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189456228N.p. Cambridge Mass. 1894. 4to approx. 200 pages several diagrams and drawings in loose sheets often with paste-overs and cancels and bound in contemporary marbled boards tied with string and nearly broken; spine perished; good or better and legible. For a good account of Holmes see DAB. Born in 1815 in Peterborough N.H. and a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Harvard and Harvard Law he removed to St. Louis where he was first the city then the county attorney. In 1868 he returned to Cambridge where he became a professor of law at Harvard. He "did no legal writing but was widely interested in other subjects. His Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself 1888 exhibits extensive philosophic and scientific reading but has no perceptible influence and now seems unreadable . His scholarship and fairness have been praised by his opponents. In his old age he compiled a Genealogy of the Holmes Family of Londonderry N.H. containing garrulous sketches of his relatives and a long autobiography" DAB. As well as this extensive treatise on gravitation and electricity begun when he was nearly 80. <br/><br/> hardcover books
201822715ELos Angeles: BRON Studios 2018. First Edition. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. Paperbound 8 1/2†x 11â€. 119 page complete revised shooting script for the film A Simple Favor written by Jessica Sharzer based on novel by Darcey Bell starring Anna Kendrick Blake Lively and Henry Golding. Fine in printed wrappers. The film tells the story of Stephanie Kendrick a single mother with a parenting video log who befriends Emily Lively a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate. BRON Studios unknown books
2014Embry 189921Roost Books 2014. First edition first printing. Fine. Illustrated boards no dust jacket. Roost Books, 2014. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
3981ALS. 2pgs. February 2 1932. Lyndon Center Vermont. An autograph letter signed “Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith†and addressed to his parents. Writing during the Great Depression Smith who was probably a student at the Lyndon Institute boarding school regrets that he cannot come home for the weekend due to a lack of money but instructs his parents not to send more on his behalf: “Dear Mother and Dad I had a dandy little day or as dandy as could be expected in a place like this. I got a spauling of sixteen apiece and that was just about 160 whacks too much. I am going to tell you that I am sorry that I will have to stay up here over the weekend because my financial standing is not to allow me to come home but don’t think anything is wrong it is only the depression and I will be able to make arrangements to stay here because one of my pals is staying here and I can stay with him. Don’t send me any more money to come home on because I’ll see if I can help out by not spending any more money than I have to. Write again soon and tell me what you think of it. I have paid all my bills and I will be able to make out O.K. Write soon. Much Love Your 16 yr old Son Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith Amos Budge Smithâ€. A touching little anecdote showing how the Great Depression affected people of all ages and statuses. The letter is in fine condition. unknown books
26179VIRGINIA THE ALBEMARLE PAPER MFG. CO. A SOUVENIR OF RICHMOND. Richmond: 1927. Small 8vo. tied with ribbon at top. 6 heavy leaves. Being a souvenir of the American Pulp and Paper Mill Superintendent's Association convention with scenes of Richmond printed on six leaves of different colored heavy cover stock. unknown books
19501232Richmond: The Virginia Museum 1950. Softbound. G Ex-art library with plastic spine label bookplate rear pocket usual marks; spine is taped several times; wrap edges are worn; pages are quite nice; could be a rebind project but would lose the original velour wraps which are well aged but still feel cushy under fingertips. Red velour over paper wraps. 97 pp. 100 bw repros. Issued in conjunction with a 1950 exhibition of portraits rendered by American portraitist George Peter Alexander Healy 1813-1894. The running narrative is interspersed with the dozens of portrait reproductions. Approaches the artist's "sitters' into categories. An unusual presentation written in "Victorian Style." Uncommon. The Virginia Museum paperback books
1941177473Troy: Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors 1941. Paperback. 31p. 6.25x9.25 inches illustrated preface map very good first edition in stapled pictorial yellow wraps. Dykes not available Powell 1195. Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors paperback books
WRCLIT35466New York: Press of the Woolly Whale nd. Sewn octavo French fold. An unattributed bit of facetious verse in dialect. Fine and unopened. Not in LAWSON & PANKOW. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
18992393New York: Oberly and Newell Stationers and Printers 550 Pearl Street 1899. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 10p in rpinted wraps. Two in holdings none in trade. NYPL Gen Theological Seminary <br/><br/> Oberly and Newell, Stationers and Printers, 550 Pearl Street paperback books
