Search Results: Authors starting with A from Resource Books, LLC

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, Printed By Smith & Sale, 1895. Second edition, 1895, limited to 925 copies. Title first published by Chiswick Press in 1894. Off-white hardcover with upper and outer yapped edges, printing in brown, title page in black and vermilion. Covers age-darkened with chips around perimeters of the spine, some far inner margin sticking between the endpapers and adjacent pages, two attached leaves at center detached from binding but present, pages clean, no names or other markings.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Lahore, Peshawar, Hyderabad, Karachi, Pakistan: Sh. Ghulam Ali & Sons, 1964. Second revised edition, 1964. Black hardcover with dustjacket. Includes folding maps in color. The book has some general exterior wear and minor internal repair (regluing) to top of rear hinge, sound text block, foxing to top edge of text block, slightly age-yellowed but clean pages, publisher stamp on front free endpaper, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some chips around the edges and a bit of age-related shelf soil, good overall.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1908. First edition, 1908. Green cloth with gilt cover lettering, tinted green illustrated endpapers, 338 pages, plus publisher's advertisements. The book is in good condition with conspicuous edgewear including rubbed corners and spine ends, darkened text block edges, and a moisture shadow at right bottom front cover corner, sound text block, hinges repaired, clean pages with no names or other markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1881. Remarkably well kept arithmetic text, Victorian binding in burnt orange cloth lettered and extensively decorated in black and gilt, marbled edges, 196 pages plus at least 25 pages of publisher's ads. Minimal wear, good hinges, tight text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Bari: Editori Laterza, 1955. In Italian. Published 1955. Light yellow cloth printed in brown, 599 pages, illustrated dustjacket. A bit of foxing to the front cover, little external wear, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some light surface soil and rubbing, no chips or tears.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: W. Marshall & Co., 1836. First edition in rough condition with covers detached. Personal bookplate and name of Eden B. Foster [Eden Burroughs Foster, D.D.] on the front endpapers. Dark brown cloth, 320 pages. Spine covering missing, text block sound, very minor dampstain to lower margin of the first few pages, occasional light foxing, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1845. First edition [1845]. Mid 19th century guide to relationships between the sexes, with a decidedly Christian perspective, reprinting two sermons or discourses and with additional scriptural advice to the potential bride and groom. Brown cloth decorated in blind with gilt spine lettering and decoration, about 4.25" tall, all edges gilt, 127 pages. Very light wear, good hinges, firm binding, name on front free endpaper, pages clean and otherwise unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

Philadelphia and New York: George S. Appleton, D. Appleton & Co., 1847. Title page dated 1847. Collected children's stories and poems illustrated with ten hand colored engravings plus hand colored title page. Green cloth lettered and decorated in cloth and in blind, about 5.75 inches tall, 220 pages plus publisher's ads. Covers lightly rubbed with spine lettering and decoration worn but legible, light chipping to spine ends, sound text block, pages age-toned but generally clean with some darkened areas from little fingers, light occasional foxing, intermittent tiny dampstain to top edge of text block, old gift notation in pencil on preliminary blank.. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Limited, 1924. Second printing, 1924. Collected essays on use of photography for scientific applications. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, 549 pages plus publisher's ads. Illustrated with black and white plates. Some rubbing to the spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Austin, J. Coolidge, 1860. First edition, 1860. Includes a large folding hand colored map of New Hampshire. Text is arranged by city or town, with engravings, with a list of Natives of New Hampshire Resident in Boston and Vicinity at the end. Black blind-stamped cloth, 179 pages plus the list of names. The map has a 4.5 inch closed tear but no paper loss (repairable). Covers edgeworn with some chipping to the spine, front hinge internally reglued and secure, text block sound, pages clean with a very small transparent stain to the far lower corners of the first and last few pages, names on front free endpapers, no other markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Fondazione Arthur Ross, 1985. In Italian. Softcover catalog with black and white illustrations of works depicting bullfighting by Goya and Picasso, from the Peggy Guggenheim