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1995005491NY: Knopf. 1995. Uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short pieces revolving around the subjects of fame celebrity and the media. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Knopf paperback books
2008193758Knopf 2008-02-05. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. Signed by the author on the title page. Second Printing. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Knopf hardcover books
2013Embry 195550Simon & Schuster 2013. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W photos Simon & Schuster, 2013. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2013Embry 180385Simon & Schuster 2013. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W photos Simon & Schuster, 2013. First edition, first printing. unknown books
200795793Worcester MA: American Antiquarian Society 2007. paperback. 6 x 9.25 inches. paperback. 216 pages. Papers from a Conference at the American Antiquarian Society in June 2006 and the James Russell Wiggins Lecture 'We declare you independent whether you wish it or not': The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism. This new book begins with the 2006 James Russell Wiggins Lecture an annual activity of the American Antiquarian Society through its Program in the History of the Book in American Culture. The lectureship honors the memory of James Russell Wiggins the president of the American Antiquarian Society from 1970 to 1977. This year the lecture was given by David Shields on the topic "'We declare you independent whether you wish it or not': The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism." <BR><br /> The conference papers explore the circulation translation revision cross-cultural interpretation and influence of key texts inciting revolt against colonial domination and establishing independent states in the western hemisphere during the first age of Revolution. Matters treated include the effect of European Enlightenment books and pamphlets on independence movements throughout the Americas; the representation of Revolutions in North America France Haiti Central and South America in the press; the publication of public documents charters and political declarations and their international influence; print and the reaction against the Revolution; and the literature of Revolution and the creation of the "vox populi" in new American nation states.<BR><br /> Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society. American Antiquarian Society unknown books
19891316NY: Knopf 1989. First edition. 245 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. NY: Knopf, unknown books
2010Embry 187031Alfred A. Knopf 2010. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First edition, first printing. unknown books
199666941n.p.:: n.p. Fine. 1996. Hardcover. 0967116406 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket.; 334 pages . n.p., hardcover books
195960318Other: Earl B. Shields. Very Good. 1959. Paperback. 128pp. paperback Very Good. . Earl B. Shields paperback books
709273NY: Dial Press. n.d. Advance Uncorrected Manuscript. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Dial Press paperback books
1890252105Chicago: Rand McNally 1890. First. hardcover. good. Plates and text Illustrations. 581pp. ad pages. 8vo original brown with gilt decoration corners bumped and lightly worn cloth lightly spotted and lightly soiled very light foxing to margins of plates foxing to first blank page margin of title page and last blank page. Chicago: Rand McNally 1890. First Edition<br/><br/> Internally a tight bright copy.<br/><br/> Rand, McNally unknown books
188960848Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co 1889. First edition. 8vo. 339 pp. Illustrated from photographs and wood engravings plates vignettes and historiated initials; ad for two other Shields titles tipped in at the front endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to A.W. Hooper businessman and sportsman who served as President of the Tarpon Club in Port Aransas Texas in the early 1910s. Phillips p. 343. Heller 620: "The sporting adventures transpired in the Cascade Range in Oregon Washington and British Columbia the Rocky Mountains and the Texas Plains." Riling 1256. Bruns S-142. Fine bright copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue-green cloth floral endpapers. #7807. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Co hardcover books
197551349Redding: George Shields 1975. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Laid-in is a short holograph letter from Shields presenting this book of poems for review. [Redding: George Shields], unknown books
188957169Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company 1889. First edition. 8vo. 120 4 ads pp. Frontispiece and six plates portraits. Howes S-412. Graff 3759. Smith 9420. Eberstadt 114 693: "Contains in addition accounts of the atrocities perpetrated by Chief Joseph and his followers." While Howes and other bibliographies call for eight plates frontispiece plus 7 Graff and the OCLC description call for 7 frontispiece plus 6; we have handled several copies all with a total of seven plates as here. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Lacking front endpaper light marginal tideline through first 11 pages otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Company hardcover books
189021416Chicago and New York: Rand McNally 1890. Hardcover. Good. 169 pp a lengthy and interesting advertising section approximately 32 pages. Bound in original brick red cloth with gilt lettering and hunting/fishing insignia and image of a teepee on front board. Boards edgeworn and scuffed small area of dampstain visible on rear endpapers abrasion to front free endpaper where a label was removed. Binding sound text clean. Shields 1846-1925 wrote extensively on sporting topics under the pen-name Coquina before establishing Recreation: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies in 1894. Between 1897 and 1902 he was head of the Campfire Club of America. In this book he offers practical information on a range of outdoorsy topics including clothing and personal equipment bedding and sleeping bags tents guns and rigles fishing tackles selecting horses and tack selecting a good guide food for camping chosing a campsite making a campfire and what to do if you get lost. At the end are three chapters contributed by other authors: Camp Hygeine Medicine and Surgery by Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis; Camp Cookery by Col. J. Fry Lawrence; and How to Load a Pack-Horse by Frank F. Frisbee. Among the items advertised at the end: a folding canvas boat camp bed fishing tackle guns portable houses outdoor clothing maps books and railroad travel. Rand McNally hardcover books
188327113Chicago: Belford Clarke & Co. 1883. 8vo. Frontis. xvi vii/viii bound in after xvi9306 6 adv. pp.; illus. <br><br>Early edition following the first of 1880 published as Hunting the Great West: Outdoors adventures among the bears and buffalo not to mention the trout and the alligator as well as encounters with the Cheyenne and Sioux all illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text steel engravings. The author a.k.a. Coquina was president of the League of American Sportsmen and a frequent contributor to American Field.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's brown cloth front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding as above corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Exsocial club library: call number on endpaper rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Pages clean. Belford, Clarke & Co. hardcover books
199649007Oxford:: Clio Press. Near Fine. 1996. Hardcover. 1851092501 . World Bibliographical Series; Volume 193. First edition. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Clio Press, hardcover books
199668254Wilmington: A Delaware Heritage Press Book 1996. stiff paper wrappers. Townsend George Alfred. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv 377 pages. First edition. Illustrated. A Delaware Heritage Press Book unknown books
11723NY POTTER 1991. FIRST EDITION FINE. F. NY, POTTER, 1991 unknown books
2000709274Boston: Little Brown. 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Little, Brown paperback books
SKU1034356Cambridge University Press. PAPERBACK. Very Good. 1107670659 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Cambridge University Press paperback books
199649513Austin: Liquid Paper Press 1996. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Shields. His first poetry chapbook. Laid in is a brief als from Shields presenting this book for review. Austin: Liquid Paper Press, unknown books
2006RSHIFRO00HMRPalladium Press 2006. Fine. Shields Jr. Joseph W. From Flintlock to M1. Birmingham Alabama: Palladium Press 2006. 220pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Maroon leather. Book condition: Fine. Printed for members of The Firearms Classics Library. Palladium Press hardcover books
2001140633London: The Grosvenor Gallery 2001. Softcover. VG- Few marks from previous gallery owner; page edges are beginning to tan. Brown & color illus. wraps French flaps 43 pp. 19 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2001 exhibition featuring 19 paintings by Irish artist Mark Shields b. 1963. With running ruminations of text presumably written by the artist. Includes a brief bio and photo. The Grosvenor Gallery unknown books
1998140120London: Grosvenor Gallery 1998. Softcover. G Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; cover has slightly aged; interior is good. Cream & color illus. stapled wraps 12 pp. 23 color illus. one fold-out. Issued in conjunction with a 1998 exhibition of portraiture by Irish artist Mark Shields b. 1963. With a two-page introduction giving a nod to Gustave Moreau. Grosvenor Gallery paperback books
