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19262222001<p>First edition "October 1926". Octavo. Four page foreword by Bob Bartlett. Illustrated with 47 photographs and drawings by the Eskimo Kakutia; endpaper maps. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks and creases. Very good. 167 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed on verso of frontispiece by the publisher and father of the author: "From one who is merely. David's Dad! G. P. Putnam."</p> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
187321742St. Louis: E.F. Hobart 1873. Softcover. Fourth edition. 300 pp with two folding maps earlier editions had one or none. Text block is complete clean and tightly bound. Front wrapper is tattered and detached rear wrapper is missingand most of paper covering spine is gone. An expansive promotional work containing copious facts and figures details on natural resources industry transportation etc. One of the maps is of the state of Missouri; the other is a rather fanciful map of the United States with red concentric circles radiating out from St. Louis to drive home the message of the city's strategic position at the center of it all. E.F. Hobart unknown books
1880155697<p>First edition. Small octavo. Author's preface and postscript. Color frontispiece. Original gilt stamped plain dark blue cloth grey endpapers. Very good rubbing to spine ends. 387 pages. This is a variant binding with plain front cover.</p> AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE hardcover books
1960105028<p>4to program illustrated 471 pp. A couple of pages loose spine has a 1 1/2" split on bottom some minor creasing a little cover darkening normal aging; overall about very good. In 1959 the Giants finished third in the NL. The 1960 season would be their first in the new Candlestick Park. The Giants had some great talent but finished only fifth in 1960. Key players included Willie Mays Mike McCormick Orlando Cepeda Felipe Alou and National League Willie McCovey. </p> books
2222189<p>Enclosed in photographer's folder. 8" x 10". Fine.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Tiers to director George Cukor: "Dear George - Hope you will very soon this "in the flesh" Till then here it is - Best wishes Alex."</p> Tomlinson Studio unknown books
169322885London: Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh 1693. 1st edition Wing S-1192aA. Disbound. Overall VG light soil to t.p./browning throughout. Possibly Ex-Lib as "Dup K.3.43'" is penciled in to top margin of t.p. 4 31 1 pp. Last page a blank. 4to: A2 B - E4. 20 cm x 15 cm. <br/><br/>Monro attribution from the NUC. Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh unknown books
1972222977New Delhi: Sanjay Publications 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. No Marks of Any Kind; DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Sanjay Publications unknown books
1939007656Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1939. Fine no jacket with the namestamp of Pulitzer Prize winning historian Michael G. Kammen front paste down. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard University Press Hardcover books
197521819New York: Not Published 1975. Group of 50 pieces of various material including: brochure and price schedule 1975 for South West Africa hunting expeditions by Basie Maartens Safaris; Eastcape & Karoo Safaris South Africa color brochures showing trophy game & their hunters; Geoff Broom Safaris information with photos of kills clients; 1979-1980 season report for the Zambia - Sudan Robin Hurt Safaris illustrated with trackers taking a 50 3/4" sable taken in Kafue maps correspondence; 1980 Jack Atcheson & Sons Montana letter brochure offprint article on elk and guiding service information; 1984 shipping company group of paperwork for 6.17 pounds of antlers coming from Austria to U.S.; 1986 schedule & cover letter for New England Arms Co. of Kittery Point Maine their shooting trips to Cornwall England; 1987 two large booklets on spring and summer shotgunning in Argentina and Botswana offered by Fish and Game Frontiers Inc.; Sept. 1988 International Adventures newspaper for hunting in Argentina Africa Mexico Ozarks and other areas around the world 8 pages black & white illustrated throughout; undated Safari Club Intl. notice regarding ".one hundred thousand acres of the best hunting area virtually untouched for 15 years.along the Zambezi which has elephant and lion."; 1991 application for Tanzania Game Trackers Safaris Ltd. and with other information from them; the group also with ephemeral clippings from hunting newspapers magazines publications concerning various topics from shooting grouse in Scotland a sticker showing 'percentage of kill chance' on various positions of large game probably elk; business cards and notes from cronies regarding hunting possibilities; checklists for packing hunting gear wing setter hunting in Egypt brochure; articles on unrest among 'natives' of various hunting locales evidently putting a damper on future activities; several pieces of correspondence in German regarding Austrian & South African hunting opportunities from fellow enthusiasts and companies; little wear age to paperwork; in very good condition and an interesting glimpse of the available hunting opportunities around the world 1975-2000 evidently taken advantage of by a practicing enthusiast. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