collection. Softcover, 70 pages. Very good with very light shelfwear, firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1987. First edition [1987] of this important contribution to art history research, with personalized inscription by the author's son on the title page. Illustrated in both color and in black and white. Softcover, 24 pages. Minimal edgewear, contents clean and otherwise unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. First American edition. World War I poetry by service members of the American Expeditionary Forces. Blue cloth printed in gilt, color frontis plate. Some light edgewear, minor fabric flaw to the very top edge of the rear cover (looks like a small wrinkle from the binding process), good hinges, sound text block, some foxing to outer edges of frontis plate, clean pages with poem handwritten on the preliminary blank with the name Ira Featherstone (?) at the end, no other names or markings.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: A. Flanaga Co., 1894. Copyright 1894, this copy most likely from that period. Stresses that what the pupil discovers for himself is of the greatest value. Season by season instruction on natural history, including plants and animals, weather, very basic physics, etc. Includes reccomendation by grades from first to eighth. Softcover, stapled binding, 96 pages. Covers rubbed and soiled with chips to the spine ends, binding sound but with rusted staples visible at beginning and end, pages have some occasional age-speckling but are otherwise quite clean, no names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Charleston, SC: A. Fowler, 1818. First edition, 1818-19 (only years published), complete run of 52 weekly issues per year, missing one page. Blue paper covered boards with brown leather spine, black spine label, 10.75" tall, 208 + 208 pages. Covers worn and hanging on by the binders' cords, spine dried with chipped ends, text block sound, rear free endpaper missing, as is page 112/13, which is the first page of volume I, no 29. Pages age-toned with light to heavy uniform foxing, minor old transparent stains to lower margins of a few pages and lower corners of a few toward the front of the volume, pages otherwise clean, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Edinburgh, Scotland: George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. First edition, title pages dated 1815. Illustrated with 21 tinted aquatints and two folding tables. Worn two volume set in three quarter brown leather over marbled boards, all edges marbled, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, xiii, 382 + 360, [1], [8] ads, plus plates, books about 8.75 inches tall. Covers heavily worn, front free endpaper of first volume roughly removed, top inch of both half-titles removed, text blocks sound, endpapers and half-titles a little grubby, pages lightly age-toned but mainly clean with a few instances of light foxing, names and other writing on front free endpaper of second volume, tiny not on first page of each volume, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dover, NH: Printed for Charles Peirce and Samuel Bragg, 1806. First edition, 1806. Handsomely rebound by Lauriat's Boston, likely mid 20th century. Deep tan morocoo leather bordered in gilt, raised spine bands, gilt decorated compartments, all edges gilt, gilt tooled inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark, 431 pages plus four pages of bookseller ads. Externally about fine, internally good, good hinges, firm text block, pages age-toned and mainly clean with old transparent stains to many pages but fully legible throughout, name of Samuel Kimball Equire dated 1816 written on preliminary blank, no other markings, some musty odor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition [1933]. Blue cloth, no dustjacket. Fair condition with edgewear, considerable uneven fading and specling to spine, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned pages with some light occasional foxing, mainly in the margins, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New Haven, Connecticut: A. C. Gilbert Company, 1963. Full line 1963 toy catalog, including not only American Flyer train sets, auto racing, science sets, Erector sets, and the new "Wing Thing", but electric hockey games, microscopes, children's sewing machines, Dinky toys, more. Softcover, 32 pages including printed covers. Very good condition with some minimal cover rubbing, store rubber stamp at bottom of rear cover, slight musty odor, clean pages with no names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition, 1973. Dark gray hardcover with dustajcket. The book is in very good condition with minor shelf rubbing, good hinges, firm text block, minor dust speckling to the top edge, clean pages, names of Yale Classics scholar Joseph Solodow written at the top edge of the front free endpaper, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some edgewear, small chip to top edge of rear panel, faded but legible spine, other edgewear, little paper loss.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.