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1989231568Berkeley: KIDS Project 1989. Paperback. vi 80p. 8.5x11 inches poems prose illustrations bios very good first edition booklet in spiral-bound pictorial wraps. KIDS Project paperback books
54569Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Newark Delaware: University of Delaware 1935. Previous owner's name slight toning at endpages overall a Very Good copy. Includes writings by George H. Ryden Kermit W. Oberlin Carl J. Rees Edmund E. Miller and Exra B. Crooks. . Other hardcover books
20048623bdGainesville: University Press of Florida 2004. First Edition Advance Review Copy with publisher’s letter laid-in. Octavo red cloth & white boards hardcover xx 274 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the 1950s and ‘60s Jacksonville faced daunting problems. Critics described city government as boss-ridden expensive and corrupt. African Americans challenged racial segregation and public high schools were disaccredited. The St. Johns River and its tributaries were heavily polluted. Downtown development had succumbed to suburban sprawl. Endorsed by an almost two-to-one majority in 1967 the city of Jacksonville’s decision to consolidate with surrounding Duval County began a transformation of this conservative Deep South backwater city into a prosperous mainstream metropolis. James B. Crooks intorudces readers to preconsolidation Jacksonville and then focuses on three major issues that confronted the expanded city: racial relations environmental pollution and the revitalization of downtown. He shows the successes and setbacks of four mayors -- Hans G. Tanzler Jake Godbold Tommy Hazouri and Ed Austin -- in responding to these issues. During the administration of Mayor Hazouri from 1987 to 1991 Crooks was Jacksonville historian-in-residence at City Hall. Combining observations from this period with extensive interviews and documents he has written an urban history that will fascinate scholars of politics and governmental reform as well as residents of the First Coast City. University Press of Florida, (2004). First Edition, Advance Review Copy, with publisher’s letter laid-in. hardcover books
200830185Charleston: The History Press 2008. Paperback. Very Good. 128pp. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> The History Press paperback books
23891Bust-length portrait in formal attire with hat. 178 x 129 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly faded; creased at upper edge. "American tenor Richard Crooks. first sang in opera at Hamburg as Cavaradossi in 1927. He made his American opera début in 1930 in Philadelphia as Cavaradossi and his Metropolitan début as Massenet's Des Grieux in 1933. He sang leading lyric roles mostly French and Italian with the company and elsewhere in the USA for the next ten seasons then pursued a concert career. Crooks had a beautiful voice which. was admired for its smoothness of tone and production as can be judged from his many recordings of opera lieder and lighter music." Max de Schauensee in Grove Music Online. unknown books
200050462Durham:: Duke University Press. Near Fine. 2000. Paperback. 0822325217 . First paperback edition. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Duke University Press, paperback books
18586517St. Louis MO: George Knapp & Co 1858. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 430pp. With 4 folding plates including the frontispiece a hand tinted in yellow lithograph of the Merchants Exchange. Some text foxing. Top outer blank corner of title torn away probably the name of a previous owner. Frontispiece lightly chipped at fore-edge not into the image. Orig. green cloth gilt somewhat soiled and spine extremities a bit chipped. George Knapp & Co hardcover books
1858WRCAM42580St. Louis 1858. 430pp. plus two of four folding engraved plates. Original brown publisher's cloth cover stamped in blind and gilt; rebacked with brown cloth. Corners worn. Lightly foxed; text block lightly dampstained around the edges. A few small edge tears. One plate with a small tape repair. About good. A scarce illustrated history of St. Louis with wonderful folding lithographs of the Merchant Exchange steam boats and a stove works factory. Contains short sketches on all manner of local retailers including furniture warehouses hotels jewelers and a Daguerrean Gallery Mr. J.J. Outley proprietor. Also describes local railroad routes. A great compendium of information on early St. Louis businesses. The NUC lists this title but fails to note any locations. HOWES T52 "aa." hardcover books
1917247468London: The Whitwell Press 1917. Pamphlet. 12p. 5 x 8 inches wraps lightly soiled else very good in stapled wraps. Crooks was a Labour M.P. and member of the Fabian Society. The Whitwell Press unknown books
191733168London: Whitewell Press 1917. Paperback. Very good. 12pp. Rubbed overall else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Whitewell Press paperback books
191716373London: The Whitwell Press. Very Good. 1917. Hardcover. 12 pages; light soil and wear to wraps; Good . The Whitwell Press hardcover books
191714235London: The Whitwell Press 1917. 1st edition. Pictorial wrappers stapled. VG age toning to extremities/pos on front wrapper. 12 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Crooks began in poverty & rose to an M.P. Here he articulates his pro-Allies position. The Whitwell Press unknown books
193156660Baltimore Maryland: The John Hopkins Press 1931. First Edition. Signed presentation from Crooks on a front blank page: "To Jennie Lovingly yours Esther.". Small quarto: dark-red quarter-morocco leather & marbled boards spine stamped in gilt with five raised bands marbled endpapers; 271 pages. The John Hopkins Studies In Romance Literatures And Languages. Extra Volume IV. Very Good bright with very minor wear or scuffing; contents clean & tight. <br/><br/> The John Hopkins Press hardcover books
189057233NY: Harper & Brothers 1890. First Edition. Second Edition was published in 1891. Matthew Simpson 1811-1884 was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1852 and based mostly in Chicago. During Reconstruction after the Civil War most evangelical denominations in the North especially the Methodists were initially strong supporters of radical policies that favored the Freedmen former slaves and distrusted the Southern whites. However by the late 1860s in border state conferences the MEC North moved well away from their work with the Freedmen's Bureau and often sided with the grievances of Southern white members. Bishop Simpson played a leading role in mobilizing the Northern Methodists for the cause. His biographer calls him the "High Priest of the Radical. Thick 8vo. decorative green cloth stamped in black & gilt; 512 pages. Book weights about three pounds. Illustrated. Very Good minor wear covers gilt bright; contents clean & tight with bit of foxing to few preliminary and end pages. Harper & Brothers unknown books