18741497Washington DC: M'Gill & Witherow 1874. Softcover. Very Good. 96 pp indexed. Light general wear and soiling to wrappers small notation in ink on back cover. Contents clean binding sound. Includes an opinion of Jeremiah S. Black attorney for the Sutro Tunnel Comany; a report by Adolph Sutro on "The Mineral Resources of the United States and the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Rational System of Mining"; a "memorial" from the Nevada Legislature asking the United States to aid in the construction of the Sutro Tunnel and additional documents related to controversies arising from the Sutro Tunnel Act of 1866. The Act granted Sutro the right of way he needed to construct his proposed drainage tunnel which he argued would alleviate the flooding of the mines under Virginia City saving pumping costs allowing for deeper mining and providing better ventilation and an additional means of escape for miners. The Act also granted him lucrative mining rights along the length of the tunnel and was perceived as a threat by other mining interests. M'Gill & Witherow paperback books
1784045428Madrid: Joachin Ibarra 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Rebound in modern cloth wear to bottom right corner light dampstains generally clean and unmarked. 33pp. Archaeologist and Bishop of Salamanca; scarce. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045428. <br/><br/> Joachin Ibarra hardcover books
181914884London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1819. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo. pp. xv 454. Rebound in green buckram with gilt titles on spine. Old bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper; pages a bit wavy from storage in a humid environment but quite clean and sound. Very good. Fearon had a favorable impression of America when he set out in search of a suitable location for a group of English families to settle. But as he explored he "became disillusioned by slavery the high cost of property and the lack of cleanliness generosity liberality and comprehension of liberty or honor.and advocated emigration for few Englishmen other than mechanics small farmers and poor people" Hubach p. 49. He provides much interesting detail and commentary on social conditions wages and trades rents taxes natural resources and the cost of clothes and other goods in the various locales he visited which included New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Ohio Kentucky the Illinois Territory and New Orleans. Sabin 23956; Howes F-65. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover books
1922303865<p>First American edition from English sheets. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of von Eckardstein with his facsimile signature. Translated and edited with a 2 page preface by George Young. 4 page preface by von Eckardstein. 3/4 gilt stamped red morocco over red marbled boards spine with black leather gilt stamped label; marbled endpapers; t.e.g. light rubbing Very good. 255 pages. Tiffany & Co. bookplate of meatpacking businessman J. Ogden Armour on the front pastedown. Printed at Bristol Burleigh Ltd. at the Burleigh Press.</p> E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1814032571Danbury: Nathaniel L. Skinner 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Leather worn slightly at corners and bumped. Otherwise clean copy with one spot of heavy wear and chipping on rear board. Age toning to pages throughout. Text is bright and pages are crisp with some light foxing. A nice tight binding Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; History. Inventory No: 032571. <br/><br/> Nathaniel L. Skinner unknown books
500935<p>6 1/4" x 3 1/2" n.d. aka Charles Herbert Best.</p><p>Best 1899-1978 Canadian physiologist born in Maine; head of the physiology department 1929-65 and director of medical research 1941-67 at the University of Toronto; associated with F.G. Banting and others in the discovery of insulin 1921; later discovered choline and histaminase.</p> unknown books
19002222063<p>Revised edition with 36 illustrations. Original gilt stamped red cloth t.e.g. Old clipped catalog description at end. Good few stains; minor rubbing. 320 pages. No signatures.</p><p>Copy 19 of 25 special copies with an extra title page designed so book could be expanded into two volumes with added material.</p><p>Printed by Ballantyne Hanson & Co.</p> John C. Nimmo hardcover books
19122221990<p>First edition. Octavo. 16 b/w plates; 15 text maps. Original grey pictorial cloth with design in grey white and black. Dust jacket unclipped; few small nicks and chips. Very good. 385 pages. Scarce thus.</p><p>Ink gift inscription on front fly leaf: "Edward Whipple Hart from his Grandma Whipple Christmas 1912."</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
18510291121851. Manuscript. Very Good. folio 2 pages on four page bi-folium old colds and creases remains of wafer postal markings and some soiling on integral address leaf else in very good clean legible condition. Lloyd in this letter writes his uncle asking for funds and is unable to find other employment. Lloyd had apparently been working for Rufus W. Bailey the American Colonization Society Agent in Virginia. Lloyd writes: "I hardly know how to begin writing but I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place of the place but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & Bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr. Baily has no money to pay my expenses back and can not let me have it for 6 or 8 weeks. He is about sending a Ship of Emigrants to Liberia and is getting them down the Vally sic as fast as possible but they will not be ready to sail before October 1st. He then expects to have $ 1000 at last and more if he sends over 100 emigrants. He is obliged to pay all their expenses until they go and told me yesterday he could not possibly let me have a dollar until his ship has sailed." During the Liberian emigrant voyage discussed in this letter which sailed November 1 1851 on the Morgan Dix approximately 37 of the 149 passengers died on board ship or during the acclimation period in Africa. <br /> books
