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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC, 1943 LIGHT GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT AND PICTURE OF MAN UNDER TREE IN BLACK INK ON FRONT. INSIDE BACK COVER ARE NOTES FOR PAGES IN PENCIL. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. NICE PIECE OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY. FOR THE MORMON OR LOVER OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND DETAIL. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1882 NICE LEATHER PADDED HARD COVER, WEAR AROUND EDGES, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, HEAVY PAGES, GOLD TRIM OMN PAGE EDGES. TIGHT. BOOK MADE INTO A MOVIE IN 1900'S. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. FIRST PUBLISH DATE 1882. Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 ¿ 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright. M. Halévy's peculiar qualities are even more visible in the simple and striking scenes of the Invasion, published soon after the conclusion of the Franco-German War, in Criquette (1883) and L'Abbé Constantin (1882), two novels, the latter of which went through innumerable editions. Émile Zola had presented to the public an almost exclusive combination of bad men and women; in L'Abbé Constantin all are kind and good, and the change was eagerly welcomed by the public. Some enthusiasts robustly maintain that the Abbé will rank permanently in literature by the side of the equally… Read More

NEW YORK: THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, WORN PRINT ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT INDICATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION. 16 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL INTRO, DEVELOPEMENT, INTEGRATION, FANTASY DREAMS HYPNOTIC, ANXIETY AND DEFENSE, NEUROTIC CONFLICT, NEUROSIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, DILENQUENT BEHAVIOR, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS, INJURIES AND BRAIN, PSYCHOSES AND PROBLEM OF SOCIETY. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Robert W. White (19042001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal. His book The Abnormal Personality, published in 1948, became the standard textbook on Abnormal Psychology. A historian in perspective, White did not focus entirely on abnormal psychology, but investigated the coping… Read More

USA: THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, 1909 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH DETECTIVE ON FRONT, GREEN PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, 15 STORIES, 12 ILLUSTRATIONS.
GREAT STORIES BY GEORGE BARTON. AS YOU SEE FROM THE PREFACE BARTON TAKES TRUE FACTS OF TOP DETECTIVES AND AND STORIES AND MAKES THEM INTO VERY ENTERTAINING STORIES
CHIEF WILKIE AND THE GOLD CERTIFICATES, VIDOCQ AND THE LOCKSMITHS DAUGHTER, COLONEL FRASER AND THE RAILWAY MYSTERY, GENERAL TREPOFF AND THE RUSSIAN STUDENTS, INSPECTOR BYRNES AND THE HANIER MURDER, ROBERT PINKERTON AND THE GREAT SAFE ROBBERY, CHIEF KELLY AND THE DESERTED HOUSE, CHIEF BROOKS AND THE MAN WITH THE LAZY EYES, INSPECTOR SWEENEY AND THE STOLEN GEMS, CAPTAIN LINDEN AND THE MOUNTAIN MYSTERY, CAPTAIN DONAGHY AND THE WHITE CASE, SUPERINTENDENT FOREST AND THE VERSATILE ROGUE, THE HEADQUARTERS MAN AND THE BURGLARY THAT FAILED, CAPTAIN OBRIEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HALLWAY, CHEF KELLY AND THE OPIUM SMUGGLERS.
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SCRANTON, PA: INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY, 1921 RARE BOOK, 2ND EDITION, COPYRIGHT WAS ORIGINATED GREAT BRITAIN. 1ST EDITION WAS 1910. THIS SECOND EDITION IS 63,000 AND 10TH IMPRESSION. NICE AND TIGHT WITH NO MARKINGS INSIDE, BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TITLE ON FRONT, SOME SLIGHT FADED SMALL SPOTS FRONT, RED COLORING VERY NICE ON PAGE ENDS, 5 PAGES MEMORANDA AFTER MAIN BOOK, 16 PAGES ADVERTISING AFTERWARD. PICTURES, PRINT AND ART ARE VERY NICE INSIDE. TERRIFIC BOOK, VERY THOROUGH, A GREAT PRESENT OR COLLECTOR ITEM. A GREAT EDUCATIONAL TOOL. THIS PROVES KNOWLEDGE IS TIMELESS. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1969 Frances Sanger Mossiker is an American author best known for her historical novels. Her works include, Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend, The Queen's Necklace, and Madame de Sevigne. NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE BOOK, TIGHT, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON SPINE, INSCRIBED AS GIFT IN FRONT OF BOOK, 26 PAGES OF ARTWORK AND PICTURES. The Affair of the Poisons (L'affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France which took place in 1677¿1682, during the reign of King Louis XIV. During it, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle of the king. It led to execution of 36 people. Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715). Louis, the greatest king of France's grand siècle, was only a small boy when he succeeded his father in 1643. Because of his youth, real power passed to his mother Anne of Austria as regent and to the Italian-born first… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1908 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, DARK GREEN DESIGN, WHITE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, PROTECTIVE JACKET INTACT, SAME DESIGN AS BOOK COVER, WORN AND DISCOLORED. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BOOK INCLUDES, INTRODUCTION, ON THE SPEECH AND SPEECH MAKER, THEN TO BUSINESS, AFTER DINNER STORIES, TOASTS. STORIES FOR AFTER DINNER SPEAKING, TOASTS INCLUDED. GREAT BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF SHORT STORIES AND SPEAKER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

