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193039211n.p: Pacific Whaling Company n.d. circa 1930. 15 pp. b/w halftone ills. <br/><br/>Public relations pamphlet for an outfit calling itself the Pacific Whaling Company. In fact this was a promotional for a stuffed whale exhibit. The centerfold is an illustration of Capt. Lew Nichols pictured chomping his cigar on page 1 killing a sixty-eight ton Blue Fin-Back. Whatever species it actually was Nichols stuffed it and exhibited it in Chicago where over half a million people availed themselves of the opportunity of seeing this giant sea monster in the flesh. A good copy of a scarce whale show promotional. Bound in original pink wrappers. Pacific Whaling Company unknown books
200541569Princeton Junction NJ: Valuable Book Group 2005. 4to. 107 pp. Duotone and b/w ills. <br /><br />"A brief history bibliography and collector's guide." Bound in printed wrappers. Very good condition ((Valuable Book Group) books
176548742Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis 1765. First Foulis edition 8vo pp. 597 21 table; modern quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards spine in 6 compartments with gilt rules and elaborate decorations stamped in blind maroon morocco label; trimmed toned at edges occasional spots overall a very good attractive copy. Gaskell 440. <br/><br/> printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover books
183049252Boston: Wells and Lilly 1830. 8vo pp. 285. Paper wraps nearly separate. Worn. Articles include one on the life of John Locke the French commercial system a review of poems by Felicia Hemans vegetable physiology a review of Flaxman's "Lectures on Sculpture. Wells and Lilly unknown books
187643199Gloucester MA: Procter Brothers 1876. Published by the newspaper book and real estate impresarios the Procter Brothers and loaded with facts and statistics on the fisheries as well as an article on the granite industry. Illustrated with period ads. Rust marks over binding staples else a near-Fine copy of a scarce and desirable title bound in original pictorial wrappers. Am I the only person left who loves old Gloucester stuff. 88 pp. b/w ills. Procter Brothers books
190840932Halifax NS: Macnab Print 1908. 68 1 pp. <br /><br />A social and dining club. "Established January 1862. Constitution and Rules with List of Members." With corrections in ink. Very good condition in original flexible boards with title in gold on front cover. Find me another. Macnab Print hardcover books
182643156Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union n.d. Circa 1826. A preacher in England bumps into an old Sunday School student of his named John Robins. The two get to talking and Robins tells how he managed to lose an eye and a best friend at Trafalgar and then a leg in the course of his naval career. He spent quite a while "in the service of sin" but eventually found his way back to the Lord and now is perfectly happy to have been "a brand plucked out of the burning." Well to each his own. Worldcat dates this pretty little book at 1826. It stands 4 1/4 inches tall and is bound in quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt spine lettering. Foxing but legible. 16mo. 32 pp. b/w wood engraved illustrations. American Sunday-School Union hardcover books
182639645Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union n.d. Circa 1826. 16mo. 32 pp. b/w wood engraved illustrations. <br /><br />A preacher in England bumps into an old Sunday School student of his named John Robins. The two get to talking and Robins tells how he managed to lose an eye a best friend at Trafalgar and a leg in the course of his naval career. He spent quite a while "in the service of sin" but eventually found his way back to the Lord and now is perfectly happy to have been "a brand plucked out of the burning." Well to each his own. Worldcat dates this pretty little book at 1826. It stands 4 1/4 inches tall and is bound in quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt spine lettering. American Sunday-School Union hardcover books
1835TB29132New Haven: George W. Gorton 1835. Reprint of 1835. Good in full leather calf covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 5/8 by 4 1/2 inches with the leather at the edges and joints of the boards rubbed the leather at the upper 1/2" of the front joint is cracked and there are spots of dampness stains to the end sheets. The gilt text and decorations on the spine are well worn. The binding remains tight and strong with not loose or damaged pages. 504 pages of text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and twelve engraved plates. The full title reads: "The Mariner's Chronicle: Containing Narrative Of The Most Remarkable Disasters At Sea Such As Shipwrecks Storms Fires And Famines. Also Naval Engagements Piratical Adventures Incidents of Discovery and Other Extraordinary And Interesting Occurrences." A collection of 47 stories of ship wrecks battles and loss of life. Sabin 44588 George W. Gorton hardcover books
