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185335303Washington: Government Printing Office 1853. 8vo. 55 pp. <br><br>Report of Lieutenant Meigs with surveys plans and estimates for supplying the cities of Washington and Georgetown with water. Includes correspondence from John Torrey Emile Geyelin and Lorin Blodget. Senate executive document 32d Congress 2d session no. 48. Removed from a nonce volume. Government Printing Office unknown books
18531173555Washington DC: US Congress 1853. 1st. 12mo 55pp Very Good condition with light foxing typical for a document of this age.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Ephemera Binder 3. 1173555. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. US Congress unknown books
66464hardcover. very good-. color folding map. b/w illus. 526pp. 8vo green cloth head of spine repaired. New York 1927. Very good-<br/><br/> unknown books
192471124New York: D. Appleton. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. McGovern Janet B. Montgomery. THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN AND OTHER FANTASIES. New York: D. Appleton 1924. 51 pages plus "notes" Pages untrimmed upper right corner of the front free endpaper is cut out. Tan cloth spine with blue paper covered boards gilt printing. Very Good. . D. Appleton hardcover books
1952132396London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1952 UK release of the 1951 US film. <br/><br/>In 1858 France Emperor Napoleon sends military officers to Normandy in search of a group of rebels. They encounter a masked cavalier and his companions including an heiress to the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and a hint of rubbing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
19892306253New York: Military Press 1989. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small sticker remnant on front jacket corner jacket lightly rubbed. 1989 Large Hardcover. 400 pp. An extensively illustrated history of the Second World War published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the conflict. Map illustrated endpapers. Military Press hardcover books
184124525London Liverpool and Paris: Fisher Son & Co 1841. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. iv 512 pages. 3/4 leather over ribbed cloth with raised bands and gilt titling on the spine panel. Wear to the extremities of the binding. A sound copy. Small leather chip at base of spine panel re-glued. Boards. An interesting early magazine. Contains much content related to America as well as Australia. Covers May-August 1841. Some titles include "Value of British Colonies in North America" 'South Australian Land Sales ; and available Territory" "Western Australia" "On the Varieties of the Human Race - The Ethiopian Variety" "Australasian Islands in 4 parts "The China Expedition - Extension of Commerce with China" "Slave Colonies in France" "California and Oregon" etc etc. Also a number of articles about India. Fisher Son, & Co unknown books
18499001London: T. and W. Boone 1849. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. viii1751pp. partially unopened. Plus 48248pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated with a text woodcut and a large folding map of British possessions in North America with the southern Canadian border outlined in red. Orig. blind stamped purple cloth corners a bit rounded rebacked in red morocco with brown morocco spine label small chip at top of spine. Large engraved library bookplate on front pastedown and with the same library's small embossed oval stamp on the title page. Sabin 44915. T. and W. Boone hardcover books
183624868London: Whittaker & Co 1836. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Part of the British Colonial Library. Whittaker & Co unknown books
183921764London: Whittaker & Co. 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Montgomery Martin issued this small format edition of his "History" in the 1830s - by the 1850s he collaborated with John Tallis and his history series of Australasia and the British colonies were accompanied by John Tallis' handsome maps with vignette views. With the bookplate of Charles R. J. Glover 1870-1936 who was the Mayor of Adelaide from 1917 to 1919. Ferguson 2801. Enlarged from the London 1836 edition in some areas . Lg.12mo vii 1 416pp 2 folding colour maps New South Wales & Van Diemens Land & frontispiece Sydney. Original purple blind & gilt stamped cloth spine and board edges faded . Light foxing of tissue paper at fronticepiece. <br/><br/> Whittaker & Co. hardcover books
19899019113New York: Portland House 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. With more than 80 full page aos and illustrations in full color. <br/><br/> Portland House hardcover books
1836274328London: John Murray 1836. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Volume I only of the 5 volume set. With portrait frontispiece of Wellesley and an attractive map of India which has a closed tear and is colored in outline. Some foxing to the preliminaries including to the frontispiece. Half bound in red morocco over red cloth with raised bands and gilt titling. Very Good binding. John Murray unknown books
1945272130Chicago. : United States Chess Federation. 1945. Blue stapled wraps. . Very good faint marginal dampstain to bottom edge. . 23x15 cm. United States Chess Federation. paperback books
1994141881Kent Ohio and London England: The Kent State University Press 1994. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x 1-195 196: blank 197: colophon 198: blank illustrations cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #141881 The Kent State University Press unknown books
1994131295Kent Ohio and London England: The Kent State University Press 1994. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x 1-195 196: blank 197: colophon 198: blank illustrations cloth. First edition. Publication price neatly inked on front free endpaper a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #131295 The Kent State University Press unknown books
