Search Results: Authors starting with S from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: Pergamon Press, [1974]. Thick 8vo. xiv, [2], 643, [1] pp. Text figures, diagrams. Red cloth, gilt lettrng (slght bmpng to crnrs, ex-lib mrkngs on title), w/ d.j. (mnr rubbng, mnr sunng to spine), still G/VG-, w/ additional preface laid-in, from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition of this scarce work on elasticity, covering linear theory, matrix notation, tensors, and more.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [c. 1921 (1964)]. 8vo. vi, 392 pp. Orange cloth, red lettering (edgewear, ghosting on covers from old tape residue, ex-lib markings on endpapers), w/ d.j. (minor shelfwear, ex-lib label remnants on spine), G-/G- copy. Twenty-eighth printing of this rousing swashbuckler set against backdrop of the French Revolution.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. 8vo. iv, 347, [1] pp. Colour frontisp. Black publisher’s cloth, red lettering front cover & spine (slight shelfwear, very slight bumping to couple corners), still VG bright copy. First edition of perhaps Sabatini’s most famous tale, and of course our favorite pirate.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. 8vo. x, 310 pp. Green cloth, red lettering on front cover & spine (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by John Alan Maxwell (minor edgewear, creasing, slight sunning to spine), still NF/VG- copy, w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition, early printing, of Sabatini’s last novel set against the backdrop of John Law, and his founding of the Banque Generale, and finally the Mississippi Bubble.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., 1936. 8vo. [4], 240 pp. Black pbulisher’s cloth, red lettering front cover & spine (minor edgewear, minor soiling to foot of spine, rubbing), w/ d.j. cover art of Captain Blood surrounded by foes (minor chipping head & foot of spine, creasing, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy. First Canadian edition of the further adventures of Captain Peter Blood on the Spanish Main, including the tales of “Dragon’s Jaw, The Pretender, The Demonstration, Deliverance, Sacrilege, and The Eloping Hidalga.”

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924-1933. Twenty-nine vols. 8vo. [Approx. 11,000 pp (all vols. separately paginated)]. Each vol. w/ frontisp., over 120 plates in the set. Uniformly bound in burgundy ribbed publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering & device of sailing ship on spines, t.e.g. (some minor shelfwear, rubbing, couple vols. w/ very minor bumping to couple corners), still a VG bright set. First Definitive Edition, published contemporaneously as the Autograph edition, beginning in 1924. After the tremendous success following the publishing of Scaramouche in 1921 by Houghton, and subsequent swashbucklers such as Captain Blood, and The Sea-Hawk, the publisher decided to capitalize on the fame of Sabatini (1875-1950) by publishing all of his writings beginning with 14 volumes in 1924, and then between 1 and 6 volumes a year for the next decade, eventually reaching 34 volumes in total. Some of the best artists of the period contributed illustrations including N.C. Wyeth, H.M. Brock, Harold M. Brett, C.E.… Read More

[La Center]: Spirit Lake Press, [2002]. 8vo. [14], 286 pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs (slght bmpng to 1 crnr), NF. First Spirit Lake Press edition of this scarce historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Italy of Cesare Borgia.

San Francisco, CA: Visalia Stock Saddle Co., 2117-2123 Market St., [1928]. 4to. 7 x 8 in. 64 pp., printed in sepia and black & white. With 100s of text illusts, some photo illustrations, some diagrams. Tan coloured softcovers, cover art of fine Walker saddle, and the Visalia Stock Co. “Extra Vine Angora Chaps” on back cover, stapled as issued (very minor creasing to left fore-edge, small closed tear at foot of spine), still a VG bright copy. First edition of this well-illustrated saddle and tack catalogue from one of the most important makers of western harness and saddlery in the West from the 19th through the 20th Centuries. Founded in 1869 in three Sonora, Mexico saddle makers, Ricardo Mattley, Juan Martarell, and Alsalio Herrera, which was then bought by David Walker in 1870 retaining the three talented craftsman for over 20 years as he built the brand. Edmund Walker Weeks (d. 1930) Walker’s nephew took over the company in 1887, moved the company to San Francisco in 1890, where it survived… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Sadler-Rowe Co., 1899. Folio. 199, [3] pp. Many leaves printed in red & black with ledger paper samples, text illustrations, diagrams. Black embossed cloth, gilt lettering on front cover (rubbed & worn, wear to corners), still VG- copy, w/ ownership inscription verso of ffep. of Nellie Perkins [McCormick] (1882-1974), w/ two Remington Standard Typewriter blotter advertisements laid-in. Later printing of this practical and important Victorian manual for bookkeeping at the end of the 19th century. Nellie Perkins McCormic became the secretary and records keeper for the St. Helens Lumber Company, a expanding firm built by Hamlin and Charles McCormick in St. Helens, Oregon, which in the early 20th century was processing over 400,000 feet of lumber every 16 hours. This influential family also built many of the buildings in downtown St. Helens, along with the historic family home on 2nd Street above the town. See: History of the Columbia River Valley from the Dalles to the Sea, III, pp. 75-76.

New York: Bonanza Books, [1985]. 4to. 313, [1] pp. Colour-frntsp., 121 colour plates, 472 blk & wht illusts. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), NF/VG-, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on endpapers. First Bonanzaedition of this wonderfully illustrated history of American quilting and folk art.

