Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Book Shed

New York: St Martins Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, a bit more to the jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: David McKay Company, inc., 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. lightest wear to book and jacket, small tears on front and back of jacket. 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.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. From the flap: "The Sacred Hoop is a unique experience in historical fiction. From a retelling of Genesis to the saga of the Steam God (the Transcontinental Railroad) in nineteenth-century America, Bill Broder has illuminated in fiction the larger chronicle of humankind's changing relationship with the Earth, the Gods, and the Universe." 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: Carlton & Lanahan, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good. tips worn, corners bumped, title detaching, edge tear to 1st page of text. Sketches of the one hundred and thirteen ministers connected with the New York and New York East Conferences of the Methodist Church, who died during the two decades that ibewtween the division of the former in 1848 and the Re-Union of the two bodies in 1868, together with the order of exercises and addresses delivered on that occasion. First printing, no others noted. 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: The Biglow & Main Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good-. Much wear to tips, corners and edges of book, previous owner's name in pencil. In 1979–1980, the Gospel Music Association recognized Ira Sankey's prodigious contributions to gospel music by listing him in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. 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: Schocken, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the jacket which is quite wrinkled on the rear panel, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. An award winning account of the discovery of one of the most important discoveries of mediaeval Jewish documents and literature. “Sacred Trash is a jewel of a book: a lively and deeply informed account of the Cairo Geniza, a magnificent Egyptian treasure-house of Jewish religion, literature, and history that was forgotten for centuries, and of the extraordinary crew of scholars and impresarios who saved the documents, fitted the scraps back together, and made them speak and sing.”—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good+/no jacket. wear to tips, corners and edges of book, tear to spine tip, spine sunned; no jacket. Map endpapers. First printing, no others noted. Plenn wrote extensively on Texas, Mexico and the Southwest. 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: C. W. Beaumont, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First edition of 1946. Shelf wear to the book, more to tips, corners, and edges of the jacket. First printing, no others noted. Cyril W. Beaumont, OBE (1 November 1891 – 24 May 1976) was a British dance historian, critic, technical theorist, translator, bookseller, and publisher. Author of more than forty books on ballet, he is considered one of the most important dance historians of the twentieth century. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. 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: G P Putman's Sons, 1936. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good+. corners of book and jacket worn, several page corners creased, page edges very dusty and spotted; jacket spine sunned, rear panel soiled. Non-fiction collection of the original journals, letters, accounts and testimony. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 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.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1936. Reissue. Hardcover. Very Good/good. sunning to spine and covers, previous owner's personal bookplate to front endpaper, pgs. 167-172 dog-eared; jacket sunned, especially spine which also shows staining, tips chipped, corners and edges worn, a few short closed tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. From Wikipedia: "Historians began to criticize this book shortly after its publication. One issue, as indicated in the quotation above, was that Ms. Sackville-West often created many details by engaging in personal speculation. This sometimes included subjects for which documented evidence does exist, but which the author either deliberately ignored or was unaware of....And yet, as a whole, Ms. Sackville-West's treatment of her subject shows a great deal of sympathy and respect. In fact, even her harshest critics[who?] generally qualify the book as being one of the most readable treatments of the Joan of Arc story, as the author… Read More

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1991. Medium Size Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. small ding to the rear cover edge, else clean, unmarked, unread. Presentation and family record pages blank. In red and gilt imitation leather. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. 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. 

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1991. Medium Size Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lightest wear to the covers, presentation page filled in, else clean, unmarked, unread. In tan and gilt imitation leather. With the "Handy Edge-Marking Index." Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. 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. 

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light shelf wear to the book and price clipped jacket which has a tear to the rear panel. No statement of edition In the second state dust jacket depictiing an eagle replacing the controversial one of a nude Greenlander. Salamina is a copiously illustrated memoir of Kent's first Arctic winter (1931–32) spent painting and exploring while based in the tiny settlement of Illorsuit, Greenland. 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: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book with more to jacket which is chipped, spine darkened, most of title lost from upper spine; off setting to endpapers, gift inscription of 1935 with giftee's personal bookplate. In the original suppressed dust jacket. First edition, no others noted. Salamina is a copiously illustrated memoir of Kent's first Arctic winter (1931–32) spent painting and exploring while based in the tiny settlement of Illorsuit, Greenland. 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: Hastings House, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good-. dampstaining to bottom spine and covers, pictorial endpapers, previous owner's name and date (1947) to rear ep, errata slip tipped-in to frontispiece; jacket discolored with chipped edges and short open tears tape-repaired, some creasing, previous owner's name to front flap. A pictorial study by a preeminent Western photographer. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket. 106 pages plus ads. Blue and gilt cloth. First printing, "published May, 1917." An account of the accidental creation of this inland California sea. Created by a dike breach when the Colorado River was at flood stage the area has since become a rather unpleasant place to live. The increasing salinity of the water has killed most of the fish and other aquatic life. The US Geological Survey describes is smell as "objectionable", "noxious", "unique", and "pervasive." Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. 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: Cosmopolitan Book Co, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners and edges, book has lean; no jacket. Clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Creel was the author of many books primarily in the areas of public affairs and history. 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.

Stonington CT: Pequot Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; light soiling; previous owner's name, date and address else clean and unmarked. "Sponsored by The Founders of Norwich, Connecticut, Inc." 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: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. very light wear to the book, shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the price-clipped jacket . Clean and unmarked. First edition stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. "Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930)… Read More

Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1959. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Lightest wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket, likely as issued. First printing,no others noted. An English translation of a work of local history originally published in 1889 as "Sandusky-Einst and Jetzt" by the German Verlangshaus Press, Cleveland OH. Dr. Ernst von Schulenburg was both a medical doctor and a minister in the German Evangelical Church. 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!