1934186915The State Company 1934. Paperback. Good. 1934 pamphlet. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor wear green paper wraps are sunned and faded. PMPT TNOS HS The State Company paperback books
1916292469Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Signed. A presentable copy of Lucy Maud Montgomery's eighth book signed by Montgomery on the front endpaper. Her Boston publisher L. C. Page had refused to consider publishing her poems. This is the first of this Canadian author's writings to appear from a Canadian publisher and is dedicated "to the memory of the gallant Canadian soldiers". The title poem "The Watchman" was read at Montgomery's funeral. One of the more difficult of her books to obtain in decent condition. There is just a trace of rubbing to the spine and very scattered foxing. Blue cloth binding stamped in gilt which has darkened. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart unknown books
193790703London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited 1937. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-224 three inserted plates signed "B" original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in white and black. First edition. The correct first printing with "First issued 1937" on copyright page. Boys' interplanetary adventure novel; a journey to the red planet inhabited by hostile Martians. The author's first SF novel first published as "Space" in SCOOPS in 1934. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-682. Bleiler 1978 p. 127. Reginald 09271. Touch of rubbing to cloth mostly along bottom edges edges of text block foxed a bright very good copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket with light shelf wear mainly head and tail of spine panel some chipping at head and tail of spine panel several closed tears at edges and some staining to rear panel. #90703 Blackie & Son Limited unknown books
1998114088Orono ME: Maine Folklore Center 1998. Paperback. 112 p. profuse period photography 8.5-inch-sqare wraps in very good condition. Maine Folklore Center paperback books
1998155144Orono Maine: Maine Folklife Center 1998. Softcover. VG. Duotone photographic wraps with blue/white lettering. Bw photographic end papers. 112 pp. with bw photos throughout. Turn-of-the-century 19th to 20th life on Little Cranberry Island Maine comes alive in the antique photographs of F.W. Morse. His beautiful glass plate images are accompanied by the vivid memories of his dauther Irene Morse Bartlett a life-long island resident. Volume XXXIII of Northeast Folkore; published annually by the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine in Orono. A must for anyone with connections to Little Cranberry Island or any Mainiac history buff. Maine Folklife Center paperback books
1946128511Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1943 film. Based on the 1942 novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. <br/><br/>After a brutish hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers dated January 8 1946. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1987WRCLIT45100London: Constable 1987. Pictorial wrappers. Portrait and illustrations. Crown of spine and tips of upper wrapper lightly bumped wrappers faintly rubbed else very good or better. With the recipient's booklabel. First trade paperbound edition. With the author's lengthy signed presentation inscription in the year of publication to George and Beryl Sims: ".This is an advance copy since it is to be published in 1988 to coincide with the centenary of Lawrence's birth." Constable paperback books
182568479Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's first novel. Accomplished in a number of fields including politics music geology and art Lauder 1784-1848 is considered one of the most successful literary imitators of his friend Sir Walter Scott. 12mo three volumes. In period full ruled blue calf bindings with elaborate gilt and blind stamping red morocco spine labels marbled endpapers and ribbon markers. The armorial bookplate of John Waldie and a related label appear on each front pastedown. The spines are moderately sun faded with some occasional edgewear; otherwise very good. Wolff 3952. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co hardcover books
1977138667Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1977. First Draft script for the 1975 film. File copy belonging to Filmways Inc with annotations indicating same in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on E.G. Valens' 1966 book about Jill Kinmont Boothe a champion skier who at the age of 18 was involved in a near-fatal accident resulting in paralysis from the neck down. She would become a teacher of special education after rehabilitation and married a trucker named John Boothe in 1976. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1967 and died in 2012. <br/><br/>Director Peerce's notable film debut as director "One Potato Two Potato" 1964 was a groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage and one of the first films to portray such a relationship. He would later marry and divorce Marilyn Hassett who plays Jill in the film she won a Golden Globe for her debut role. Beau Bridges costars as her love interest. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Bishop California shot on location throughout California. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as "Office Copy Cover" in ink on the front wrapper copy No. 74-1-82. Title page present undated noted as First Draft with a credit for screenwriter Seltzer. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
197972115London: Gollancz 1979. First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two page foreword by Philip Larkin. Bloomfield B20. London: Gollancz, unknown books