1895WB72Boston: Roberts Brothers 1895. Original brown cloth with dark brown and white pictorial and gilt lettering. A couple of small red and black inkstains. Spine ends and edges worn and crumpled. Edges are darkened. Introduction by Rider Haggard. Pictorial ffep is detached and laid-in. 10 pgs. of adverts. First American Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Roberts Brothers Hardcover books
Y04I-00454The Dictionary Project Inc. 2014. Used - Good. Good condition. Owner's name on inside. Stamped on inside. 22nd edition. The Dictionary Project, Inc. 2014 unknown books
P6364Moscow: Tip. "Sovremennaia kul'tura" 1928. Single leaf printed to recto with partial text to lower verso once folded measuring 35 Ã 21 cm. Very good. This prospectus addressed to heads of public educational institutions and educational inspectors announces the new subscription year of two chief publications of the League of Militant Atheists a volunteer based organization that served as the spearhead of Soviet anti-religious activism. Founded in 1925 the organization counted three million members by 1940. The League held educational congresses and workshops at schools factories and in the countryside published periodicals such as Bezbozhnik and Antireligioznik. Its activities also enabled the persecution and exile of clergy and religious communities by the Soviet government throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The sternly worded memo notes that despite a number of recent educational decrees many educational institutions still do not subscribe to the publications "which causes a disruption of anti-religious work" and advises that all educational institutions comply with the new directives. The memo is signed by the head of the organizational division of the union one Oleshchuk. Fedor Nesterovich Oleshchuk himself a son of a priest joined the party in 1921 and headed the committee for many years. The memo also provides all relevant subscription information. unknown books
180856190Newport R.I.: printed at the office of the Newport Mercury . delivered to subscribers and sold by Samuel W. Vinson no. 74 Thomas-Street 1808. First edition 8vo pp. 96; contemporary gray paper wrappers neatly rebacked; library pressure stamp in title page; very good. Tenney was pastor of the First Congregational Church Newport from 1804 to 1815. He also published a discourse on The Intemperate Use of Ardent Spirits 1814. The Mercury was at this time 1808 conducted by Ann Barber. American Imprints 16299; not in Bartlett; Hammett pp. 142-43. <br/><br/> printed at the office of the Newport Mercury ... delivered to subscribers, and sold by Samuel W. Vinson, no. 74 Thomas-Street unknown books
195027710Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1950. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Impressive survey of the entire Colorado River Basin. Among many recommendations contained is the proposal for the dam at Glen Canyon which was completed and controversial to this day. xxiv 242 pp. 4to. 119 black & white photographs and one color photograph facing Foreword 16 plates: 1 at frontispiece additional 15 loose folding maps housed in tipped in folder at rear. Minor scuffing from shelfwear. Clean within. United States Government Printing Office unknown books
19522294Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Technical Services 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. Near Fine copy in original orange paper wraps with spine lighly sunned. Internally about Fine. Quarto measuring 7.75 x 10 inches and collating 2 41 pages: complete. Rare surviving copy of the first survey of electronic digital computers in the U.S. organized by pioneering mathematician Mina Rees. The only first edition on the market this is a title that has never before sold at auction and is listed by OCLC at only 10 institutions.<br/><br/>In her introduction to the survey Rees notes that "Until recently all commercially available general-purpose digital computers were large and cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Within the past year however a number of manufacturers have smaller more compact usually slower automatic computers for sale at less than one hundred thousand dollars." Because this change opened the door to a wider variety of businesses and firms accessing computers Rees points to the symposium as being timely and necessary. In this space and this historic moment scientists mathematicians manufacturers and government agencies could consider how to continue improving and reducing cost on the machines; and they could consider their wide applicability across fields. Rees herself a luminary who became the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is featured in this survey among other notables including Albert Auerbach and Richard E Sprague. The papers include work the MINIAC the Elecom and the Circle Computer. These were the first of their kind as was the symposium itself. Complete with over 20 black and white photos charts and diagrams it is an important and rare piece documenting computers' shift into the necessary and ubiquitous technology they are today.<br/><br/>Origins of Cyberspace 853. Near Fine. [U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services] unknown books
1899RTHETEX00DGInternational Textbook Company 1899. Very Good. The Colliery Engineer Company. A Textbook on Metal Mining: Preliminary Operations at Metal Mines Metal Mining Surface Arrangements at Metal Mines Ore Dressing and Milling. Scranton Pennsylvania: International Textbook Company 1899. 241 xxvpp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. 3/4 pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners; textblock is clean and tight. International Textbook Company hardcover books
