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19891339693Baltimore: The Historical Society of Maryland 1989. Softcover. Small Quarto; VG-/paperback; creamy white spine without text; covers show only light exterior wear; intact panels; text block clean; illustrated; pp 44; arts-Biography; American. 1339693. FP New Rockville Stock. The Historical Society of Maryland unknown books
188082960London: Sotheran 1880. First. hardcover. very good. 30 exquisite full-page color plates of church needlework tisue guards folio gilt decorated olive pebbled cloth small piece missing from top and bottom of spine a.e.g. London: Henry Sotheran & Co. 1880. A very good copy but for light foxing on the title page and a tiny bit of foxing scattered throughout.<br/><br/> Sotheran unknown books
19551317832New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine brown with white print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners edgewear smudging stray pen parks on rear soiling shelfwear; Boards quarter bound with white cloth to spine and grey paper to boards mild wear to corners and spine caps creasing along spine; Text block has toning to endpapers and slight age-toning to paper clean text; 375 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1317832. FP New Rockville Stock. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1955233936New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1986270182Paducah KY: American Quilters Society 1986. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Fine softcover with an ink notation on the front fly. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. American Quilters Society paperback books
2005Embry 165677U. of Nebraska Press 2005. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of Nebraska Press, 2005. unknown books
1915106935New York: Hispanic Society of America 1915. First original. Softcover. VG - clean tight but with signatures of two former owners; covers are a bit age toned. Tan wraps w/ black lettering; 42 pp. with tissue-guarded color frontis and 21 bw plates. Includes and introduction followed by the catalogue of 22 works well-described. Hispanic Society of America paperback books
05019London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. Mr. Stark Munro attempts to create a medical practice in partnership <br/>with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth.<br/><br/>DOYLE Arthur Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. Being a series of sixteen letters written by J. Stark Munro M.B. to his friend and former fellow student Herbert Swanborough of Lowell Massachusetts during the years 1881-1884. Edited and arranged by A. Conan Doyle. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. <br/><br/>First English edition. Octavo 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm. vi 346 1 printers device 1 blank pp. Publishers 24 pp catalog dated August 1895 bound in at end. Inserted frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens with original tissue-guard. Minimal scattered marginal foxing otherwise fine.<br/><br/>Publisher's dark green cloth over beveled boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt black coated endpapers. A near fine copy.<br/><br/>7500 copies were published on 5th September 1895 priced 6/-.<br/><br/>The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough of Lowell Massachusetts. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth. The novel is in fact a thinly disguised account of Doyle's experiences with George Turnavine Budd with whom he was in partnership in Plymouth before finally setting up his own practice in Southsea Portsmouth in 1882.<br/><br/>Green and Gibson A18a. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1895 unknown books
1981197763Cincinnati: Cincinnati North Star Press 1981. Pamphlet. 49p. poems interspersed in the plate with several b&w photos of the author as well as photo of a White Power banner with Swastika and doodles of klansmen very good first edition poetry chapbook in staplebound tan wraps. Cincinnati North Star Press unknown books
1914132344London: Duckworth & Co. 1914. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-201 202: printer's imprint note: text printed on leaf rectos only although the reverse sides are counted in the publisher's pagination eight inserted plates with mounted color illustrations by Flora White original pictorial olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold rear cover stamped in blind. First separate printing of these stories and the first illustrated edition. Four fairy stories first published in THE GREY BRETHREN in 1905. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Some patchy fading to cloth on front and back covers spine panel a bit darkened a very good copy which presents well overall. #132344 Duckworth & Co. unknown books
1917407735Chicago: A. J. Munson & Co 1917. Some light dustsoiling spine lettering faded some lower corners bumped but generally clean and unblemished the binding tight and sound. 8vo. 250 pages. Frontispiece showing Benjamin Franklin Charles E. Duryea and Henry Ford. Original dark red cloth gilt lettered on cover and spine. First edition showing "the struggle. for one hundred and fifty years to devise a means of propelling a vehicle without animal power." The author claims this is the first book "in concise form" to tell the story of "the mechanical and commercial evolution of the automobile" Preface. <br/><br/> A. J. Munson & Co hardcover books
