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1960300990<p>First English edition so stated. Octavo. Frontispiece and 27 halftones from b/w photographs. 1 page introduction by Wilhelmina. Dust jacket designed by Patricia Davey unclipped; short tear; rubbing on back panel; few nicks; front hinge cracked. Very good. 248 pages. Enclosed in a full red morocco pull box.</p> Hutchinson of London hardcover books
1928004453New York: American Inst. Of the City of New York / Doubleday Doran & Co. 1928. Presentation Copy- tipped in page at front states -"Presented with the Compliments of The American Institute to Will H. Hays on the Occasion of Its Centenary Dinner Grand Ball Room Waldorf Astoria March 21 1928". Will H. Hays in addition to authoring the chapter in this book on "Motion Pictures" also managed Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. He was head of MPPDA at the time of this publication. Very Good lacking the dustjacket spine titles faded yet still legible rear hinge cracking. With a foreword by Herbert Hoover then Secretary of Commerce. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Presentation Copy. American Inst. Of the City of New York / Doubleday, Doran & Co. Hardcover books
1893231362Portland OR: First Unitarian Church 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrations; No pencil or ink markings in text. Black leather binding with stamped gilt lettering. Text block edges are gilded. Light edgewear with slightly heavier wear at top edge of rear board. Very Good binding. First Unitarian Church unknown books
1985006500Chelsea VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG. Nice clean copy no names inscriptions or bookplates in sl worn clipped dw. Chelsea Green Publishing Company hardcover books
199532456NY: Cambridge University Press. Fine. 1995. Paperback. 0521386136 . A later paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Cambridge University Press paperback books
1847042349London: Wiley and Putnam 1847. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Full green publishers cloth some spotting on front board two small splits to cloth on spine lightly bumped corners. Very light scattered foxing otherwise clean. Title is a cancel from the American edition of the same year issued in wraps both in Wiley & Putnam's Library of American Books. The cloth issue is even scarcer than the US wraps issue. 71pp. Whittier's second work of prose. BAL 21753 This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042349. <br/><br/> Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
007309Brookline MA: David R Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure printed by Joh. Enschede Zonen Haarlem Holland portraying Walt Whitman in profile enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath the quote taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps quite unawaken'd notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come from pen or tongue. It is a great word whose history I suppose remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort younger brother of another great and often-used word NATURE whose history also waits unwritten. WALT WHITMAN". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut Heelsum Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date circa 1972. Near Fine faint creases at edges. OCLC shows five library holdings all in the United States. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" x 30 1/2". David R, Godine Paperback 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
1855008163London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1855. Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary half red polished calf over marbled boards the backs intricately tooled in gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt the bookplates of the Right Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming serving from 1909 to 192 and Albert Rowe Merrill. Very Good Plus light rubbing at edges and corners original cloth spine affixed front paste down of Vol. I partially covered by bookplate. Internally clean and bright . New Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Hardcover books
200222625Cambridge: MIT Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0262232162 . Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
1956006831New York: Random House 1956. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "To Kent Cooper- a great newspaperman whose friendship and encouragement over the years was the inspiration which this Kentucky hill billy needed to reach the point of writing this book. My best wishes and with deep affection- Don Whitehead Arlington Va December 1956". A lovely Presentation and Association Copy Kent Cooper is best known for transforming the Associated Press where he served as general manager and executive director in a career spanning over 40 years into the worlds largest international news cooperative. A shrewd and innovative journalist Cooper pioneered many of the publishing techniques that are still used today. Don Whitehead who worked at the AP under Cooper before and during WWII was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who also won the Medal of Freedom for his reporting during WWII. His was the first story on the Liberation of Paris. The book is Near Fine small shelf rub bottom edge. Basis for the 1959 Mervyn LeRoy film of the same title that starred James Stewart and Vera Miles. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Random House Hardcover books
1986005630Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1986. As New and still in publisher's original shrinkwrap bound in dark red leather gilt design on the front cover all edges gilt gilt lettering on the spine with four raised bands & silk ribbon bookmark. . First Edition Thus. Full-Leather. As New/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Easton Press Hardcover books
