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1947247225Washington D.C. 1947. One page on letterhead of the Supreme Court of the United States. 4to. Docketed in pencil. Fine in navy custom cloth folder. One page on letterhead of the Supreme Court of the United States. 4to. "As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master". ". I am glad to know that Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of this Court will speak at the public dinner to be held in observance of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of John Peter Altgeld the late Governor of Illinois and a leadiing apostle of the Bill of Rights. He not only wished to be free himself but wished that others share his freedom. Evidently he subscribed to Lincoln's definition of democracy - 'As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master underscored .". unknown books
197720483ELos Angeles: United Artists 1977. First Edition. Paperbound folded 9 1/8†x 11 3/8â€. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film Equus directed by Sidney Lumet written by Peter Shaffer based on his play starring Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely Joan Plowright Harry Andrews Eileen Atkins and Jenny Agutter. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was nominate for 3 Oscars; Best Actor Richard Burton Best Supporting Actor Peter Firth and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won Golden Globes for Best Actor - Drama Burton and Best Supporting Actor Firth. United Artists unknown books
197720480ELos Angeles: United Artists 1977. First Edition. Paperbound folded 9 1/8†x 11 3/8â€. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film Equus directed by Sidney Lumet written by Peter Shaffer based on his play starring Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely Joan Plowright Harry Andrews Eileen Atkins and Jenny Agutter. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was nominate for 3 Oscars; Best Actor Richard Burton Best Supporting Actor Peter Firth and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won Golden Globes for Best Actor - Drama Burton and Best Supporting Actor Firth. United Artists unknown books
189085342Cosmopoli: Printed by the Translators . for Private Subscribers Only 1890. Hardcover. Good. index xxviii 187p. Original white paper-backed boards. 28cm. Moderate cover soil. Paper overlay on backstrip partially gone; three of four raised bands still present. Pictorial bookplate Jacobus Bromley. Contents generally sound and clean. Copy #219 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. The initials "SCL" appear in ink after the number on the colophon Leonard Smithers who collaborated with Richard F. Burton on this work and was identified on the title-page as "Neaniskos. Second issue with only the corrected version of pages xi-xiv present. See Penzer's Burton bibliography at pages 150-153. Although Burton managed to remove his name from almost all copies a seldom-seen specimen title-page has been laid in on which the metrical Version is identified as being by the translator of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night" and the Introduction. Notes Explanatory and Illustrative and Excursus as being by "S. C. L." <br/><br/> Printed by the Translators ... for Private Subscribers Only hardcover books
1964263031Cambridge: University Press 1964. Reprint. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrations in b/w some folding. 698 pages. Very thick 8vo brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover top edge gilt d.w. Cambridge: University Press 1964. Reprint. Minor staining on fore-edge still a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> University Press unknown books
1964263033Cambridge: University Press 1964. Reprint. hardcover. very good/good. Illustrated with folding maps. 648 pages. Very thick 8vo brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover top edge gilt edgeworn d.w. Cambridge: University Press 1964. Reprint. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> University Press unknown books
18307315New York: J. & J. Harper 1830. Hard Cover. 12mo; original tan muslin cloth printed in black. The Harper's Stereotype Edition; folding frontis of the Sacred Temple of Mecca. Frontis and title page a bit browned; text is clean and bright. Cloth is worn at extremities and at spine ends; bookplate. <br/><br/> J. & J. Harper hardcover books
60817bdPresented in the Interest of Progress through the United Efforts and Co-operation of the Businessmen’s Ass’n Chamber of Commerce and the Industrial Plants of The Village of Oak Harbor. Fold-out map edged with advertisments for area businesses. Phone numbers in the advertisements contain only four numerals leading us to date the map ca. early 1950s. Two-sided measuring 16 1/2†x 21 1/2â€. Near-Fine with a touch of foxing age darkened spotting to title. unknown books
