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1909286126Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson Richmond Academy 1909. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The secomd year book issued by the Richmond Academy a secondary school for boys established by the Trustees of Richmond College in 1902. The Academy was housed in two buildings -- one containing a study hall and four classrooms and the other containing the primary school --located just south of the College on Lombardy and Park. We enjoy the nick-names -- "Barny" "Sleepy" "Hoogy" "Old Lady" "Hogeye" and so on. There was a "Church Hill Club" whose page has a drawing of St. John's Church. A nice item of Richmond lore from the turn of the last century. Hinges have been reinforced. Very Good binding. Whittet and Shepperson | Richmond Academy unknown books
1908255687Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson 1908. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The first year book issued by the Richmond Academy a secondary school for boys established by the Trustees of Richmond College in 1902. The Academy was housed in two buildings -- one containing a study hall and four classrooms and the other containing the primary school --located just south of the College on Lombardy and Park. We particularly like the page dedicated to the "Academy Chapter of Knights of Inertia and Lassitude" Place of Meeting: "Biach right-hand corner of study hall". A nice item of Richmond lore from the turn of the last century. Hinges have been reinforced. Very Good binding. Whittet and Shepperson unknown books
183130630New York: J & J Harper 1831. 1st US edition American Imprints 8044. Pink cloth over drab paper boards; printed yellow paper title label to spine. Square & tight. Spine cloth sunned. Several small neat PO name stamps William H Manning the author. Usual foxing throughout. A VG copy. 4 xvii 3 13 - 308 16 pp. 4 pages of adverts Feb 1831 begin volume; 16 pages of adverts at rear. Untrimmed. 12mo. <br/><br/> J & J Harper hardcover books
201622910ELos Angeles: Fox Searchlight 2016. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†116 pages. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Original Screenplay. Shooting script for the film The Shape of Water written by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor directed by Guillermo del Toro starring Sally Hawkins Octavia Spencer Michael Shannon Michael Stuhlberg Richard Jenkins and Doug Jones. The film won four Oscars; Best Picture Best Director Best Music - Original Score and Best Production Design and was nominated for nine more; Best Actress Hawkins Best Supporting Actress Spencer Best Supporting Actor Jenkins Best Original Screenplay Best Costume Design Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. It won two Golden Globes; Best Motion Picture and Best Original Score and was nominated for five more; Best Motion Picture- Drama Best Actress Hawkins Best Supporting Actress Spencer Best Supporting Actor Jenkins and Best Screenplay - Motion Picture. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Fine bright copy in printed wrappers. Fox Searchlight paperback books
192525740New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket modest wear to extremities some soiling to edges of text block spine slightly turned; binding solid internally quite clean. pen and ink drawings one map Something of an adventure-novelization of incidents presented by Stefansson in his 1913 book "My Life with the Eskimo." Stefansson a U.S.-based Canadian-born anthropologist of Icelandic extraction eventually became a somewhat controversial figure but in earlier times in particular between 1906 and 1912 was responsible for leading important explorations of the Canadian Arctic region and gained a lot of attention for his observations and writings about the life and culture of the Copper Inuit the so-called "blond Eskimos". . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1936335438glHendon The Hyde: Display Office Royal Air Force Station 1936. Octavo color illus. stapled white wrappers 87 pp ii pp. ads. Very Good with foxing age darkened spotting to wrappers. Photographs throughout. Display Office, Royal Air Force Station, 1936. unknown books
197628648Barnstable: Town of Barnstable 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 556 pp. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. ritten on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the United States of America by the citizens of these seven villages of Barnstable. One of three thousand copis SIGNED by Marion Vuilleumier Secretary of the publication committee. A very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The origins and history of these small Cape Cod villages is retold here. Town of Barnstable hardcover books
