends bumped/rubbed… Read More

Philadelphia: Cary & Hart, 1845. Reprinted from the English Originals, with the Author's corrections for this edition. Contents include: Chateaubriand; Napoleon; Bossuet; Poland; Madame De Stael; Marshal Ney; Robert Bruce; Paris in 1814; The Louvre in 1814; Tyrol; France in 1833; Italy; Military Treason and Civic Soldiers; Arnold's Rome; French Revolution of 1830; Desertion of Portugal; Karamsin's Russia; The Spanish Revolution of 1820 and others. Total of 34 articles. 390 pp. Salmon color covers with some soiling/rubbing. Corner tips bumped/rubbed to boards. Paper label top of spine with black print title: "Cheap Edition Alison's Miscellanies Complete in One Volume". 1/2"X1/4" missing piece at top of spine. Chips at spine end. Overall covers are Good. ex.-lib. bookplate on front endpaper. On free endpaper numbers and "clear" embossed stamp. Brownish tone to endpapers. Slight and sporadic foxing. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good.… Read More

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851. "These outlines of a System of Mechanical Philosophy are the result of a research made by the author, for his own instruction. In the research he attempted to separate supposition from fact,-the questionable from those things necessarily taken for truth by the laws of the mind." Embossed decorative brown boards.Backstrip ends frayed, else Good Plus externally. . Foxing on endpapers and title page, rest of interior clean and tight. 330pp.. Hardbound. Good +/No Jacket. Size: Approx. 5 " x 8 1/4". Philosophy.

New York: Hurst & Co. Translated from the Greek by John Dryden and Others. The Whole Carefully Revised and Corrected to which is Prefixed 'A Life of Plutarch.' Reprinted from the Latest English Editions. "This translation of the lives here presented is that known as Dryden's ; because a life of Plutarch from his hand was originally published with it, at the end of the seventeenth century, and is a reprint of the text as it appears in the edition in five volumes, published in 1859 by Little, Brown & Co." No publishing date, but appears to be from late 19th century. 925 pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt title box on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed with some bumps, wear and marks to cover faces, areas on joints are rubbed, spine ends are bent and starting to fray. Small red ink mark on front inside cover. Previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Small Breaks to both hinges. Interior pages are browning along edges, some small… Read More

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1968. 107 pp. Red cloth covers with gilt title on front and spine. Several white specks on front cover. Interior tight and clean.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Philosophy.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 500 pp. No publishing date listed. Green cloth cover with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are rubbed to boards, edges bumped, white marks/scuffing on cover faces, spine is creased, spine ends are bent and fraying. Front hinge broken, back hinge loose. Interior pages are lightly browning, otherwise clean. Book in VG- to VG condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8". Philosophy.

Commencing with Obituary Notice of William Watts Woodward who died, May 1st 1938. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lii. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1938?. Paperbound. Very Good. Philosophy.

Commencing with Obituary Notice of Edward Garside. Born 1860. Died, March 6th, 1939. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lxvi. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1939?. Paperbound. Very Good. Philosophy.

Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1900. Those memorialized in this volume include: John A. Ryder, William H. Furness, Henry Hazlehurst, Henry Phillips, Jr., William John Potts, Lewis Allaire Scott, J. Sergeant Price, Thomas Sterry Hunt, Henry Duval Gregory, William Pepper, Richard A. Tilghman, Alexander Biddle, W. G. A. Bonwill, Daniel Garrison Brinton, and Edward Drinker Cope. 316 pp. Olive green paper covers. Front cover completely separated from rest of document. Corners are bent, edges rubbed and chipped, stains to edges. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front cover. Handwritten title and identification numbers on cracked spine. Interior pages are browning along edges, some corners are bent, some with water stains on edges. Document in Good- condition.. Paper Cover. Good-. Illus. by Photographs. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9 1/2". American Philosophical Society.

New York: Brentano's, 1904. "With this account of the origin of the book, and a reminder that it is not a critical essay on the poetic beauties of Ibsen, but simply an exposition of Ibsenism, I offer it to the public what they can of it." 170 pp. Blue cloth covers with brown title bar on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, scuffing/wear to cover faces. Holes to joints, title bar is torn and sections missing, spine ends are torn and fraying, much of top spine end is missing. Gilt top page edge. Hinges are broken, spine is loose and broken in middle of book. Water stains and marks to much of back interior pages, rippling to pages. Book in Good- condition.. Cloth. Good-. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 3/4". Essay.

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. 1292 pp. including index. Blue covers with white lettering on front cover and spine. Spine's top edge, small piece fraying. Overall covers are Good or better. ex. library markings on title page. Front endpaper with library pocket residue? Previous owner's name: Ed Woodworth stamped. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Thick book. Could require extra postage.. 10th Edition, Revised and Enlarged.. Cloth. Good. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4". Books on Books.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Centenary Edition, Volume I. 250 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, scuffing to cover faces, some faded areas on spine, spine ends are bent and frayed. Uncut page edges. Endpapers are browning. Photograph frontispiece with tissueguard. Title page has browning from tissueguard. Spine loose in some areas, otherwise interior clean. Book in VG- condition.. Cloth. Very Good-. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Famous Author.

Cambridge: The Science Company, 1884. Articles by Famous Americans: FREDERICK SCHWATKA: The Middle Yukon with 9 illustrations; in Letters to the Editor: G. BROWN GOODE: The invention of the vertical camera in photography with photo engraving illustration; and CHARLES C. ABBOTT: Hibernating mammals. Other articles: " The conic projection in oceanic cartography" with a North-Atlantic track-chart. " The Royal Society of Canada"; and " Calderwood's Mind and Brain". Mildly chipped covers at side edge. Overall covers are Very Good. Faint vertical crease down the middle. Interior is tight, clean and VG.. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Etchings, Chart. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Science.