194132370New York: G. Schirmer 1941. Early printing. Paperback. Near fine in original printed wrappers. The score is signed: "Samuel Barber / March '78.". Quarto. 9 x 12" single sheet laid into a printed folio entitled Samuel Barber Four Songs for Voice and Piano as issued. The text of the song is taken from a lyric by Agee that was first published in his first book Permit Me Voyage 1934 two years before the publication of Barber's signature work Adagio for Strings. The author and composer became friends after Barber famously set Agee's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 to music in 1948. <br/><br/> G. Schirmer paperback books
R02L-00832Guideposts. Used - Good. Good condition. Writing inside. Guideposts unknown books
19094018New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Light shelf wear head and heel slightly rumpled spine shows hint of rubbing else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth pictorial boards green and orange ink lettering and decorative elements color paper onlay decorative endpages top edge gilt frontispiece. 8vo. 225pp. plus 4pp. ads. Illus. color and b/w plates. <br/><br/>Best known for "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" this is a fun and romantic tale set among the Shakers. A very handsome copy with wonderful Wyeth illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
20061313191San Francisco: 9MM Books 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto; pp 98; VG-/paperback; red spine<br /> with ivory text; covers have slight wear to edges; exterior shows slight shelf wear; text block shows light wear to exterior edges; interior clean; profusely illustrated; inscribed by artist; arts - American. 1313191. FP New Rockville Stock. 9MM Books unknown books
1959149485Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actor Lou Costello giving a more than suggestive shower to Dorothy Provine his new gargantuan girlfriend.<br/><br/>A rare appearance of Lou Costello without Bud Abbott wherein a junk collector and inventor accidentally turns his girlfriend into a giantess. <br/><br/>Shot on location at Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
2015166742Dallas: Meadows Museum Southern Methodist University 2015. Hardcover. VG. Minor shelf wear including bumping along edges. Inscribed by author on title page otherwise clean. BW-illustrated boards with aqua spine black lettering. 222 pp. A plethora of color plates. Catalogue of a collection shown April 18 -August 2 2015. Inscribed by the author and others in French and Spanish. Beautiful and vivid plates. Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University hardcover books
1917251621New York: McBride 1917. hardcover. very good. 36 full page plates 87 sketches and diagrams. 144pp. 8vo green cloth; covers rubbed with a few minor dents remainder of library sticker pasted to inside front cover LACKS FRONTIS ILLUSTRATION small puncture in lower quarter of page running from beginning to about page 110 does not affect readability New York: Robert McBride 1917. A few things going on but overall a very good copy.<br/><br/> McBride unknown books
19173229qsLondon: McBride Nast & Co. 1917. Fifth Edition. Octavo flexible cloth 156 pp. Plates illustrations ads. Very Good. McBride, Nast & Co., (1917). Fifth Edition. hardcover books
197051647New York: Delacorte Press 1970. 1st American ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Barbara Seuling. Illustrated by Barbara Seuling. dj corner clipped on jacket flap. <br/><br/> Delacorte Press hardcover books
1972132204London: National Screen Service / Hemdale Film Distributors 1972. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1972 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on Antonia Barber's novel "The Ghosts" about a family who is hired as caretakers for a haunted mansion. Laurence Naismith's last film credit as "Mr. Blunden."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. National Screen Service / Hemdale Film Distributors unknown books
193676822Essex: F. Lewis. Very Good. 1936. Vellum. 13 by 10 inches in full vellum binding with gilt titling to the upper cover and the spine. Some foxing to the endpages and the page edges generally; otherwise clean and Very Good condition with top edges gilt. Signed by the artist - #235 of 250 examples in the limited edition. Housed in the original board slipcase which is a bit worn but still solid. . F. Lewis hardcover books
19792304947Totowa: Littlefield Adams & Company 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket lightly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. 224 pp. A great introduction to many of the epics written on Arthur while incorporating most of the famous paintings inspired by the subject. Littlefield, Adams & Company hardcover books
2005UBARBAT00OFWalker & Company 2005. Very Good. Barbero Alessandro. The Battle: A New History of Waterloo. Cullen Translator John. NY: Walker & Company 2005. 340pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good lightly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good rubbed edges. Walker & Company hardcover books
1966Embry 113616Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1966. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket with small abrasion to upper front joint in mylar cover. British India. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1966. First U.S. edition. unknown books
