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19613786<p>Lisbon: Europa-America 1961. Softcover. Good . Signed and inscribed by Tomas Alcaide on half-title page Lisbon 1963. Pages toned else in quite good condition overall. Livro em portugues. Book in Portuguese. OCLC #959067118 8vo bookseller #3786. <br /><br /></p> Europa-America paperback
1494397765.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2013CORV-BBC-0K65644CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013. Paperback. Like New. 10x8x0. Binding firm interior clean and unmarked. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback
19650009598Toronto: Veterans Association of the First Division Ukrainian National Army 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo 280 pages reddish cloth; short tears in white dj. Scarce. <br/><br/>This book describes the methods used by Nazis in recruiting youth. There are original German documents such as pamphlets leproclamations proaganda leaflets letters and memoirs orders photographs and emblems and a good deal of statistical material. Multi-lingual texts. It appears to be inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Also titled "Ukrani¨ns'ke iunatstvo v vyri Druhoï Svitovoï viny". Includes some text in German. Summary in English and German. Veterans Association of the First Division Ukrainian National Army hardcover
1787036284Leipzig: Weidmann 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Leather Spine Gilt Lettering The Spine Has Some Damage At The Head And Bottom Edge. The Spine Is Missing A Small Amount Of The Leather Inside Pages Are Yellow From The Age. Text Is In German. The Pages Inside Have Some Foxing. 378 Pages. About Mahlerei And Sculptors Working In Rome For Lovers Of The Beautiful In Art.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Weidmann hardcover
200828847Self published 2008. First Edition. Hardcover Printed Boards. As New/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo standard book size. 262 pages. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Business Finance & Marketing; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 28847. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Self published hardcover
19921125559829<p>Toronto Ont: Canav Books 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. blue cloth gilt spine 207 pages : illustrations maps portraits. Includes index.</p> Canav Books hardcover
1969053712Tehran - Iran: TLS. Dated 4th May 1969 1969. No Binding. Very Good. Original typewritten letter signed by Dr. Javid Gheitanchi with its original envelope addressed to Turkish philologist Sevindik Hanim. 27x215 cm. In English. 1 p. After a short introduction on giving his open address and his excuses for such a long time he did not write to her he mentions 'No Rooz' Newroz or i.e. The New Day. celebrations in Iran. 23 lines. Dated 4th May 1969 Tehran. Javid Gheitanchi is the writer of the only biography of James Justinian Morier /1780-1849 who was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran most famously for the Hajji Baba series. Adventures of Hajji Baba which is criticized for his 'Hajji Baba' texts. <br/> <br/> TLS., Dated 4th May, 1969 unknown
1910006960West Point N.Y. 1910. Near Fine. 2 p.; 18 x 14 cm. Typed response to a query from H. Stuart Watts New York City on stationary headed "West Point N.Y." Major General Thomas H. Barry 1855-1919 served on the western frontier and in the Philippines in the Spanish American War and was President of the Army War College and Superintendent of the Military Academy 1910-1912. Later he commanded in Cuba China and Philippines and served in France in World War I. In this short letter signed "Thomas H. Barry" he recounts his ranks from cadet at West Point to Major General. In Near Fine Condition: very lightly soiled. unknown
41699Noted Kentucky senator who served as vice president -- the oldest in U.S. history -- under Truman 1949-53. TNS 1p 8" X 10½" Washington DC 30 January 1943. Addressed to The A.N. Marquis Company. Very good. Faint wear bit of age toning and original folds. On "United States Senate" letterhead the future veep notes "I am returning herewith the personal sketch which appeared in the last printing of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA which I have corrected as requested." Boldly signed in full. unknown
19958Versatile journalist and reformer -- chairman of the U.S. Committee on Public Information 1917-19 and intimate of Woodrow Wilson chairman of the Works Progress Administration author of many books such as "Wilson and the Issues" 1916 "How We Advertised America" 1920 "War Criminals and Punishment" 1944 "Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years" 1947 and others. TNS 1p 8½" X 11" New York NY 1923 January 5. Addressed to noted literary scholar Albert Johannsen author of "The House of Beadle & Adams" the standard reference work on dime novels. Near fine. Brief cryptic "I am only too happy to do as you requested" followed by a bold attractive signature. Also present is Johannsen's partly-printed 5½" X 8½" catalogue slip. Johannsen had a large and well-known collection. unknown
151925338New York: November 15 1933. November 15 1933. Very good. - sc Small quarto 8-1/2 inches high by 12-1/2 inches wide folded to form 4 sides. 21 words typed on the first side of a sheet of his personalized cream letterhead with his Wall Street address printed at the top. Signed "Samuel Seabury". The letter is lightly soiled & slightly darkened along the left side. There are 4 small pieces of tape on the 4th side where the letter was once mounted in an album. Folded once for mailing. Very good. New York: November 15, 1933. unknown