19682221985<p>First edition. Miniature book. 2 1/2" x 1 7/8". Illustrated by Bohne. Original black leather over marbled boards. No dust jacket. Fine. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>#172 of 500 copies.</p><p>Spine reads: American Whaling.</p> Bookhaven Press hardcover books
1997263144Oxford University Press USA 1997. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket. Oxford University Press, USA unknown books
184618871New York 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp. iv 480. Bound volume containing six monthly issues January-June 1846 with index frontis engraving of a statue of Thomas Jefferson and four engraved portraits by T. Doney. Edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine and corners scuffed chipping to upper of two spine labels soiling to title page scattered foxing. Bookplate of book collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front pastedown.The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan.It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy a movement usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review. The magazine featured political essays extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election who lost and James K. Polk in the 1844 election who won. The Democratic Review was also perhaps even primarily a literary magazine promoting the development of American literature. Some of its regular contributors were Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Greenleaf Whittier with occasional contributions by William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper" Wiki. This volume includes several poems by Whittier; Notes on the Iroquois by Schoolcraft; three articles on Game of North America by Frank Forester; "Papers of an Old Dartmoor Prisoner" edited by Hawthorne and much other interesting content. hardcover books
188120779Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company 1881. Softcover. Good. Single issue of this periodical which was in the midst of undergoing a name change to better reflect its broad content dated December 1881. pp 401-428 including index for the entire year. Includes much content on the state of missions and living conditions among the Indians of Alaska. Also reports on missionary efforts in Iowa Nebraska and Dakota Territory and among the Mexicans of California as well as account of individual missionaries' experiences in British Columbia and at a Blackfoot Medicine Camp and two and a half pages of ads for books and periodicals railroads photographers a seminary life insurance etc. Stain to one corner affecting entire issue otherwise very good. Sheldon Jackson 1834-1909 himself established more than one hundred missions and churches mostly in the Western United States. He is best remembered for his extensive work in Alaska. Elm Street Printing Company paperback books
1961920Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . A very near fine first edition complete in two volumes in a very good plus original slipcase. Publisher's orginal tan buckram with brown and gilt titling. Binding is strong sturdy and square on both volumes no writing no nameplates clean and bright inside. There are five tiny coffee drop stains on the front cover of volume I. In volume 2 two pages of the index have a dog ear fold which has been straightened out. The slpcase is very good: it has the original labels and shows a short bump on the front left lower corner. There is a minute area on the top edge where the slipcase paper has started to peel but all paper still present. These books look good smell good and are an important read on the history of the North American fur trade. xxvi 686 & viii 696 pp.indexed and illustrated with a bibliography.Octavo 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. In her introduction to the 1954 edition of Hiram Martin Chittenden's The American Fur Trade of the Far West Grace Lee Nute Research Associate of the Minnesota Historical Society noted how well Chittenden's work has stood the test of time since its publication in 1902 but suggested that because of the specialized monographs published since that time "a vast literature is now at hand for anyone capable of welding it into a unified comprehensive history of the fur trade of the North American continent." The attempt has now been made and the result is a qualified success. Paul Chrisler Phillips devoted his life to the task; he died before its completion. J. W. Smurr provides the concluding chapters to this massive two volume work. Publication of the book handsomely accomplished by the Oklahoma University Press has been aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Here is the entire history of the North American fur trade from its inception as a gleam in the eye of European explorers and merchant-adventurers to its decline in the mid-nineteenth century with the shift in consumer interest to cheap textiles. The story is told in a basically chronological form although the vast area of the trade and the variety of European and American traders who conducted it require a constant