Search Results: Titles starting with A from Collectible Books

1. First edition, first printing. Book appears as new but for tiny nick under bottom board edge. Dustjacket is clean but has a couple of closed 1/4"" edgetears.

1. 1925 1st ed. AFTER 60 YEARS Sequel to A Story of the Plains. By A. B. Ostrander. Press of Gateway Printing Co., Seattle Washington. 120 pages with b&w photo illustrations. Tightly staple bound and covered with light grey cardstock. B&w photo, black letters and design on front cover. Minor edgewear. At top corner inside front cover there is a small black paper bookseller's ticket with white letters: ""Fred Lockley Rare Western books 4227 S E Stark St. Portland, Ore""

1. "prepared for Centennial Meeting of the North India Mission of the Presbyterian Church...""; 1st ed. 1936. Published by The Scripture Literature Press, Bangalore, India. Red cloth with black lettering. 180 pages, includes index. On endpaper LA Times clipping about an India Hindu Revival + owners mention of page #s about her aunt, where two lines are underlined and names Emma Templin MD and 3 relatives are found. Several full-page b&w photos. Concerns the Mutiny of 1857, and history of educational, medical and religious work in Allahabad, Jhansi, Gwalior, Mainpuri, Rakha, Etah...

Second edition published by Putnam. Very nice. NO problems with binding, hinges or pages. 237 pages. No dj. Hardcover in brown pictorial cloth. Has index, frontis tissue covered photo, 52 illustrations, and 6 fold-out maps. Missing the rear pocket and map. Red Cross stamp and previous owners inscription on the first blank endpaper.

1. First published Sept. 1920. Browned paper covered boards. Paper spine mostly chipped away. Previous owner name and 1920 date on front pastedown. Contemporary newsclippings laid in including: Jan 30 1933 orbit of Sara Teasdale with her newsprint photo glued to back of rear endpaper; newsclip photo of Edith Wharton glued to top page margin of her poem 'In Provence'; news photo of Robert Frost glued above "";To Edward Thomas"";; painting photo of Edwin Arlington Robinson glued below his poem 'Tact', plus clippings about him laid in along with others. Shadow tanning from newsclips. Binding tight; hinges intact.

1. Not a reprint. Rare or Scarce. Copyright page dates 1901 and 1902 by publisher Horace Markley. New York & Co.; London. 460pp.+3pp(ads). Indexed. Illustrated with maps and charts. 7.5 x 5 inches. Green cloth. White spine letters show minor color loss. Cover shows American flag in color, white letters and illustration. Cover slightly bowed. Bump and rub to spine and corner ends. Corner crease to 7 leaves. Faint spotting to foredge and outside edge of 7 page margins. Else clean, bright and tight. Stead was a British author and humanitarian who fought against child prostitution, founded monthly Review of Reviews, explored psychic research and spiritualism, advocated world peace through arbitration, and predicted gradual world domination due to American ideas, values, democracy, education and production. He died on the Titantic.

1. Avon, 1982. Soft cover. Stated First Printing. 9.25 x 7.75 inches. 560 pages including appendices, illustration list, and index. ""First complete story of the lives and art of hundreds of women artists who have enriched our heritage since the beginning of American history"" About their lives, times, and influences. Painting, sculpture, leather, weaving, beadwork, baskets, architecture, lithography, engraving, etchings. 49 color plates. 1.5"" vertical wrinkle centered at spine top. Faint rub to spine edge (no color loss). Else appears unread, clean, bright, square, and tight.

1. His Life and Adventures. Scarce early edition. Copyright 1874. New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 751 Broadway (Company at this address 1875-1880). xiii,[1]8-350pp., 7.5 x 5 inches. Illustrated with double-page frontis and 3 full-page plates. Full cover illustration in black on front, pressed rules and decoration on back. Spine leans and is decorated with black bow and rifle, and pressed gilt label. 3/8"" + 1/2"" tear in lower rear joint, 1/8"" chip to spine bottom, lower cloth edge and corners rubbed thru, some soiling and staining to cloth. Hinges intact, no loose pages. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. A few finger smudges and one vertical pencil line in outside page margin.

1. 1981 New York, E.P. Dutton. Stated First Edition. Like new but for light bump wrinkle at dj spine top.

1. Stated first American edition. Book like new, clean, bright, tight and unread. Very light edgewear to bottom and top edge dj edge.

1. 1st ed. 1902. Red cloth with gilt letters on spine. Published at Oxford at the Clarendon Press, England. 5"" x 9"". xxxiv, 563pp + [1] (printer note). Includes 2 fold-out maps, small map within text, a full-page plan of the Roman Fortress of Babylon, chronological tables, bibliography, appendices + an index. Has unknown circular institutional stamp showing star centered within, and lettered in (middle eastern?) language on title page and front pastedown; also some short repaired tears on spine joints. Overall very good condition. Pages clean, bright and tight. Classic work which provides an account of one of the main phases of Islamic expansion.