193542250London: Jonathan Cape 1935. Third i.e. second complete edition overall preceded by the incomplete "Oxford Edition" of 1922 8 copies only were printed 6 still extant and the rare privately printed "Subscriber's Edition" of 1927 170 copies; this is the limited issue 750 numbered copies of the first trade edition; sm. 4to pp. 672; frontispiece portrait of a bust of Lawrence 4 folding maps 2 facsimiles 1 double-p. and illustrations throughout some in color by John Kennington Roberts Lamb Dobson Sargent Young Gill Spencer Rothenstein and Carline; 3 of the illustrations herein did not appear in the 1926 subscriber's edition and this limited edition contains a number of illustrations not in the trade edition; original tan pigskin and brown buckram gilt lettered spine t.e.g. the others uncut; fine copy in a cream cloth slipcase. Winston Churchill called this book of Lawrence of Arabia's covert activities in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire "one of the greatest books ever written in the English language." O'Brien A041. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
193530032London: Jonathan Cape 1935. Third i.e. second complete edition overall preceded by the incomplete "Oxford Edition" of 1922 8 copies only were printed 6 still extant and the rare privately printed "Subscriber's Edition" of 1927 170 copies; this is the first trade edition there was also a limited issue of 750 numbered copies; sm. 4to pp. 672; uncut and largely unopened; frontis portrait of a bust of Lawrence 4 folding maps 2 facsimiles 1 double-p. and illustrations throughout some in color by John Kennington Roberts Lamb Dobson Sargent Young Gill Spencer Rothenstein and Carline; 3 of the illustrations herein did not appear in the 1926 subscriber's edition original brown buckram gilt lettered spine; spine slightly discolored; original printed dust jacket with chips and tears at extremities the largest about the size of a thumbnail and without any loss of letterpress. Winston Churchill called this book of Lawrence of Arabia's covert activities in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire "one of the greatest books ever written in the English language." O'Brien A042. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
19412746Milwaukee WI: The Settlement Cook Book Co 1941. Octavo xlvi623 pages. Twenty-first edition revised and enlarged. A much later edition this influential and massively successful cookbook originally published in 1901. The emphasis is American with a smattering of hearty Jewish Eastern European fare. In earlier editions the Jewish/Eastern European influence was more prevalent. This copy is extraordinary in unused condition bright and fresh with the original white washable boards shiny and clean the original publisher's green dust jacket with white bland and red printed text and decoration is equally exceptional. Fine and rare thus. Axford p. 363; DuSablon America's Collectible Cookbooks pages 65-67. The Settlement Cook Book Co hardcover books
177764533Boston MA: J. Gill Printer to the General Assembly 1777. The first Fourth of July anniversary oration. First edition. 8vo. 3 - 37 pp. Sewn as issued but without the half-title. A little worn some ink stains scattered foxing. With several textual correction in ink likely by the author. Later an errata sheet was printed for some copies including these same textual corrections. With a contemporary ink inscription on the verso of the last leaf: "the gift of Dr. W. Gordon/ to G. Woods march 17th 1786." <br/>Evans 15317. Rosenbach Judaica 69 with full page illustration of the title page: A sermon "read at this the first Fourth of July celebration held in America." Rev. Gordon was chaplain to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and wrote a four-volume history of the Revolution. Well represented in institutional libraries uncommon in the trade. <br/><br/> J. Gill, Printer to the General Assembly unknown books
1981WRCLIT64857Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of Governors 1981. 4106pp. 12mo. Cloth and marbled boards paper spine label. Decorations by Kirk Hughey. First edition in book form. One of 200 copies printed. Pale yellow discoloration along a patch of the upper joint otherwise fine. Press of the Palace of Governors hardcover books
61368bdTallahassee Florida: Nathan Mayo n.d. Octavo paperbound black & white illus. white wrappers 87 pp. Very Good with light edgewear. Nathan Mayo, n.d. unknown books
19414925fdTallahassee: Florida State Department of Agriculture n.d. ca. 1941. First Edition. Octavo pictorial wrappers 87 pp. Fold-out map photographs. Very Good. Florida State Department of Agriculture, n.d. [ca. 1941]. First Edition. unknown books
