Search Results: Titles starting with A from Rose's Books, IOBA

New York: Angell, Engle & Hewitt, Publishers Book. Fair. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Sections of "A Child's History of England" appearing in periodical form. Chapter XX, XXII, XLI in various copies of Household Words bound together as "Selections from Household Words" and published by James Miller. Front hinge cracked, pages toned. Tear to edges of cloth, bubbling. Fair condition..

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Book. New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 190 pp. This text includes a biography of the great 19th century Tamil social reformer, humanist and scholar A. Madhaviah (1872-1925), followed by a translation of his novel Muthumeenakshi: The Autobiography of a Brahmin Girl (1903). Madhaviah focused on the harsh conditions of female existence amongst the upper caste although he was not a pessimist. He supported widow remarriage and argued that the salvation of women and society lay in education. Madhaviah drew moral and literary validation for his ideas from classical Sangam Tamil texts but was also influenced by bourgeois notions of sexual restraint and female domesticity. Muthumeenakshi is a searing, realistic commentary on marital politics, sexuality, female illiteracy and patriarchy in 19th century south India. Madhaviah uses the autobiographical voice of a motherless Brahmin girl to make… Read More

Natick, MA, U.S.A.: A K Peters, Limited, 1996. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Natick: Peters, 1996. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 212 pp. This book aims to show that computers are not only very fast but, in at least one field of mathematics, pretty smart too. In the area of combinatorial identities, computers are able to find very elegant proofs of difficult theorems unassisted by human intervention. New..

New York: Abrams, 1986. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Glossy Boards. First Edition. Folio. First edition. Folio. Glossy boards, unnumbered. ABCs illustrated on every page with a unique art work from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Tiny scrape to one corner, boards lightly scuffed. Near fine..

Chippenham, UK: Picton Publishing, 1973. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, stated first printing. Cloth binding, 91 pp., illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED BY PETER JENNINGS on title page. An award-winning collection of British Aerogrammes, from its birth as a means of sending messages via balloon out of a beleaguered Paris during the Siege of 1870-71, to the production of pictorial Aerogrammes in 1972. Jennings is one of the world's leading authorities on British Aerogrammes (not to be confused with the late ABC news senior news editor). Previous owner names on front flyleaf. Top of dustjacket lamination loosening. Near fine in very good dustjacket. Scarce..

Cleveland and New York: World, 1968. Book. Illus. by Dickas, Dan. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Decorative cloth binding with figure of Icarus in gilt and gilt titles. 160 pp. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Dustjacket is chipped at top and bottom. Fine in good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

New York: Harcourt, 1968. Ex-Library. Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Decorative cloth binding, 80 pp. The strength of youth and the wisdom of an old man are united in the Arctic on a perilous journey. Ex-library. Dustjacket price-clipped, otherwise fine. Tape shadows, rubs to endpapers and library markings. In fresh protective mylar cover..

Boston: Scarborough Motor Guide, 1930. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Boston: Scarborough, 1930. 8vo. Cloth binding, 1003 pp. Road reference and tourists' guide of all states east of the Mississippi River, Eastern Ontario, Quebec and Maritime Provinces. Contents 96 pages of detail maps, 100 city traffic maps, 2 large key maps and mileage charts, 60,000 miles or more of charted roads and Golf Club Directory. Very good..

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Book. Illus. by MacKinstry, E.. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition. Published September, 1935 stated. 4to. Green cloth binding with titles and decoration of lamp in black. 16 pp. (including illustrated title in color), richly illustrated in four colors and in black and white. Crisp illustrated dustjacket. Soiling to dustjacket, wear at extremities, neat gift inscription inside front board, light fade line top of boards. Near fine in very good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1901. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1901. 16mo. Beacon Biographies series. First Edition. Blindstamped blue cloth binding, gold titles, top edge gilt, rough-cut pages. Decorative endpapers. Antique library bookplate, hand-numbered and hand-dated. Engraving of Hamilton with facsimile signature, protective tissue. Attractive engraved vignette followed by title page. 140 pp., 2 pp advertising. Library pocket, front hinge cracked, impressions (not marks) left by pen to title. Good condition. Scarce..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1941. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Cloth. Early. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Early edition. Red cloth binding, 599 pp. Frontispiece of DuPont with additional photographs. Well-written biography of the industrial leader. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate (no pocket). Dustjacket flap is adhered to free endpapers. Minimal library markings. Solid, very good condition..