New York: Academic Press, 1971. 8vo. xi, [5], 221 pp., plus 3 pp. publ. ads. Tables, diagrams. Red cloth, gilt lettrng (vry mnr shlfwr, slght scuffng), VG, from library of mathematician & physicist, John Simmons. First edition of this title from the Mathematics in Science and Engineering Series, Vol. 80.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1989]. 8vo. [10], 322 pp. Maps, photos. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. Reprint edition of this wide ranging survey of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley.

New York & Tokyo: JPT Book Co., [1964]. Folio. xv, [1], [17]-282 pp. Over 200 photos, illusts., maps, diagrams. White & brown cloth, red & white lettrng frnt cvr, w/ d.j. F/F, preserved in slipcase. Second printing of this scarce and desirable work.

New York: Viking Press, 1942. Thick 12mo. xiii, [1], 718 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, chppng & clsd tear hd of spine), VG/VG-. Early printing of these 135 stories by the noted English humorist and novelist.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1977]. Thick 4to. 545, [1] pp. 740 text illusts. & diagrams. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition, 2nd printing of this immensely informative reference book describing every tool used in the woodworking trades from the 18th through the 20th century, explaining their purpose, as well as recording the allied activities of sailmaking and rigging which also used similar tools.

New York: American Heritage Press, McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1972]. Folio. viii, 303, [1] pp. Frontisp., 100s of illusts. & plates (many in colour). Black cloth, gilt lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor bumping head of spine, edgewear, price-clipped), VG/VG- copy. First edition.

Chattanooga, TN: Davenport Hosiery Mills, [Andrews Printery], [1923]. 8vo. 4 x 9 in. 48 pp. Colour-illust. title, numerous colour illustrations, photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated blue softcovers, Japanese-inspired cover art of woman in kimono holding paper umbrella, decorative lettering (minor rubbing, dustsoiling, very minor spotting), still VG- copy. Second edition of this manual intended to assist “the thousands of stores and salesgirls” in understanding and marketing Davenport Hosiery silk hose. The author has incorporated short chapters on the history and origins of silk culture in Japan and China, and then finally displaying the reeling silk and winders in the Humming Bird Throwing Plant in Chattanooga. Many of the photos show women textile workers sewing hose, looping, inspecting, and then later finishing & branding the boxes. One of the concluding chapters includes specific instructions on how salesgirls were to demonstrate putting on the silk hosiery, as well as laundering, and wearing.

East Hartford, CT & New York: The Fuller Brush Co.; Transfilm Inc., [1962]. Sales Kit. 16mo. [16 pp (unpaginated).], photo illustrations, printed in red & black, self-printed softcovers -- 3 copies (minor rippling, edgewear); Oblong 12mo. 2 pp. thick card stock printed both sides, minor edgewear; 4to. [10 pp (unpaginated).], mimeographed & stapled - 2 copies; 8vo. [4 pp (unpaginated).], printed as bifolium (edgewear, creasing, couple small closed tears); 4to. [2], 4, [6] pp., mimeographed, stapled at spine, one replacement order form cropped from booklet; Folio. [2 pp.] printed as tables, order forms, center creases, edgewear; Viewlax projector, multi-speed turntable, 1 vinyl LP some scuffing, scratches, preserved in naugahyde salesman sample case sized 18.25 x 15.25 x 5 in., clasps and handle still intact, w/ roll down portable screen in the lid, pockets, additional lamp, 1 film can, and electrical cord. The cord and connections would have to be checked, as well as the tube capacitors in both… Read More

[East Hampton, North Adams, & Boston, MA; Bethlehem, PA, & New York: Caulkins & Post Co.; Harry S. Millard; Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons; Stewart & Sparry; Pettinos Brothers, Atha V. Hughes; Barber Leather Co.; N.N. Hill Brass Co., 1893-1918]. 4to. 72 letters, some, mimeographed, others typed carbon copies, and a few ALS, sized 5.75 x 9.25 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in., many on steel-engraved letterhead, a couple on ruled paper, and many featuring the offsetting from the leather dyes, with over 40 attached samples of papers, White coated sign muslin, foundry sand, and assorted leathers. All preserved in archival mylar sleeves in recent full calf 3-ring binder, w/ stamping. An exceptional archive of original TLS many with original samples of paper, leather, and even sand which were used in ever increasing quantities by the noted manufacturer of sleigh bells, bells, pull toys, and many other toys for children from the Gilded Age through World War I. The earliest letter dated Feb. 10, 1899, includes two paper… Read More

[Worcester, Fall River & Boston, MA]: United Utilities, [1942]. 4to. [4]; [4]; [2]; [2] pp. [25 leaves]; [4]; [4]; [6]; [6]; [4]; [4] pp (unpaginated). Photo illustrations, colour illustrations, colour plates, 1 large Bird Armorlite “linoleum” rug sample, 3 label & ticking samples for mattress; 7 Esmond Blanket Jacquard Blankets, with 1 very large folding sample. Preserved in original limp brown faux leather 22-ring Trussell binder, yapp edges, rounded corners (some edgewear, rubbing, occasional interior closed tears, a couple leaves w/ fraying, slight offsetting to 1 sample), still VG copy, preserving the original Typed Pricelist dated 1942. First edition, thus, of this World War II Home Front sales catalogue for silver, small appliances, watches, mattresses, and floor coverings from this small Massachusetts retailer. The center section includes many colour plates with exceptional Art Deco designs of the Armorlite linoleum rugs sold by the company. Throughout the early 20th-Century linoleum… Read More