1817Embry 182366Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown London: 1817. Fourth Edition with additions. Minor rubbing to joints near fine to fine in custom mylar covers. One-half dark green calf overed marbled boards. Thacher: Angling Books p379. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London: 1817. Fourth Edition, with additions. hardcover books
41000Salem n.d. 12mo. 47 pp. b/w photo plates. <br /><br />Founded in 1895. Constitution Rules Lists of officers and members. Very good condition in original cloth binding with gold cover lettering. hardcover books
41001Salem n.d. 12mo. 42 1 pp. <br /><br />Founded in 1895. Act of Incorporation By-Laws House Rules Lists of officers and members. Very good condition in original cloth binding. Backstrip is sunned and stained. hardcover books
179539112Newcastle Upon Tyne: D. Akenhead and Son 1795. Maritime customs and laws including freight salvage quarantine keeping accounts weights and measures as well as recent acts pertaining to seamen and navigation etc. With a list of goods wares and merchandise and the net duty for importing into Great Britain and drawback for exporting. Seventh Edition. Adams & Waters 3177. A rough copy in original badly worn covers. Pages untrimmed chipped and dusty at edges but clean inside. Backstrip perished sewing holding. In later cardboard protective binder. 339 1 ad pp. D. Akenhead and Son books
185239691<i>Two volumes 16mo 15.5 cm. 173 2 ads; 176 pp b/w wood engraved frontispieces title page vignettes and plates </i><br /><br /><i>"Voyages" consists of extracts from Ross' 1818 voyage and Parry's voyages of 1819 and 1820. "Travels" covers the overland expeditions of Hearne Mackenzie and Franklin. Both are "recast in a question-and-answer style for young people." - Arctic Bib. 655 656. See also Sabin 100841. These were apparently originally published in Dublin in the 1830s for the Sunday School Union. The imprint on these New York editions reads "Published by Lane & Scott for the Sunday-School Union of the Metropolitan Episcopal Church." Volume 1 bears the bookplate of engineer and businessman Edwin Stanton Fickes and the pencil inscription "A school book of Geo J and Henry H. Fickes used in the 1850s in Oskaloosa IA. - ESF." Scattered foxing but presentable copies in matching half calf over marbled boards. Labeled "153" and "!55" at base of spines.</i> Lane & Scott hardcover books
195841166Minot MA: Anthoensen Press 1958. Inscribed Whitehill pamphlet - "A Fable for Historical Editors" - laid in. Both in fine condition. xv 92 pp. b/w plates and ills. (Anthoensen Press) books
30641<p>Small octavo 127 manuscript pp. bound in original limp leather entries dated 21 May to 13 July 1919 and 25 January to 19 May 1919 written in ink in legible hand; first 50 pp consists of the diary for the time period of 21 May to 13 July 1919; the next 60 pp are apparently entries from another diary copied into this diary for the dates of 25 January to 19 May 1919 giving a total time period of the diary for 25 January to 13 July 1919. The last 17 pp of volume contains various memorandum notes including: "Partial list of books I read in France" the poem "Ladies" by Rudyard Kipling a list of different types of alcoholic beverages a poem "Jim" a quote from "Ben Hur" and "Wicksteed" a poem "To the Unknown Goddess" a poem "Jealousy" plus two other notes about war and food.</p><p> <b>Description of Diary:</b></p><p> The name of the author of the diarist is unknown at present although with research his name could presumably be found. The author is a male who is serving in the United States Army in 1919 as a driver transporting officers to various locales in France near the former frontlines. The war had just ended 11 Nov. 1918 a little over two months before this diary begins 25 Jan. 1919 thus our author sees a number of the former battle fields and entrenchments of the frontlines various destroyed French cities and towns and he makes a tour of Paris. He also visits war cemeteries and attends various events at the Red Cross or at Base Hospital 53 amongst other places. </p><p> There is much about his regular care and maintenance of his car and picking up military officers and travel to other military installations towns or places or simply acting as the driver as the officers go out on the town pick up prostitutes bed them at a local hotel and afterwards driving both the officer and prostitute to their respective homes. </p><p> The diary recounts the various 'joyrides' that the author and his fellow servicemen take to nearby towns the dinners they seek out meeting French girls bartering with the local French population with cash chocolates and cigarettes for various items like watches fruit gloves etc. The diary also recounts the steamer ride home from France to Newport News Virginia which took from 24 June to 5 July.