Search Results: Authors starting with S from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: Bonanza Books, 1990. Reprint edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. 328. Near Fine/VG/No price in mylar. Small chip, crease top cap jacket..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, February 1966. Illustrated by 4 double map plates. Stated second printing of Fifth edition. c.1930, 1940, 1948, 1953, 1964. Blue cloth and topstain. 8vo. pp. xvi, 478, xiv (Index), [2] colophon. Fine/VG/Clipped price in mylar. Some moisture staining to covers, edgewear and several short tears. No ownership or marking. Wonderful working copy..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. Red cloth. Inscribed by author on fep 'To Morris Gilbert, with all good wishes, Abram Leon Sachar". 8vo. pp. xvii, 585, xiii. VG/No jacket. Some moisture staining to covers..

Chicago: Argonaut Publishers, 1965. First edition. Blue cloth. 8vo. pp. 236. Near Fine..

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937. Later edition. Flash printed cream cloth. 8vo. pp. 309. VG+/VG-/Unclipped price in mylar. Sunning to spine, edgewear, light soil and rubbing..

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1975. First edition. Gray cloth. 8vo. pp. 251. Near Fine/VG/No price in mylar. Minor wear and staining on dj..

New York: Times Books, 1980. First edition. Brown cloth. 8vo. pp. 331. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear and soil top cap..

Washington & London: M. Walter Dunne, 1901. Edited by Oliver H. G. Leigh. Translated by Bayle St. John. Illustrated by 2 Photogravures on Japanese vellum. Universal Classics Library edition. 2 volumes. Marbled boards and eps, half leather, t.e.g., unopened. 8vo. pp. xii, 478; [x], 427. Index. VG+/No jacket, as issued. Rubbing to spines and joints, internally fine. (Missing volume 1)..

Boston: White, Smith & Co, n.d.. US edition. 2752-5, R. W. Sherwood (last page). Folded sheet music, disbound from nonce volume. 4to (33cm). pp. [ii], 3-7, [1]. Very Good. Archival joint added to first and last page with sheets inserted, several short tear repairs. First Mazurka in G-minor composed in 1862. White, Smith & Co. est. 1874; 1897 became White-Smith Music Publishing Co..

Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, (1972). Illustrated by Diagrams on color background. Stated 54th printing of first edition. c.1957. Stapled wraps, color cover, thick paper issue. Cr.4to (approximate). pp. 32, [1] Ad. Near Fine. Traces of edge wear. Published in a series of three books. Contents and directions for: dolls, fan, sailboat, Santa Claus, tree, flowers, cup, house, helmet, ship, lantern, fish, windmill, swan, crane..

Berlin: Verlag Adolph Sala (with early company seal), n.d. ca. 1895. Illustrated by Nine 12.8x18.4cm colored boards (French, German, English) each with 8-3.5cm circles or tokens with the problem in a piece of the background covering the answer. Boxed game . approx. 17.5x19.5x4cm. Very Good/none/Very Good. Box relined, with edges restored in acid free paper, new hinge by KTB of Old Working Books & Bindery. Multiplication token game missing two tokens: 2x13=26 (Der Circus; Le Cirque, The Circus) and 2x17=34 (Das Forsthaus; La maison de forestier; The forester's house). Other cards: Grossvaters Beburtstag (La fete de grand-papa; Grandfather's Birthday), Landliches Gluck (Bonhuer champetre; Happy country life), Im Manover (Le manoeuvre, The maneuver), Der Maskenball (Le bal masque, The Masquerade), Die Meierei (La metairie, The Farm), Ruckkehr vom Felde (Retour du champ; return from the field), Sommerfreuden (Plaisirs d'ete, Pleasures in summertime). Original Gebrauchsanweisung (Original… Read More

New York: Published at 724 Fifth Avenue, 1930. Illustrated by 30 b/w indexed reproductions. First edition. Printed wraps, gloss paper. 8vo. pp. vi, 56, vii-vii, [2] ads. Near Fine. Light cover soil, internally fine. Inaugural issue of art periodical issued in five numbers per year published through February 1938, volume 8, number 3. Contents: The Etchings and Lithographs of Arthur B. Davies by Frederic Newlin Price; Prints and Their Makers by Bolton Brown; My Friend Joseph Pennell by Devitt Welsh; The Utility and Pleasure of Prints by Fitzroy Carrington; Contemporary American Etching (Arms, Benson, Eby, Hassam, Heintzelman, Lewis and West); ads and upcoming exhibits..