1515This Democratic politician served Massachusetts both as its 46th governor 1914-16 and as senator 1919-47. TNS 1p 8" X 10½" Washington DC 1937 April 14. Addressed to future Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93. Near fine. Light original horizontal folds. On "United States Senate" letterhead Walsh transmits present a signed copy of a recently-delivered speech. Accompanied by aforementioned speech an 8vo 8-page "Congressional Record" offprint titled "Reorganization of Federal Judiciary" being the text of the senator's radio address delivered at Carnegie Hall in New York on March 12 1937. In this fiery speech Walsh denounces President Roosevelt's controversial court-packing scheme. Signed large and bold near the bottom of the self-cover along with "Compliments of." Walsh was a well-known critic of FDR's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court making this signed memento particularly desireable. unknown
1954BOOKS040428IWashington: White House. Nearly fine copy. 1954. 1st. softcover. 4to 1 pp. Slight tanning to the sheet; it has not been folded A one-page 8 1/2" x 11" TLS from President Eisenhower on White House stationary to the president of the Association of Junior Leagues of America on the occasion of their 32nd annual conference. In three paragraphs the president welcomes the members praises the association's past accomplishments and wishes the convention a success; signed in pen Dwight D. Eisenhower. . White House paperback
31730This prominent New York physician a close friend of William Jennings Bryan was brought in as a consultant after the assassination attempt on President Garfield and was the last survivor of the four physicians brought in to attend the president; he took part in Alexander Graham Bell's disastrous attempt to use metal detection to pinpoint and extract the bullet causing a fatal infection; later he developed the Girdner telephonic bullet probe supposedly plagiarizing the concept from Bell; in 1869 he was the first physician to use cadaver skin to cover a burn wound on a 10-year-old child. TLS 1p 8½" X 11" New York NY 1912 March 22. Addressed to Charles White of the New York Hall of Records later a noted Abraham Lincoln scholar. Very good. Moderately age toned. Chatty note to the tax commissioner on his medical office letterhead reading in part: "I regret as much as you can that we do not see more of each other but I have got an endless job on my hands which requires all my time sleeping and waking." Of his profession Girdner remarks: "You remember I used to want to reform other people and things: well one day I looked myself over and I have been a busy man ever since and the end of the job is not in sight. You call me a 'rich physician' and so I am but my wealth is not of the kind your office recognises as taxable fortunately for me. I think you do yourself an injustice when you speak of having 'slipped back'. You know the old Methodist doctrine that one 'cannot fall from grace' and I am certain that when I knew you you were so well grounded in the faith that not even the temptations etc. of your present occupation and environment can drag you down." Bold full signature. Most unusual. unknown
40862This Indiana attorney and politician served his state in Congress from 1917 to 1925 then was appointed President Calvin Coolidge's personal secretary during his second term; Herbert Hoover appointed him chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1932 a post he filled until 1934. Brief TLS 1p 6¼" X 9¼" Washington DC 1925 December 12. Very good. Faintly age toned. On "The White House" letterhead Sanders grants a favor to a former Illinois congressman: "I am enclosing not present! a letter which the President has addressed in his own hand to your friend Mr. A.W. Hannah of Chicago. You will appreciate how seldom the President is able to write letters of this kind because of the time it would take. However he was very glad to comply with Mr. Hannah's request made through you. The letter is being sent unfolded in case he should desire to have it framed." Bold full signature in brown ink. Alexander W. Hannah was a Chicago businessman and well-known autograph collector of this period and clearly took advantage of a friendship with an ex-representative to call in a favor. One wonders what it was that President Coolidge wrote out by hand! With original unstamped White House envelope addressed to Hannah. Also accompanied by a superb glossy 8½" X 6½" black and white news agency photograph depicting Sanders and a half dozen men standing around the newly-planted gravestone of Calvin Coolidge. Original mimeographed paper label neatly affixed to verso titles this "In Memoriam -- Republican Leaders Pay Tribute to Coolidge" and dates it 3 August 1934 describing the scene: "Impressive ceremonies were held today. at the gravesite of President Calvin Coolidge to mark the eleventh anniversary of his elevation to the presidency. In this photograph a group of state and national Republican leaders are pictured placing a wreath on the grave of their late leader." It then lists the senators and representatives pictured among them "Everett Sanders former Republican National Committee chairman and secretary to President Coolidge is placing the wreath." A fine pair. unknown
1979100964<p>January 21 1979. 1979. Fine. - Over 110 words typed on 6-5/8 inch high by 8 inch wide buff paper. Writing to his friend Jean Dalrymple John Toland states that "You know I began to feel better as soon as I heard your voice on the phone. I am almost back to normal now." Sad that he won't get to see her he asks when she will be coming back and relates that "We all go to Hawaii on April 19. Toshiko and Tamiko come back after 12 days but I'll stay on to research my Pearl Harbor book and be home in late May." He closes penning a couple of words in his hand "Love Your non-gentleman admirer." Signed "John". Fine.</p><p>The American writer and historian John Toland 1912-2004 is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and his history of World War II-era Japan "The Rising Sun" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Toland was also the author of "The Dillinger Boys" an account of the depression-era bank robbers and gangsters. His history "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath" was published in 1982.</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> January 21, 1979.
