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189043445New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co 1890. Third Authorized American Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over color-printed pictorial paper-wrapped boards. Some binding wear. Prior owner inscription to ffep. A VG copy. 128 pp. T.p. cut. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>OCLC records just 2 holding institutions. Frederick A. Stokes Co hardcover books
1894RW1214London:: Macmillan 1894. 1894. Thick 8vo. xvi 719 1 pp. 190 figs. index. Green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Magee College Library bookplate & embossed stamp on title. Very good. First edition. Preston was Professor of Natural Philosophy at University College of Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal university of Ireland and of the Royal Society London. Macmillan, 1894. hardcover books
291458Jonesville VA. unbound. very good. Exceptional signature: "A. L. Pridemore - Jonesville - VA" executed on a 5.5" x 1.5" slip of paper. Fine condition.<br/><br/> American politician from Virginia who also served as an officer fighting for the Confederate States of America. During the Civil War Pridemore raised a company of Volunteer Infantry for the Pound Gap Battalion of the Confederate Army and was commissioned as its Captain on October 17th 1861. In June 1862 he received a promotion of Major. Following reorganization after the Battle of Cumberland Gap his unit was reconstituted as Company S of the 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry under Colonel Campbell Slemp and Pridemore became a Lieutenant Colonel on December 14th 1862. He was promoted to full Colonel in 1864 and commanded the 64th Virginia Cavalry until the end of the war.<br/><br/> unknown books
1962179909New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1962. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. G dj shows wear and fading inside clean and tight. mylar covered illustrated dj; green cloth covers gold lettering in spine; 116 pages : illustrations. A great city's past and present in text and photographs. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover books
195031945New York: Viking 1950. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgewear with chunk from base of spine panel. viii 439 1 blank pp. Illustrate from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & author killed in combat during World War II. Viking hardcover books
71752Album. Very good. An elaborately annotated photo album created by Harold Roberts "Bobs" Quinney 1900-72 chronicling his life between 1919 and 1923 including his move to the United States from Ottawa Ontario Canada travel aboard a merchant ship life in New York and his home in Los Angeles. The album is filled with 192 black and white images measuring 2 x 2 1/2". Each of the images is held in place with black paper inset matting and accompanied by handwritten captions written in white pencil. The photo album opens in 1919 with Quinney's trip to New York. There are four photos showing a large gathering of military on the street labeled "the homecoming 1919" referring to soldiers returning from World War I pictures of the Bronx Zoological Park Grant's Tomb Coney Island and other New York sights. In 1920 it would appear he joined the crew of a Standard Oil tanker and visited Mexico the Brazilian Coast and Argentina. A series of 12 photos show travel through the Panama Canal. The album also contains photographs of family and friends then transitions in 1922 to images of Southern California where he took a job as a drug clerk and officially emigrated to the U.S. According to ancestry records Quinney was one of 11 children. He married in 1926 moved to San Francisco and graduated from dental college. The oblong black buckram album and photographs are in very good condition and provide a pictorial story of one young man's new life in America. unknown books
1940220481Frankfurt 1940. unbound. 1 page on official letterhead with a blind-stamped Nazi logo 11.5 x 8.25 inches Frankfurt June 1 1940. Written just four months before his untimely death mentioning the landmark Frankfurter Theatre. Signed: "Heil Hitler A. Raskin." Natural folds; small tears and slight chipping along the top edge. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> National Socialist German radio and television pioneer who served as head of propaganda under Josef Goebbels. He contributed heavily to programs concerning psychological warfare and developed the first Nazi Television Network. On November 8 1940 Raskin was killed in a plane crash at the age of 40.<br/><br/> unknown books
27034Ca. 29 x 76 mm.<br/><br/>Laid down to paper mount.<br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled. "Reeves was particularly admired in Handel oratorios and for his performance of the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion which he sang under Sterndale Bennett in 1862. In the late 1860s he pressed for the adoption of a lower musical pitch in England." Harold Rosenthal and George Biddlecombe in Grove Music Online. unknown books
19491326737Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co 1949. Hardcover. Octavo; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine pink and purple with blue and purple print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners tears across top edge stains and soiling to rear front flap clipped at top and bottom edges; Boards in tan cloth with red print wear to corners and spine caps slight shelfwear; Text block clean and tight; <br /> 192 pages. 1326737. FP New Rockville Stock. Fantasy Publishing Co hardcover books
19871341886New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto oblong; First edition; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine gold with gold print on black banner; DJ has edgewear tear and creasing to rear top edge remainder of removed label on front else clean and bright; Boards in black cloth with gold print slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block front flyleaf removed else clean and tight; xi 322 pages illustrated b&w color. <br /> <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1341886. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