1922197505<p>Octavo. 4 color plates 1 double-page 10 b/w plates decorations endpapers upper cover label and jacket designed by James Daugherty. Original blue cloth with large color pictorial label on upper cover. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good. Well illustrated biography of the legendary American frontiersman ca. 1734-1820.</p> Garden City Publishing Co. Incorporated hardcover books
1941005663Iowa City IA: Iowa Farmers Union 1941. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "21 April 1956 To Willis Carl Jackson Jr. in appreciation of truly southern hospitality- southern New England that is and other gracious behavior. Roland White". Willis Carl Jackson 1923-1981 took a solo journey across the Atlantic to Europe in 1978 and published a book of his journey "The Log of the Carla Mia". He was lost at sea in 1981 during his attempt to cross from Europe to America. At the time of his death he was Dean of Libraries at Indiana University. Near Fine light soiling top edge. Printed on Union Watermarked Paper by the Athens Press Iowa City Iowa. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Iowa Farmers Union Hardcover books
27983folio two pages of a four page bi-folium some splits along folds remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf docketed "Jo Whipples Letter." In very good clean and legible condition. Joseph Whipple collector of customs at Portsmouth brother of General William Whipple 1730 - 1785 revolutionary War General and Signer from New Hampshire writes to John Langdon 1741 - 1819 Senator and first President pro-tem of the Senate thanking Langdon for his help and influence in obtaining a post in the new government and comments upon the recent establishment of the Federal court and judicial system. Langdon a Portsmouth native was the right person to ask as he was also a friend of the President George Washington. "Dear Sir I have the Honour this moment to receive your favour of the 5th & am much obliged by your kind assurances of attention to my business and also for having seasonably lodged my name with the President - I should have wrote now to him agreeably to your intimation but am discouraged from the consideration of his having no personal knowledge of me and that it might on that account appear and interested application which might operate to my disadvantage - and I conceive also that your influence with the President on which I have rested my expectation is such as I need wish no other. - But if you conceive that it would be of use to hand my name with your recommendation to Mr. Vice President to Mr. Morris Mr. R H Lee Mr. Dalton your Colleagues or others as you may think proper I should consider myself further & greatly obliged - but I think your interest requires no aid - as it will of course be represented by you that I am in the office of Colltr. - To some of the names that I have mentioned I am known - others of them were formerly either officially connected or intimately acquainted with my Brother on which account I should have applyd to them for their influence - I imagine also that all appointments will be completed tin a few days if not by this. - You will hear that the Judiciary bill is not relishd this way I have not seen it but think that the plan of one Judge to the District Court would be an objectionable one to most people in the Northern states - and the joining the Prov of Maine to N. H. districts no less so to N. H. - However the Acts may be finishd I hope & trust they will terminate in a system that will insure Peace and a happy Government." John Langdon brother of Woodbury Langdon was a merchant Delegate and Senator from New Hampshire. He was active and prominent supporter of the revolutionary movement member of the Continental Congress 1775-76 participated in the Battle of Bennington and commanded a company at Saratoga and in Rhode Island. Member of the State senate 1784 President of New Hampshire 1785 1788; again a member of the Continental Congress 1787 delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787; member of the state ratifying convention elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4 1789 until March 3 1801. He was elected the first President pro tempore of the Senate on April 6 1789 in order that the Senate might organize to count the electoral vote for President and Vice President of the United States. American National Biography vol. 13 pp.138-139 Dictionary of American Biography vol. 5 pt. 2 pp. 587-588 <br /><br /> books
185920297New Haven: Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1859. Wraps. Very good. 5-3/4 x 9" sewn printed wraps pp. 72 wraps foxed and lightly soiled spine with loss to the head and tail with lesser chipping along its length but the binding sound and text clean A most-thoroughgoing census of all 150 members of the class of 1855 including dropouts five months in the making as per the Editor's "Valedictory" statement. The preliminary pages give in copious detail descriptions of various meetings and reunions which have taken place in the years all four of them since graduation and then lists every member of the class along with "Where Are They Now" biographical tidbits that make my mother's Christmas letters look tame. These are followed by various cross-indices by place of birth date of birth "the aggregate age of the Class at graduation was 1978 years" time of entrance profession etc. Then are listed those who "left without graduating" in decreasing order of years of attainment poor William Ross Degarmo "Entered from Fort Miller N.J. Oct. 18 1851; left Dec. 24 1851 and has not since been heard from". A labor of love truly by one committed to the cause. Wheeler would not alas be much longer with us as was no doubt true of many of his classmates -- he was killed fighting for the Union side in 1864. His devotion lived on however: After the war his mother published a memorial volume entitled "Letters of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855 Y.C." Houghton 1875. Morehouse & Taylor, Printers paperback books
