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Datebook: 1933

Datebook: 1933

by E.S. Welch

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[n.p]: [unpublished], 1933. Cloth. Good/none as issued. Handwritten journal, heavily cocked. Good. Burgundy boards with gilt title stamping and a counting-house calendar on front pastedown for the year 1933. Stained boards. Complete. Handwritten journal of a grandfather in 1933 including notes on activities, weather, and an egg record. Sutter Co., California. Given to him by Medora Edna [Laux] & Shirley Lou.
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The Farallones : the painted world, and other poems of California : with fifty-three...
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The Farallones : the painted world, and other poems of California : with fifty-three illustrations and with a supplementary history and description of the Farallones, including notes on their plant, bird and animal life. [In two volumes, complete]

by Milton S Ray

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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 vellum. Near fine/fair. A near fine limited, first edition in a fair slipcase [O'Day pg. 87]. This copy being number 374 of 2000 printed. Signed with a dedication to Lord Addington (possibly John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington OR Raymond Hubbard, 4th Baron Addington) by the author on the front pastedown. One quarter vellum under sage green paper boards. Briggs Books bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Volume two showing two pin impressions on spine, otherwise both volumes fine. Bound promotional pamphlet from John Nash included in the set, also fine save for pencilled price and edition information. Volume I is poetry and Volume II is primarily plates. The matching sage green slipcase did its job well, but is the worse for wear, about fair, showing scotch tape repairs at foot and crown of case, peeling on spine and a split at top edge of case. Deckled pages. 2 volumes ., xii, 86 pp., frontis . ; xxiv [ii] [101… Read More
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Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Volumes 1-20, part 1 (to parts...
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Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Volumes 1-20, part 1 (to parts CXVI) signed with original signed receipt from Sabin

by Joseph Sabin

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New York: Joseph Sabin, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Three quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus first edition, small paper copy. One of 525 copies issued. These are the works published in Sabin's lifetime. Signed by Joseph Sabin with original signed receipt from Sabin. Mixed set: small paper copy and stiff wraps on vol 20, all bound into three quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt accents. Bound by The University of Chicago Press. Moderate wear to crown, foot, and corners on various volumes. Top edge gilt. One volume has bent pages from poor shipping practice (book edges pressed into one another). Marbled endpapers. On laid paper.Text is clean and bright. Vols. 1-19, "Edition, 525 copies, 8vo ... and 110 copies on large paper." Publication was suspended from 1892 to 1927, when it was resumed with the parts numbered continuously with the last issued in 1892 (Suspended with pt. CXV/CXVI (v. 20, pt. 1/2) 1892; ) This set shipped at actual cost.
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The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing A Lost World

The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing A Lost World

by Jeremy A. Sabloff

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New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. Very good + first edition in a fine dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gold T&H device on cover and gold foil title stamping on spine. White endpapers, label remnant on first free end paper. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. With 152 illustrations, including maps and drawings, black & white plates. 224 pp. including index. Octavo.
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Abraham Lincoln, the war years : with 426 half-tones of photogr., and 244 cuts of cartoons,...

Abraham Lincoln, the war years : with 426 half-tones of photogr., and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents : in four volumes AND Abraham Lincoln : the Prarie years [Complete six volume set]

by Carl Sandburg

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, ca. 1954. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. Various. A pristine, fine, complete 6 volume set, as issued by the book club. Blue cloth boards with gilt titlestamping on spine. Yellow topstain. Later printings. No flaws. No dust jacket. Shipping at actual cost for this multi-volume set. 660, 480 pages. Octavo. Originally published in six volumes, Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg's generation. ... critics and readers alike consider [this] his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published. Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about the sixteenth president. His extraordinary portrait brings fully to life the country lawyer who would become one… Read More
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Marianna [complete in two volumes]
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Marianna [complete in two volumes]

by Jules Sandeau

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Paris: Paulin, 1846. A lovely French bound edition, complete in two volumes. Half leather over marbled boards. Some loss of leather on volume one, see photo. Tooled spine with gilt title stamping. Marbled end papers. Moderate foxing. Book is sturdy and square. Text in French. 254, 259 pp. Thirty-twomo, 3 1/2 x 5 inches tall. SANDEAU, LÉONARD SYLVAIN JULIEN [Jules] (1811–1883), French novelist, was born at Aubusson (Creuse) on the 19th of February 1811. He was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time with unruly students. He met Madame Dudevant (George Sand) at Le Coudray in the house of a friend, and when she came to Paris in 1831 she joined Sandeau. The intimacy did not last long, but it produced Rose et Blanche (1831), a novel written in common under the pseudonym Jules Sand, from which George Sand took the idea of her famous nom de guerre. Sandeau continued for nearly fifty years to produce novels and to collaborate in plays. His best works are Marianna (1839),… Read More
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Balloons to Jets. A Century of Aeronautics in Illinois. 1855-1955