195026328Celle. Köln: Hermann Moeck Verlag. Charly Oehl PN M.Ch.Oe.15 1950. Folio. Stapled. Original publisher's ivory and blue illustrated wrappers by Schlipphacke. 3 table of contents 4-22 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's imprint to verso of upper wrapper. Copyright notice "Copyright by Musikverlag Charly Oehl Köln. " to first page of every number. Without title. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Uniformly browned. First Edition of nine numbers from the operetta. Rare. Worldcat 2 copies only at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich.<br/><br/>Richartz was a German composer and conductor who is remembered principally for operettas such as Die tauzende Helena 1941 film music and popular songs. [Hermann Moeck Verlag... Charly Oehl] [PN M.Ch.Oe.15] unknown books
1991PW1616Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1991. 1991. 8vo. xv 1 182 pp. Figs. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521400775 Rivers was a British officer and an early anthropologist. His collection of over 22000 artifacts was the basis for the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Press, 1991. hardcover books
1872248184Hyde Park 1872. unbound. Father of FDR. 4 pages front and back each two-page spread measuring 8.25 x 10.5 inches Hyde Park New York February 10 1872. Written in mock indignation to a friend acting as a broker in a small business arrangement in part: ".I am sorry to say I didn't think too much of your business capacity as I did before I received your note of yesterday.I cannot make erasures in my check book and you must either consent to accept the check or I shall spend it for you and perhaps get something that you would not like at all." Slight tears along the natural folds; chip in the right margin of the third page. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
185444142New York: John Wiley 1854. 1st US Edition NCBEL III 1344. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Pale yellow eps. Slight lean. Spine sunned. Bookseller ticket Whipple & Son Salem & presentation bookplate to California School for the Deaf to front paste-down. Period prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a VG copy. vi 7 - 189 3 blanks pp. Tipped-in advert leaf before frontispiece. Illustrated with 15 lithographed plates "Sarony & Co. Lith N. Y.". 12mo. <br/><br/> John Wiley hardcover books
48849London: George Routledge & Sons Limited n. d. Ca early 20th C. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Average wear. Pencil pos to ffep. Faint foxing to eps. Very Good. 246 pp. 16mo. <br/><br/> George Routledge & Sons, Limited hardcover books
186248233London: Smith Elder & Co. 65 Cornhill 1862. Cf. NCBEL III 1342. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Pale yellow eps. Square & tight. Modest extremity wear. Period poi to front paste-down. Front hinge starting. Foxing. A pulled gathering. Withal a VG copy. viii 440 16 pp. 16 page publisher catalogue dated November 1862 concludes volume. Frontispiece portrait of Ruskin. Tissue guard. Crown 8vo. 8" x 5" <br/><br/> Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill hardcover books
188921194Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co 1889. 1st thus. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. VG slt wear at spine ends/poi to prelims. 237 pp. Small 8vo. <br/><br/> A. C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
188611156Orpington: George Allen 1886. 1st edition thus NCBEL III 1347. Contemporary green morocco with marbled boards & eps. TEG. VG some extremity wear/poi on blank front fly. 250 pp sm 8vo. <br/><br/> George Allen hardcover books
190246551London: George Allen 1902. Thirteenth Thousand. Tan full calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Spine a bit sunned. Modest wear. Bookplates. A VG copy. x 297 3 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
190246552London: George Allen 1902. Twenty-third Thousand. Tan full calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Spine a bit sunned. Modest wear. Bookplates. A VG copy. xv 5 269 3 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
190046619London: George Allen 1900. Fifteenth Thousand. Tan full calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Spine a bit sunned. Modest wear. Bookplates including "Beatrice Elymore Herbert". A VG copy. x 2 270 2 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
184647675Oxford: Printed for J. H. Parker J. Vincent and H. Slater / T. MacPherson 1846. 1st Edition / Second Edition. Period maroon half-calf binding with marbled boards & eps "Vol I" stamped to 4th compartment. Red edgestain. Modest wear to binding. Spine a bit sunned. Bookplate of Robert Holdsworth Carew Hunt. Table of Contents with some contributions credited by a prior owner. Very Good. 371 1 blank; 62 pp. Frontispiece to Petra. 12mo. <br/><br/> Printed for J. H. Parker, J. Vincent, and H. Slater / T. MacPherson hardcover books
184471292Louisville: W. C. Peters 1844. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 6p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 34cm. Moderate foxing and browning. Cover lettering and decorations in a pale shade of blue. Small black and white illustration in center of front cover of a fly caught in a spider web outside a window in which a spider awaits. "Comic song" as sung by Mr. Russell with music arranged and adapted to a favorite melody." <br/><br/> W. C. Peters paperback books
33493London: G.H. Davidson. Full-length standing right hand on piano with facsimile signature at lower outer corner. 298 x 197 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn soiled and creased; margins very slightly frayed with some small tears; narrow fold to left margin. Russell was an English composer pianist and singer. <br/><br/>"He claimed to have written the music for over 800 songs. A more realistic figure is perhaps 300 including 80 or so written in the United States many of his melodies being reissued with new lyrics and titles . Among the most popular were the sentimental "The Old Arm Chair" and the melodramatic "Woodman! Spare That Tree!" He also composed rousing songs about traveling on land or sea and several descriptive multi-sectional pieces similar in style and emotional content to Italian operatic scenes. Some of Russell's songs were written as statements for social reform; these include "The Maniac" concerning the "barbarous" conditions of private mental institutions "The Gambler's Wife" on the plight of a deserted mother and child and "The Indian Hunter" on racial intolerance." John A. Stephens William McClellan and Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. G.H. Davidson unknown books