02896912mo Includes the following: 14 pp. Richard Wheatley's Journal dated 13 Sept 1805 - 26 Nov 1807; 10 pp. Richard Wheatley's business ledger; and 12 pp. of Ellen W. Pease's manuscript poetry and verse dated February 5 1835 - February 24 1839 plus blanks. The last leaf is missing. Bound in contemporary vellum worn rubbed scuffed text block nearly detached from binding written in ink some fading though largely legible else good.Manuscript journal of Richard Wheatley b. c. 1770-80 d. c. 1840 describing his travels including a trip to Savannah and elsewhere in Georgia. The journal commences with Wheatley's return home after an eight week "passage." He takes a stage from New York to his home in Boston making several stops along the way. Upon returning to Boston he visits a number of places including Canton the home of his future wife Hannah Dunbar. <p>Wheatley who appears to have been in the textile business begins another trip traveling by steam packet to New York before boarding a brig for Savannah. Here he meets fellow business men and inspects cargos upon arrival from Liverpool. </p> <p>The journal contains a four page description of his travels within Georgia. He meets a Mr. Macky <i>"a Scotchman who told me he could walk thru the streets of this town </i>Savannah<i> from the first of July to the end of September without meeting a white man and if he appeared to meet one he looked like as if he had come out of the Hospital."</i> Wheatley then set out by stagecoach for Augusta Georgia where he met with some businessmen purchased a horse and rode to Briar Creek where he dined then on to Louisville and to Milledgeville a place that is <i>"to be the capital of the state of Georgia. 12 months ago there was no house in it but a log house."</i> </p> <p>After further travels in Georgia Wheatley made his way back to Savannah. Here he became sick and complained: <i>"This country is troubled with almost all kind of troublesome insects. such as sand flies tick Myscatoco sic and several kinds of insects that breed in rotton sic food several stories being told of Mrs. Wilson such as that no sick person ever got well in her house." </i> Wheatley was then an unfortunate guest at Mrs. Wilson's house. </p> <p>Wheatley departed Savannah upon his recovery aboard the Brig <i>Mount Vernon</i> bound for Providence Rhode Island. While traveling he witnessed an eclipse which he describes before returning to Boston. </p> <p>Wheatley later makes a journey to Maine here he mentions visiting a horse fair at Brunswick on a trip from Boston to Bath Maine. He made a number of stops at Hallowell Freeport "Kennebunk" as well as others. At Augusta he relates hearing the news of a man who killed his wife seven children and then himself. Wheatley conducts his travels to further his textile business and interests. There is not much detail on his business the journal only mentioning the names of people he met with. </p> <p>Almost every Sunday that Wheatley is in Boston he attends "Stilman's Meeting-House" which would appear to be the Revolutionary War Baptist preacher Samuel Stillman's 1737-1807 church. Stillman's Boston church was a place where the likes of John Adams and John Hancock could be found listening to Stillman's preaching. It was also Stillman's Church at about this time 1805 that gave birth to the First African Church now Peoples Baptist Church of Roxbury. In 1807 Wheatley mentions attending the funeral for "Docter Stilman." sic </p> <p>Near the end of the journal Wheatley mentions renting a house from an "Ezra Davis" for "$400 per annum" and then getting married to "Hannah Dunbar" of Canton MA and returning with her to Boston. </p> <p>Ellen W. Pease the author of the poetry and verse has written under her name that she was born 22 April 1808. Also under her name are the names Mary D. Pease born June 9 Windwell Pease born April 19 and Gamaliel Pease born May. While there are no years for the birth of Mary D. Windwell and Gamaliel Pease the names of Windwell and Gamaliel Pease are unique enough that a check of the genealogical databases of Ancestry.com shows that George Pease of Suffield CT had married Ellen Wheatley. George immigrated to Ohio in 1825 and along with other Pease family members they were considered some of the pioneers of the Miami Valley. The couple moved to Miami OH where George had a sizable farm. The couple had at least four children Mary D. Windwell Gamaliel and Ellen. George Pease's family had been in Enfield CT since at least the 1680's and before that in Salem MA since the 1650's. </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley is statedin <i>Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of The City of Dayton and of Montgomery County Ohio</i> 1897 to be the daughter of Richard Wheatley and Hannah Dunbar of Washington Township Ohio. It would appear that Richard Wheatley immigrated to Ohio as well and went into business with Thomas Basson Isaac Cowder and William Black and formed The Ohio Manufacturing Company in 1816 where they manufactured yarn and cloth from cotton and wool at Woodbourn in Montgomery County Ohio. The company purchased the original plots numbered 26 and 33-34 in the town plan. After the Panic of 1819 the Ohio Manufacturing Company bought out some of its competitors in town and acquired the mill dam raceway and all the machinery and unfinished and finished stock of the Farmers and Mechanics Manufacturing Company of Centerville Ohio. He appears to have been somewhat successful for a time. </p> <p>Ellen's poetry is of a morbid nature with such titles as: <i>"Lines on the Death of a lovely Child"</i> and <i>"Epitaph."</i> In another poem Ellen welcomes death so that she can sleep with her loved one: </p> <p> <i>"I come I come if in that tide</i> </p> <p> <i>Thou sleepest tonight I'll sleep there too</i> </p> <p> <i>In death's cold wedlock by thy side</i> </p> <p> <i>Oh! I would ask no happier bed</i> </p> <p> <i>Than the chill wave my love lies under</i> </p> <p> <i>Sweeter to rest together dead</i> </p> <p> <i>Far sweeter than to live asunder."</i> </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley welcomed death and it came; she died the same year as some of poems were written still grieving over her lost children. </p> hardcover books