New York: THE HERITAGE PRESS, 1958 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. GOLD SLIP COVER WITH WEAR EDGES. EDGE OF PAGES SPECKLED DESIGN. ART OF ATLAS FRONTISPIECE. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY DUDLEY FITTS. COPYRIGHT BY GEORGE MACY COMPANY. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. TIGHT, ART THROUGHOUT, PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS AND INDEX BACK. APOLLO, CUPID, BEOWOLF, HERCULES, PYGMALION, THE TROJAN WAR, ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY AND MANY OTHERS. Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 ¿ May 27, 1867 was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic work of popularized mythology, still in print 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. TERRIFIC INTERESTING BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

CHICAGO: FRANK V. IRISH, 1896 BEAUTIFUL AND EXCELLENT DETAILED BOOK ON AMERICAN AND BRITISH AUTHORS BY EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR FRANK V. IRISH. A GUIDE AND HELP IN THE PRIVATE STUDY OF THE BEST AUTHORS AND THEIR WRITINGS. DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. 25 ILLUSTRATIONS OF AUTHORS AND HOMES. 60 AUTHORS, PREFACE, HINTS TO TEACHERS, INTRODUCTION, BIOS, INDEX, DETAIL EVALUATING, CLASSICS, BIBLE AS A CLASSIC, THOUGHTS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA: HENRY T. COATES & CO., 1875 BEAUTIFUL BOOK, NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE IN WHITE, BLACK AND GREEN. GOLD PRINT SPINE. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK INSIDE FRONT AND BACK, FRONTISPIECE PICTURE CALLED THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE WITH HORSES AND 2 MEN. PREFACE CREATED 1858, NO PUBLISH DATE PRINTED, CIRCA LATE 1800S. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE WITH NO MARKINGS. WONDERFUL STORY OF THE OLD WEST. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BERLIN AND LEIPZIG: I.C.A. MAYER, 1786 RARE MEDICAL BOOK IN GERMAN, 10 COPPERPLATES AND GREAT DETAIL ON INTESTINES, MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS. BOOK HAS A DARK BROWN COVER DESIGN WITH WEAR ON EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. THICK PAPER WITH LIGHT FOXING INSIDE. PAGES ARE TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE, COPPERPLATES HAVE NICE ART AND ARE FOLDOUT. MAYER WAS A COURT COUNSELOR AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN FRANKFORT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: DANA ESTES AND COMPANY, 1890 GRAY COVER, BLACK PRINT SPINE, INSIDE IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS. VOLUME NUMBER III OF THREE, LIBRARY RAISED STAMP TITLE PAGE. BURTON WAS A SCHOLAR AT OXFORD AND WROTE THIS QUITE DETAILED WORK IN AN EFFORT TO HELP HIMSELF AND OTHERS. HIS PASSION FOR PSYCHOLOGY HELPED GUIDE HIM. NO DATE, CIRCA 1890. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire. Burton's Melancholy focuses sharply on the self; unlike Bacon, Burton assumes that knowledge of psychology, not natural science, is humankind's greatest need. His enormous treatise is considered "delightful" by critics; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of "black bile", according to the humour theory fashionable at the… Read More

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943 NICE LOOKING RED BOOK WITH BLACK PRINT ON THE SPINE, VERY INTERESTING PICTURES INSIDE FRONT AND BACK AND THROUGHOUT. FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, NO OTHER MARKINGS, NICE AND TIGHT. 52 WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT OF ANIMALS AND TRAINERS. BOOK IS DEDICATED TO KAPPY A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG THE AUTHOR WAS QUITE CLOSE TO. THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK THAT DEALS WITH ANIMALS HELPFUL AND USED IN WAR WITH BEAUTIFUL PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS AND ACCOUNTS. DOGS, CAMELS, HORSES, DUCKS, BIRDS, ELEPHANT, PIGEONS, CATS AND MULES. VERY TOUCHING AND INTERESTING. FOR THE MILITARY AND ANIMAL LOVER. A UNIQUE BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PHILADELPHIA, PA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING TWO BOOKS SET, LIGHT WEAR EDGES AND SPINE, BLUE LEATHER CORNERS AND SPINE. GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, MARBLING FRONT AND BACK, MARBLING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDEN TIME, AND TO EXHIBIT SOCIETY IN ITS CHANGES AND MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND THE CITY AND COUNTRYIN THEIR LOCAL CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY T. H. MUMFORD. VOLUME I 609 PAGES, VOLUME II 641 PAGES. GREAT DETAIL. WONDERFUL BOOKS FOR THE HISTORY LOVER. John Fanning Watson (June 13, 1779 - December 23, 1860) was an Philadelphia antiquarian, a chronicler and an historian who became a professional writer. He is best known as the author of Annals of Philadelphia (1830). A bookseller, then a bank cashier by trade, he worked for the Germantown Bank, and Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad. As a young man he began gathering the reminiscences of elderly people, and collected them in… Read More