1990111669Oakland CA: Oakland Museum 1990. Hardbound. VG. Gold cloth with color illustrations tipped on. 175 pp. 10 bw 57 color plates. A lovely book with 57 tipped-in color plates. Foreword by Michael Quick; Thoughts on Collecting by James and Linda Ries; Introduction: A Time and Place by Harvey L. Jones; Regional Art and Regionalism by Paul C. Mills; Catalogue Entries written by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. Artists' Biographies and Artists' Index follow at the end. 43 artists are represented each being given a significant essay. A lavishly produced volume. Oakland Museum hardcover books
183517505London: John Murray 1835. 1st edition BAL 10139 Setting B; Howes I-86; Wagner-Camp 56:1. Contemporary full calf rejointed with raised bands & gilt stamped spine. Marbled edges & eps. VG wanting A1 the 'Series General Title'. xiii 1 335 pp. 12mo: A6 -A1 a1 B - P 12. 18.5 cm x 12 cm. <br/><br/>This London edition precedes the Philadelphia edition NB. Sabin notes only the 1836 London edition. John Murray hardcover books
1807001185London: Richard Phillips; T. Gillet printer 1807. 1st Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xvii 2 468 pp. With map and 20 aquatint plates uncolored based on drawings by Sir John Carr. Abbey 216. Carr was a veteran of travel writing and art. Abbey writes that Carr was knighted in 1806 by the Duke of Bedford. Title page foxed. Otherwise some occasional foxing and soilage but overall rather clean and attractive. Binding is tight. One plate was overly trimmed with no loss to pictorial. Light offsetting of plates as to be expected. Calf over marbled boards. Calf appears later. Some light wear along edges and corners. A very good or better copy. <br/><br/> Richard Phillips; T. Gillet, printer unknown books
184331210Rugeley: John Thomas Walters 1843. 1st edition. Later light orange paper wrappers. Wrappers starting to detach otherwise VG. 25 1 blank pp. 7 plates inserted after text. 8vo. <br/><br/> John Thomas Walters unknown books
198822014Toronto: ECW Press. Near Fine. c.1988. 1st English-language edition. Softcover. 1550220853 . slight bumping to corners of front cover. Trade PB maps facsimiles Memoir by a Polish Jew whose family was forced to flee Warsaw when the Nazis overran Poland in 1939. Her family was subsequently killed and after narrowly avoiding imprisonment in the Treblinka death camp she spent the war as a refugee in Nazi-occupied Europe "always living next to death or capture. In 1945 at the age of twenty she began to write her memoirs from a hospital in Germany. The result is a riveting roller-coaster ride told openly and movingly through the eyes of a survivor." Originally published in Polish in 1984. . ECW Press paperback books
190208863Boston: Dana Estes & Co 1902. First Edition. Octavo. presumed first state in binding "B" gilt decorated green cloth. Octavo xxiv 407 pages with frontis and 15 black and white plates. Wear at spine ends rear outer hinge with a 1 inch split; front inner hinge cracked; period gift inscription on FEP. The first hardcover printing of a most popular American ballad "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest L. Thayer. This popular poem first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3 1888 and was promoted and recited thousands of times on the stage by actor De Wolfe Hopper. In 1901 it was printed as a pamphlet and one year later 1902 the present hardcover treasury of poetry was printed. Contained therein is "Casey at the Bat" attributed erroneously to one "Joseph Quinlan Murphy." see p. 297. Overall a bright good-looking copy of a baseball rarity; housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/> Dana Estes & Co hardcover books
MA02B-00199Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. Collectible - Very Good. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1845. Sm 8vo. Green boards with white paper spine label. 134pp. Near fine. Minor wear to the spine tips and corners with a light horizontal ripple to the lower front board. Spine label browning. Some splitting to the front middle joint but remains intact and strong. Moderately browned with foxed endleaves. A very good copy! No color plates Inquire if you need further information. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
183155160Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1831. First edition 12mo pp. 5 iv-viii 287 3; engraved vignette title page 21 composite engraved plates at the back; original pink muslin-backed boards printed paper label on spine; spine sunned tear entering from the margin of leaf 15-1 no loss of letterpress; all else very good. With the ownership signature of "J. B. Woolworth / 1831" on the front free endpaper. Issued in the publisher's Cabinet of Philosophy series. <br/><br/> Carey & Lea hardcover books
18236109Philadelphia: James Webster 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Full contemporary sheep; spine rubbed at bottom with some loss. Scattered foxing per usual. Contemporary ink name and a few markings. The scarce First American Edition of this important work. 8 copperplate engravings bound at the back. <br/><br/> Philadelphia: James Webster hardcover books