process of starting again and again in time. The research is exhaustive. Though based principally on printed primary sources extensive use has been made of manuscript materials. Let it be said at once that Phillips' study helps correct the view held by most about the importance of the fur trade in inciting maintaining and expanding European settlement in North America. The evidence marshaled by Phillips goes far to prove that the lowly "trade" so readily ignored or slighted by kings at the time and by historians later played a more important role than is normally assigned to it. Indeed one can wonder whether the very establishment of English and French colonies on North American soil would have been accomplished but for the existence of fur-bearing animals and the Indian who was willing to trap them and exchange their pelts for European goods. Nevertheless by concentrating so exclusively on the fur trade Phillips tends to see all political movement in terms of a struggle for beaver. The Great War for Empire between France and Great Britain is presented in such a context as are other events which may perhaps legitimately be assigned more complicated origins. The integration of the sources mined by Phillips and the formal expression of his interpretation of them leave something to be desired. The sentences except in Smurr's concluding chapters flow in a harsh monotony. In a two volume work the unvarying style and the massive accumulation of fact become burdensome to the reader. The text is unrelieved by sensitive passages of summary interpretation or imaginative insight. The personalities of the traders do not "live" as they do in Chittenden's still useful though geographically and temporally more limited history. The book is splendidly illustrated with many original drawings of furbearing animals by Mary Baker as well as with more conventional illustrations drawn from a variety of sources. It has excellent maps. It is well designed and carefully printed. Its two volumes are indexed and paged separately. The indexing is reasonably full but as is usually the case in university-oriented publications it omits direct reference to the material objects trade goods costume items etc. associated with the trade and thus makes the museum scholar create his own index. In sum the book is a significant achievement and an important contribution to our knowledge of our past. ---- WILCOMB E. WASHBURN of the Smithsonian Institution in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 86 No. 2 Apr. 1962 pp. 210-212 University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1967223555Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Small closed tears at top and bottom of spine and at bottom of front dj coverprotected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. The University of Wisconsin Press unknown books
1970689Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. A near fine first edition in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Brown cloth boards front top corner bumped. Gilt title stamping. Mission map end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick collector's marginalia pencilled at inner edge of half title. xvi 224 pp. including index. Quarto 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches tall. The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima Indians on New Spain's far northwestern frontier. For three-quarters of a century from the first visit by the renowned Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691 until the Jesuit Expulsion in 1767 the difficult process of replacing one culture with anotherthe heart of the Spanish mission systemwent on at Guevavi. Yet all but the initial years presided over by Father Kino have been forgotten. Drawing upon archival materials in Mexico Spain and the United Statesincluding accounts by the missionaries themselves and the surviving pages of the Guevavi record booksKessell brings to life those forgotten years and forgotten men who struggled to transform a native ranchería into an ordered mission community. Of the eleven Black Robes who resided at Guevavi between 1701 and 1767 only a few are well known to history. Otherssuch as Joseph Garrucho who presided more years at Guevavi than any other Padre; Alexandro Rapicani son of a favorite of Sweden's Queen Christina; Custodio Zimeno Guevavi's last Jesuithave the details of their roles filled in here for the first time. In this in-depth study of a single missionary center Kessell describes in detail the daily round of the Padres in their activities as missionaries educators governors and intercessors among the often-indifferent and occasionally hostile Pimas. He discusses the Pima uprising of 1751 and the events that led up to it concluding that it actually continued sporadically for some ten years. The growing ferocity of the Apache the disastrous results of certain government policiesespecially the removal of the Sobaípuri Indians from the San Pedro Valleyand the declining native population due to a combination of enforced culture change and epidemics of European diseases are also carefully explored. The story of Guevavi is one of continuing adversity and triumph. It is the story finally of expulsion for the Jesuits and a few short years later the end of Mission Guevavi at the hands of the Apaches. In Mission of Sorrows Kessell has projected meticulous research into a highly readable narrative to produce an important contribution to the history of the Spanish Borderlands." -- From the Publisher University of Arizona Press hardcover books