2827York Penn.: P. Hardt and to be Had of Shaefer and Maund Baltimore 1849. . 12mo in half sheets marbled boards worn; brown leather spine lacking top half inch; ballpoint notation on front free endpaper A.I. 49395; Cohen 8144 York, Penn.: P. Hardt and to be Had of Shaefer and Maund, Baltimore, 1849. hardcover books
CA06A-01026T. Kinnersley. Collectible - Acceptable. London: T. Kinnersley 1914. Elephant Folio Brown leather. Embellished with 40 beautiful engravings. Fair. Front cover detached. Spine front cover torn. Rear cover rubbed. Edgeworn. Offset. Inquire if you need further information. T. Kinnersley hardcover books
1989WRCLIT23572New York: Norton 1989. Cloth and boards. First American edition. Edited by Malcolm Brown. Review flyer laid in. New in dust jacket. Norton hardcover books
1974248592Peking: Wen Wu 1974. hardcover. near fine/very good. In chinese with English pamphlet at front. Profuse color images. Square 4to cream cloth dust wrapper. Peking: Wen Wu Press 1974. Very good .<br/><br/> Wen Wu unknown books
2294822Brentano's. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. No publisher date. Jacket edges rubbed with a few chips along top edge jacket spine lightly toned. Light stain along top page ridge. 320 pp. "Laura de Pernon Duchess D'Abrantes is the heroine of this passionate romance that has been brought to light for the first time in these memoirs. It is a moving drama of love and jealousy darkened by the madness and tragic end of her husband who was Napoleon's aide-de-campe. Brentano's hardcover books
200820807ELos Angeles: Walt Disney Pictures 2008. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†106 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Secret Life of Bees written by Gina Prince-Bythewood. starring Queen Latifah Dakota Fanning Jenniefer Hudson Alicia Keys Sophie Okonedo and Paul Bettany. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Fine copy in printed wrappers. The film won fourth place among Top 10 Films from the African-American Film Critics Association. Walt Disney Pictures paperback books
18459751New York 1845. Original printed wrappers stitched 32pp. Light scattered wear and fox. Very Good. "There never yet was a young people able to furnish themselves with the literary institutions they needed. It was true of New-England: her Harvard Yale and Dartmouth owed their existence to foreign munificence; and if ever similar institutions are to rise up in the West and exert a like power in molding the character of that vast empire they must receive their first impulse from abroad. This is what the Society aims to do." Officers included Edward Beecher Leonard Bacon Horace Bushnell and Samuel Walley Jr. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 85916. unknown books
17121671London: N.p. 1712. 8vo. 36pp. Disbound. Linen binder's tape on spine. N.p. unknown books
19215983287New York: The Authors Club 1921. 13 ½ x 9 inches. Limited edition of 251 copies decorative head and tail pieces titled in red-and-black inks preface by the editors; bound in full gilt decorated blindstamped brown morocco gilt dentelles top edge gilt edgewear and rubbing at covers and spine. 129 literary pieces with 126 signed by the authors as issued. 3 pieces were not signed due to illness. Authors include Henry Augustin Beers Richard Edwin Day William Henry Pickering Albert Shaw and others. Scarce anthology handsomely presented with tipped-in errata slip. Near Fine <br /><br /> The Authors Club hardcover books
185912920Cambridge: Macmillan & Co 1859. 1st edition. Bound in a Zaehnsdorf deep blue full polished calf binding with elaborate gilt decorated spine; inner dentelles. Red spine labels. AEG. Original cloth binding bound in at rear. VG sp lightly sunned/joints tender/minor extremity rubbing. 244 pp 16 pp Publisher catalogue dated 1858 at rear. Illustrated by the incomparable Richard Doyle. 8vo. <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co hardcover books
1975199497New York: Willey Book Company 1975. Hardcover. 192p. first printing of the facsimile reprint of the revised edition from 1948 ownership name otherwise a very good in orange cloth boards. Originally published by Askanischer Verlag in German in 1919 and the US by Greenberg in 1932 followed by the revised edition by Willey in 1948 Grier A B Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society History and Literature general editor; Jonathan Katz. Scorpion was published the same year that Chambers testified against Alger Hiss and identified him as a Communist before HUAC. Willey Book Company hardcover books