1957E0551<b>From the Spanish discovery to the opening of the Civil War</b><br /><br />5 volumes in 6. Volume One: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase 1540-1804 xiv264 pages with color frontispiece map and 275 maps many folding and index; Volume Two: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont 1804-1845 xiii281 pages with colored frontispiece map 143 additional maps some folding and index. Volume Three: From the Mexican War to the Boundary Surveys 1846-1854 xiii349 pages with colored frontispiece map 322 additional maps and index; Volume Four: From the Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil War 1855-1860 xiii260 pages with color frontispiece map an additional 127 maps some folding and index; Volume Five From the Civil War to the Geological Survey Part One: xviii222 pages with color frontispiece map and an additional 152 maps; Volume Five From the Civil War to the Geological Survey Part Two: 223-487 pages with 124 maps and index. Folio 14 1/2" x 10 1/2" bound in quarter green leather with gilt lettering to spines. volume I printed by the Grabhorn Press; volumes II-V printed by Taylor & Taylor and James Printing based on the designs of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. First edition limited to 1000 copies.<br /><br />Carl Wheat's Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West is a comprehensive and readable cartographic history of the American West. The first three volumes of the work are by necessity bulky and out sized to accommodate the many maps contained with their covers. These beautifully printed books present a truly graphic picture of the exploration and peopling of the vast unknown land west of the Mississippi. The author does not merely present a catalog of significant maps of each era but tells the exciting story of many facets of history that resulted in their making-of the hard journeys the hazardous exploits the motivation the mysticism the misunderstandings and the strange blend of fact imagination false geographic concept and political necessity which were consummated in the engraver's work. These volumes will provide exciting text for the casual reader and have become eminent source book for the student and scholar.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A near fine set. Institute of Historical Cartography hardcover books
195232351Placerville 1952. 1st appearance. Custom bound in blue "marbled" cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. 1st book with abrasion to rear board. Paper yellowing as usual. Withal a VG to Nr Fine set. 16 of 18 volumes in 8 books. Most issues 16 pp. Illustrated. Small Folio. 13-3/4" x 10-1/2" <br/><br/>A wonderful resource for students of Western America- within are personal reminiscences interviews with those that lived the "West" etc. etc. hardcover books
200839497Western History Association 2008. First editions. Paper wrappers. Mostly fine. A nearly continuous run of forty years lacking only 2000 of the Western History Association conference program books from the 9th to the 48th associated materials such as the Western Literature Association papers invitations and other ephemera for the various cities involved. Includes 39 conference booklets and over 67 pieces of other materials maps invitations tourism publications etc. Western History Association unknown books
19641358New York: Viking Press 1964. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. viii 374 pp with index. Slight rubbing to extremities light dust soiling to top edge else fine. Dust jacket is chipped at corners and spine ends and has a small crease. Revised and expanded version of West's work on World War II traitors and defectors. Viking Press hardcover books
1941004224New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1941. A RARE book in any edition this copy doubly so for being SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR James E. West the then Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America and Editor "Boys' Life the Boy Scouts Magazine" "To Will H. Hays with esteem and appreciation James E. West". Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. It's easy to understand that the Boy Scouts of America would have been a favorite organization of Hays'. The book is Near Fine top corners small bumps in a Very Good Plus dustjacket small chips and tears at the top flap and spine folds. Publisher's promotional poster laid in. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A great piece of Americana combining Boy Scouting and Hollywood history !. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Presentation Copy. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
199433296Indianapolis: Liberty Funds. Fine. 1994. Paperback. 0865971358 . Third edition revised and expanded. First printing thus paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Liberty Funds paperback books
1973EEG1385London:: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine 1973. 1973. Series: Museum Catalogue III Portraits of Doctors & Scientists. 4to. xxiv 459 1 pp. Frontis. port. plates index. Navy gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. Garrison & Morton 6610.1 Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. hardcover books
1989M09886London:: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 1989. 1989. 4to. 56 pp. 12 figs. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0854840702 Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1989. unknown books
