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194766310New Haven: Yale University Press 1947. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index viii 166p. 24cm. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
200880450Boston:: Beacon Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 9780807071489 . First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Beacon Press, hardcover books
1991706809Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1991. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers laid into Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Houghton Mifflin paperback books
2001036994Washington: Counterpoint 2001. 1st Printing. Drawings by James A. Mitchell. xii 194p. b/w illus. dj A Merloyd Lawrence book. Counterpoint unknown books
1998UMITTRE00LAWMerloyd-Lawrence 1998. Very Good. Mitchell John Hanson. Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land . NP: Merloyd-Lawrence 1998. 291pp. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and subtle soilig. Merloyd-Lawrence unknown books
200115341Washington: Counterpoint. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1582430462 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Counterpoint hardcover books
1878106361<p>Pamphlet 8vo original printed wrappers 13 pp. Wrappers are detached Mitchell's name penciled on front wrapper some minor edgewear and creasing browning and aging; otherwise in good condition. John H. Mitchell 1835-1905 was a rather corrupt U.S. senator from Oregon who served three times between 1873 and 1905. Among his many accomplishments he managed to get himself indicted and convicted in the "Oregon Land Scandals" at the tilme he was a sitting senator of the United States. Mitchell managed to get himself fined and a six months prison sentence for election fraud in 1901. However he managed to die during the appeal process from complications related to a tooth extraction. On the positive side he actually managed to address a young National Geographic Society in April 1895. The present title addresses the need to break-up the monopoly of the Oregon Steamship Navigation Company. </p><p><br /></p> books
1879106354<p>Pamphlet 8vo stapled 36 pp. Mitchell's name penciled on title some creasing normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. John H. Mitchell 1835-1905 was a rather corrupt U.S. senator from Oregon who served three times between 1873 and 1905. Among his many accomplishments he managed to get himself indicted and convicted in the "Oregon Land Scandals" at the time he was a sitting senator of the United States. Mitchell managed to get himself fined and a six months prison sentence for election fraud in 1901. However he managed to die during the appeal process from complications related to a tooth extraction. On the positive side he actually managed to address a young National Geographic Society in April 1895. The present title addresses a bill before the Senate on constructing a harbor on the Pacific Coast. downfalldictionary website. <br /></p> books
34341Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Wiley 1968. 405 pages clothbound very good condition in dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
1971BL3639Fredericksburg:: E. Lee Trinkle Library 1971. 1971. Occasional Papers Number 4. 26 cm. 7 leaves not including cover folded and stapled in half. Illus. mostly maps. Reddish pictorial self-printed wrappers; top staple unhinged. Burndy bookplate. Very good. E. Lee Trinkle Library, [1971]. unknown books
197379875Boston:: David R. Godine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0879230738 . Introduction by Richard Strassberg. First edition thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. ; 285 pages . David R. Godine, hardcover books
197368325Boston:: David R. Godine. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0879230738 . Introduction by Richard Strassberg. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good closed edge tear on rear panel a bit faded along the spine dust jacket. ; 285 pages . David R. Godine, hardcover books
198922305Midland: Northwood Institute Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 087359049X . Black and white photographs. First edition. Brief yellow hi-liting on a few pages else very good in a very good light edge wear and rubbing dust jacket. Paper label with "Grease" printed on it affixed over the subtitle on the front panel of the dust jacket. . Northwood Institute Press hardcover books
185622548np 1856. 12pp disbound several leaves loose generously margined. Caption title as issued. Minor wear else Very Good. An especially nasty piece of negative political campaigning attacking Hallett's private character during an 1856 Congressional contest in upstate New York. Mitchell trots out details of some private commercial litigation against Hallett along with some of Hallett's other transactions. "I do not know of a single case where a person has been benefited by dealing with Mr. Hallett; whereas on the contrary it is my candid opinion that there is not a single case where Mr. Hallett has had any dealings to any extent with any person or persons but what they are the worst off; except in cases where he has co-operated with sharks for their mutual interest in the destruction of others." Not on OCLC or in NUC or Sabin. unknown books
1917165434New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers 1917. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v-vi vii-xii 1-301 302-306: blank note: first and last two leaves are blanks nineteen inserted plates with illustrations one in color by Angus Macdonall and the author original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition first printing. An interplanetary novel wherein a spacecraft powered by an antigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations which anticipate Bonestell are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-111. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 571. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 158. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Owner's initials dated November 1917 on the front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges a very good copy. #165434 Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers unknown books
1917161600New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers 1917. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v-vi vii-xii 1-301 302-306: blank note: first and last two leaves are blanks nineteen inserted plates with illustrations one in color by Angus Macdonall and the author original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition first printing. An interplanetary novel wherein a spacecraft powered by an antigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations which anticipate Bonestell are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-111. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 571. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 158. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Slight spine lean a bright nearly fine copy. #161600 Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers unknown books
