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195026162Melbourne: Georgian House 1950. First Edition. With 10 colour plates by the author and 34 in black and white plates additional illustrations within the text. 4to publisher's original green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spine with pictorially decorated endpapers. xix 470pp. A very nice and fresh copy. With little evidence of use the binding only very lightly mellowed. UNCOMMON FIRST EDITION. Printed for the Australiana Society and authored and illustrated by the curator of shells for the Austrailian Museum of Sydney. It is an extensive and valuable study describing or illustrating over 1200 species. Georgian House hardcover
19782583Lincoln Massachusetts: Penmaen Press Limited 1978. Wood Engravings by Gillian Tyler. SignedFine Press Oates Joyce Carol with Rosellen Brown Maxine Kumin Jean McGarry and Lynne Sharon Schwartz--Edited by Joan Norris Penmaen Press Limited Penmaen Press Limited 1978. 9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches 101pp.<br /> <br /> Book and slipcase in fine condition. Brown cloth with gilt title on spine over patterned paper over boards. Signed. Hand printed in an edition of 225 of which 200 are numbered and signed by contributors and artist. This is copy 31.<br /> <br /> Joyce Carol Oates contributes "North Wind"; Maxine Kumin "The Banquet" Rosellen Brown "How Mrs Fox Married Again" Jean McGarry' "The Rainy Season" and Lynne Sharon Schwartz "Mrs Saunders Writes to the World. Penmaen Press Limited unknown
1804AQ21202Cambridge: Printed by and for B. Flower 1804. 324pp. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities occasional marking else a crisp unpressed and generously margined copy displaying several untrimmed fore-edges and some marginal paper flaws. With occasional neat early underlining of key passages suggesting a close reading a handful of single-word manuscript translations into French early ink-stamps of Wm. McKendrick to early blank preceding title and following leaf and later ink inscription to modern blank fly. The second edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended to be used as a textbook: as the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' the work was to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763-1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 or the by then well known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth century into a single convenient octavo volume. Mizuta 82. Second edition. 8vo. Printed by and for B. Flower hardcover
182155104London:: Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. The Third Edition. original boards; green cloth spine with printed paper label. . Spine sunned; spine label tanned; but a beautiful copy in original condition. 12mo. Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, hardcover
193852020Centralia WA: Centralia Junior College 1938. Folio. 36 pp unpaginated w/ text printed on cream-coloured laid paper w/ 140 original silver gelatin photos mounted and each w/ printed text below or beside the image. Black textured softcovers yapp edges punch sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk ribbon slight shelfwear very slight bumping to lower corners still VG copy. First edition of this remarkable yearbook published during the Great Depression when the enrollment and staffing numbers at the Centralia Junior College located at the time on the third floor of Centralia High School had fallen dangerously low. The photos reveal hazing rituals sporting events dances theatre productions as well as an extended ski trip to Mt. Rainier with photos of skiers ski jumping and the members at the time. Of particular interest is the group of 12 photographs showing the opening night of Disney’s Snow White at the Fox Theatre in downtown Centralia hosted by the Men’s Club with the organizers in costume and photos taken during the running of the film and carefully mounted in sequence inside the yearbook. Founded in 1925Centralia Junior College began with 15 students and 6 instructors with not tuition and by 1929 the enrollment had expanded to 133 students and offered courses in many areas but as a result of the Great Depression enrollment plunged and the college nearly bankrupt because the banks had failed. Dean Margaret Corbet asked each of the staff members what they could survive on and business leaders in Centralia acted as loan guarantors to keep the College scraping by for a few years. Worldcat locates 1 copy. Centralia Junior College, paperback
197029410Pittsburgh: Know Inc 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.25cm.; two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner; printed on pale blue stock. About Fine. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece. OCLC notes a single holding at U.Virginia Nov.2018. Know, Inc unknown
19472580Camp Lee Va. and various locations in and around Fukuoka Japan 1947. Very good. Sixty-four vernacular photographs and five professional photographic postcards between 2.25 x 2 inches and 8.75 x 11 inches plus two documents and a canceled check. Minor occasional wear to images. A small but informative archive of photographs and documents pertaining to Private Fred N. Joyce's service in Occupied Japan at the conclusion of the Second World War. Joyce served in the Third Platoon of the 93rd Quartermaster Training Company stationed at Camp Hakata in Kyushu Japan. The two documents present here include a "Letter of Merit" given to Joyce while in training at Camp Lee Virginia in August 1946 and his "Honorable Discharge" granted in November 1947. Between those dates Joyce spent his short career in Japan documented with over sixty candid shots some of which are captioned in manuscript on the verso. The vernacular shots show a variety of subjects and settings including American serviceman on base at work and play in both Virginia and Japan portraits of Joyce's fellow soldiers numerous street scenes in Japan one manuscript caption reads "One of the modern Jap theatres on Main Street in Fukuoka" elevated views of the city of Fukuoka one taken from the Red Cross Building a shot of three Japanese "Janitors that work here in Battalion Headquarters" and other locals an image of Joyce with several Japanese children captioned on the verso "'Me' and some other little 'Japs'" and more. Three of the largest images present here are aerial photographs of Camp Hakata one with numerous buildings captioned in manuscript in the image area and keyed to a printed list on the verso. The other larger photograph is a professional group photograph of Joyce's Third Platoon with all members identified. Six commercial photographic postcards round out the collection which depict scenes in Japan with English printed captions beneath the images. unknown
ria9780199216161_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Richard Hooker 1554-1600 is often credited with being the founding father of Anglican moral theology. This book is the first major study to examine in depth the extent to which this claim is justified and to evaluate the nature of Ho hardcover
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15-4091Oakland: Poetry Flash 1980. 8vo. 8 pp. Very Good Newspaper with minor stains shelf wear. Photographs. Gary Snyder and isaac Bashevis Singer on cover at SF International Poetry Festival. Scarce. Oakland: Poetry Flash, 1980. unknown
2012x-0230296459Palgrave Macmillan 2012. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
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