</p><p> <b> Sample Quotes from the Diary:</b></p><p>"From other diary</p><p>Jan 25 1919</p><p>Have neglected diary. Will write only when I feel like it. At noon helped Miss Flagg pack books for another hut. Did not go to dinner but she brought me cocoa & sandwiches. Snow on ground."</p><p>"March 24</p><p>Rain sleet and lightning. Dance at R.C. afraid to try. All sorts of nurses big little short tall stout thin graceful awkward decent and crooked. Some extremely ugly but very sic are passably good looking." </p><p>"April 6</p><p>Up early breakfast and roll pack. Left at 8 for St. Javin by way of Flinville. Rode atop a 'Mack' In barracks all shot to pieces formerly German headquarters St Javin was great German rail head town occupied by Germans for 4 years. Full of German signs. Took walk to Champigneulle. Detonations machine guns grenades etc. We put over a barrage. Sarsfield's gun blew up salvage dump with piles of everything French American and German. Piles of burned German helmuts. After supper walked thru St. Javin heaps of dead unburied horses German machine gunner buried with one leg sticking above ground part of uniforms heap of empty shells an overturned machine gun by his side. Outdoor movies."</p><p>"May 1</p><p>Went to Chaumont this morning. Cole is leaving for home mother sill. Took Lehmer to café. Returned at 7 waited till 8. Good looking 'Catin' prostitute with him. Went to little town and had drinks. One to Rolampont to café de la Patrie. Lieut & girl slept next room to us. Came in to see me before she went to sleep. Moans!</p><p>"May 2</p><p>Breakfast and took L to Chaumont. Returned for girl. Asleep. Had not slightest idea of modesty. My reply to her advances was to get her clothes on or she would not go back with me. September moon in May. Truck trains left Chaumont at 1:30 P.M. was in Langes at 4 P.M. At 10 P.M. took Lieut L. and Capt. Ardon to depot. L was pretty drunk. Met 2 fellows and 2 girls. Took them to town. L had me drive him and them but they could find no rooms. Drove them to Humes but no room there. Left them at depot. One girl about all in. Lieut L in R.C. talking to girl finally got him home at 2:30 A.M. Quite disgusting."</p><p>"May 10</p><p>Drove all day and B.H. at night. At R.C. Peggy asked me to go for a walk. Experiment 'Baso' Muy bien. In at 3 A.M. 'Cracker' had his court martial today."</p><p>"June 5</p><p>Did not make a trip. Farewell party at Y. Close of contests. Band concert & special selection. Fine. Free eats. Date with Miss Lawrence for tomorrow night. Down town in ambulance to round up drunks. </p><p>"June 6</p><p>Woke me up at night to go to Romagne went via St. Dizier Bar le Duc Varemes. Lunch at fine café at Bar le Duc. Romagne at 3:30. Large camp tents largely negroes 'beaucoup' P.W.'s cemetery is very large mainly for those killed in the Argonne to hold 30000 to 40000. Dug up & brought in by negroes search for means of identification. Disagreeable work & place. Very bad smell over entire camp. Motorcycle bicycle mounted and foot M.P.'s no place to stay with them. Loan of bunk & blankets razor & use of barber shop. Lemonade at 'Y' Negro 'Y' & 'Y' women."</p><p> "June 24</p><p> Up for breakfast fair hit most of lines hot chocolate at 'Y' coffee & sandwich at J.W. B. cakes at K. of C. 3 cones ice cream at Premier Hut. Rate of exchange for U.S. silver is same as for French silver. Rolled pack at noon 12:00 physical inspection. Out to parade grounds with full equipment at 4:30 supper march to boat at 8 P.M. cigarettes and chocolate from Y.M.C.A. at wharf gangplank at 9:30 up on deck till midnight."</p><p> "June 25</p><p> A good night sleep tho it is some job to dress & undress. When get back can give exhibition as 'sandwich man' for in these 4 tier bunks one is a living sandwich every night. Fair meals. Mixed indiscriminately with negroes and hate it. They are often unbearably insolent. Rain at 9:30 35 war brides aboard one being a negro. Leave locks at 1 P.M. last glimpse of France late in afternoon a low-lying headland off to right. A very heavy windy &sea steadily getting rougher. Many are getting 'mal de mer.' By night waves dashing over forward hatch & bow In very tip of ship protected from waves by covering overhead. Most motion of any part of ship but I like it. Bed early."