1896110203New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. Octavo pp. 1-4 i-vi vii-viii 1-2 3-177 178-180: blank note: last leaf is a blank illustrations by C. D Gibson A. B. Frost F. T. Richards and J. A. Mitchell original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in white and gold spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First edition second printing with half title reading "That First Affair / And Other Sketches" and "Trow" imprint on copyright page. A collection of five short stories all but one fantastic or supernatural the first middle and last bringing various perspectives to bear on the subject of romantic love while the other two act as intermezzos. The title story provides a decidedly un-Biblical and revisionary telling of the story of Adam and Eve artfully blending irony and pathos and sidestepping pitfalls that would have ruined most writers. "Mrs. Lofter's Ride" delicately vivisects the snobbery of the New York 400 generating some surprisingly vital comedy along with the satire. In the middle piece "The Portraits" an old thwarted love affair between two now elderly people is reprised by their grandchildren and finally consummated -- with supernatural help effected through the mechanism of two portraits on either side of the Atlantic. "The Man Who Vanished" is a mordant confection about sport with a talking bear that might have been called "The Hunted and the Hunters." The last story "A Bachelor's Supper" is a bittersweet glance at the fate of an old bachelor who invites the shades or are they just memories of his seven old lovers to a midnight supper. The gentle wistfulness of the tone receives a turn of the screw in the last sentence. This final story makes a nice bookend to the collection's first tale each painting the joys and agonies of an alternate approach to life -- marriage vs. celibacy -- and together reinforcing the old saw about women and the impracticability of living either with them or without them. An excellent collection. Mitchell brings a sure and light touch to material that is not at all lightweight. The results are amusing provocative and oddly moving. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10186. BAL 14039. Wright III 3772. A bright clean very good copy. #110203 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1889130140New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother 1889. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-78 79-80: blank note: last leaf is a blank the illustrations uncredited in this edition are by Mitchell original pictorial dark blue cloth front panel stamped in black white and gold. First edition. Mitchell's third book preceded by a work of nonfiction and THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON 1886 a children's fantasy. THE LAST AMERICAN is a short clever inversion of the lost race tale just then gaining popularity the lost race in this case being the Mehrikan people. We see America through the eyes of an admiral in the Persian navy about 1100 years in the future as an exploring party wanders through the ruins of New York City and Washington D. C. where the detachment encounters and kills the three last Americans. Mitchell's point aside from amusement seems to be the danger of unrestricted immigration which he indicates was the basic cause of America's downfall in the late twentieth century. Ultimately American civilization is destroyed by a catastrophic change of climate and this satire is significant as being one of the earliest SF stories to utilize the catastrophe motif. "A curious work certainly pessimistic and bitter in substructure yet superficially humorous in the Victorian mode." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1523. ". minor classic of the future ." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 158. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-112; 1981 1-125 ; 1987 1-66; 1995 1-66; and 2004 II-773. Bailey Pilgrims Through Space and Time p. 77. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 572. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 21. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 125. Negley Utopian Literature 796. Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 187. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 39. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10184. BAL 14030. Wright III 3770. Cloth lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel else a fine bright copy. This book was reprinted many times; the first printing is decidedly uncommon especially in this condition. #130140 Frederick A. Stokes & Brother unknown books
188976380New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother 1889. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-78 79-80: blank note: last leaf is a blank the illustrations uncredited in this edition are by Mitchell original pictorial dark blue cloth front panel stamped in black white and gold. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Mitchell on front free endpaper: "Robert Bridges / with compliments of / J. A. Mitchell." Mitchell's third book preceded by a work of nonfiction and THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON 1886 a children's fantasy. THE LAST AMERICAN is a short clever inversion of the lost race tale just then gaining popularity the lost race in this case being the Mehrikan people. We see America through the eyes of an admiral in the Persian navy about 1100 years in the future as an exploring party wanders through the ruins of New York City and Washington D. C. where the detachment encounters and kills the three last Americans. Mitchell's point aside from amusement seems to be the danger of unrestricted immigration which he indicates was the basic cause of America's downfall in the late twentieth century. Ultimately American civilization is destroyed by a catastrophic change of climate and this satire is significant as being one of the earliest SF stories to utilize the catastrophe motif. "A curious work certainly pessimistic and bitter in substructure yet superficially humorous in the Victorian mode." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1523. ". minor classic of the future ." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 158. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-112; 1981 1-125 ; 1987 1-66; 1995 1-66; and 2004 II-773. Bailey Pilgrims Through Space and Time p. 77. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 572. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 21. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 125. Negley Utopian Literature 796. Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 187. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 39. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10184. BAL 14030. Wright III 3770. Cloth worn at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips spine a bit sunned 18 mm closed tear at top edge of front free endpaper a very good copy. Signed copies of books by Mitchell a popular novelist editor and artist are uncommon. This book was reprinted many times; the first printing is decidedly uncommon. #76380 Frederick A. Stokes & Brother unknown books