1809174936London: Printed for J. Budd and J. M. Richardson 1809. 11p. disbound 8x5 inch self-wraps under title page; somewhat edgeworn with slight dust-soil and a touch of foxing. Good copy. Contends that "the mild the temperate and equal laws of the beneficent Saxons" -- "almost destroyed by the feudal system of the Norman conqueror" then restored by the Great Charter -- are endangered once again now by preponderance of the executive branch. Printed for J. Budd and J. M. Richardson unknown books
1986131178Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc 1986. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 298 pp. 111 color illustrations. In Japanese and English. Includes three essays a catalogue of 111 works maps chronology list of exhibitions bibliography. The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc paperback books
189373837New York: American Ornithologists' Union. Very Good. 1893. Softcover. 212 p. This book is soft-bound in tan printed wrappers with wear to the edges and spinebackstrip ends chipped with some loss. Binding sound; contents bright and clean with a few illustrations including 2 folding color maps at the front. . American Ornithologists' Union paperback books
189137488New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher 1891. 1st edition thus i.e. this publisher. This title not in Wolff and OCLC records no holding institutions of this edition. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning to wrappers. Two stab holes in margin along spine. Long vertical closed tear to 4th leaf. A Good copy. 16 pp. Text triple column. Davis' story 'Between Man and Wife' pp. 12 - 15. Wood engraved masthead. Wood engraving p. 11-3/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton, Publisher unknown books
188537499New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher 1885. 1st edition thus i.e. this publisher. This title not in Wolff and OCLC records no holding institutions of this edition. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning to wrappers. Two stab holes in margin along spine. A Very Good copy. 16 pp. Text double column. Wood engraved masthead. 11-3/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton, Publisher unknown books
190167625Cincinnati: George A. Kraemer. Good. 1901. Hardcover. 221 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 11x7.75 inches. Tan cloth covers with red printing. The covers are soiled and rubbed. Remnants of a bookplate on the front pastedown. Previous owner signature and stamp on the front end pages. The contents are complete and sound. Good. . George A. Kraemer hardcover books
1876D4916Sydney: Thomas Richards Government Printer 1876. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps. Covers lightly smudged and dust-soiled; text block the faintest bit creased down the middle. <br/><br/> Thomas Richards, Government Printer paperback books
1923199214Fort Monroe VA: The Coast Artillery Journal 1923. Soft Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Pencil notes written on front free endpaper. Some pencil underlining and marginalia in text. Covers soiled corners curled. Previous owner's name written at top of front cover. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. The Coast Artillery Journal unknown books
1828007719London: William Pickering 1828. The SCARCE Pickering edition 1828 Fine and finely bound in luxurious full crushed morocco triple gilt fillet on covers spine ribbed and richly decorated in gilt inner gilt dentelles signed by the master French bindery of Chambolle-Duru marbled end papers all edges gilt. Fine a few light spots of toning at end pages bottom edge of frontispiece portrait unevenly trimmed. A brilliant copy of a SCARCE edition. . First Thus. Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Pickering Hardcover books
191139204Oakland California 1911. 1st edition. Tan suede binding with 3-hole rawhide cord tie. Yapp edges. Binding worn with cover lettering faded. A Good copy. Unpaginated. T.p. & Foreward only text pages. 138 images printed to the recto of each leaf. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>From the Foreword: "Just in fun and in all friendliness we present a book of likenesses of business and professional men of the City of Oakland California and vicinity . The purpose is primarily to present a strking likeness of the subject and then to present more strikingly and effectively than can be done in words the business or profession of the man together with a fad or two. 'Just for fun'". OCLC records just two institutional holdings. Rare. unknown books
1900147073London: Horace Marshall & Son 1900. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-271 271a 272-343 344-345 i.e. 346: blank note: mispaginated by the publisher Frontispiece by Stanley Wood ten maps and plans original pictorial tan cloth front and spine panels stamped in red white blue green orange and black. First edition. The "war" in question is the Boer War 1899-1902 still ongoing at the time of the book's publication. About half of the text is quoted from letters written home by British soldiers of both high and low rank. The anonymous author has stitched these together very professionally to form a fascinating yet impartial narrative and one that was largely at odds with accounts in British newspapers whose dispatches from the front were heavily censored and in some cases deliberately distorted for propagandistic purposes. The book presents a unique treasure of primary source material. With a gift inscription dated 1901 by the author on the front free endpaper. Apparently this first volume was the only one published; we could not locate any mention of a subsequent volume nor is a second volume of this title recorded in any library. Iink stain to a small area of spine and rear panel one leaf pair opened roughly inner hinges strengthened overall a good copy of a rare book. #147073 Horace Marshall & Son unknown books