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. Book. Very Good. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Presumed first, no publication date, copyright 1950. Illustrated cover, yellow endpapers, minimalist illustrations throughout. A couple of bangs to boards, name on ffep. Very good condition..

Rare ALS signed H. Clanricarde to Lady Stanley, one page, 9" x 7.25", folded. Daughter of George Canning, a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from April to August 1827. He occupied various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, finally becoming Prime Minister for the last 118 days of his life.Near fine.. Single Page. Near Fine.

Penrith, 1866. Book. Fine. Penrith, U.K. 9 September 1866, stamped 10 September 1866. Autograph letter from Lord Brougham to Albert Megson, Manchester. "Private, 9. Sept. 1866, Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr. Megson and assures him that he wishes as well as possible to the proposed meeting. But in his capacity of judge in the highest court of appeal it would be improper for him to attend the meeting. He read with much concern the account of the late execution in Manchester & he had conceived that the late resolution of both Houses had been enforced to prevent public executions." Written in the third person. In a hand-addressed envelope, signed with his name, "Brougham" with one penny postage and stampings from Penrith and Manchester. Fine..

1833. March 4th 1833, Autograph letter by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux to a Mr. Beaumont of Bradford. Written in the 3rd person, consistent with Brougham's style, this original letter presents his compliments to Beaumont and acknowledges receipt of a Petition from Bradford for the abolition of slavery. The Chancellor (Brougham) will take an early opportunity to present the petition to the House of Lords. Brougham was Lord Chancellor of England from 1830-1834 and is most well-known for being instrumental in passing the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in August, which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire, 1833, a few months after writing this letter. Fine.. Signed by Author. Single Page. Fine. 4.5 x 7".

Book. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed "H. Brougham" to a Mr. Harris about a bill that enables a man to be kept in prison forever. Two pages taped together. Very good..

Salem, MA: The Peabody Essex Museum, 1996. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 1996. 4to First Edition. Stiff pictorial wrappers, 96 pp., xxiv. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Includes Clark G. Reynolds, "The Maritime Character of Minoan Civilization"; Alston Kennerley, "Frank Thomas Bullen, 1857-1915: Whaling and Nonfiction Maritime Writing"; Robert Keith Headland, "An Early Antarctic Landing: Captain Cooper's Log of the Levant, 1853"; Raymond James Maloney, "Where Did the Mutiny on the Bounty Occur?" Ex-library, crisp, clean unread with minimal markings..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Book. Good. Half-Leather. Early Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Early reprint. 12mo. Half calf over marble boards, matching marble endpapers and matching marble page edges. Contemporary signature of Gertrude M. Cleveland dated in year of publication. 380 pp. Leather spine labels cracked, some pieces missing, revealing calf underneath. Edges rubbed. Solid book in otherwise good condition..

Amsterdam: H. D. Pfann, 1969. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Oblong Folio. First edition. Dark red cloth with decoration and titles in gilt. 119 pp. Oblong folio. Endpapers decorated with old maps and photograph of Amsterdam. 4-pp. introduction laid in. Compliments card from IBM pasted to half-title. Heavily illustrated and monochrome and full color. Dustjacket has mainly edgewear, a few short tears, edge folding and scuffing with a small chip to spine. Near fine in very good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Union City, CA: Heian, 1993. Book. Illus. by Hisa, Kunihiko. New. Pictorial Boards. First American Edition. 4to.. First American Edition. 4to. Pictorial boards and pictorial dustjacket. 47 pp., illustrated throughout in color featuring actual size footprints of animals including fold-out picture of elephant footprint. New in new dustjacket..