1906111405New York: Life Publishing Company 1906. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-222 223-224: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks four inserted plates with illustrations by William Balfour Ker original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A Socialist novel. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 pp. 51-2. BAL 14045. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 M-860. Spine panel just a bit darkened top edge of text block dusty a very good copy with bright cover stamping. #111405 Life Publishing Company unknown books
19063538New York: Life Publishing Company 1906. Hardcover. 222p. frontispiece and tissue guard are foxed three other illustrations first edition good condition. "A socialist tale of masses versus the millionaires." Hanna 2519. Rideout p. 52 notes: ".The Silent War which makes use of Socialism in a not-unkind buy highly inaccurate fashion has a non-Socialist millionaire hero. Life Publishing Company hardcover books
1904300780New York Life Publishing Company 1904. 1904. First edition. 8vo. B/w illustrations by A.D. Blashfield et al. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black t.e.g. hinges starting. Good-very good. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Printed by The Trow Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, Life Publishing Company, 1904. hardcover books
190436583NY:: Life Publishing Company. Very Good. 1904. Hardcover. Illustrations by A. D. Blashfield by the author and from ancient sources. First edition. Octavo bound in tan cloth with blue lettering and gilt design top edge gilt 306 pages. Trace edge wear else very good. No dust jacket. Binding is solid and tight. . Life Publishing Company, hardcover books
177726040Paris: Le Rouge 1777. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline on 8 sheets individual sheets: 27 1/4 x 21 inches if joined would form a single large sheet 59 x 79 inches with large allegorical cartouche and inset map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador. Good condition small repaired tear. Housed in a red morocco backed box. A fine example of a French edition of Mitchell's monumental mapping of Colonial America a scarce issue published during the American Revolution.<br/> <br/>"John Mitchell was not a mapmaker by profession rather he was a medical doctor natural philosopher and botanist of considerable merit. Yet his sole cartographic endeavor.was perhaps the greatest produced in the history of America" Degrees of Latitude. Mitchell's Map of the British and French Dominions in North America is widely regarded as the most important map in American History. Prepared on the eve of the French & Indian War it was the second large format map of North America printed by the British and included the best up to date information on the region. Over the next century it would play a significant role in the resolution of every significant boundary dispute involving the northern border of the then British Colonies and later the United States. It was also the map-of-record at the birth of the United States and continued in this role through several decades in the early life of the country. John Mitchell a respected British physician botanist chemist biologist and surveyor lived for a time in Virginia but returned to England in 1746 where he remained. Mitchell initially conceived of his map of North America as the best method of presenting to the British public in a single large format image of all the colonies the extent of the French threat to the British claims in North America. Mitchell completed his first draft of the map in 1750. However because he was limited to publicly available sources of information this initial effort was rather crude even in Mitchell's own opinion. But word of Mitchell's work spread and the Board of Trade and Plantations retained Mitchell to make a new map using the official manuscript and printed maps and reports in the Board's possession including maps by Fry and Jefferson Christopher Gist George Washington John Barnwell and others. The Board also instructed all the colonial governors to send detailed maps and boundary information for Mitchell's use. Mitchell's map was first published by Andrew Millar in 1755 the year before war broke out with the French. The map is decidedly pro-English in its interpretation of the various boundaries and geographical information depicted on the map as would be expected for what amounted to thinly veiled pre-war propaganda. In addition to the geographical detail shown on the map Mitchell included many annotations describing the extent of British and French settlements. He also submitted a report to the Board in 1752 listing the French encroachments and his ideas of ways to encourage British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as a means of combating French influence in the region. Mitchell's map shows the British Colonial claims of Virginia both Carolinas and Georgia extending beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. In the West Mitchell's treatment of the lower Missouri is a vast improvement over earlier maps. Regarding the source of the Missouri Mitchell noted that the Missouri river was reckoned to run westward to the Mountains of New Mexico as far as the Ohio does eastward reflecting his belief in symmetrical geography. Mitchell correctly shows the northern branch of the Missouri to be the main branch of the river although his estimate of the latitude of the river's source is inaccurate. Nonetheless the information Mitchell's map provided led Meriwether Lewis to explore the Marias River to determine the northern reaches of the Missouri River basin. The present French edition appeared in 1777 within Le Rouge's Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional. Le Rouge had first published an edition of the Mitchell map in 1756. The speed with which Le Rouge produced a full-size copy of Mitchell's original is an indication of how important the 1755 map was considered at the time. War in the region meant that consistent reliable cartographic intelligence was vital. Both the English and French versions went through a number of subsequent editions well into the 1770s. Mitchell's map went on to become the primary political treaty map in American history. Regarded by many authorities as the most important map in the history of American cartography twenty-one variant states and editions of the map appeared between 1755 and 1781.<br/> <br/>McCorkle 777.15; Ristow A La Carte p. 112; Tooley p 124; Moreland & Bannister p. 171-2.; Cf. E. and D.S. Berkeley Dr. John Mitchell the Man who made the Map Chapel Hill 1974 chapters 12 and 13; Richard W. Stephenson "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's map" p.110 in A la Carte Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases Washington 1972. Le Rouge unknown books
101011hardcover. 285pp. Short 4to cloth d.w. Boston Ma. 1973.<br/><br/> unknown books