Balloons to Jets. A Century of Aeronautics in Illinois. 1855-1955

by Howard L. Scamehorn

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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus, first edition. Blue cloth boards, sunning to top edge of cover. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket showing chips and small tears at head and tail of spine of dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and square. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black and white plates, 271 pp. including index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall.
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Wettersteinmächte (im kar) eine weltenschau / roman von Paul Schulze-Berghof

Wettersteinmächte (im kar) eine weltenschau / roman von Paul Schulze-Berghof

by Paul Schulze-Berghof

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Leipzig: Verlag von Theodor Weicher, 1924. unknown. Hardcover. Very good/missing. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt. A very good unknown, but early edition. Text in German Fraktur. Blue cloth boards with black Fraktur font titling on cover and spine. Sunning to spine and top edge of back cover. Binding a bit soft. Hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name inked on first free endpaper. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt.Missing dust wrapper. 581 [2] pp. 5 x 7 3/8 inches tall, duodecimo. Strong anti-Semitic stance, presented here for historical perspective only. Paul Schulze-Berghof was later a disseminator of the Nazi Zarathustra Myth.
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Better Living Booklets for Parents and Teachers

Better Living Booklets for Parents and Teachers

by Science Research Associates, Inc.; Thelma Gwinn Thurstone, Katharine Mann Byrne, O. Spurgeon English, Stusrt M. Finch, G. Frederic Kuder, Blanche B. Paulson, Edith G. Neisser, Rhoda W. Bacmeister, Lester A. Kirkendall, et al

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Chicago: Spencer Press, 1951. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine/very good +. [various]. Seventeen original pamphlets, near fine in a very good plus, original box. Pamphlets show wear only to stapled edge. Box has gilt label with very minor loss and rubbing, plus two small scratches. Octavo. Written by the scientific and educational authorities of the time.
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Colonia Agrippina: Das ist Coeln bey den Alten und zu unsern zeiten ein mechtige Reichstatt...

Colonia Agrippina: Das ist Coeln bey den Alten und zu unsern zeiten ein mechtige Reichstatt [Colonia Agrippina: That is Cologne among the ancients and in our times a mighty empire--- from: Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder]

by Sebastian Münster; Sebastian Henric Petri, Hans Rudolf Manuel, Christoph Schweicker

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ca. 1965. Facsimile. Very good/none as issued. Sebastian Münster . Unknown publisher, ca. 1960s reproduction of a 1628 double folio leaf. Very Good but trimmed. Map of Cologne, Germany. German fraktur text. Mounted on hardboard. 8.5 x 13.75" wide Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world, going through 24 editions over 100 years. This reproduction is likely from the 1628 edition, the largest of them.
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Kleine illustrierte Heiligen - Legende auf jeden Tag des Jahres, ein Paradiesgärtlein mit...

Kleine illustrierte Heiligen - Legende auf jeden Tag des Jahres, ein Paradiesgärtlein mit Blumen aller Art [Little illustrated saints - legends for every day of the year, a little paradise garden with flowers of all kinds].

by Philibert Seeböck

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Einstedelen: Benziger & Co., 1887. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A good plus first edition. Black pebbled leather binding, short split at front lower gutter, leather split (not boards) on rear gutter, and 3/4" loss to foot of spine. Red painted edges. Endpapers toned. Full color chromolithograph frontis. Pp. 539-567 dogeared. Text in German. Fraktur type. 800 pp. including index. 5 x 6&3/4 inches tall, twelvemo. Legends of the saints.
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Swine Lake

Swine Lake

by James Marshall; Maurice Sendak

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[New York]: Harper Collins, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Maurice Sendak. A fine first edition in a fine dustjacket. .Blue cloth boards. Gilt title stamping on spine. Pages are clean and bright. Unpaginated. 8 x 9 inches tall, octavo. When a lean & mangy wolf stumbles into the Boarshoi Ballet, he finds tasty pigs a-plenty, twirling & whirling in a performance of Swine Lake. Faced with all those luscious porkers, what's a hungry wolf to do? Well, something totally surprising, as it turns out. Pure fun from Marshall & Sendak-an incomparable duo!" ---Google Books
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Dear Mili