1850008088London: R. MacDonald 1850. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good. 16mo. Complete with 90 pages 4 folding illustrations and 1 advertising leaf. Original green wrapper. Sound binding. Clean pages with dampstains and dog-ears. Legible but heavily rubbed and edgeworn cover. <br /><br />An early traveler's guide to Paris that not only addresses the city's sights public buildings and exhibitions but also provides information about its hackney coaches cabs ominbuses railway stations money cafes restaurants theatres churches postal system and much more. <br /><br />In 1848 London was visited by a delegation of several hundred members of the French National Guard who took the city by storm with their good manners general interest and exceptional friendliness. At a farewell dinner hosted by the Honorable Artillery Company the Frenchmen openly expressed their thanks and publically stated "an earnest desire that it might not be long ere they should enjoy the pleasure of a visit in return from the honest citizens of London. Within a year a semi-official excursion of 300 Londoners visited Paris and one of the travelers published this guide. R. MacDonald paperback books
187727256Portland ME: Berry Printer 1877. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; original pictorial stitched self-wrappers; 13pp. Wrappers rather brittle with a few tiny shallow losses else Very Goood. Satirical fable regarding the railroad industry. WILLIAMSON Maine I 835. Berry Printer unknown books
1864009525New York: Medical Director's Office Department of the East 1864. Unbound. Very good. One-page Civil War letter on Department of the East Medical Director's Office stationery notifying commanders of Union General Hospitals that: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"The Surgeon General instructs me to inform all Medical officers . . . to inform their patients that the firm of Randolph and Co. Government Solicitors Post Office Box No 38 Washington D.C. are swindlers and to take such means as may be necessary to stop their thieving operations."<p>It is unspecified what the fraudulent actions of Randolph and Company fraudulent involved however contemporary records suggest that the firm may have preyed upon furloughed patients at train stations in some manner while they traveled to their homes. Certainly worthy of further research. <br /><br /> Medical Director's Office, Department of the East books
1886001907Robinson Ill.: Argus Printing House 1886. Softcover. Small broadside; 9 1/2 x 5 1/4; single sheet recto only; yellow paper ruled and printed in black; two small chips to left edge and lower left corner; small unobtrusive spot to right margin; overall in very good condition. An announcement and advertisement piece for a school event commemorating Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Robinson Illinois. The program lists the names of children from various Robinson public schools and the order in which they recite sing and perform to different Longfellow works. Robinson, Ill.: Argus Printing House paperback books
180610117Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey 1806. 2nd US edition American Imprints 10401. Modern period-style brown leather spine & tips; marbled boards. New eps. Binding - Fine; Text - VG usual bit of browning & lt foxing. 189 leaves. Bound in 6s 4 1/4' x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> Printed for Mathew Carey hardcover books
1836001144New York: Harper & Brothers 1836. Hardcover. Second printing; 4 1/2 x 7 1/2; vol. I pp. 288 vol. II pp. 286; reddish-pink embossed cloth over boards; paper spine labels; small rubbed spots to corners and a small bump to upper corner of front board; a few small nicks and chips to tips of spine; cloth on spine a bit sun-faded; foxing mostly contained to first and last several pages with occasional spotting throughout; overall very good-. Catharine Sedgwick 1789 â 1867 was best known for her novels in what was called "domestic fiction" genre. The female characters in her works were most often spirited nonconformists who did not bow to the stereotype of women's conduct and behavior of the times. In fact she was one Edgar Allan Poe's favorite authors and he was known to had referred to her current book as the best novel written by an American female novelist. 'The Linwoods' was a historical romance set during the American Revolution. Quite uncommon. New York: Harper & Brothers hardcover books