1. Published by Rizzoli International. First edition. 1989. 12x14 inches. Brown pressed letters to spine and cover. 271 pages with index. Dustjacket has clean pictorial cover but shows rubbing to back and spine; NOT chipped or torn. Otherwise clean, bright and tight. 170 full color and 170 b&w illustrations.

Inscribed and Signed by author Frank Hinman Jr. a Clinical Professor of Urology at the University of California in San Francisco. The Art and Science of Piddling: Voiding Habits of Men and Beasts. Redding, California, Vespasian Press. 1999. Isbn: 0-9669952-1-X. 1st ed. 5"" x 8"" tall. Pictorial hardcover. 55pp w. glossary and bibliography. ""...Amusing, Accurate and Absorbing!"" IIlustrated in color and b&w with author's hilarious drawings, cartoons, photos, graphs and charts. A humorous and scientific work about urologic behavior of beasts and people making water.

1. Hardcover with dustjacket, By Millicent Pommerenke. Foreword by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake. Stated 1st ed. 1958. Published by Vantage Press. Pale yellowish green cloth. 336pp + bibliography. Multi-colored pictorial dustjacket with chips and tears to edges. Owner name to blank front endpaper. Else clean, bright and tight. No staining or foxing. "";Here is a fascinating personal narrative of an American women who accompanied her husband a gynecologist and obstetrician, on a medical mission to Asia in 1954

1. Stated first printing. Graywolf Press. Clean, tight, bright, square and unread. Faint tone to dustjacket spine.

1. AUDUBON'S WESTERN JOURNAL: 1849 - 1850. BEING THE MS. RECORD OF A TRIP FROM NEW YORK TO TEXAS, AND AN OVERLAND JOURNEY THROUGH MEXICO AND ARIZONA TO THE GOLD-FIELDS OF CALIFORNIA Biographical memoir by his daughter Maria R. Audubon. 1906, first edition. Introduction, notes and index by Heywood Hodder. Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland. 249pp plus frontis, 4 plates and 10pp ads. Folding map. Original green cloth. 6.25 x 9.75 inches. 1st ed. Howes A390. Good only. Spine ends chipped and frayed. Corners rubbed through. Hinge paper cracking. 2 inch crack and small chip to cloth to top back panel joint. Fragile map complete with clear tape repairs to folds, an untaped closed tear, and minor edge chipping.

1. Farrar, Straus; Giroux, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1972. First edition. Stated first American printing. NF/NF. Light wrinkle and rub to unclipped dustjacket; no color loss. Book has light spotting to outside edge. Else clean crisp, bright, tight and unmarked. Red cloth, gilt letters, map endpapers, top edge black.

1. ...With Some Account Of Its Early Inhabitants Both Savage And Civilized...W. Johnson, and Other White Men, Long Residents Among The Senecas. Arranged In Chronological Order. Buffalo NY, Rockwell, Baker & Hill Printers. 1864-65 1st ed. in 2 Vols. xvi, 432pp w. appendix & index; v, 443pp w.index. 6""; x 9"";. Both in dark green textured cloth w. gilt spine letters, stamped borders to covers & dark brown endpapers. Vol 1 shows (3) 1/4""; tears along front spine edge. Both vols missing bottom 3/16""; of spine cloth, little chip and tear at top ends, rub thru on corner ends & lightly foxed end pages. Minor pencil to 3 pages. Else clean bright & tight. Vol1- Engraved frontis of William Johnson & engraving of Joseph Brant. V2- Frontis engraving of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, and 2 fold-out Maps of The Village of Buffalo. Howes K-110.

1. First edition. 1883. Published by Pacific Press, Oakland, California. 311pp. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. Original pebbled black cloth with blindstamped designs and letters, and illustrated title in gilt on the front cover. Light fray to corner tips and spine ends. Some stain and soil to cloth and textblock edges. Floral endpapers. First blank shows small booksellers pencil to top corner, ""1st Ed. 50.00 Californiana Anti-Tobacco, Pro Temperance Views of Old West and Native Americans"". Else pages unmarked. Includes tissued frontis + 5 full-page plates, and many text illustrations. Corner tips and spine ends lightly frayed; .25 inch cloth tear near top edge in rear joint. Howes W181. Amazing pioneer experiences, observations, opinions and historical events. Crossing the Plains in 1852. Travels in California, Missouri, and Kansas. Missions; circuit-riding; Indians; General Vallejo, Slavery; Elk, grizzly and buffalo hunting; even a man eaten alive by wolves.