Dear Mili

by Wilhelm Grimm; Maurice Sendak

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New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Maurice Sendak. A fine first edition, as stated, in a near fine price-clipped dustjacket, double-signed by Sendak (once on the inner flap of dust jacket and once on the half-title). Gray cloth boards. Gilt title stamping on spine. Pages are clean and bright. Unpaginated. 10 x 9 inches tall, quarto. This story is a "unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm" that was discovered 150 years after it was written.
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Dear Mili

Dear Mili

by Wilhelm Grimm; Maurice Sendak

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New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Maurice Sendak. A fine first edition in a near fine price-clipped dustjacket. Gray cloth boards. Gilt title stamping on spine. Pages are clean and bright. Unpaginated. 10 x 9 inches tall, quarto. This story is a "unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm" that was discovered 150 years after it was written.
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The Horizon book of Vanishing Primitive Man

The Horizon book of Vanishing Primitive Man

by Timothy Severin

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New York: American Heritage, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A near fine first edition in a near fine, original slipcase. This copy is the de lux edition. Black quarter cloth over red cloth boards. Sunning to spine. Slipcase showing one small indentation on the back near the spine. Thoroughly researched and filled with black and white and color photos and drawings of vanishing cultures from around the world. Map in back pocket as new. Quarto. 879 pp. plus index.
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Fatal error : the miscarriage of justice that sealed the Rosenberg's fate

Fatal error : the miscarriage of justice that sealed the Rosenberg's fate

by Joseph H. Sharlitt

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good +. A very near fine first edition, first printing in a near fine dust jacket. Complete number line. Red paper-covered boards under black quarter cloth. One bumped corner, otherwise fine. Dust jacket shows toning, but no tears, chips or creases. Bright gilt title stamping on spine. xi, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Octavo. Just days before Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were electrocuted, their lawyers obtained a stay of execution. Because the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 states that the death penalty must be recommended by a jury, the Rosenbergs' defense counsel, at the last minute, argued before the Supreme Court that the scheduled executions were illegal. With McCarthyist sentiments raging, the Court rejected their motion. In a totally fresh look at the Rosenberg case, Sharlitt, editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson, convincingly argues that the… Read More
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White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. [Misprint]

White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. [Misprint]

by Maud Shaw

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New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/missing. A near fine first printing, as stated, and bound upside down. Laid in with contemporary color news photos of the Kennedy family. Green quarter cloth under decorated burgundy paper boards. Top corners rubbed. Green end papers, no markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. Missing dust jacket. 205 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches tall.
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Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora

Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora

by Shay, Felix

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New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/poor. A very good plus first edition with a remnant of the rear flap of the dust jacket included. Several unopened pages at back of book Brown embossed cloth with cameo. Paper label on spine. Beige endpapers with previous owner's name and the year 1927 on first free endpaper. 1926 on title page and copyright page. Beautiful capital decorations and orange and black printing throughout. Deckled page edges with grey topstain and some dust soiling on edges. Black and orange title page with pasted frontis portrait of Hubbard as originally issued. Binding is a bit soft, but square and well-sewn. 553 pp. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Demons

Demons

by John Shirley

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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2000. First Edition; Limited edition; Signed edition. Leather bound. Fine/fine. Erik Wilson. A fine (as new), unread, SIGNED first edition in an as new dust jacket and a very good traycase. This is letter "O" of 26 printed. Part of the Cemetery Dance Novella Series. Burgundy slipcase showing some scuffing and bumped corners, but it protected the book beautifully (book is pristine). Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker. 148 pp. Octavo. Two things were meaningful to Slim Purdoux, his son and his chance to cultivate good books as an editor. The world took his son from him and "market realities" took the other. Now he's on a mission. A mission to get the dealer who sold his kid the drugs that took his life. But this ain't the kinda mission where saints guide you. For this kind of task you need the likes of Wendell, a pimp and a player who is always one step ahead of something,… Read More
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The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the enigma of power

The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the enigma of power

by Robert I. Rotberg; Miles F. Shore

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition with complete number line, in a fine dust jacket. xxii, 800 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps . Octavo. Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and a ruthless businessman whose guiding principle was "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world-renowned Rhodes Scholarships. Though his own education and intellectual talents were unprepossessing, he dominated the British Empire and became one of the leading figures in the English-speaking world, the confidant of Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm, and a… Read More
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