1971100965<p>February 1 1971. 1971. Fine. - Over 35 words typed on his 1-1/2 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide personal stationery. The historian John Toland writes to his friend Jean Dalrymple that he and his family are leaving in a couple of days: "We would love to have lunch with you. But it will have to wait awhile. We're leaving in two days for California and then Japan - and Germany. We'll be back in May and will phone you." Signed "John T." Folded for mailing else fine.</p><p>The American writer and historian John Toland 1912-2004 is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and his history of World War II-era Japan "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936�1945" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Toland was also the author of "The Dillinger Boys" an account of the depression-era bank robbers and gangsters and "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath"</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> February 1, 1971.
6797Seeley Service & Co. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC.Seeley Service & co1951.First UK edition.Red hardbacksome marksink marksnicksdents and crease on the cover and spinegilt lettering to the spine in VGC no Dj cover.Illustrated with b/w photosdrawings.Nice and clean pages with some foxing marks and a small black marker mark on the outer edgessmall foxing markscreases and nicks on the edges of the pagessmall foxing marks inside the front and back coverpencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear.280pp including Forewordlist of illustrationsindex.A collectable first edition. Seeley, Service & Co. hardcover
18902285418A & C. Black Ltd. 1890. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt title and stamp to spine. Moderate external wear and soiling spine darkened with some small tears to its head and tail. Secure binding pencil underlining throughout but pages otherwise clean. With portrait and illustrations. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: A & C. Black Ltd. hardcover
20035649New York NY: Hyperion Books. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Magazine. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 185 pages; Signed BY AUTHOR. Glossy Illustrated Magazine. Text is clean no markings seen. With Color Photographs. . 1401300677 . Hyperion Books unknown
19167924Philadelphia: David Mckay. Very Good. 1916. Hardcover. 415 p. 19 cm. Sound and square binding in green cloth-covered boards with colour pastedown on upper board. Gilt titles on spine. Finger marks on the gilt colour on the pastedown. Pastedown also has some light rippling. Text block edges are slightly toned. Gift inscription dated 1967 on front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very attractive. An illustrated edition of a classic memoir of the author's story of life on a merchant ship sailing from Boston to California in the 1830s. Introduction by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Eight full colour plates including frontispiece. . David Mckay hardcover
196412818Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Two volumes in slipcase publisher's full illustrated cloth maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W maps several B&W and color reproductions and photographs and several drawings by Robert Weinstein. . Both volumes are in excellent condition unmarked tight square and clean. Some mild wear around edges of slipcase else fine. NEAR FINE . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii 552 pp . The Ward Ritchie Press hardcover
1876BOOKS073095ILondon: Macmillan and Co 1876. HC. good 3/4 leather raised bands hardcover. Two Volume Set: TWO YEARS AGO. Eighth Edition 495 pages; and ALTON LOCKE TAILOR AND POET. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY New Edition with a prefatory memoir by Thomas Hughes 437 pages. Some light foxing. IMAGES AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBISITE - ask for link. Macmillan and Co unknown
19688382Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1968. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt medallion on cover t.e.g. John Woods was an English farmer apparently of some substance who was attracted by the opportunities for himself and his family in the United States and especially in the Midwest. Like many others before and after he descended the Ohio River and struck out north and west to give great impetus to the early settlement of the southern parts of several midwestern states. His detailed and interesting account of his journey and what he found was surely an important contribution to the early development of Illinois. A map of Woods's trip from Baltimore to Illinois was drawn for this edition. The original title page also is reproduced London: 1822 along with other drawings and reproductions from historical records. . The volume is in perfect pristine condition unmarked tight square and clean; still in original shipping box and glassine wrapper both of which are also in perfect condition. AS NEW. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 66. Maps and Reproductions. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press hardcover
