Search Results: Authors starting with A from Great Northern Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Collected and introduced by David Peterson. Original woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy. A clean unmarked copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Third impression. Hardcover. Ex-Library. An early, humerous, and genial guide to parenting. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2007:Spring. First edition thus. Trade Paperback Periodical. Very Good +. A unique item, an issue of the Georgia Review, featuring a selection of correpondence between the Review and many literary figures and artists. Of special note is a facsimile letter of Eudora Welty and a multi-page fold out facsimile letter of Gendron Jensen. Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Washington DC: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, 1955. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. pt. 1. Testimony of Jean Muir -- pt. 2. Youth organizations. Hearings held pt. 1 June 15, 1953 (released by Committee May 25, 1955); pt. 2 March 16, 1955. Clean, unmarked copies.

Washington DC: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, 1954. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. Clean, unmarked copies.

Washington DC: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, 1952. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. A clean, unmarked copy.

Washington DC: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, 1953. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. A clean, unmarked copy.

Washington DC: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948. Pamphlet. Very Good +. A clean, unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: Cromarty Law Book Company, [1913]. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Trial in 1882, for the murder of Percy Malcolm John. 192 p., [5] leaves of plates : ports. ; 22 cm.. Comarty Law Book Co. was the sole American distributor for the "Notable English Trials" series, importing the British printed sheets from the orginal publisher, William Hodge and Company, Glasgow. Red binding with top edge gilt. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the free front end paper. Adams's first collection of short stories. Spine slightly sunned. .

New York: Viking Press, 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Mr. Adams was editor of the New York Time Book Review for 20 years. This is an collection of his literary criticism. Also includes an index. Ex-library with usual markings, a few pencilled notes, lacking a dustjacket. still a good reading copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Adams was the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Education of Henry Adams." Gilt author, title, and publisher on spine and front cover panel with a blind stamped vignette. Also includes deckle edges. Ex-library with minimal markings, no external markings, lacking a dustjacket. Still a presentable copy.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Adams looks at the myths of absinthe and examines its influence on the artistic movements of the 19th century." [from publisher] Includes 11 black & white and 13 color illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Washington DC: Privately Printed, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Contents: To the American people -- A Delaware Indian legend -- The treaty of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians with William Penn on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 -- The story of their troubles -- Letters and agreement -- Delaware-Cherokee agreement -- Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1869 -- Conclusion -- Addenda -- The legend of the "Yáh Qúa Whee" or mastodon. Includes black and white illustrations and portraits. Front cover panel sunned, tiny gilt embossed former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. No dustjacket, as published.

Stockholm: Bonnier, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Translated into Swedish by Britt G. Hallqvist. Includes a two page map spread. Former owner's book plate on inside cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Knopf, 1996. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Trade paperback in green paper cover. Cover has small sticker shadow and two small staple holes, else a clean otherwise unmarked copy.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1946. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "An enlarged edition of the author's "American Intercession on Behalf of Jews in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, 1840-1938," published 1943, which was based on Cyrus Adler's "Jews in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States," published 1906. Includes appendix and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good +. This book consists of two lectures Adler gave before the Society of Ethical Culture in New York City. Adler was a social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement and was an early member of the Civil Liberties Bureau, a forerunner of the American Civil LIberties Union. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy, no dustjacket, as published?

New York: Platt & Munk Co., 1937. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. 8 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm. Leaves printed on one side only; pictures and stickers, on separate sheets, "How to Make the Stick 'em Pictures in this Book"--Back cover. One sheet of stickers has been used, rest in tact. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1937. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Letters to Arthur Kingsley Porter and his wife Lucy Kingsley Porter with an introduction by Lucy Kingsley Porter. Russell was an Irish nationalist, clairvoyant, and friend of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce and appears as a character in an episode of Joyce's "Ulysses." Includes illustrations, facsimile, and portrait frontis. Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting text. Dustjacket is worn and torn along edges, still a decent copy.