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19731323743Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; VG/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black red and blue print; DJ in mylar soiling to front; Boards in blue cloth with silver print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; lxxii 358 pages. 1323743. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1933S0293London:: G. Bell & Sons 1933. 1933. 8vo. vii 92 pp. 34 figs. index. Maroon cloth. Ex-Carnegie. G. Bell & Sons, 1933. hardcover books
1895134984Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1895. Hardcover. VG- Ex-lib. stamp inside front cover usual markings; Light wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Corners bumped; Interior clean and tight. Green cloth over boards; Gilt titling at front cover; 81 pp.; Numerous tables and bw figures. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
19142288323The Century Co 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. A nice copy. 1914 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 447 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Deckled edge. A collection of poetry from Silas Weir Mitchell. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silas Weir Mitchell February 15 1829 The Century Co hardcover books
1998126426USA: Hirsch Foundation 1998. Softbound. VG tear at each corner of spine. White wraps w/ BW images vii unpaginated several color plates. Hirsch Foundation unknown 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
200915279New York: Clarkson Potter 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Quarto 25.5 cm pp. 224. Navy blue boards white titling pictorial jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photos includes index. Boards are bumped at corners. Clarkson Potter hardcover books
1911429511911. MITCHELL S. Weir. THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS AND OTHER POEMS. NY: Century Co. 1911. 12mo. brown half-calf leather & marbled boards. Second Edition. Signed inscription by Mitchell on a front blank page: "The last and best of my verse. Weir Mitchell." Very Good hinges repaired & tender. $125.00. <br/><br/> 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
1976123085Boston: n.pub 1976. Pamphlet. 17 11p. the two essays are bound dos a dos in a single staplebound booklet very good but for old price sticker. Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen's strikes both in Massachusetts. n.pub unknown books
192148951New York: Cupples & Leon Company. Very Good. 1921. Hardcover. New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1921. Light foxing to contents otherwise Very Good burgandy decorative boards in slightly chipped and foxed yet Good DJ . Cupples & Leon Company hardcover books
1981139598Santa Monica: David Greene Productions 1981. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1981 television movie. <br/><br/>A young woman becomes pregnant and must decide whether or not to keep the child. She consults her mother who once found herself in a similar situation. <br/><br/>9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. David Greene Productions unknown books
1912036398London: William Heinemann; New York Frederick A. Stokes Company 1912. xiv 269p. colored and b/w illus. deckle edges original cloth. William Heinemann; New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
2003UMILCEL00araHyperion 2003. Very Good. Miller John. The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. Stone Michael; Mitchell Chris. NY: Hyperion 2003. 370pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing. Hyperion paperback books
19929013042New York: Pantheon 1992. paperback. Fine Condition. One of 1000 copies printed especially for the holiday season of 1992. Pamphlet bound in publisher's original stapled wrappers with a black-and-white illustration on the front cover. <br/><br/> Pantheon paperback books
1984BL1644Suffolk:: Terence Dalton 1984. 1984. 8vo. ix 214 pp Figs. index. White boards gilt-stamped spine title dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0861380304 Terence Dalton, 1984. hardcover books
2010259713Sausalito Ca: PoliPointPress 2010. Paperback. xx 665p. large thick softbound in 9x6 inch glossy wraps. This edition has no illustrations not even on the covers. A very presentable copy with a single flaw: front cover corner-tip is creased with accompanying wear to top edge and small dog-ears to titlepage and next two leaves. Otherwise quite sound and entirely clean and unmarked. PoliPointPress paperback books
1992Embry 161899Random House 1992. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W photos Random House, 1992. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1916312944New York: Menzies Publishing Company Inc 1916. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Bound in full purple morocco a.e.g. for Asprey spine faded on back pastedown stamped in gilt "Gov. Charles Edison Library. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Inscribed to Thomas Alva Edison; "To Thomas A. Edison with compliments from the author Edmund Mitchell New York Xmas 1916. Menzies Publishing Company, Inc unknown books
42474Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1928. First edition "H-C". 291 pages. Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Interior is clean with weak hinges. Binding is green cloth with rubbed boards. Overall a good copy. . Other hardcover books
19619004965London: Chatto & Windus 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original yellow cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19591328470New York: Little Brown and Company 1959. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 243 pages; VG/G; in dark green dust jacket dark green spine with white titling; mild rubbing and wear particularly to spine including chips missing to head and tail of spine small chips and tears; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$3.95';<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Inscribed on the ffep by Joseph Mitchell "To Rachel MacKenzie / with love / Joe Mitchell / November 11 1974";<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> JM consignment;. Case 3. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Charles McGrath former writer and editor for The New Yorker writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking a former college professor who had a discerning eye for talent she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth."<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Joseph Mitchell was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker. His work primarily consists of character studies where he used detailed portraits of people and events to highlight the commonplace of the world especially in and around New York City. 1328470. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
19613593London: Chatto & Windus 1961. Octavo 243 pages. FIRST UK EDITION. The third book by the great New Yorker writer a classic study of New York's waterfront and fish markets with an emphasis on the bounty of the bottom of the harbor oysters. Contains the story "Up in the Old Hotel" which later became the title of Mitchell's collected short works. A source for Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster. A personal favorite. near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket but for a single small stain to the rear panel. Chatto & Windus unknown books
195910971Boston: Little Brown & Co 1959. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: "for Daise Terry with love Joe Mitchell June 9 1960". Daisy Terry was the office manager at the New Yorker where Mitchell was employed as a staff writer for most of his career; he continued to appear at the office daily until the end of his life though in his last years he appears to have written nothing at all. This is Mitchell's third book containing the story "Up at the Old Hotel" which would serve as the title piece of his collected works issued by Pantheon in 1992. A tiny nick to the head of the spine otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket. 8vo boards dust jacket. A tiny nick to the head of the spine otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket. Little Brown & Co unknown books
1987Embry 161202North Point Press 1987. First printing thus. Fine in fine dust jacket with abrasion and small tape remnant to verso in mylar cover. North Point Press, 1987. First printing thus. unknown books