CHICAGO: THE BLACKBURN COMPANY, 1891 NICE LOOKING OLD BOOK, RED FABRIC COVER SPINE, DARK BLUE COVER REST OF OUTSIDE, FADED GOLD PRINT FRONT, RED HAS FLOWERS AND PRINT SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, LARGE NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS, PICTURES ANDART THROUGHOUT. EXCELLENT DETAIL IN CONTENTS AND BOOK. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR THE STUDIER OF ART AND LIFE ITSELF. HOME, LIFE, ART, ETIQUETTE, ENTERTAINING, DRESS, GAMES, PARLORS, RULES, DECORATIONS, CHINESE ART, BEAUTY, FLOWERS AND MANY MORE TOPICS COVERED. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MUNCHEN, GERMANY: R. PIPER & CO., 1913 VERY NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT WITH GREEN ON SPINE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY NICE CONDITION. NICE GREEN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. EDITED BY PAUL DEUSSEN, PROFESSOR PHILOSOPHY. WITH HELP FROM FRANZ MACKRAUER. VOLUME 10. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end. Schopenhauer, Arthur (Danzig, 1788-1860, Frankfurt/Main), the radical philosopher of pessimism, who described himself as the only worthy successor to Kant, assimilated all the negative trends of a disillusioned age. Like Voltaire, he mocked at the optimism of Leibniz, writing in a highly readable style, which enabled him to draw a Dantesque vision of suffering, demonstrating ¿welcher Art dieser meilleur des mondes possibles… Read More

DENVER: A.B. HIRSCHFELD PRESS, 1953 INTRODUCTION BY JIM BOND. GREAT PICTURE ON FRONT OF TABER WITH TYPEWRITER. THIS IS TABER'S FIRST BOOK, THE SECOND WAS RIFLEMAN IN AFRICA. TERRIFIC COLLECTORS ITEM FOR THE HUNTER, ENTHUSIAST, COLLECTOR. INFORMATION AND PICTURES ARE TREMENDOUS. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WALLY TABER. NO OTHER MARKINGS. GREAT PHOTOS THROUGHOUT. THIRD EDITION, JANUARY 1953: 10,000 COPIES. VERY GOOD CONDITION, 1/4" SMALL PEN MARK ON FRONT COVER. WALLACE TABER IS A SPORTSMAN WHO MADE A LIVING DOING WHAT OTHERS DREAMED ABOUT. BORN A NATIVE SON OF CHICAGO IN 1915. WONDERFUL SECTION IN THE FRONT ABOUT HIS LIFE. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

WASHINGTON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 1941 RESTRICTED NAVY NAVIGATION TABLES, HUDROGRAPHIC OFFICE PUBLICATION NO. 218. GREAT PIECE OF NAVAL HISTORY. ALTITUDE, ANGLES, AZIMUTH, SEXTANT, RHUMB LINE, REFRACTION, SEA HORIZON, DISTYANCE, RANGES OBJECTS, TEMPERATURE, CONVERSION. NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT, GOLD LINE DESIGN, VERY GOOD SHAPE, SLIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE, CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH VERY SMALL INK MARK INSIDE BACK COVER IN CORNER. TABS ON ALL SECTIONS FOR EASY ACCESS. A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information. Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical charts. In many countries, various navigation-related services are now concentrated in large governmental organizations, sometimes termed "maritime administration" (however, the International Hydrographic Organization uses the term "hydrographic offices" for its member… Read More

WASHINGTON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 1941 RESTRICTED NAVY NAVIGATION TABLES, HUDROGRAPHIC OFFICE PUBLICATION NO. 218. GREAT PIECE OF NAVAL HISTORY. ALTITUDE, ANGLES, AZIMUTH, SEXTANT, RHUMB LINE, REFRACTION, SEA HORIZON, DISTYANCE, RANGES OBJECTS, TEMPERATURE, CONVERSION. NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT, RED LINE DESIGN, VERY GOOD SHAPE, SLIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE WITH SMALL SMUDGE UPPER RIGHT CORNER, CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH VERY SMALL INK MARK INSIDE BACK COVER IN CORNER. TABS ON ALL SECTIONS FOR EASY ACCESS. A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information. Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical charts. In many countries, various navigation-related services are now concentrated in large governmental organizations, sometimes termed "maritime administration" (however, the International Hydrographic Organization uses the term "hydrographic… Read More

USA: D. H. MCBRIDE & CO., 1899 SISTER MARY ALPHONSA CORRY (1842-1916 ). VERY NICE FIRST EDITION. GRAY COVER WITH BLACK OUTLINE AND TITLE ON FRONT. SOME FADING ON COVER FROM AGE. ON PAGES 7-11 THERE ARE CORRESPONDING SMALL DROPS-4 ON EACH PAGE (THEY DO NOT EFFECT PRINT). VERY TIGHT AND CLEAN. NO MARKINGS. ABOUT SUMMER SCHOOL ONE YEAR AT LAKE WONONA, WISCONSIN. BEAUTIFUL BOOK. TERRIFIC PIECE OF CATHOLIC LIFE AND HISTORY ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.