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197352003New Brighton MN: Starosciak 1973. No. 209 of 600 numbered copies. 8vo pp. not numbered. Introduction by Kenneth Starosciak. Paper wraps. A nice copy. The anecdotes appeared in "Yankee Doodle" a satirical magazine between July 24 and September 11 1847. Zachary Taylor was the butt of these nine short satires along with the journalism of the time. Starosciak unknown books
196152002Various: Melville Society 1961. All except December '61 35 copies are one sheet of heavy paper 8-1/2" by 11" folded once into a cover with two pages of text inside. This includes two copies of the Winter 1960 issue. December '61 consists of three mimeographed sheets 8-1/2'"by 11" printed one side and stapled at upper left corner. Slight spotting on the latter; one of the Winter 1960 issues has a stain on front other issues slightly darkened but nice. The newsletter was published quarterly. The December 1961 letter explains that the former publication had been discontinued and that mineographed letters would now be how news would be published. Melville Society unknown books
51906Norfok CT: New Directions n.d. First Edition. 8vo pp. 30. Edited by F. O. Matthiessen. The poets of the year. Paper over boards. Cover somewhat soiled and worn o/w VG. New Directions unknown books
1904WRCLIT58674Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co. 1904. Small octavo. Light green cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Spine sunned as often otherwise a near fine bright copy. First edition. Contributions most reprinted by Artemus Ward Josh Billings Mark Twain Bill Nye Josiah Allen E.W. Townsend John Kendrick Bangs Henry M. Blossom Jr. George Ade Mr. Dooley Hayden Caruth George V. Hobart and Billy Baxter. KRAMER 303. Herbert S. Stone & Co. hardcover books
199444290NY: Simon & Schuster 1994. First printing. 8vo pp. 460. Notes index. Illustrated. A nice copy in very slightly soiled dj. Melville and Hawthorne James and Wharton Porter and Welty Bishop and Lowell. Simon & Schuster unknown books
18944511London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1894. Octavo 52 pages. Advertisements with thirteen plates mostly chromolithographs of various whole animal and prime cuts. Second and last printing. This small military guidebook is mostly aimed at providing an outline for detecting substandard meat through inspection. The detailed chromolithograph illustrations include various sides and cuts of ox bull heifer old cow whether and ewe. A few neat ink notes to one of the black and white plates. Fine in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. OCLC locates ten copies of this printing just two in the US. Harrison and Sons, Ltd hardcover books
199151923New Haven CT: Yale 1991. 8vo pp. 27. Paper wraps. A nice copy. [Yale] unknown books
1849019049London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover books
181115786Boston 1811. Second American Edition 28 7 1 pp. Disbound and loosening. Good. unknown books
19112305598New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1911. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1911 Hard Cover. xv 2 317 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt titles and decorations. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece 29 photographic plates comprising 46 total illustrations in text fold-out map follows text. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: "Popular account of the Peary Expedition 1908-1909 by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's participation with one of the supporting parties in the first part of the polar march and in a sledge trip along the North Greeland coast with D.B. MacMillan. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
19816788Westmoreland NH: H.H. Hurley 1981. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. miniature. Tight bright and unmarred. Red leather boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements frontispiece. 2 1/16x2 13/16. 14pp. One of 350 copies 24 copies on paper handmade by Henry Morris plus three copies on Morris paper with Cock & Bull Press name at title page this one of an unknown number of deluxe in gilt leather. <br/><br/>Printed letterpress. H.H. Hurley paperback books
189553862Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper selfwrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
1999UNASAHA00MELWilliam Morrow 1999. Fine. Naslund Sena Jeter. Ahab's Wife Or The Star-gazer : a Novel. Melville Herman. New York: William Morrow 1999. xix 668pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with light bumping to head of spine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped head of spine. William Morrow hardcover books
1968177271London: Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts 1968. Softcover. Good . covers have scuffs scratches light soiling & foxing. pgs edge toned w/ instances of light foxing otherwise clean. tight binding. oblong white pictorial wraps. approx 65 unpaginated pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. 111 black and white illustrations with 8 color plates. Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts unknown books