</p><p> "June 26</p><p> Up for breakfast fed fine but nearly everyone sick especially the 'smokes.' They are whiter than I thought it possible a negro to get. Still windy and rough. Good dinner. Moderating slightly in afternoon. War brides not in evidence. Oh but they are a hard-looking bunch. One looks like someone's washwoman about 40 years old. I sure don't want anything in that class. Would be ashamed to be seen with one of them. No foreigners in mind…"</p><p> "June 30</p><p> For breakfast boiled eggs first time since I left Wash. Barracks that had eggs in regular mess. But these were so old I expected the chick to peck me when I opened the shell absolutely not fit to eat. Am sure getting tired of this trip every day is a month you read sleep eat talk watch the porpoises or simply look at the sea & think of home what you will do when you get there etc. The boat is so crowded it is very hard to get a place to sit-down & are mixed up with Negroes in everything. And the Y man takes candy & tobacco up on the promenade deck & he and the officer amuse themselves by throwing it to the fellows and laughing at them scrambling for it. It is really disgusting just like a bunch of little kids. But there is always that would do anything if they think they are getting something for nothing. Well anyhow I can stay clear of it…"</p><p> "July 5</p><p> Rolled my pack last night while I had a little room but slept perfectly comfortable. Sighted land at 12:30 debarked at New Port News at 4 P.M. 'Y' with cigarettes & candy. Marched under the 'Victory Arch' & thru town. When we halted people gave us water bought ice cream and cola at drugstore. It seems so strange to hear civilians speak English and especially children. But oh boy! It sure seems good. And everything moves along briskly and in a modern manner street cars locomotives autos & everything are so different. But unless one has spent a year in France he does not know the relief & joy it is to get back…"</p> books
1979Q-0722656483Penguin Books Ltd 1979-10-25. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books Ltd hardcover
0722656483.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1918024818Montgomery Ala.: Service Engraving Co. Good. 1918. First Edition. Softcover. One of the folds to the stiff paper covers front cover folds at stapled spine which is not torn also folds from the back cover at right is approx. Half-way torn up from bottom. ; Illus. fold-out illustrations a previous member has written in ink directly above the photo his location in one of the Regimental photos. Thirty-Seventh Infantry Division WWI; n.p. pages . Service Engraving Co. paperback
1523998172.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1789004352<p>My book plate on front free end paper and armorial book plate of Rev John Dunn Yarker on front paste-down. 3 front free end papers and 3 rear free end papers one of which has been pasted to the last page. One page of errata bound in. Skiver on spine with gold title slightly tarnished; gold crenellations around all edges largely intact; head and tail of spine have been rubbed; hand-made rag paper un-foxed but last four sheets have a brown stain 30mm long and max 4mm wide along the upper edges; somewhat yellowed on all edges. 323 pages large type. There are XXVI letters the first dated Aug 2 1788 and the last Sept 3 1788. On Sept 2 he wrote: So much peturbation and heat will not eafily fubfide; and it will be found a matter extremely difficult if practicable to reduce their minds as before to the yoke of fubjection In fact the whole kingdom feems ripe for a Revolution . Bear in mind Bastille day was under a year later - July 14 1789. Hard Cover Parchment. Coverd in PVC plastic. This book apparently followed a companion volume on the Netherlands. At least 7 other publishers have offered this book some still in print proving that many people would choose a hard copy. The book is a classic of Historic interest. This English printing might be the true first. I do not know if there was an American edition in the same year. VERY rare in this edition. Feel free to make a reasonable offer. </p> T. Cadell hardcover
0240821505.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
9786015606.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1855GEN21-D-22Dundee : C D Chalmers 1855. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A travelogue of a journey undertaken to Germany. This is an extremely scarce and interesting work. There are no copies on Copac or Worldcat. Author of this work is unknown. The work describes a trip undertaken by a group of people from Scotland to Germany in 1853-54. The prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper states 'Jessie Burnett'. To the dedication page the author has dedicated the book to 'Mrs Burnett Mrs Brown and Jessie'. It is probable that this book belonged to the Jessie mentioned or the Mrs Burnett. In a full cloth binding with blind stamping to boards and to the spine. Externally sound with slight bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Crack to the head of front joint. Small loss to the head of spine. Rear joint is split and tender with the hinge also tender. Marks to boards. Prior owners' inscriptions to the recto of front endpapers Dorothea M Taylor and Jessie Burnett. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with the odd spot throughout. Good C D Chalmers hardcover
2000mon0003826785Sybex 8/7/2006 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.7008 9.9016 7.9016. Sybex paperback
