Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bartlebys Books

(NY: Baker & Godwin, 1862. 8vo.; 6pp., plus appendix. Along with THE SECOND LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE HON. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY...ON THE SUBJECTS OF CHEAP MONEY, THE PROPOSED WAR TAX, DEMAND TREASURY NOTES, &c. by A Patriot.

Philadelphia: Printed and published by S. Parmele, 1818. 8vo. 95, [1] pp. Contemporary calf-backed plain boards. Lacks front endpaper, small piece torn from head of title page, not affecting text, persistent foxing throughout. COHEN 8111 NASH 117.

London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, poutlry; and J. Archer; R. Dugdale; M.N. Mahon; M. Keene; C. Legrange; and L. Tuggis; Dublin, 1808. London, England: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, poutlry; and J. Archer; R. Dugdale; M.N. Mahon; M. Keene; C. Legrange; and L. Tuggis; Dublin, 1808. A New [ie: Second] Edition. 18 cm. xxii, 228pp. Illustrated with a fold-out frontispiece and four additional engravings. Disbound the frontis is trimmed at bottom losing the place and engraver.

Steubenville [OH]: J. & B. Turnbull, 1832. 12mo.; xii, 236, xvi, 5, (7), xviii, pp.284-308. Full leather; gilt stamped black morocco spine label. Contemporary ownership signature at head of front board; contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing.

London: printed for C. & J. Rivington, 1823. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo.; 63pp.

Boston, (MA): Crosby and Nichols, 1862. First separate edition, "reprinted from the North American Review, April, 1862"). 8vo. 42 pp. The reviewed report was published in 1861. Original printed green wrappers. Very good.

Boston, (MA): Crosby and Nichols, 117 Washington Street, 1862. First separate edition. 22 cm. 42pp. Printed light green wrappers. Slight chip to upper spine, else very good.

Alexandria, VA, 1987. Watercolor on art paper, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, matted. Abbott (1920-1988) was a longtime resident of Alexandria, Virginia, working at Fort Belvoir while leading various Audubon Society activities, including bird counts. He wrote and illustrated a number of books and pamphlets concerning the ornithology of Fort Belvoir, was "an authority on the American Bald Eagle," and his 1957 painting of the Common Eider won the annual contest to become that years' Federal Duck Stamp (his painting of the Pale-bellied Brant Goose was that year's runner-up, giving him the distinction of being the only artist to finish first and second in the competition in the same year). A fierce and majestic portrayal of our National bird. Fine. (#6829).

[Montgomery, PA?], 1945. Gouache on board, 13 x 17 inches. Abbott (1895-1950) was a popular American illustrator of wildlife. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard and was thereafter engaged in business in New York City. He moved to Altadena, California in the early 1930s and then relocated to Montgomery, Pennsylvania in 1935. He illustrated two ornithological works by Leion Augustus Hausman, an "Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Birds" (1944) and a "Field Book of Eastern Birds" (1946). His illustrations also appeared in various books by Marguerite Henry, Gertrude Howell Hildreth, Sterner St. Paul Meek, Rutherford George Montgomery, Charles Anthony Stephens, and others. A lovely rural image in vivid colors. Fine. (#6842).

Boston, [MA]: S. Rowland Hart, Printer, 1835. First edition. 8vo. 132pp., 7 plates (2 folding). Index and glossary. Original cloth spine with plain paper boards, paper label on front board. Cover worn on edges, staining on cover and early pages, some staining to plates, scattered foxing. The book presents improved technology from earlier works such as those of Oliver Evans.

London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1887. New and revised edition (first published in 1844), but the first edition with the Furniss illustrations. 8vo. xxviii, 324 pp. In-text illustrations from wood engravings, color plates. Originally issued in parts, 1844-1846, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, a number of editions of this parody on the law appeared through the 19th century. CBEL III, p. 599. Owner's inscription, front hinge weak, a little foxing, else very good. Somewhat later red half-morocco (rubbed) and cloth, gilt rules and title on spine, marbled endpapers and edges, by "Charles Winstanley, Manchester". (#6376).

Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street, 1850. 2 volumes. 22cm. xviii, 304 pp. two hundred woodcuts in text, 20 colored etchings; xii, 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored engravings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards, all edges gilt. Spine with raised bands, gilt stamped title and author. Joints and corners rubbed, else a very good set. Bookplate of F.L. Belin of Evermay.

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street, 1850. 22cm. xii, 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored etchings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards and edges. The spine labels with some lettering loss, spine with raised bands, decorative gilt work. Some light foxing to edges of plates, a good copy.

Richmond, (VA): William Byrd Press, 1938. First edition. 8vo. xi, 259 pp. Illustrated, portrait plates. Onslow County, North Carolina, family. Signed by the author on the title page. Not in Thornton. Gray cloth. Review affixed to rear endpaper, owner's name, related materials laid in. Very good. (3267).

Washington, (DC): GPO, 1908. First edition, this volume only. 8vo. 550 pp. Folding map (for another article). Also includes articles on the Pacific railroads, California and the Civil War, and relations between the U.S. and Latin America. Original blue cloth, gilt spine title; some soiling and foxing, but a good solid copy.

Pierre, SD: Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932. First edition. 8vo. xlvi, 458 pp. Plates, facsimile title page, portrait. First publication of the journal of Francis A. Chardon, a fur trader on the upper Missouri. Howes C-33. Very good. Original red cloth, gilt spine title. (#8123).

(Paducah, KY: The editor, 1955. Eighth annual issue. Small 8vo. 42 pp. Illustrated from photographs; ads for local businesses (including one for Cherokee State Park, "the South's finest vacation park for Negroes"). Primarily aimed at bass fishermen on Kentucky Lake, on the western side of what is now Land Between the Lakes (formed with the impoundment of Barkley Lake in 1966). Apparently not recorded on OCLC (for any annual issue). Very good. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. (10681).

Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1948. First edition. 8vo. 51 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, folding map of the campus. Inscribed by the author in 1960. Laid in is a folded copy of the 12-page offprint, the first separate edition of the history, from the February, 1945, issue of the "Southern Association Quarterly" (OCLC locates but two copies of the offprint: Virginia Historical Society, Virginia). Very good. Original green decorated wrappers (somewhat faded), stapled. (10891).

Mobile, AL: July 23rd, 1855. 8vo. 29 (i.e., 28) pp. Self-wrappers, stitched; some spine erosion and soiling, else very good. Manuscript sermon by Abernethy, with a number of manuscript corrections and additions through the text and with a note on the inside of the front wrapper in the author's hand "Read at the navy yard, Sunday morning, July 29th 1855 to a large congregation." The author describes himself on the title page with "Navy Yard M.E. Society, Alabama Conference." The sermon is a warning against excess.

Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia, 1986. First edition. 8vo. xiii, (2), 265 pp. Illustrated from photographs, primarily by Stieglitz, plates, portraits. Consideration of a "loose coalition of cultural radicals in pre-World War I New York City, [dreaming] of changing the world with pens, paint brushes, and new publications." Fine. Cloth and boards, printed glossy dust jacket. (9748).