192113256New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth bumped at the corners; binding tight and square contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in the remote hill country of Algeria collecting specimens of Berber handicraft for the Pitt-Rivers Museum Oxford. Dodd, Mead and Co hardcover books
1997172992New York: Princeton University Press 1997. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 102 pages. Includes maps of 40 cities from throughout the world. A clean and tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with a tear to the top of the rear panel near the spine. Princeton University Press unknown books
101464hardcover. very good/very good. b/w photo illus. 190pp. 8vo cloth-backed bds. d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster 1978. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> unknown books
198316416offprint from Scholarly Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1983. Printed wraps. pp. 85-95. VG. (offprint from Scholarly Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) unknown books
195662223New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 244 p. A collection of verso by the American poet and lawyer who is perhaps best known for his influential book Making a Poem: An Inquiry Into the Creative Process 1953. Signed and dated by Cane on the half-title. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with silver titles. Small bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly worn with a few tape reinforcements to the verso; else very good. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1956141865New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1956. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 244 pages. Advance copy with publisher slip affixed to the front front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books
195668138New York: Harcourt Brace 1956. First. hardcover. fine/fine. d.w. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace 1956. First Edition. Presentation copy to Mark Van Doren.<br/><br/> Harcourt Brace unknown books
1943W2706BWashingtion D.C.: National Geographic Society 1943. Original blue paper wraps gilt. Wraps dog eared at corners joints worn with some splitting and some soiling on ffep. Gilt has become a little obscure. Edition prepared at the request of the U.S.Navy during the War in the Pacific. 30 plates in full color and 257 photographs accompany this collection of articles on the Southwestern Pacific. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. National Geographic Society Paperback books
1864WRCLIT85064Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. xi2001pp. Quarto. Polished plum-colored cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Lithographed manuscript facsimiles and illustrations. Spine a shade sunned with shallow chips at crown and toe slight edge-wear a bit of foxing early and late old French bookseller's description in corner of verso of front free endsheet offset through tissue to upper blank portion of title old offset from an ancient and absent floral specimen in gutters of pages 42-3 generally a very good copy. First edition of this considerable undertaking to raise funds contemporary with the Baltimore Sanitary Fair to support relief for the aid of soldiers and their families. Includes faithful facsimiles of the contributors' works and includes the first facsimile of Lincoln's handwritten Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Other facsimiles of works by other important 19th Century authors include: Francis Scott Key Edward Everett Washington Irving Harriet Beecher Stowe Nathaniel Hawthorne John Audubon Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau William G. Simms J.J. Audubon and many many others. Melville's "Inscription to the Slain at Fredericksburg" was not collected in book form until 1947. BAL 2418 13672 etc. Cushings & Bailey hardcover books
18522564671852. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Secretary of State Trying to Help the Disgraced Oakes Shaw. Secretary of State Edward Everett writes to Secretary of the Navy John Pendleton Kennedy on Justice Lemuel Shaw's behalf to recommend his son John Oakes Shaw for a position in the Navy. Oakes Shaw as he was known was the eldest son from his father's second marriage to Hope Savage. He became the brother-in-law of Herman Meville when the author married Justice Shaw's daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage. In fact Oakes had truly disgraced his family when in 1844 he married an "inopportunely preganant Caroline Caro Sarah Cobb."<br/>Reading in full "Mr. John O. Shaw of Boston a son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts is desirous of being appointed a pursor in the Navy. His father equally respectable as a Magistrate & a citizen desires me to speak a good word for him. I have no knowledge of the young man but I am sure the Chief Justice would not recommend him if he did not think him fully qualified for the place". Parker Herman Melville Volume 1: 1819-1851 pp. 341-343 unknown books