Search Results: Titles starting with A from The Book Shed

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. shelf wear to the books, top edges dusty, jacket are rubbed with some edge wear, vols. 1 & 2 have a whimsical bookplate of the librarian and bookman Joseph L. Wheeler, designed by the British artist C. Walter Hodges to front eps; dust jackets rubbed, soiled. Auction catalogue for a large pre-war sale of books and manuscripts sold at auction in the Spring of 1941. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Auction Catalogue.

Basingstoke, UK: Drive Publications, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First published in 1983 this is the revised edition of 1995. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket; jacket has been taped down leaving marks. Among the authors are Richard Adams and Miss Read. Adams contributed an article on Broughton-In-Furness in Cumbria. Miss Read has written a memoir of her teaching days (naturally) in Peasmore, Berkshire, where she was the sole teacher in a village school for sixteen students, ages five to eleven. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Reprinted with amendments. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Andover, MA: Andover Village Improvement Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, more to the jacket which is also sunned on the spine, significant spotting to the page edges and endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the title page. First printing, no others noted. The Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) is a land preservation society in Andover, Massachusetts. Founded in 1894, AVIS is the second oldest land preservation society in the United States. (following The Trustees of Reservations, 1891, alos of Massachusetts). Its goal is to acquire land within Andover and preserve it in its natural state.Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good+. Joan Hassall . wear to the book; jacket is worn at tips, edges, and corners, a few closed tears. Title page depicts Hadrian's Wall. One in a series of guide books written for the post-war celebration, The Festival of Britain. A bit scarce 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. pocket ghost to rear endpaper, tips to book and jacket worn, with jacket tips tape strengthened, previous owner's name to front endpaper; jacket spine darkened, small tear to spine. Not an ex-library book, private owner added pocket. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. light wear to the book and jacket. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. W.G. Hoskins, Frontis. jacket chipped, torn at spine. In protective liner. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: William Heinemann, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Signed. About As New; pages browning as usual with these Heinemann editions. True first edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The eighteenth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery set in Venice. First printing, full number line. "Above all, Brunetti is a careful reader, of people, of places, of situations, and he never stops at surface meanings. That’s why we bookish types adore him the way we do.." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: St Martins Press, 2001. First Edition. hardcover. VG/VG. wear to tips and corners of book and jacket, remainder mark to top page edges; light rubbing to rear panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover.

New York: Minton, Blach & company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. light shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, first blank page excised, previous owner's bookplate; no jacket. First printing, same date. Raymond Holden was a noted author and publisher, who worked for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, Fortune, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest.. Himself a novelist and poet, he was married to the poet Louise Bogan whose "keen advice and faithful services," he acknowledges. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Second edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book, very short tear at upper tip, previous owner's bookplate. Quite scarce. Second Edition. John Wesley Hill (1862-1936) was at one time considered the foremost Methodist preacher in America. For twenty years he served as Chancellor of the Lincoln Memorial University. An organizer of the International Peace Forum he also lectured extensively on the character and ideals of the late President being called upon repeatedly to deliver addresses at Lincoln statue unveilings and other memorial events around the country. Dr. Hill was also the author of "If Lincoln Were Here." Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Maggs Brothers, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. Signed. Brand new, hard cover in dust jacket. "...a literary kaleidoscope with London and New York equally represented. It also reminds a later generation of the lasting rewards of letter writing." Published in an edition limited to 400 copies. Signed by Kooperstein on the title page. We specialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Slp. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket, as issued. Elsie Louise Shaw. light wear to the book and slipcase, very light sunning of book spine, a few spots on slipcase. First printing, full number line. Mrs. Dana's fourth published book taken from her nature column for the New York Tribune. A companion volume to How to Know the Wild Flower (published in this edition in 1989) which was the first field guide to North American wildflowers. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, a name blacked out on the third blank page which bleeds through to the top of the frontispiece, creasing to the front endpaper, two words blacked out on the rear endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Hinges intact and tight. In green and gilt cloth, maps present. First edition,same date. Joel T. Headley was an American clergyman, historian, author, newspaper editor, adventurer and politician who served as Secretary of State of New York....Henry Morton Stanley had been sent to find (David Livingstone) by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869. He found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 10 November 1871, apparently greeting him with the now famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone responded, "Yes", and then."--Wkipedia. Stanley completed several other explorations in Africa. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items… Read More

Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. wear to tips, corners and edges of book, bookplate removal evidence, lacks first blank page, else clean and unmarked. In original publishers cloth. Map has a tear along the right edge through the states of Iowa and Illinois. First printing, no others noted. An important account of a summer's journey through the American West undertaken by Samuel Bowles, the publisher of the Springfield Republican and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax, Jr., who four years later would become the Vice-President of the U.S. under Ulysses Grant. Little more than a month after the conclusion of the Civil War Bowles and Colfax traveled by rail 1,425 miles from Massachusetts to Missouri "thence a coach ride of two thousand miles before we meet the projecting arm of the California railways at Placerville. They returned to the East via steamship and over land at the isthmus arriving… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, slight lean. Deckled edges,top edge gilt. First printing, no others noted. The middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book describes Stevenson's railroad trip across the U.S. in 1879 along with some other bits of memoir and essays. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. tips worn, corners bumped, previous owner's name and address to front free endpaper. Green, black and gilt decorated cloth, top edge gilt. Viking ship on cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Garden City: International Collectors Library , 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New in all respects, unread-unopened. Insert present. Sewn in book marker. A title in the Great English Novels of the 19th Century series. In the blue and gilt Mercier binding recreated by Rafael Palacios for the ICL. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940’s through the late 1980’s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar Everyman’s Library (Dent/Dutton), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford University Press). Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Adelphi Academy, 1921. Paperback. Good. cover edges creased and chipped all around, a previous owner's signature to front free end paper. Annual catalog of Adelphi Academy, founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1863. The original building is now a private K through 12 school located at Lafayette Ave, St.James and Clinton Place in Brooklyn. Illustrated with photographs, class lists, faculty, course descriptions. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Willsboro, NY : Adirondack Life, Inc., 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Magazine still in mailing wrapper which is torn. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.