Boston: Duttton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1850. Illustrated by Tables of detailed statistics [on 3357 consecutively numbered patients admitted from beginning] (409 admissions, 429 remaining at the end of the year). First edition. Original sewn wraps, uncut, unopened. 8vo (25cm). pp. 80. Very Good. Most sections unopened with shallow chips and tears to edges of untrimmed sections. (To His Excellency George N. Briggs, [19th] Governor...). Followed by the Treasurer's Report of Sam'l Jennison, with new construction funds; "The Seventeenth Report of the Superintendent to the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital" by George Chandler with 15 tables discussed in detail. Section discussions: Visitors, Labor (with profits from produce), Register of the Weather (introduced 1839, 7th Annual Report), Managers of the Hospital with dates service began, duties and compensation. Chandler was assistant physician with Woodward from 1833-42, first Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the… Read More

New York: Translation Publishing Co, (1931). Translated by John S. Watson. Later [first thus] reprint edition. The Students' Literal Translations. Maize cloth printed black. 24mo. pp. iv, [2], 215, [2] ads. Chronology. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Repaired tear on last chronology page. Brief introduction by Leonard Mason..

Paris: RŽalitŽs-Magazine Illustrated by Color & b/w. French edition. Pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. 89, [1]. VG-. Light cover wear, heel chip. Highlights: MagnŽtoscope; Mayas; 1982: l'annŽe redoutable; Le Japon cachŽ des ryokan; Le salon du capitaine Nemo; O fŽeraud...canto lei cigalo!; Ah: les beaux monstres; Germaine Greer; Hollywood-sur-Nostalgie; Michael Denard; Alfred Max..

Paris: RŽalitŽs-Magazine Illustrated by Color & b/w. French edition. Pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. 109, [1]. VG. Light cover wear. Highlights:Poiret le Magnifique; M. Jobert; MŽditerranŽe, mer des nouvelles tempetes; Toute la vŽritŽ sur les parents...par les enfants; nouvelle cuisine franaise, Kyoto; De l'os partout, un soleil africain; La Joconde offerte a l'adoration des Japonais..

Paris: RŽalitŽs-Magazine Illustrated by Color & b/w. French edition. Pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. 85, [1]. -VG. Light cover wear, rear crease, front tear. Highlights: Ce que les betes attendent de l'homme; Louis Leprince-Ringuet; Moretti; L'expŽrience Vaudou; En vagabond vers les sources de l'Amazone; AndrŽ Harris, Alain de SŽdouy; Le commerce Est-Ouest, vŽritable arme de la paix; La vie verte: un essai de retour a la nature; AndrŽ Parrot; BŽenigno CacŽres..

Edinburgh: T. T. Clark (Morrison & Gibb), (March) 1903. Stated first printing of 5th edition. (c.October 1895; May 1896; May 1897; April 1901, Entirely re-set). Original crimson blind-stamped cloth, gilt print spine, black eps, unopened. Short Medium 8vo. pp. xix, [1] blank, 565, [1] blank, [6] Ads. Appendix, Indices, Footnotes. VG+/No jacket. Trace rubbing at caps, joints and corners, foxing starting at eps and first adjoining page, faint toning at page tops. Unopened (unread) from pp. 1-on, but one closed stress tear to pp. 19-20 top, with signature still unopened. Author prefaces to all editions, preferred and final edition, 5th edition reprinted several times following. Principal and professor of Theology, United Free Church College, Aberdeen..

Boston: James Campbell [Press of John Wilson & Sons, Cambridge], 1870. Illustrated by three color tissue frontis as figures 1 & 2. First edition. Original green blind-stamped cloth and brown eps. 8vo. pp. viii, [2] figure 1 & 2 explanation, 123. Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Only library mark is perforation of the Hartford Medical Society Library on title page. Quill owner Char. W. Page 1870, dot stain leaching to about 8 leaves (text not affected). Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society [Est.1781-present]; former Oculist in government service in Veenhuizen, Holland; listed in attendance in the Report of the Fifth International Ophthalmological Congress in NY 1876. Scarce..

New York: Mallard Press, (1990). Edited by John A. Burton. Illustrated by Piero Cozzaglio color text plates, one color map. First US edition. Cream cloth, gilt print spine. Square 4to. pp. 192. Bibliography, index. Near Fine/Fine/No price in mylar. Some beginning pages have a slight ripple. Europe, Africa, Australia, North & South America, The Oceans, Extinct Animals..