Search Results: Titles starting with U from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; 255, picture credits; color and black and white photographs, plates and line drawings; decorated pictorial steel blue cloth lettered in silver in a dust jacket, pictorial endpapers;. A comprehensive and impressively illustrated volume. Combining great writing and one of the richest collections of fishing art ever assembled, this book is a reflection of the contributors'--and every fisherman's--passion for the sport. Included are paintings by Winslow Homer and essays written by Ernest Schwiebert, John Graves, Bill Barich, and many others. A must for any serious sportsman.

Delacorte Press, 2014. First Edition, ARC Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very good. Octavo; pp; (x), 292; illustrated with black and white photographs and a map; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. This is "The #1 New York Times Bestseller Adapted for Young Adults." Advanced Reading Copy. These are prepublication copies, true first editions that the publishers send to reviewers, buyers, and promoters. The print runs are small and they are often discarded.

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (viii), 117, (i); red cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. Inscribed by the author on the title page.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1922. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. ix, (v), 456pp. with index; Frontispiece portrait plus fifteen black and white plates; blue cloth, gilt;. Straus served TR as his Secretary of the Commerce & Labor. TR specifically wanted him in the cabinet not only for his talents but he wanted to show Russia what America thought of Jews. Strauss was the first Jewish Cabinet Officer.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Duodecimo (5" x 7.25"), green deorated cloth with gilt spine title. 151, (15)pp. with publisher's catalogue. Some edgewear and rubbing. Former owner's attractive period bookplate and signature. Celtic influenced poetry from this contemporary of William Butler Yeats. Nora Chesson (1871-1906) was a member of the Irish literary movement of the 1890s.

Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1992. Limited Edition, 1/1500 copies. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp. 55; illustrated in color and black and white; decorted gray card covers, lettered in black;.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Hardcover. Very good. Small quarto; pp; 64; beautifully illustrated in color by the author, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; quarter green cloth and paper covered pictorial boards, green coated endpapers; a very good copy with slight rubbing on the right corners, top and bottom; penciled name of previous owner on front paste-down without a date; else near fine;. Most probably an early second edition; Children on cover illustrated in white and pink; Half title page has an illustration of a house, verso of title page has bowl of flowers illustration; Verso of title page without imprint but with an illustration of a small boy; no "End of Contents" on page 14; printer's ornaments present on either side of "Edmund Evans" on title page; Complex illustrations present on p21 and p35, but not on p63, that has been replaced by the "kidnapping old man" illustration; The first book written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. Very good/good. Duodecimo (7" x 4.5"), green ribbed cloth, gilt. Dust jacket with portrait medallion of the author. 222, (2)pp. with index. Book shows very little wear. The jacket has moderate chippong particularly at the top of the spinne and the top of the rear flap. Price of $2.00 on jacket intact. BAL 2207. Essays about wild life in California, time with Theodore Roosevelt on a "strenuous holiday", the Smoky Mountains, Darwinism, cosmic rhythms and other topics of nature.

Harrisburg: Stackpole Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Quarto; pp; xiii, (i), 249, (i), index; profusely illustrated with a frontispiece and black and white photographs and line drawings; green cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has light wear at edges and one small abrasion; previous owner's name on free fly leaf and his name stamp on all edges. The definitive work on the subject. The author was a multi-facetted individual, artist, gun enthusiast and scholar researcher.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp. 375, glossary; beautifully illustrated with photographic plates, some in color; black cloth lettered in white, pictorial endpapers, in a pictorial dust jacket;. A Sciffer Military History Book. The Kaiser's Army was considered the absolute gold standard in the late 19th century. A Study in Period Photographs, contains over 500 never before published photographic images of Imperial German military subjects. This initial volume, of a continuing study, features formal studio portraits of pre-war dress and wartime uniforms of all arms. It also contains photo postal cards taken in the field of Infantry, Pionier, Telegraph-Signal, Landsturm and Mountain Troops, Vehicles, Artillery, Musicians, the Bavarian Leib Regiment, specialized uniforms and insignia, small arms close-ups, unmotorized transport, group shots and Balloon troops. Also included is a sixty page full-color uniform section reproduced from… Read More

Lime Rock Ct: Bernhardt Wall, 1941. Very good. The Etching measures 10 cm x 7.5 cm; It is signed in the plate. It is printed with a dark brown ink. Great detail as one would expect from this Master of the Etched Book.

Portland: Brown, Thurston & Company, 1888. First Edition. Wraps. wrappers soiled, else internally very good;. Octavo, (10" x 6"); pp; 41; frontispiece of the Statue; original printed cream paper wrappers;. This statue still proudly graces Longfellow Square in Portland.

Boston: Marshall Jones Co, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp. xiv, (ii), 139; Frontispiece map plus twenty-two photographs; Foreword by Anthony Fiala; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in brown; Very good. Adventure in British Guiana! An account of a river trip up the Mazaruni from Georgetown, British Guiana in search of diamonds. Quite scarce in the first edition. Very good. Former owner's inscription.